LibWorm: Academia

Panlibus #17 includes articles about visualising library data; effective 2.0 library services; e-books in the academic world; and much more

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:38:42 +0100

Access Panlibus (from Talis); Summer, 2010 (28 pages; PDF) Here are some of the Articles and Columns in this Issue: 4. The Reading Agency Miranda McKearney updates us on the latest from The Reading Agency 6-7. Effective 2.0 library services Meredith Farkas shares her tips to avoid the 2.0 graveyard 8-9. Strictly online? E-books in the academic world The present and the [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

Dean of library & distance education (mchenry county college, crystal lake, illinois)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:20:02 +0100

Dean of Library & Distance Education (McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois) Responsible for providing leadership, development and implementation of services and programs for the Library, Distance Education, and Academic Computer Labs. ...

Database -- spotlight: the campus freedom resource

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:42:58 +0100

Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource Welcome to FIRE’s Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource, where you will find comprehensive information on the state of liberty on America’s campuses. Use FIRE’s Spotlight to find pages for individual academic institutions, which contain relevant links to our research of speech codes, case materials from FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, media [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

Directory of open access journals - recently added titles

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:48:40 +0100

International Journal of u- and e- Service, Science and Technology B Sides Telos : Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales Azerbaijan Focus : Journal of International Affairs BANTAO Journal e-International Journal of Educational Research Revista Latinoamericana en Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud Journal of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Majlesi Journal of Electrical Engineering Diálogos DISEGNARECON Electronic Communications of the EASST 452º F : Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada Diabetic Foot & Ankle Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine Signos Filosóficos Trypillian Civilization Journal AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom Journal of Mid-Life Health Journal of Social Inclusion Buletinul Institutului Politehnic din Ias,i. Sect,ia IV, Automatica( s,i Calculatoare Comunicações Geológicas Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College Nursing Research and Practice Pharma Science Monitor : An International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Ebrary’s academic complete e-book database tops 50k titles

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:33:44 +0100

From the press release: ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that its flagship subscription e-book database, Academic Complete™, now exceeds 50,000 titles from the world’s leading publishers. Academic Complete continues to be the largest multidisciplinary e-book database licensed to libraries throughout the world, under a simultaneous, multi-user access model with continual growth. Furthermore, ebrary’s Academic Complete, Government Complete™, Public Library Complete™, and College Complete™ are the only e-book products that enables libraries to upload and integrate their own digital materials such as theses and dissertations, yearbooks, and newspapers with DASH!™ (Data Sharing, Fast). Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

New from acrl - "the academic library building in the digital age"

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:35:42 +0100

"The Academic Library Building in the Digital Age: A Study of Construction, Planning and Design of New Library Space is the first comprehensive study of planning and construction of academic library buildings completed entirely in the 21st century. Given digitization of collections, the dynamic mix of new learning spaces with traditional library functions and other factors informing contemporary library design, the Digital Age has not raised so much the question of if libraries will survive, but how they will survive. Stewart’s study answers this question by examining academic library building projects completed in recent years. The book includes survey results on planning processes, building characteristics including user space in each building, usage and new roles for library buildings." (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Head of circulation services & collection maintenance (oregon state university libraries, corvallis, oregon)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:20:01 +0100

Head of Circulation Services & Collection Maintenance (Oregon State University Libraries, Corvallis, Oregon) The Oregon State University (OSU) Valley Library seeks an innovative and collaborative individual who understand the changing environment in circulation and collection maintenance services in an academic library. This position is responsible for providing excellent customer service and access to library resources and services to a diverse customer population. Additionally, the position manages a staff of 7 FTE classified staff and 4 FTE student staff who are responsible for ensuring the smooth flow of materials through the library and offsite storage facility, and have responsibility for maintaining the physical collection of 1.7 million volumes. ...

Bcala job announcements: research librarian for the sciences

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:34 +0100

and liaison services. Preferred: one to two years of professional experience in an academic library; master's degree. In one of the sciences; experie (Source: pligg - all)

Archives gig - lexington, ky: director of archives, university of ...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:33 +0100

Works with Special Collections Library to ensure smooth and effective provision of service to primary source material and referral of involved refere (Source: pligg - all)

September 1, 2010 (vol. 16, no. 15) – happenings « ola hotline's blog

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:33 +0100

Join academic librarians from across the Pacific Northwest as we discuss the future of libraries with a great slate of speakers including David Silve (Source: pligg - all)

Nh library jobline: librarian iii, department of cultural ...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:32 +0100

Directs library services to person disabilities and is responsible for administering the operations of the State Library Section entitled Library Ser (Source: pligg - all)

#jobs : systems librarian, university of la verne (california ...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:31 +0100

Bill Drew; Inspired by innovation, change and constant challenges, I strive to give the TC3 community the best service and experience possible and I (Source: pligg - all)

Oregon state library's lis collection: gay and lesbian library service

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:30 +0100

16 main chapters: Key issues in collection development; school, academic and public libraries; special collections and archives; LC subject heads, bi (Source: pligg - all)

Hold obama accountable for the high cost of a college education

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The cost of college has become unpatriotic. Graduation rates aside, the most morally inexcusable aspect of college is the unbridled cost of getting in. It is clear who should be first to roll up their sleeves: college presidents. Obama should declare their tuitions and fees a state of emergency and call a national summit to hold these institutions accountable. Soon, not only the so-called “best’’ colleges but also state schools will be beyond the reach of the middle class. Obama should use the full power of his office to make clear that colleges cannot keep pushing up the cost of the American Dream. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Loyola students are running the guesthouse

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

A team of eight Loyola undergrads from a wide range of backgrounds has spent hundreds of hours putting the final touches on a high-end, 10-unit guesthouse they developed and operate. Since it opened July 22, the Flats has entertained more than 50 guests, most of them parents of Loyola students looking for lodging near campus that offered more than area (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Is your ihe complying with the new textbook law

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

For the first time, a federal law (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Report from ala: "librarian salaries jump 3 percent in 2010"

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:32:53 +0100

From the Announcement: The 2010 edition of the “ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian - Public and Academic” revealed average increases across all six position types, ranging from 2 percent for managers of support staff to 13 percent for directors of public and academic libraries. The survey is based on data from more than 580 library directors and [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

Improvements made to babson over the summer

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:30:28 +0100

Over the summer Babson staff were busy adding some improvements to the library facility. We have rearranged furniture to create comfortable spaces and have purchased plants that you’ll see throughout the building. We have also had an upgrade to the wireless infrastructure which should improve access throughout Babson. The Main Floor of Babson has a new addition of the Technology Solutions Center. This redesigned ITS help desk is intended to assist all students, faculty, and staff and is conveniently located directly across from the Information Desk. The Second Floor continues to be our “group study” floor. We have purchased additional comfortable seatings and rearranged tables to create study areas. You’ll notice our “Collaboration Station” allows for up to 4 students to share a laptop image on a large wall screen. On one end of the second floor we have established a “teaching area” to be used for classes and larger study groups who wish to visit the library. A long table seats up to 24 people. Markers for the white board in this area can be checked out at the Information Desk. The Academic Success Center “Locus” is also located on the second floor. Students can meet with their content tutors here or confer in any area of the building. The Third Floor continues to be the “quiet floor”. We have added a few areas of comfortable seating but continue to provide mostly tables and study carrels for students who want a quiet and structured space. We’ve purchased new lights for the study carrell rooms for more effective illumination. Please mute your cell phones and take calls downstairs so that all can enjoy the one really quiet study space on campus. We are open 106.5 hours a week to assist students and faculty. ...

Playing hard to get: purchasing and reading e-books

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:10:53 +0100

Last week I sat in on the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar and it was a very interesting discussion. Many libraries (especially academic) are investigating and collecting e-books in lieu of some printed text. How much they are collecting and the nature by which they to the selection process seems to vary according each library, their type, size, consortia involvement, usage data, etc. The reasons why and how much they bought all varied but the frustrations, questions, and concerns the faced were very similar and seemed on the minds of every librarian regardless of their library, type, size, consortia involvement, etc. So what were these concerns? DRM- Digital rights restrictions. It seems that every publisher has different rules and while some things can be put on electronic reserve others cannot. While some things can be shared through ILL or on Blackboard others cannot. This is not only a particular frustration among librarians but also patrons who aren’t as savvy with copyright issues. The patrons get frustrated with DRM restrictions for library materials and they are even more frustrated with the restrictions for e-books they buy themselves. Their view is, “I bought, don’t tell me how I am allowed to use it.” I am not saying this is always the right or wrong thought process, but it is their thoughts and to a certain extent librarians. Access – How do people find your e-books was a common question among the librarians. The e-books publishers don’t always have decent MARC records (if they have any) that can be easily added to the catalog. So the cataloger must work to add them into the catalog, yet more and more patrons really don’t use the catalog these days. They would rather randomly search the library’s website or Google. ...

Director, central services division of the deputy vice-chancellor (academic)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:10:10 +0100

Employer: UNSW Library [closing date: 10 September 2010] (Source: ALIAnet: LIS jobs)

#jobs : systems librarian, university of la verne (california) -- wilson library

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:44:00 +0100

#3041 – Systems Librarian, University of La Verne -- Wilson Library The University of La Verne invites applicants for a Systems Librarian (Assistant Professor), a non-tenure track 12-month faculty appointment. Reporting directly to the University Librarian, the Systems Librarian will use a high level of technical, instructional, and interpersonal skills. The responsibilities of this position include administering and providing technical support for all aspects of library technology including the Innovative Interfaces Millennium integrated library system, hardware and software installations and maintenance, library wireless, opac, proxy server, online resources and services such as LINK+, ILLIAD, ERM, OCLC, link resolver, research databases, e-journals, e-books, etc.; assisting the University Librarian with technology planning and project implementation; serving as primary liaison with the university’s Office of Information Technology to coordinate all library systems’ installation, upgrade and maintenance; supervise one full-time staff member (Electronic Services Technician); serving as liaison to database and online service providers; providing technology training to library staff; providing research consultation services to library users in a multi-disciplinary environment using multiple formats (in-person, e-mail, phone, and chat); developing, promoting, and delivering effective library research skills/information literacy instructional sessions, seminars and workshops for both on-campus and off-campus programs; developing the library collection by selecting materials for acquisition in all formats; serving as liaison with selected academic departments; maintaining a program of professional development. ...

Reference librarian for the sciences | vassar college

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:38:00 +0100

US - NY - Poughkeepise, NY, ALA-accredited MLS, or equivalent experience. Undergraduate degree in the sciences; experience teaching in an academic setting and demonstrated knowledge of traditional and electronic reference (gener (Source: SLA Career Center Search Results [])

1906 chicago manual of style: free, but not drm-free

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:47:03 +0100

This month’s free e-book from the University of Chicago Press is a replica of the very first, 1906 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style to commemorate the 16th edition of that work. Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM—even though, since it was originally published in 1906, this book is well within the public domain by now. (Oddly, I can’t seem to find any public domain version of it on-line, at least not in Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or Manybooks. There is a somewhat rough scan of a 1911 edition on Wikimedia Commons, however.) It’s a pity that this press—an academic press, yet, and thus part of an organization supposedly dedicated to advancing the spread of knowledge—should choose to impose technological restrictions upon a document that should legally be free to all. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

1906 chicago manual of style: free, but not drm-free

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:47:03 +0100

Upcoming events and digital media roundup

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:31:14 +0100

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // September 1, 2010 [1] [TUESDAY 9/7] Berkman Center Fall Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse) [2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) [TUESDAY] BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE ================================================================================== Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Campus (Map: http://bit.ly/poundmap) Free and Open to the Public Tell us if you're coming on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140755442627336) or Twitter (http://tweetvite.com/event/berkmanopenhouse) Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our dynamic, exciting environment. As a University-wide research center at Harvard University, our interdisciplinary efforts in the exploration of cyberspace address a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. If you're interested in the Internet’s impact on society and are looking to engage a community of world-class fellows and faculty through events, conversations, research, and more please join us to hear more about our upcoming academic year! Paid part-time research positions will be available in the fall, and you can visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships to see currently available positions. People from all disciplines, universities, and backgrounds are encouraged to attend the Open House to familiarize yourself with the Berkman Center and explore opportunities to join us in our research. We look forward to seeing you there! Refreshments will be served. For more information visit: http://cyber.law.harvard. ...

Acrl webcast: from idea to publication

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:50:38 +0100

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is now accepting registrations for this three-part series on academic publishing for librarians. Each webcast has a separate $50 registration fee. Webcast 1: Understanding the Research Question (September 23, 2010) Webcast 2: Analysis and Writing (November 4, 2010) Webcast 3: Submitting for Publication (December 1, 2010) Please [...] (Source: [ArLiSNAP])

Medicine hat college library services blog: kobo e-book reader is ...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:28 +0100

Library Services is introducing the Kobo e-book reader to its repertoire of multimedia devices available to employees and students at Medicine Hat Co (Source: pligg - all)

Applications available for state farm good neighbor service - the ...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:28 +0100

Official Blog of the Public Library Association. ‹ Libraries the Next Big Thing? - ... Eligible programs will engage youth in service-learning, an ef (Source: pligg - all)

Libraries: promoting services on campus?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:27 +0100

Then, when they find people who are Tweeting about being at the library or mentioning the library they follow them. Sometimes the students follow the (Source: pligg - all)

Library notices » blog archive » library computing facility and ...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:26 +0100

Library Computing Facility and Service Enhancements for the New Academic Year. Dear Students and Colleagues,. Welcome back! We are pleased to announc (Source: pligg - all)

Njsla jobs: library assistant (multiple), part time

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:26 +0100

Also assists faculty and students in media services as needed. Qualifications: Must have a minimum of one year experience in academic, public, or spe (Source: pligg - all)

Blogging the loc: an introduction

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The start of the semester always brings at least a couple people to the Library Help Desk expressing frustration with the way our books are organized. Why isn’t all the fiction together? Why couldn’t you just put History in the “H” section? What happened to the number system I used in high school and at the public library? This year, I’d like to explain it to you. I’ll probably get my official librarian card revoked for revealing these arcane secrets, but I think it’s worth the risk. K-State Libraries, along with most other academic libraries, uses the Library of Congress classification system. It’s a method of grouping resources by topic, just like the Dewey Decimal numbers you’ve probably used before. It’s useful, but highly quirky. It’s a product of a particular time (the early 1900s) and a particular collection of books (those in the Library of Congress), but it’s also the best way most academic libraries have for organizing the vast numbers of resources they contain. The Library of Congress. Image retrieved from Print and Photograph Online Catalog. The system consists of twenty-one basic classes, each with an associated letter of the alphabet. Five letters were left out: I, O, W, X, Y. I’m going to make a librarianly guess that I and O were too easily confused with 1 and 0. W, X and Y were likely left out for normal end-of-the-alphabet discriminatory practices (or maybe to leave room for eventual additions). Each of the classes can have multiple subclasses, designated by more letters. Then there are numbers and more letters and more numbers, maybe with some punctuation sprinkled in. We’re not going to delve that deep, though, so no worries. We’ll start next week with “A” and see where it takes us. It will be super geeky, and therefore completely awesome. ...

At a recent event i attended someone told me "bobby jindal is a fucking douchebag"

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Apparently these UNO students affected by the Governor's budget cuts agree A student demonstration at the University of New Orleans turned rowdy today when protesters scuffled with campus police, who arrested two of them and led them away in handcuffs in a police cruiser. One of the students was sprayed by police with mace. At least no one was tazed. Longtime readers will note that I am no fan of attention-whoring protest events. But, in this case, I will at least give the students credit for storming offices and injuring ankles and stuff. They could have just painted themselves blue, recited some poetry and called it a day. This, I think, at least shows some commitment. Plus UNO Chancellor Tim Ryan is kind of a tool anyway. I hope they broke some of his shit.In all seriousness, though, these kids should head of to Baton Rouge where they could perhaps find their way into the Governor's office. After all, it's Jindal's budget cuts that are bringing all this trauma about in the first place.UNO students and personnel are irate because about $14.5 million in state money already has been sliced from the school's budget since January 2009 and because more cuts may combine academic departments and eliminate majors in fields such as management, marketing, English, science, mathematics and social studies. There would be a sharp reduction in the number of part-time teachers, faculty teaching loads would increase, and class sizes would be larger.Participants in the Rising Tide 5 Politics Panel pulled no punches with Jindal. Jacques Morial and Clancy Dubos repeatedly referred to the Governor as a "hypocrite". Even Jeff Crouere confessed himself "disappointed" and said he suspects the Governor's ambitions and priorities lie outside of the state. ...

30 ways to rate a college

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a short article that surveys the ways that different organizations rate colleges. Dated August 29, 2010, by Alex Richards and Ron Coddington, the article is mostly an interactive map, which lays out on the left six different publications which rate colleges. Then, it lays out on the right, eight blocks of categories on which each organization ranks the colleges:* Admissions selectivity and student demographics* Evaluations * Finances and spending* International diversity* Service* Financial aid* Student, faculty and alumni achievement* TeachingIn each category, are from two to seven measures. Next to each measure is a circle with a number showing the number of raters who use that measure to rank colleges. The interactive feature lets you click on the publication name and "turn off" their lines on the map, or turn them back on. Some of the categories listed above are fairly straightforward and self-explanatory. But others are less so. For instance, the two measures under "Service" are:* Army/Navy ROTC size* Alumni serving in the Peace Corps Each of those measures has one publication using that measure to rate colleges, by the way, Washington Monthly. Some of the measures are strange and make you wonder what it actually has to do with the quality of the school. "Percentage of federal work-study grants focused on community service," for instance, might tell you something interesting, but I am not sure what it tells you about the quality of the school. That appears as a student demographic, and is measured by Washington Monthly. You can argue a lot about what any of these numbers tell you about a college, and whether the numbers alone tell you anything worth knowing. The point of the article is actually how few points of agreement there are among the various organizations that rate colleges on the measures they use for ranking. ...

Recent information literacy articles

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Kraemer, E., Lombardo, S.V. and Lepowski, F. (2010) "The Librarian, the Machine, or a Little of Both: A Comparative Study of Three Information Literacy Pedagogies at Oakland University. " College and Research Libraries, 68 (4), 330-42. (They divided up a class, so that different sets of students got live teaching, online tutorials, or a blend; and administered pre and post tests.) http://crl.acrl.org/content/68/4/330.abstractAlso thanks to Yazdan Mansourian who, a while ago, drew my attention to the articles in the latest Journal of Academic Librarianship, 36 (4) (contents page at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00991333)- Lim, A. "The Readability of Information Literacy Content on Academic Library Web Sites." Pages 296-303 (there is a call for more attention to readability to meet needs of diverse learners)- Green, R. "Information Illiteracy: Examining our Assumptions." Pages 313-319 ("Findings from a qualitative study of the doctoral literature review process portray learners as competent, rather than information illiterate, even though they may not have received information literacy interventions.")- Su, S-F. and Kuo, J. "Design and Development of Web-based Information Literacy Tutorials." Pages 320-328Photo by Sheila Webber: People silhouetted against the sky on the top of the Great Orme, Llandudno, Wales, August 2010. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Did you know Bailey Library has cameras and audio equipment for loan if you have a valid SRU I.D? Some of the items available include: hard drive video cameras, digital still cameras, tripods, microphones, and headphones. These items can be found in the laptop room in the basement of the library. Laptop room hours are: Sunday 1PM-10:45PM, Mon-Thur 9AM-10:45PM, Friday 9AM-4:15PM, and closed on Saturdays. Items may also be returned to the first floor Circulation desk when the laptop room is closed. See the library website for more information: http://www.sru.edu/academics/library/directory/Pages/cameras.aspx (Source: Cites & Bytes @ Bailey)

Students think electronic attendance system treats them like children

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

When classes begin on Monday, some students at Northern Arizona University will have a little extra incentive to roll out of bed for that 8 a.m. calculus class.The school is installing electronic scanners outside some large lecture halls to track attendance. NAU may be the first American educational institution to try the technology. About 3 in every 10 students drop out after the first year. And if something as simple as going to class could help turn that around, Pugliesi thinks it's appropriate to make it a priority. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Students will pay for unpaid internships

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Each year, thousands of college students descend on Washington for unpaid internships. It can be a nerve-racking process. Increasingly, many of them are finding an alternative: paying thousands of dollars to a placement company for a guaranteed spot. It's a business just starting to appear in other cities. In Washington, it's been thriving for years. For their money -- often funded with taxpayer-subsidized loans -- students get an internship, housing, night classes, tours of Washington and college credit. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Stock market split on for-profit education stocks

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The bull-bear clash is over for-profit education stocks, or publicly traded companies offering secondary education to students, many of whom rely on government financial assistance. Betting for or against the companies has led to some of the year's biggest gains and most painful losses. The bearish positions were bolstered this summer when the U.S. Education Department proposed regulations that would tie access to federal aid programs to graduates' success in paying off loans. The U.S. Government Accountability Office this month said 15 colleges provided misleading loan advice to students. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

New legislation protects college students from credit card abuse

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The landmark federal legislation that overhauled the credit card industry is now reaching into college campuses to protect students like Shaw as they return to school and attempt to juggle not only their education and social lives but also how to pay for it all. The law, which was passed in 2009 and phased in this year, bans issuers from providing credit cards to people under age 21 unless another adult co-signs for it or the student can show an independent source of income. (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Caption-based topical descriptors for microscopic images as published in academic papers.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Caption-based topical descriptors for microscopic images as published in academic papers.

Health Info Libr J. 2010 Sep 1;27(3):235-43

Authors: Kim S, Lamkin S, Duncan P

Background: Visual findings summarized in the figures and tables of academic papers are invaluable sources for biomedical researchers. Captions associated with the visual findings are often neglected while retrieving biomedical images in published academic papers. Objectives: This study is to assess caption-based topical descriptors for microscopic images of breast neoplasms, as published in academic papers retrieved through the PubMed Central database. Method: Human indexers as well as an automatic keyword finder called TAPoR generated the topical descriptors from collected captions. The study then compared the human-generated descriptors to machine-generated descriptors. Finally, a set of core descriptors was developed from both sets and automatically mapped into the Unified Medical Language System's (UMLS) Metathesaurus through a MetaMap Transfer engine. Results: Major topical descriptors included histologic disease names, laboratory procedures, genetic functions and components. Human indexers provided more relevant descriptors than TAPoR. The UMLS Metathesaurus identified several semantic types including Indicator, Reagent, or Diagnostic Aid; Organic Chemical; Laboratory Procedure; Spatial Concept; Qualitative Concept; and Quantitative Concept. ...

Beyond the library: reflections from a librarian in an academic faculty.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Beyond the library: reflections from a librarian in an academic faculty.

Health Info Libr J. 2010 Sep 1;27(3):249-52

Authors: McCluskey C

PMID: 20712720 [PubMed - in process]

(Source: PubMed: "Health information ...)

California's digital textbook initiative

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:54:28 +0100

California's Free Digital Textbook Initiative provides students, teachers and parents access to free digital high school textbooks that meet California's academic content standards. Textbooks are free to view or download. Search SCCL's catalog, browse the full list of eBooks or go direct to Digital Textbook Initiative's website to access any of the 30 textbooks available. (Source: Santa Clara County Library - The Latest SCCoop)

Judge rules that cuts to stony brook southampton violate state law

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:25:39 +0100

Read the full story in the Southampton News. Note that Stony Brook Southampton is a four-year college with a curriculum that focuses on environmental sustainability. A State Supreme Court judge ruled Monday that Stony Brook University’s decision to close the dorms and slash academic programs at Stony Brook Southampton was illegal — a zero-hour development in a months-long fight to preserve the satellite campus. (Source: Environmental News Bits)

Guest post: so you want to be a librarian/archivist?

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:12:00 +0100

The following is a guest post from Lisa Rabey. It was originally posted on LITA-L on August 31, 2010. I started my MLIS in the fall of 2008 and before I started school, I spent a lot of time researching information on the career field and also looking for blogs/journals/etc about the process of researching schools, to what kind of classes would benefit me coupled with my own background (10 years in technology, plus a BA and a MA), and anything really from those who were in the current throes of school. There was, at least then, very little. While I did find a load of stuff about librarianship from those in the field, but I also found that many of the blogs/journals/books were also outdated or getting close to being outdated. Secondly, I found that most online communities/networking sites tended to be filled with the same type of questions: What schools are the best? Should I take the GRE? I have a background in X, would this be applicable to becoming a librarian? To me at the time, that wasn't quite what I was looking for. I decided to put together series of blog posts on what I thought would be helpful to others considering going to lib school ranging from determining what type of school one should choose, lecture delivery, job placement, programs available, how to determine your career path, what other professions/career paths a MLIS can be used for and on to job hunting and more: http://shesgotplans.net/so-you-want-to-be-a-librarianarchivist/ *It should be noted that ALA has the above bookmarked in their delicious account to pass on to others seeking the same answers. I've gotten loads of emails from people over the last two years telling me how invaluable the information is to them and that it helped clarify or solidify their decisions to not only attend lib school, but also helped them sort out what type of librarian or archivist they wanted to be. ...

Nadine gordimer goes back into battle

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:59:06 +0100

Twenty years after helping defeat apartheid, the eminent writer is fighting government plans to muzzle South Africa's media'Where do you get your energy from?," I ask Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate and lifelong fighter for freedom. This is probably a naff, ageist question, and I wonder how the 86-year-old, who has a reputation for intellectual rigour bordering on fierceness, will react. Happily, she is not insulted. "Who knows where you get it from?" she says. "You must muster your resources and do what you have to do."What she feels she has to do at the moment is oppose the South African government's draconian proposals to muzzle the media. A new protection of information bill and media tribunal are seen by critics as the greatest threat to press freedom since the apartheid era.If passed, the measures would allow the government to ban the publication of material deemed detrimental to "the survival and security of the state". The catch-all phrase "national interest" would allow it to close down discussion of any topic which threatened to embarrass those in power. It is these proposals which have led Gordimer to don her campaigning armour once more, and go into battle against a government she believes may be about to reverse the democratic gains of the last two decades.With her fellow writer André Brink, she has drawn up a petition which has so far gathered eminent names such as award-winning novelist JM Coetzee, academic and writer Njabulo Ndebele, and actor and playwright John Kani. The petition will be formally presented to South Africa's president Jacob Zuma this week, and Gordimer hopes that writers will be able to join with South Africa's bar council and media organisations to build concerted opposition to the proposals. ...

Information literacy and outreach librarian (regent university, virginia beach, virginia)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:20:01 +0100

Information Literacy and Outreach Librarian (Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia) Job Description: Library faculty member to plan, implement, and assess library instruction, information literacy training, and educational programming. Duties: Develop and implement information literacy training and educational programming on campus and online. Oversee Information Research and Resources course. Reference and research assistance, along with other professional librarian duties, as assigned. For a complete job description see www.regent.edu/admin/hr/jobfaculty.cfm. Required: ALA-accredited degree. Experience and/or training in information literacy instruction in an academic setting. Proficiency with instructional technologies, social media, and library assessment tools related to instruction. ...

Stephen wall obituary

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:51:31 +0100

Literary historian, academic and longstanding editor of Essays in CriticismThe achievements of Stephen Wall, who has died after a lung infection aged 79, were exceptional for their humane generosity. As a literary historian and a critic of the Victorian novel, pre-eminently of Trollope and Dickens; as a reviewer – at once welcoming and discriminating – of new fiction and of theatre; as a director not only of Shakespeare but of Henry Purcell, informed by a love of enduring music; and as the author of a novel rewardingly patient in its nocturnal rhythms and chequered crosscurrents, he exercised an influence always benign and never sentimental. Likewise, as editor for 40 years of the quarterly journal Essays in Criticism, he was gently exacting, attentive to the very wording in a manner that contributors never forgot; and he was an inspiring teacher of English at Oxford University."Of joy in widest commonalty spread" – Wordsworth spoke to Wall as no other poet did, while there was added something for which this poet was not notable: a vivid sense of humour, together with a laconic wit, a sidelong glance endearingly free of anything furtive, a gift for offering advice in a way that made it a pleasure to take it and a mischievous delight that was the opposite of mischief-making. In his happy possession of these qualities, Wall was always keen to acknowledge how much he owed to the character of his friends FW Bateson, founder of Essays in Criticism, and Ian Hamilton, poet, wit, and founder of the Review. And, lifelong and supreme, to the love and the loving kindness of Yvonne, his wife of more than 50 years, and his daughters, Alisoun and Cassandra.Not every obituary should be a tribute, but this one should. For it is necessary to speak here of that which Wall himself judged it his responsibility not to invite attention to: his having been struck down by polio 54 years ago and lived since then from a wheelchair. ...

Publishing: statistics: slides from recent presentation by ceo of wolters kluwer, nancy mckinstry, at 2010 beijing international publishing forum

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:41:17 +0100

On Sunday, Nancy McKinstry shared her thoughts about publishing, China, her company and a number of other topics during the 2010 Beijing International Publishing Forum. You can find a the news release here. Included in the 34 slide presentation are a number of statistics and other items that might be of interest. Access the Presentation Slides (PDF) Examples Include: Facts About Wolters Kluwer + Approximately 19,300 employees in more than 40 countries across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America + 3.4 EUR billion revenue Total Number of Professionals (Global, With Sources) + 8.4 Million Physicians + 13 Million Nurses + 2.5 Million + A List of Three Megatrends Impacting Wolters Kluwer Business Today + Numbers and Comparisons Including 10 Petabytes, All U.S. Academic Research Libraries 1/2 Yotabyte, The Entire Internet in 2009 + Wolters Kluwer 2010-2012 Strategy + A Breakdown on Wolters Kluwer Revenue by Format and Types (Cyclical, Books, Subscriptions) Example: In 2009 52% Electronic vs. 34% Print; 71% Subscriptions vs. 11% Books + China Digital Publishing Developments Examples: .5% of the total output of the publishing industry in 2009 + Digital journal 0.6 bln; eBooks 1.4 bln; online advertising 20.6 bln; online gaming 25.6 bln; and mobile phone publishing 31.4 bln + Almost 90% of the Chinese publishing houses have developed an eBook publishing business + Wolters Kluwer in China Source: Wolters Kluwer (Source: ResourceShelf)

Applications available for state farm good neighbor service-learning grants

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:43:01 +0100

State Farm is teaming up with Youth Service America (YSA) to offer grants of up to $1,000 to youth-led service-learning initiatives in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick. Eligible programs will engage youth in service-learning, an effective teaching and learning strategy that promotes student learning, academic achievement, workplace readiness, and healthy communities. State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grants encourage semester-long projects (following YSA’s Semester of Service framework) that launch on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, January 17, 2011, and culminate on Global Youth Service Day, April 15-17, 2011. Eligible candidates include teachers, service-learning coordinators, and students in a public school, or staff and youth in a community-based organization working with a public school. YSA will host two application webinars, September 7 and October 7, for applicants to learn more about developing a successful project. Webinar registration information and application materials are available at the YSA Web site. (Source: PLA Blog)

Citizen media law project & center for sustainable journalism conference on media law in the digital age

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:30:00 +0100

Citizen Media Law Project and Center for Sustainable Journalism Announce Conference Focused on Media Law in the Digital Age Cambridge, MA – August 31, 2010 – The Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University are co‐hosting a conference on September 25, 2010 entitled Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You? in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed for journalists, bloggers, and lawyers who work with media clients, the conference will be an opportunity to learn first‐hand the latest legal developments and to get your questions answered by experts in the field. The program will bring together legal practitioners, journalists, and academics to discuss the latest legal issues facing online media ventures. Topics will include: libel law, copyright law, newsgathering law, and advertising law, as well as the legal issues arising from news aggregation, managing online communities, and business law considerations for start‐up online media organizations. Small‐group workshops will focus on strategies for accessing government information and understanding legal terms in content licenses, freelancer contracts, and website terms of service and privacy policies. If you need personalized legal assistance before or after the conference, contact the Online Media Legal Network, a legal referral network for independent online media administered by the Citizen Media Law Project at the Berkman Center. For more information about the network, please visit its website: http://www.omln.org. Funding for the conference is being provided by the Harnisch Foundation, which has been a long‐time sponsor of the Center for Sustainable Journalism and recently provided a grant to the Berkman Center to support media law education. Visit the conference website for more information on the conference agenda, registration and logistics: http://csjconferences. ...

Top 25 online schools in 2010 top 25 online schools in 2010 ...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:28 +0100

As a student, you will have access to a wide array of support services, including 24-hour technical support, academic advising, on-demand tutoring, (Source: pligg - all)

Library webinars: live webinars: september 2010

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:27 +0100

During this one hour webinar, Kyla Hunt, Library Services Consultant for the Texas State Library & Archives Commission, will talk about how reading g (Source: pligg - all)

Development of libraries in bangladesh- a study of the historical ...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:27 +0100

This idea also influenced in the growth of different type of libraries in Bangladesh. There are four major kinds of libraries in Bangladesh from its (Source: pligg - all)

Library director | jobs in libraries

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:26 +0100

Significant experience in reference, library instruction, and supervision in an academic library, preferably including delivery of services to dista (Source: pligg - all)

Reading agency defends libraries' impact on literacy

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:45:04 +0100

As government cuts threaten libraries, the Reading Agency comes to their defence with a success story – the Summer Reading ChallengeWith the government looking in every direction to wield its cost-cutting axe, the Reading Agency last week put out a plea that libraries should "not be a soft target for cuts". The declaration came in response to statistics released by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport last week showing that nearly two-thirds of Britons didn't visit a library last year. That triggered fears that the figures were a prelude to mass library closures.The Reading Agency hit back, saying "where libraries offer a more dynamic, interactive reading service, the public respond with alacrity". One of its textbook examples was the Summer Reading Challenge (SRC), its literary initiative that encourages thousands of children to become avid readers every year.Since its creation 12 years ago, the SRC has become an annual part of the long holidays for more than 750,000 children aged four to 11. Every year there's a theme: this year it's outer space, so children are encountering foil aliens, Plasticine planets and more. The libraries then display relevant books, distribute reading rewards such as stickers, certificates, folders and charts, and encourage children to read six or more books during the holidays.On a warm summer afternoon in Wherwell, a small village in Hampshire, a bus covered in pictures of fairies and monsters has pulled up outside the local primary school. It's attracting scores of children, who chat excitedly as they await their turn. But this is no ice-cream van drawing the crowds: it's a library bus, and one of almost 4,000 libraries around the UK running projects encouraging children to read over the holidays as part of the reading challenge.Among those standing in line at Hampshire's library bus this year are the Collis family – Deborah and her children Natasha, seven, and Isabella, five. ...

Library assistant (part-time), fisher college

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:24:59 +0100

Fisher College seeks a Part-Time Library Assistant to work 15 hours per week (Saturdays from 12 noon to 8 p.m. and Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.) during the academic year. Fisher College is a private, coeducational institution in the Back Bay with a Day Division of approximately 650 full-time students and three Continuing Education locations. The Library is a member of the Metro-Boston Library Network, and it holds approximately 31,000 items, including books and films. Duties: * Provide general administrative support to Librarians * Undertake special projects assigned by Librarians * Supervise work-study students * Provide assistance to students, faculty and staff at the Circulation/Reference Desk (Source: MBLC Job Listings)

Legal ebooks and the institutional buyer: an llb poll on use, acquisition interest and market penetration

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Since the advent of full-text search in the late 1970s-early 1980s, law libraries have tended to be at the forefront of technological innovation in the provision of resources to its users. When one reads what general public libraries are doing... (Source: Law Librarian Blog)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Did you know Bailey Library has cameras and audio equipment for loan to patrons with a valid SRU I.D? Some of the items available include: hard drive video cameras, digital still cameras, tripods, microphones, and headphones. These items can be found in the laptop room in the basement of the library. Laptop room hours are: Sunday 1PM-10:45PM, Mon-Thur 9AM-10:45PM, Friday 9AM-4:15PM, and closed on Saturdays. Items may also be returned to the first floor Circulation desk during hours when laptops are closed. See the library website for more information: http://www.sru.edu/academics/library/directory/Pages/cameras.aspx (Source: Cites & Bytes @ Bailey)

Incoming students are treated as young donors

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

On a growing number of campuses, first-year students are hearing another message. Please give. Not for tuition, but instead as a young donor. With alumni-giving rates at record lows and lagging state support of postsecondary education, public and private schools alike are focusing their efforts on building lifetime loyalty among still-impressionable students. "We are unapologetically laying out expectations for their relationship with Penn," said Elise Betz, executive director of alumni relations. "Before our students enter a classroom, they are given this message." Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Student sues university for return of twice-paid tuition

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Appearing in small claims court Friday, (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Elite ihes giving more financial aid to middle class families

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Some of the nation's most elite colleges, trying to ward off perceptions that they've become unaffordable to even high-income families, are bolstering their financial aid packages by offering grants to students whose parents earn as much as $180,000 a year. they are increasingly reaching out to families caught in the middle: those who are too wealthy to be eligible for federal grants, but not so wealthy as to be able to absorb the $50,000 a year for college, particularly with the rising costs of home ownership. The colleges say the emphasis on aid to higher-income families has not come at the expense of lower-income students. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Early move-in no problem if you pay for it

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Campuses are chaotic on student move-in day, with packed cars lingering in loading zones and fully stocked dolly carts fighting for free elevators. What if you could bypass the mayhem and settle in to your dorm room a little earlier? At the University of New Haven and the University of Michigan, you can do exactly that — for a price. For $35 a day at New Haven and $75 a day at Michigan, freshmen and other students living in campus housing can move in as much as a week before the dormitories officially open. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Re: mobile services

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Boopsie has mobilized many public and academic libraries, including: Vanderbilt, Brown, Notre Dame, U of Ghent, U of Auckland, U of Toronto, Seattle Public, LA Public, etc. The solutions is a native application that runs on Android, BlackBerry, J2ME, Palm OS, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile, iPhone/iPod/iPad and allows access to your ILS (place books on hold, account balance, etc.), library locator, contact a librarian, reading lists, calendar and events and much more. Greg Carpenter Boopsie - Type Less, Find More http://boopsie.com info-VJQNKLXSQs9BDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Brian Gray <mindspiral-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote: (Source: gmane.education.web4lib)

Daily tweets 2010-08-30

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future http://icio.us/k5hucm # Testing Jan Velterop's Hunch about Green and Gold Open Access http://icio.us/vy50jx # First Results of the SOAP Project http://icio.us/q1g1xq # Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Yesterday, The Promises of Tomorrow http://icio.us/q0mbwt # Authors Publication Strategies in Scholarly Publishing http://icio.us/5irxkv # Colour Me Red – the Ingect System for Research Data Collections http://icio.us/no0bqd # Oxford English Dictionary "Will Not Be Printed Again" http://icio.us/yam2hl # Reason for Hope Survives in Academic Publishing Despite a Month of Bad News http://icio.us/i2iw5m # Elsevier and Royal Tropical Institute Sign 5 Year Memorandum of Understanding http://icio.us/khtalh # (Source: DigitalKoans)

Presidential libraries: hawaii: state pushes to host future obama library; others want library in chicago’s hyde park

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:11:34 +0100

From the Article: Hawaii has an early lead in pitching the islands as the future home of President Barack Obama’s library, museum and think tank, but yet another Illinois-Hawaii smack-down is brewing over where it will actually end up. The Hawaii Legislature has sent the White House a joint resolution that it passed last session urging Obama to pick Hawaii as the site for his library. Officials at the University of Hawaii are creating working groups in the next few weeks that will study a wide variety of issues, including finding a suitable site for the complex, designing it, deciding how to best manage the archives, designing museum exhibits and learning how best to create a related academic program and research center. [Clip] Meanwhile in Illinois… As usual, Obama supporters in Chicago have their own claims on Obama and want to see his library in the Windy City. So they’re not about to let Hawaii get Obama’s presidential library without a fight. Illinois state Sen. Terry Link, a golfing and poker buddy of the president’s who served with him in the Illinois state Senate, plans to push for Obama’s library to be built in Obama’s Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park — when the time is right. It’s premature to begin laying the groundwork now, Link said, because of the economic climate and because Link hopes Obama has six more years to serve in the White House before worrying about where to build his library. Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser Note: Hyde Park is the home of the University of Chicago. (Source: ResourceShelf)

Presidential library smack down

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:27:37 +0100

Hawaii...or Illinois? (some might suggest elsewhere...) The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that Hawaii has an early lead in pitching the islands as the future home of President Barack Obama's library, museum and think tank. However yet another Illinois-Hawaii smack-down is brewing over where it will actually end up. The Hawaii Legislature has sent the White House a joint resolution that it passed last session urging Obama to pick Hawaii as the site for his library. Officials at the University of Hawaii are creating working groups in the next few weeks that will study a wide variety of issues, including finding a suitable site for the complex, designing it, deciding how to best manage the archives, designing museum exhibits and learning how best to create a related academic program and research center. And on Sunday a Hawaii delegation led by Reed Dasenbrock, UH vice chancellor for academic affairs, will fly to Washington, D.C., to meet with the head of the presidential library division of the National Archives and to Little Rock, Ark., to meet with the director of the Clinton Presidential Center and the Clinton Foundation. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News)

Presidential library smack down

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:27:37 +0100

Bjørn lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:19:48 +0100

With his new book, Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for huge investment in fighting global warming. But his answers are unlikely to satisfy all climate change campaignersFew statisticians can have inspired more passion than Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish academic who became famous as the author of the controversial (some would say contrarian) Skeptical Environmentalist, which set him up as perhaps the world's best-known critic of the dominant scientific view of global warming and the ensuing climate change.Lomborg's prolific output has been almost matched by books rubbishing his work: critics have described him as selective, unprofessional and confused. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's climate change panel, has compared him to Adolf Hitler – for the statistical crime of treating human beings too much like numbers.Meanwhile, Time Magazine declared Lomborg one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004. The respected Cambridge University Press (CUP) has published many of his books in the UK and the US, and the award-winning documentary maker Ondi Timoner and X-Men films producer, Ralph Winter, are about to release a film of his 2007 book Cool It (which carries the subtitle: the first optimistic film about global warming).The Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty once declared Lomborg guilty of exactly that, but a government review later cleared him.Lomborg's latest book, published by CUP next month, is likely to reignite these passions, because it appears to contradict so much of what he has said before and because he is straying into newly controversial territory. He is advocating that much more attention and money be lavished on climate engineering methods, such as whitening clouds so that they reflect back more of the sun's heat.Heat is something he is resigned to. When he gives talks, he says, he often meets "people who come up and say: 'I thought I'd hate you. ...

"educating" parents about books

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:03:19 +0100

A friend to whom I will refer as Jules Léotard recently pointed me towards this lengthy video which is the product of Focus on the Family's "True Tolerance" program.Direct URL / Video in accessible playerThe video points parents towards the stealthy methods those "sneaky" homosexual activists are using to get into the schools, such as devious, wicked anti-bullying campaigns. (The fact that 23.2% of students who have been bullied at school because someone perceived them to be queer attempt suicide is apparently irrelevant to these people, who provide a [PDF] "model anti-bullying policy" which is not intended to prohibit expression of religious, philosophical, or political views. Presumably including "you're going to hell for being gay.")Anyway, their list of [PDF] devious homosexual agenda books you might find in your school makes me sad, because the only thing in there that counts as fantasy or science fiction is Uncle Bobby's Wedding. Is that really the state of homosexual agenda children's and YA books in F&SF? Hero, Cycler, and some albeit adorable queer guinea pigs? (I'm exaggerating. Somewhat.)It doesn't work that way in my mind, where I forget that Tally Youngblood never hooked up with Shay; that it was just subtext in King of Shadows; that none of those gay best friends in paranormal romances are the main characters. This is a good time of year to remind myself that for all I am used to seeing the intense social conservativism in fantasy, I mustn't discount the strong strain of it in science fiction.Also a good time of year to make the time to read Ash. *goes to request from interlibrary loan*(This is mirrored from an original post at Dreamwidth where there are comments. You can leave a comment here or over there. (Source: Ramblings on Librarianship, Technology, and Academia)

Sciverse: one search to three databases & scientific collaboration from elsevier, open api’s from elsevier coming in q4

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:42:34 +0100

We will have much more to say once we get some time to use the service. Perhaps the biggest news today is that Elsevier will release open API’s in Q4 of this year. It will be worth watching to see if other major publishers do the same. From the Announcement: Intro Elsevier today announced the launch of SciVerse, a platform that integrates the company’s key products and encourages the scientific community to collaborate on the development of customized search and discovery applications. Elsevier has committed to releasing the APIs (application programming interfaces) for all of the content on SciVerse and will offer application development support tools on the site. API’s Coming in Q4 “SciVerse is a start of a new journey for Elsevier where we plan to provide customized search and discovery solutions and increase interoperability within our products and third party services,” said Jay Katzen, Managing Director, Academic & Government Products, Elsevier. “We recognize that it is critical to involve the researchers and librarians in the creation of solutions as they are in the best position to identify and address their search and discovery challenges. By providing our content APIs later this year, we will empower researchers and developers to build custom applications to enhance their workflow and share these applications with the scientific community within SciVerse.” At Launch (Today) At launch SciVerse will include SciVerse Hub beta, a module that integrates ScienceDirect, Scopus and targeted web content from Scirus, Elsevier’s science-specific Internet search engine. SciVerse Hub beta allows for a single search across its integrated content with results ranked by relevancy and without duplication, saving valuable researcher time. Combining familiar resources with new efficiencies, SciVerse also enables interoperability among ScienceDirect, Scopus and the new SciVerse Hub beta. ...

#jobs posting> systems & emerging technologies librarian

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:45:00 +0100

SYSTEMS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES LIBRARIAN Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is seeking a dynamic, student-centered librarian to work in a team- oriented library environment. Responsibilities include: provide leadership, vision, and expertise related to library systems and technologies that increase and enhance access to academic resources at UW - La Crosse; identify, evaluate, implement, and teach the use of new technologies that facilitate information access and that contribute to the development of library-related learning materials; participate in reference, information literacy instruction, collection development, collegial governance, and library committees as well as campus and professional activities. The library recognizes and values diversity in its faculty, staff, and students. We seek a colleague who shares the library's commitment to diversity and who will be a dedicated librarian and mentor for students with diverse backgrounds, preparation, and career goals. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS ALA accredited MLS; experience with integrated library systems and web development applications; ability to manage EZProxy and server technology and to develop and manage tools for extracting evaluative statistics; demonstrated knowledge of desktop, laptop, and handheld computing devices and their related technologies; demonstrated ability to work collegially and communicate effectively. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Professional academic library experience. ENVIRONMENT UW-La Crosse is known for its highly ranked academic programs. La Crosse is famous for its exceptional natural beauty. The city (metropolitan population 100,000) is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River below towering bluffs. Abundant water and woodlands provide year-round recreation sites for skiing, hunting, camping, and other outdoor activities. ...

California state university to license content from major college publishers

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:00:45 +0100

From the press release: The Digital Marketplace, an initiative of the California State University Office of the Chancellor, announced plans today to launch a pilot to license digital course content from Bedford/Freeman/Worth, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Starting in the fall 2010 semester, pilot courses are scheduled at five CSU campuses: Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, San Bernardino and San Francisco State. Each participating instructor volunteered for the program that promises students will pay the lowest price available for the licensed, digital version of their course materials that are interactive and engaging. Students will purchase their personal-use subscriptions for the digital content through their local campus bookstore. “Offering faculty the choice of a licensing model gives them the option of finding the highest quality content at the lowest cost,” said Gerard L. Hanley, PhD., Senior Director of Academic Technology Services for the CSU. “The purpose of the Digital Marketplace is to provide everyone access to quality, affordable educational content. This is a wonderful example of an academic institution and publishers working together for the benefit of our students.” Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

The difference between americans and humans?

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:47 +0100

The academic psychologist Joseph Henrich brought the Ultimatum game to the Amazon jungle, and found that the Maschiguenga people of southeastern Peru make decisions like economists. (Source: Freakonomics Blog)

A look back at the history of print and publishing (or it's always been a tough business)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:17:49 +0100

Change of pace from the more frequent 'death of print' stories here on LISNews. This one's about the birth of print; a discussion of the newly published book by Andrew Pettegree, "The Book in the Renaissance" with Tom Scocca of Slate and the Boston Globe. In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism that would change the world, produced an ordinary little schoolbook. It was probably an edition of a fourth-century grammar text by Aelius Donatus, some 28 pages long. Only a few fragments of the printed sheets survive, because no one thought the book was worth keeping. “Now had he kept to that, doing grammars...it probably would all have been well,” said Andrew Pettegree, a professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews and author of “The Book in the Renaissance,” the story of the birth of print. Instead, Gutenberg was bent on making a grand statement, an edition of Scripture that would cost half as much as a house and would live through the ages. In the end, struggling for capital to support the Bible project, Gutenberg was forced out of his own print shop by his business partner, Johann Fust. The article continues in a question and answer format here. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News)

A look back at the history of print and publishing (or it's always been a tough business)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:17:49 +0100

#jobs : usa, new york, albany-seeking associate director for collections

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:32:00 +0100

POSITION: Associate Director for Collections The University at Albany, SUNY, invites applications and nominations for the position of Associate Director for Collections. Reporting to the Dean and Director of Libraries, this senior administrative position is responsible for building, assessing and managing the Libraries' print and electronic collections, managing a $5 million acquisitions budget, and supervising, coordinating and evaluating the work of the Libraries' subject specialists. Responsibilities also include oversight of gifts, Special Collections, University Archives, and the Preservation Department. As a member of the senior administrative group, the Associate Director shares responsibility for developing and implementing the mission, goals and broad policy directions for the University Libraries. Albany is looking for an experienced, creative, forward-thinking leader with a keen sense of the evolving role of research libraries in the digital age and demonstrated knowledge of best practices and current trends in collection management and scholarly communication. The Associate Director works actively with academic schools and departments to determine selective areas of excellence and growth to be reflected in the Libraries' collection investment. S/he is responsible for coordinating initiatives with other associate directors and library managers, advising and mentoring junior faculty, and promoting staff professional growth. S/he represents the Libraries on collaborative projects with other campus units and other libraries. The Associate Director demonstrates commitment to personal professional development through scholarly research and publication, presentations, and participation in national professional associations. Required: Graduate degree in librarianship from an ALA-accredited institution and from a college or university accredited by a U. S. ...

Welcome from arnold hirshon, university librarian

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:57:01 +0100

Every new academic year brings a level of excitement as students and faculty return to campus. Everyone anticipates the accomplishment of the new year and our community rededicates itself to continuing intellectual growth through research, teaching and learning. This is a particularly special year for me because I just arrived in mid-August. I return to academe after an eleven year hiatus. For the first twenty-five years of my professional life I worked in five different academic institutions (two in the Midwest, two in the Southeast, and one in the Mid-Atlantic). Most recently, over the past decade I worked in and with academic libraries in my work as the chief executive officer of a non-profit organization in New England and as a national and international consultant. I return to university life with a new sense of vigor and enthusiasm. During this academic year the Kelvin Smith Library will develop a new strategic plan and consider important changes to our services both in our buildings and on the network. For our strategic planning process to be successful, I seek very wide active and personal engagement of all of our stakeholders. Please communicate with me in whatever way you are most comfortable: in person on the street or in the office, or electronically via email, online chat, Twitter, or Facebook. (All of my contact information is below.) I know that everyone on the staff of the Kelvin Smith Library would also welcome your involvement and communications as we build upon the strong foundation of the past to build an even greater Library for the future. I wish you a highly successful academic year, and I look forward to seeing and speaking with many of you personally soon. Arnold Hirshon, Associate Provost and University Librarian Office: Kelvin Smith Library 212G Phone: (216) 368-0688 Email: arnold.hirshon@case.edu Skype: ahirshon Twitter: ahirshon Facebook: Arnold Hirshon Blog: http://blog.case.edu/arnold.hirshon (Source: KSL News Blog)

Library services assistant (pt, limited term), uw-oshkosh, oshkosh, wi

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:50:02 +0100

Polk Library - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (Source: Wislisjobs Academic Library Jobs)

Library services assistant (1 year appointment), uw-oshkosh, oshkosh, wi

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:50:02 +0100

Library Services Assistant - Advanced/Lead - Project Appointment (1 Year) (Source: Wislisjobs Academic Library Jobs)

Campus librarian, globe university/minnesota school of business, appleton, wi

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:50:02 +0100

(Source: Wislisjobs Academic Library Jobs)

Information management/information literacy instructor, bryant and stratton college, milwaukee, wi

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:50:02 +0100

Position: (Source: Wislisjobs Academic Library Jobs)

Reference librarian for special collections

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100

State: New Jersey library.princeton.edu/hr/positions/JobRefLibrnSpColl2008.html Position Summary: The Special Collections Reference Librarian is responsible for reference services in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department in Firestone Library and works closely with the Assistant University Archivist for Public Services at the Mudd Manuscript Library to coordinate public services for all of Special Collections. This person supervises the work of three support staff and coordinates the delivery of public services with many professionals and support staff who play part-time public service roles in the Department. The position reports to the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. We seek a generalist with the ability and talent to provide reference services for the myriad subject areas the Department covers. The main reading room in Firestone serves more than 2,500 patrons annually from within and without the University community. Our patrons consult more than 12,000 books, manuscripts, graphic materials, maps, and other items that span many languages and five millennia of recorded history. The Department's public services staff at Firestone also handle approximately 2,500 reference inquiries annually from around the world, provide paper, microfilm, digital, and photographic copies for approximately 16,000 items annually, and gather materials for and host more than 100 classes for approximately 1,500 students during the academic year. The successful candidate must be committed to and be an advocate for public services in the Department, as well as in the wider library system. The ideal candidate will enjoy working with researchers, take up the challenge of problem solving, have a welcoming personality and qualities that will help patrons researching primary sources. The position may work occasional evening or weekend hours. ...

Science and engineering librarian

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100

State: International The University of Texas at Arlington Job Title Librarian Posting number 10-07-21-01-0100 Job status Open Information: http://utdirect.utexas.edu/pnjobs/index.WBX?comp=1 Check "Professional/Non-faculty" ___ Basic Information Date available 09/01/2010 Position duration Funding expected to continue Position open to all applicants Monthly salary $3333 negotiable depending on qualifications. Hours per week 40.00 Standard from 900AM to 600PM Location Arlington, TX Hiring department Library http://library.uta.edu General notes This is an entry level Science and Engineering Librarian position. Reference desk duty includes one week night, Sunday rotations and occasional holidays. Some instruction includes nights and weekends. Instructions about additional materials to be submitted by all applicants will be provided once you apply. Finalist(s) will be required to give a formal presentation on a library-related topic. Required Application Materials A Resume is required in order to apply. A Letter of Interest is required in order to apply. A List of 3 References is required in order to apply. Additional Information Purpose of position The Science/Engineering Librarian serves as liaison to assigned departments within the Colleges of Science and Engineering; contribute to and supports the Library's mission to foster and promote quality learning, teaching, and research. Essential functions Serves as subject liaison to assigned academic units for promotion and outreach of library services and resources for Science and Engineering disciplines, cultivates partnerships and relationships with faculty, staff and students. Provides general reference while maintaining a service desk area, also provides complex and/or consultative reference and research assistance in assigned subject areas including virtual reference. ...

Library web developer

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100

State: New Jersey Library Web Developer/Designer Princeton University Library Princeton, New Jersey Requisition #1000633 The Princeton University Library comprises a large central library and nine specialized libraries that are heavily used by an academic community of 6,400 students, 1,100 faculty members, and many visiting scholars. To support the diverse needs of its users, the Library holds some six million printed volumes, ranging from incunabula to current imprints, and provides access to many other records of human knowledge, such as ancient papyri and cylinder seals, modern literary manuscripts, and recently produced electronic databases and journals. The Library employs more than 300 professional and support personnel, complemented by a large student and hourly workforce. Please consult the Library Web site at http://library.princeton.edu/ for more information. Available: Immediately Description and Responsibilities: The Web Developer position will help the Library Web Development Manager on specific projects to deliver more library content and services to our users from our web sites. Specific projects may include designing new sites, or using new web services technologies to improve the user experience in discovering, searching, finding, or acquiring library materials and content. Additionally, the position will assist in implementing the Drupal CMS, customizing the interface for the latest version of the OPAC, and creating mobile ready versions of the library web site and catalog. Customization tasks for the new NextGen Discovery system will be a large component of the work. Projects will also likely include implementation of open source code created in other libraries, using various API's made available by Google, OCLC, or Code4Lib members, as well as various library vendors. This position will also be assigned other digital library projects as the need arises. ...

Technology specialist

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100

State: Ohio OHIONET, a nonprofit multi-type library cooperative, seeks an experienced, yet progressive Technology Specialist to assist in the administration of OPAL (Ohio Private Academic Libraries) consortium's and other OHIONET-supported library servers and applications. As part of our member support team, this individual will also provide technical support to member libraries and will participate in after-hours and weekend support rotation. This individual will conduct training sessions both online and in-person to support the effective use of these systems and will prepare complete and accurate documentation to support these projects. Qualifications: - ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent experience required; - Minimum of two years of experience in library system administration or support required (experience with Innovative Interfaces system administration preferred); - Experience with Linux system administration required; - Knowledge of networks and networking principles required; - Familiarity with at least one programming/scripting language required; - Must have a strong public/customer service background and possess the ability to provide front-line troubleshooting in complex environments; - Must be capable of managing technical projects; - Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills; - Should possess excellent leadership, analytic and problem-solving skills and capability of exercising sound judgment; - Travel to libraries required. Compensation: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Generous package of benefits includes 20 vacation days, 11 holidays, 12 days sick leave, TIAA-CREF retirement plan, and medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance. Interested applicants should send a letter of application, resume, and three references with addresses and phone numbers. Applications can be sent electronically via email to jennifert@ohionet. ...

Rare books and special collections cataloger, lilly library (assistant librarian/associate librarian)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100

State: Indiana Responsible for original and enhanced cataloging of rare books and special collections materials in specialized areas, e.g. early or fine printing, major rarities, and general books, mostly of hand press period; advising and consulting with other catalogers on bibliographical terminology and description, collations, and other cataloging problems specific to rare book cataloging and remaining current with the changing body of cataloging rules for rare materials including DCRM, AACR2, RDA, MARC21, LCSH, and Library of Congress classification. Qualifications: Required: ALA-accredited MLS; demonstrated experience with DCRM, AACR2, MARC21, cataloging components of OCLC, and local integrated online library systems; competence in techniques and terminology of descriptive bibliography; working knowledge of Latin and at least two other foreign languages (Greek, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and other modern European languages preferred); strong oral and written communication skills; 3-5 years post-MLS rare book cataloging experience; able to meet requirements of tenure-track librarian position. Preferred: Second degree in discipline related to strengths of Lilly Library collections; knowledge of NACO procedures strongly preferred; experience with Sirsi/Unicorn products. This is a tenure-track academic appointment that includes eligibility for sabbatical leaves. Position to be filled by January 1, 2011 - review of applications begins September 27, 2010. To apply send letter of application; professional vita; names/addresses/telephone numbers of four references to Jennifer Chaffin, Director of Human Resources, Libraries Human Resources, Herman B Wells Library 201B, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 or send via e-mail to libpers@indiana.edu. Phone: 812-855-8196 - fax: 812-855-2576. For complete copy of the posting go to: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1410. ...

Library web developer/designer

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100

State: New Jersey Library Web Developer/Designer Princeton University Library Princeton, New Jersey Requisition #1000633 The Princeton University Library comprises a large central library and nine specialized libraries that are heavily used by an academic community of 6,400 students, 1,100 faculty members, and many visiting scholars. To support the diverse needs of its users, the Library holds some six million printed volumes, ranging from incunabula to current imprints, and provides access to many other records of human knowledge, such as ancient papyri and cylinder seals, modern literary manuscripts, and recently produced electronic databases and journals. The Library employs more than 300 professional and support personnel, complemented by a large student and hourly workforce. Please consult the Library Web site at http://library.princeton.edu/ for more information. Available: Immediately Search Committee: (Princeton access only) Description and Responsibilities: The Web Developer position will help the Library Web Development Manager on specific projects to deliver more library content and services to our users from our web sites. Specific projects may include designing new sites, or using new web services technologies to improve the user experience in discovering, searching, finding, or acquiring library materials and content. Additionally, the position will assist in implementing the Drupal CMS, customizing the interface for the latest version of the OPAC, and creating mobile ready versions of the library web site and catalog. Customization tasks for the new NextGen Discovery system will be a large component of the work. Projects will also likely include implementation of open source code created in other libraries, using various API’s made available by Google, OCLC, or Code4Lib members, as well as various library vendors. This position will also be assigned other digital library projects as the need arises. ...

Beyond the job » blog archive » call for papers: journal of access ...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:00:22 +0100

"Shelf Reading as a Collaborative Service Model" "Changing Services and Space at an Academic Library". Special Issues Previous special issues of the (Source: pligg - all)

Top 25 online schools in 2010 (regionally accredited colleges)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:00:22 +0100

As a student, you will have access to a wide array of support services, including 24-hour technical support, academic advising, on-demand tutoring, (Source: pligg - all)

Infographic: college in american

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Here's a graphical representation of statistical data, trends and demographics in the higher education industry. See it at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

There's no dearth of entrepreneurship courses

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Courses in entrepreneurship are now offered by more than 1,200 American universities, and by thousands more organizations including community colleges, small-business development centers and chambers of commerce. Many of the courses are continuing education programs for people with job experience. They include one-week courses, night classes, online offerings and graduate degree programs. The courses vary widely, but they typically seek to leave students with some blend of two things: an entrepreneurial mind-set and a tool kit. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Muslim college students alarmed by increased hostility

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

All of it points to a swelling hostility that many of these students had scarcely known was there and that religious and political leaders worry could fuel alienation and radicalism among some young American Muslims. At AU, there is little evidence of that. With their scoopneck shirts and skinny jeans, they are part of the patchwork of ethnicities and religions woven through most U.S. campuses. For them, any suggestion that being Muslim is incompatible with being American is disturbing. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Community colleges get the jump on green job programs

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

(Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Message to parents of new college students is "let go"

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

At this time of year, more and more colleges across the country are attempting to teach anxious mothers and fathers a lesson not contained in any traditional curriculum: Let go. Facing a generation of text-messaging parents who are often intensely involved in their offspring's lives and academic careers, many schools are launching or expanding orientation events to inform parents about all sorts of details. More important, campus officials say, is explicit advice aimed at easing the pain of separation for the older generation and discouraging intrusive habits. Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Roger jones obituary

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:43:49 +0100

Roger Jones, who has died from cancer at the age of 61, was one of the outstanding academic publishers of his generation. He was a great creative editor, who had a knack of getting the best out of sometimes difficult authors, and many key publications only saw the light of day because of Roger's ability to encourage, enthuse and advise his team of loyal writers.Roger was born in Stroud in the Cotswolds. He took a first-class degree in geography and geology at Liverpool University and although he considered a research career, decided that the world of books appealed more. He joined the firm of George Allen & Unwin first in a sales position but quickly displayed an aptitude for finding and developing young authors with potential for writing textbooks. Many of the titles he commissioned went on to become standard texts. Typical was Euan Clarkson's Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution (1979), which revolutionised the study of fossils and through several editions became an international bestseller. Roger developed the Allen & Unwin list across many fields, challenging the position of other houses with deeper pockets and greater resources.When Allen & Unwin was sold to the energetic publishing entre- preneur Robin Hyman, Roger became a main board director. From a rather glamorous new office in Soho, Unwin Hyman looked poised for major expansion but Robin fell ill, and the company was taken over by Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins, which was interested in the house's golden property – the novels of JRR Tolkien.It quickly became apparent that HarperCollins were not going to continue with Roger's meticulously created (and highly profitable) academic list. The books and authors were disposed of piecemeal and Roger and his colleagues left. ...

Crazy age: thoughts on being old by jane miller | book review

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:21:52 +0100

In a perceptive, amusing book about growing old, Jane Miller argues that there's more to ageing than frailty and lonelinessSince everyone now knows that there are more old people around than ever before, it's not surprising that there's been a spate of books about age. Crazy Age by Jane Miller (born in 1932) is the latest and definitely one of the best. It is a highly literate and amusing exploration of the glooms and possibilities of the condition, how it feels, what it offers or really lacks – as opposed to what younger people might think it does.A teacher herself, Jane Miller has written extensively about women and education and the relation between the two, but there's no trace here of a stolid academic style: her writing is so fluid and amusing that you mostly forget that old age is supposed to be such a gloom. Not that she funks the downside of it – there's a long account of a close friend descending, not too miserably, into Alzheimer's disease; but many more accounts of those facing old age with considerable zest.What makes it so readable is not just that she writes tellingly about the experiences of herself and those she knows, but that she draws on characters in books – by Muriel Spark or Edith Wharton, Turgenev or Pushkin (she's a Russian translator, among other things); we're as likely to read about Ivan Illich or Updike's Rabbit as of her own two new knees or her father's death. She has her critique of Simone de Beauvoir, "who has written a book about it 700 pages long saying we shouldn't think about it too much", and cites Philip Roth's distaste for the view that "a healthy old age is somehow morally superior, as if frailty is always your own fault". ...

Today’s bookmarks 08/29/2010

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:37:27 +0100

OpenScholar A full-featured web site-creation package solely for the academic community. Scholars create web sites in seconds and can easily manage everything themselves (for free) tags: academic drupal opensource CMS CoLab | Open Source Science Designed for open and massively collaborative science. tags: science open opensource Lightspark Lightspark is a modern, free, open-source flash player implementation. tags: media opensource Boxee Movies, TV Shows and Video from the Internet on your TV. tags: media mediacenter tv opensource Contacts for Firefox With Contacts, we’ve enhanced your browser by making it aware of your online contacts and friend lists. You can then search and browse your contacts in the browser, and a website can ask for permission to access them through an API. tags: mozilla contacts opensource firefox KompoZer KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs. tags: opensource web-development web-design webdesign webdev Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. (Source: What I Learned Today...)

The masque of africa: glimpses of african belief by vs naipaul

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:06:08 +0100

VS Naipaul is often blinkered but he still sees things in Africa that others miss, says Aminatta FornaIn 2001, when the Swedish Academy awarded Sir Vidia Naipaul the Nobel prize in literature, it described him as the heir to Joseph Conrad: "The annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings… the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished." There are plenty who would have begged to disagree, for Naipaul has regularly attracted criticism, from Edward Said among others, for his dismissive remarks on the cultures of his native Trinidad, on Islam, Pakistan and more.The Masque of Africa is his latest – quite likely last – full-length work of non-fiction. It is a quest through the continent for the spirit of African belief, the belief systems that preceded the arrival of Christianity and Islam – which is very much in keeping with the legacy of Joseph Conrad, who is referenced several times in the book. Already this feels cliched and tiresome; one yearns for the day when an author from outside can approach Africa without invoking the "heart of darkness" mythology. In 1975, Chinua Achebe published an essay attacking Conrad's best-known work as racist and already the novelist Robert Harris has described The Masque of Africa as "toxic".Naipaul's journey across the continent takes him from Uganda, where he lived for a short while in the 1960s, to Nigeria, then to Gabon via the Ivory Coast and Ghana, and finally to South Africa. Along the way, he meets and talks to people about their beliefs. His sources are virtually all African rather than aid workers and expats (you'd be surprised how rare this is).Naipaul discourses with teachers, writers, academics, pharmacists, kings, queens and chiefs, businessmen, friends of friends. That there exists an African intellectual class does not escape him. ...

American council of learned societies’ humanities e-book goes live with koha; will distribute marc records

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:01:41 +0100

From the Announcement: The American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities E-Book has gone live with Koha. Eileen Gardiner, Director of ACLS Humanities E-Book, says, “ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) needed a secure and friendly environment in which to create and archive the MARC records that it distributes for its collection… Galen Charlton, VP for Data Services at Equinox, says, “I am pleased to welcome ACLS to the Koha community, and I take special note that they will be using Koha not as a traditional library but in support of their e-book MARC record distribution service. The flexibility of Koha and other open-source integrated library systems means that they are not just for physical libraries checking out physical books, but can be used and grow to support the virtual libraries of the world.” Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available on- and off-campus through standard web browsers. Created in 1999 by Katipo Communications for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand, Koha is the first open source Integrated Library System to be used worldwide. The software is a full-featured ILS with a dual database design (text based and RDBMS) built to be library standards compliant. Access the Complete Announcement Via Resource Shelf Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

LibWorm: Academia

Panlibus #17 includes articles about visualising library data; effective 2.0 library services; e-books in the academic world; and much more

Dean of library & distance education (mchenry county college, crystal lake, illinois)

Database -- spotlight: the campus freedom resource

Directory of open access journals - recently added titles

Ebrary’s academic complete e-book database tops 50k titles

New from acrl - "the academic library building in the digital age"

Head of circulation services & collection maintenance (oregon state university libraries, corvallis, oregon)

Bcala job announcements: research librarian for the sciences

Archives gig - lexington, ky: director of archives, university of ...

September 1, 2010 (vol. 16, no. 15) – happenings « ola hotline&#39;s blog

Nh library jobline: librarian iii, department of cultural ...

#jobs : systems librarian, university of la verne (california ...

Oregon state library&#39;s lis collection: gay and lesbian library service

Hold obama accountable for the high cost of a college education

Loyola students are running the guesthouse

Is your ihe complying with the new textbook law

Report from ala: "librarian salaries jump 3 percent in 2010"

Improvements made to babson over the summer

Playing hard to get: purchasing and reading e-books

Director, central services division of the deputy vice-chancellor (academic)

#jobs : systems librarian, university of la verne (california) -- wilson library

Reference librarian for the sciences | vassar college

1906 chicago manual of style: free, but not drm-free

1906 chicago manual of style: free, but not drm-free

Upcoming events and digital media roundup

Acrl webcast: from idea to publication

Medicine hat college library services blog: kobo e-book reader is ...

Applications available for state farm good neighbor service - the ...

Libraries: promoting services on campus?

Library notices » blog archive » library computing facility and ...

Njsla jobs: library assistant (multiple), part time

Blogging the loc: an introduction

At a recent event i attended someone told me "bobby jindal is a fucking douchebag"

30 ways to rate a college

Recent information literacy articles

Students think electronic attendance system treats them like children

Students will pay for unpaid internships

Stock market split on for-profit education stocks

New legislation protects college students from credit card abuse

Caption-based topical descriptors for microscopic images as published in academic papers.

Beyond the library: reflections from a librarian in an academic faculty.

California's digital textbook initiative

Judge rules that cuts to stony brook southampton violate state law

Guest post: so you want to be a librarian/archivist?

Nadine gordimer goes back into battle

Information literacy and outreach librarian (regent university, virginia beach, virginia)

Stephen wall obituary

Publishing: statistics: slides from recent presentation by ceo of wolters kluwer, nancy mckinstry, at 2010 beijing international publishing forum

Applications available for state farm good neighbor service-learning grants

Citizen media law project & center for sustainable journalism conference on media law in the digital age

Top 25 online schools in 2010 top 25 online schools in 2010 ...

Library webinars: live webinars: september 2010

Development of libraries in bangladesh- a study of the historical ...

Library director | jobs in libraries

Reading agency defends libraries' impact on literacy

Library assistant (part-time), fisher college

Legal ebooks and the institutional buyer: an llb poll on use, acquisition interest and market penetration

Incoming students are treated as young donors

Student sues university for return of twice-paid tuition

Elite ihes giving more financial aid to middle class families

Early move-in no problem if you pay for it

Re: mobile services

Daily tweets 2010-08-30

Presidential libraries: hawaii: state pushes to host future obama library; others want library in chicago’s hyde park

Presidential library smack down

Presidential library smack down

Bjørn lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune

"educating" parents about books

Sciverse: one search to three databases & scientific collaboration from elsevier, open api’s from elsevier coming in q4

#jobs posting> systems & emerging technologies librarian

California state university to license content from major college publishers

The difference between americans and humans?

A look back at the history of print and publishing (or it's always been a tough business)

A look back at the history of print and publishing (or it's always been a tough business)

#jobs : usa, new york, albany-seeking associate director for collections

Welcome from arnold hirshon, university librarian

Library services assistant (pt, limited term), uw-oshkosh, oshkosh, wi

Library services assistant (1 year appointment), uw-oshkosh, oshkosh, wi

Campus librarian, globe university/minnesota school of business, appleton, wi

September 1, 2010 (vol. 16, no. 15) – happenings « ola hotline's blog

Oregon state library's lis collection: gay and lesbian library service