LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Conferences interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:50:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/03/us-worldcat-mashathon-registration.html Image via WikipediaOCLC announces registration for the US WorldCat Mashathon..Registration is now officially open for the WorldCat Mashathon US, sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network.Join fellow coders, developers and tech-enthusiasts for the next two-day WorldCat Mashathon on Thursday and Friday, April 7-8 simultaneously in 3 locations:Washington, DCColumbus, OHSan Mateo, CAWe’re testing this distributed model, to see if a Mashathon is just as fun (and effective) if it’s run simultaneously in multiple places that are all connected via Webcast. You'll spend the two days brainstorming and coding mash-ups with OCLC Web services and APIs. Developers from the library community and beyond are encouraged to attend. Why attend the WorldCat Mashathon U.S.?Brainstorm potential apps for the WorldCat Search API, MapFAST and other new OCLC Web services.Gain development access to 1.5 billion items from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.Integrate these resources with many others to create innovative new services.Meet fellow developers across the information industry.Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of online library development.Roy Tennant of OCLC Research and longtime Code4Lib participant will kick off the session. OCLC staff will also be available at each location for questions and breakout facilitation—and we’ll connect all the sites together via chat, IRC, video conference and Webcast. Ideas, outcomes and code from the Mashathon, together with a participants list, will be shared during and after the event for others to download and build on. (Source: Catalogablog) Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895900 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/03/interview-with-janet-swan-hill.html "Everything about our discipline is about meta data." Interview with Janet Swan Hill.This is Arro Smith. I am here with Janet Swan Hill. We are in Washington D.C. at the 2010 American Library Annual Conference. She has agreed to be interviewed. This interview will be part of the Capturing Our Stories Oral History Program of Retired or Retiring Librarians. It is one of Loriene Roy’s American Library Association Presidential Initiatives. This recording will be the property of ALA and may be published and used for scholarly research. Today is June 26 th, 2010. (Source: Catalogablog) Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895902 http://epist.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/halfway-through-12-books-12-months/ Hurray! I have read 6 of my 12 Books 12 Months list.  And with this book I am fully appreciating the benefits of the 12 Books 12 Months idea because without it, I would most likely have gotten lost on reading tangents about sci-fi Jesuits, emotional food, and teenage demi-gods.  And I would completely forget about all these books that the Sara from 6 months ago wanted to read.  With the 12 Books list and the brilliant monthly summaries from E on latter day bohemian (I think those monthly round-ups really play an important role in motivation), I’ve managed to alternate between my whim readings and my planned readings – thus, moving ahead on some goals while also pursuing other spontaneous interests.  It’s a really good feeling. So even though I was very tempted to immediately jump into the sequel to the space traveling Jesuit story, I did myself a favor and picked up Haroun and the Sea of Stories.  I had heard about this book at the ALA Conference this past summer in D.C. when I had the great privilege of seeing Salman Rushdie at an author talk.  He was charming and intelligent, and his story about the beginnings of this book had me hooked. This is a children’s book with some obvious, but playful, political messages.  Rushdie wrote this just after the fatwa against his life was announced, wondering each day if he would see his son again, to whom the book is dedicated.  So we get greasy politicians, evil tyrants, and egotistical princes.  We also get some absolutely delightful bits — like the chapter headings: The Shah of Blah, An Iff and a Butt, and a wonderful nod to Beatles’ lyrics. My timing in reading this book was good and bad.  Bad – the pace and humor of a children’s book felt kind of jarring when I was in the middle of a stressful, high-stakes work week. ... Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:57:09 +0100 895911 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/spring-design-lawsuit-against-barnes-noble-moves-forward/ We first covered the lawsuit by Spring Design, maker of the dual-screened Alex e-reader, against Barnes & Noble back in November, 2009. Spring Design claimed that it had designed the Alex in 2006 and worked with Barnes & Noble since early 2009, and that B&N took advantage of this cooperation to copy features of the Alex’s design (notably, the addition of a color LCD panel to a greyscale e-ink panel) in the Nook. Now Reuters reports that Barnes & Noble has failed to convince a judge to dismiss the lawsuit. The judge cited a “significant factual dispute” over whether the Alex had influenced the design of the Nook, and said it was premature to reject charges of trade secret theft. A pretrial conference has been scheduled for February 7th. I have to wonder whether, by the time it comes to trial, it’s even going to be a relevant issue. Like so many other e-reader manufacturers, the Alex is stuck in the two-years-back price bracket at $299, while its competitors are now going for less than half that. But perhaps Spring Design figures that if it can’t make a profit on its e-readers through sale, it can at least scoop up damages in a lawsuit. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:15:00 +0100 895708 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/arl-library-assessment-conference-wrap.html The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) organized the 2010 Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore, Maryland in late October.The event looked at assessment in the following areas:Digital librariesInformation resources and collectionsLearning and teachingManagement informationMethods and toolsOrganizational issuesPerformance measurement and measuresReturn on investment (ROI)ServicesSpace planning and utilizationUsabilityUsage and e-metricsUser needsValue and impactThe conference website has now made available the texts of the poster sessions.The ARL will publish the full conference proceedings in the coming year. (Source: Library Boy) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895774 http://blog.njla.org/archives/2010/12/#001041 http://www.c-n.com By MARIA PRATO • STAFF WRITER • December 28, 2010 SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The end of South Brunswick Public Library's decade-long renovation project is in sight, with an anticipated mid-January completion date. Some of the improvements now being completed were initially postponed because of budget restraints during a 2005 expansion. "Our lower level has never been finished," said Christopher Carbone, library director. "It was a big unfinished area we used for storage. We'll be making better use of the space we have now." Although patrons may have heard construction noise and watched employees' work stations move around the building, much of the work was kept from the public eye, he said. The majority of construction, which included knocking down walls, electrical work, lighting additions, window replacement, and installation of a heating and air-conditioning ventilation unit, was limited to the lower level of the building, where the public has no access. "In short term, it's a bit of a learning curve, but in the long run, it will be an improvement in how we operate," Carbone said. "The end result is (that) it will be a better facility, where we'll be able to work more efficiently." According to the library's internal newsletter, some of the key changes patrons might notice include completion of the unfinished lower level, allowing for staff workspace to be moved downstairs and freeing up more public space on the main level; a new craft and program room that can be divided into two smaller meeting rooms; a quiet study lounge; consolidation of the check-out and return areas, and a new local history archive and conference room. The improvements, which began in September, came with a price tag of approximately $300,000, Carbone said. Through fundraising efforts, the library's board of trustees contributed $100,000 and the Library Foundation gave $70,000 toward the project. ... Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895726 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/12/inalienable-moral-and-legal-right-to.html Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MSBrown University272 George St.Providence RI 02906 Re: The right to health as the unheralded narrative of Health Care Reform, JAMA, December 15, 2010, p. 2639 Dear Dr. Adashi, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 I suppose you could stretch "Life" to include health care, but then you'd first need "life," and have to include the "right to life" as one of those rights too, and until you do, all the UN global health care standards, government regulations, and universal reforms fall flat. Once a baby is chopped up or burned alive and dropped into the trash, all the health standards in all the acts, panels, conferences and world organizations won't make a bit of difference. Norma BruceFaculty EmeritusThe Ohio State University (Source: Collecting my Thoughts) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895678 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16336 Post-Doctoral Researcher (OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Ohio) OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. Tens of thousands of libraries around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. We are currently seeking candidates for a Post-Doctoral Researcher position at our Corporate Headquarters in Dublin (Columbus), Ohio. The Post-Doctoral Researcher will typically work with existing teams in OCLC Research, under the guidance and supervision of a permanent scientific staff member. ... Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:20:02 +0100 895580 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/xzt_ehemsvs/ Michael Stephens “The Hyperlinked Community Library” from Zukunftswerkstatt on Vimeo. Thanks to my colleagues at the Zukunftswerkstatt for posting their video of my talk last year in Leipzig while I was in Germany speaking at the US Embassy. I’ve been reflecting on 2010 this week and the two back to back trips I took to Europe – one to Switzerland/Germany sponsored by the US Mission in Geneva and the Embassy in Berlin and the other for U Game U Learn – were highlights for me on many levels. Not only did I meet library folk from all over  but the travel itself was filled with learning and experiences of all kinds. Danke an meine deutschen Kollegen für dieses wunderbare Video. Bitte entschuldigen Sie meine Sprache gebrochen. (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:10:59 +0100 895607 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3432/morris-cohen-spitfire-legal-librarian-rip/ I first became aware of Morris Cohen because he has the same name as my grandfather only spelled slightly differently. We exchanged emails a few times and I finally met him at Yale when I was in town for the Reblaw conference. He went out of his way to find a time we could have coffee and chitchat about quasi-radical librarianship and he made an impression on me as both a deeply principled and interesting person as well as someone who cared about mentoring and passing on his legacy. I was saddened to learn of his passing this week. There are good obituaries available at the New York Times and Library Journal. (Source: librarian.net) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:03:38 +0100 895625 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freerangelibrarian/~3/BfyoOTStT2Q/ And when it comes, oh dear, oh dear! ALA Midwinter is next week?! How can that BE? It’s not even New Year’s yet! In any event, here is my skeleton schedule for ALA and events leading up to it. Campus starts up again Tuesday, which is one reason I’m cutting Midwinter short. Work one day, head to two conferences… January will be a January with lots of extra January in it! I have plenty of time for vendor visits and exhibit-walking, and meetings with friends where we both have a big asterisk hanging at present. See you in San Diego! Wednesday 1/5 1.5-day annual conference in Santa Cruz for our campus ISAC program (Integrated Studies Across Cultures) Thursday 1/6 Fly out of SFO late afternoon, arrive SAN early evening Friday 1/7 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Beams & Bytes: Constructing the Future Library — Architectural and Digital Considerations San Diego Convention Center, Room 04 Evening: open Saturday 1/8 Breakfast/run with MJ. Power-talk many important things. Laugh at times gone by. 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (Tentative) The Power of Data, Technology and Community: the OCLC Platform Strategy. Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, Aqua Room 314 4 p.m. Camino OCLC meeting 5:30 p.m. SCELC Reception, 525 B Street (between 5th and 6th), Suite 1800 7 p.m. Dinner with old friends Sunday 1/9 8 a.m. Breakfast w/K. Pick her brain for lively insights. Eat raisins off her oatmeal when she’s not looking. 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Navigator User Group, OCLC Blue Suite in the Hilton San Diego Bayfront at 1 Park Boulevard, San Diego. Sunday afternoon: depart Bookmark to: (Source: Free Range Librarian) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:59:54 +0100 895536 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/12/wayback-wednesday-digitization-101-2010.html As I do at the end of each year, I want to spent time looking back at the last 12 months with a few lists and more.I see four trends as I scan the horizon:Digitization is no longer an exceptional activity. While digitization is not a normal activity still for many organizations, it is much more mainstream that is was several years ago.  Look around...can you find a workshop on digitization or on scanning?  Yes, they still exist, but they are definitely not as prevalent as they were before.  Those that haven't jumped on the "digitization train" yet are finding themselves left behind.  (I should note that universities are offering courses on digitization, digital libraries, etc., which go into more depth and which are attracting a high number of students. These courses prepare the students for the growing number of digital library positions that are being advertised.) In the same vein, one thing to notice is that digitization is no longer in the news as it has been. It is no longer that shiny object that captures the media's attention.  For a while, Google Book Search kept digitization in the news, but even that story is no longer capturing headlines as the sides work toward an agreement. Digital preservation is where most of the action is in terms of conversations, conference sessions, research, etc.  This is true because we are a digital society and if we cannot ensure long term access to our digital content, we're doomed.  Losing digital content could mean losing the data and information that we need to run our governments, businesses, academic institutions, etc.  It could also mean losing our history.If you are not thinking about how to ensure long-term access to your digital content, please begin thinking about it now. You might even make it a New Year's resolution. (Yes, do jump on the digital preservation bandwagon. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895638 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/juror-misbehavior-in-information-age.html LLRX.com published an article last Sunday on Juror Behavior in the Information Age: "While the lure of tweeting or doing a Google search or updating a Facebook profile seems all but irresistible, these upheavals are reshaping the social dimensions of the trial and breaking down the barriers that channel the flow of information within the courtroom. Online misbehavior by jurors can be reduced to four principle areas: (1) publishing or distributing information about a trial, e.g., tweeting or posting updates on a social media site; (2) uncovering information about the case by searching the Internet, entering social networking sites or visiting virtual crime scenes; (3) contacting parties, witnesses, lawyers or judges via social networking for example; and (4) discussing or deliberating the merits of the litigation prematurely or inviting outside opinions." "Judges and court administrators are being tasked with responding to this technological revolution in jury behavior. They have been assigned expanded roles in jury selection and policing misconduct before, during and after trial (...)" "This article collects recent and notable examples of juror online misbehavior and highlights scholarship and practice resources concerning its implications for voir dire, trial management and the administration of justice" Earlier Library Boy posts on the topic include:Impartiality of Juries Threatened by Web? (October 22, 2009): "Donald Findlay QC, one of Scotland's top criminal lawyers, has warned that the impartiality of the jury system is at risk due to jurors using internet search engines and has warned that the Government cannot continue with its 'ostrich-like' attitude to the problem (...) "Should Twitter in the Courtroom Be Illegal? (November 11, 2009): "A U.S. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895632 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/ZBLCRLdWjMs/wayback-wednesday-digitization-101-2010.html As I do at the end of each year, I want to spent time looking back at the last 12 months with a few lists and more.I see four trends as I scan the horizon:Digitization is no longer an exceptional activity. While digitization is not a normal activity still for many organizations, it is much more mainstream that is was several years ago.  Look around...can you find a workshop on digitization or on scanning?  Yes, they still exist, but they are definitely not as prevalent as they were before.  Those that haven't jumped on the "digitization train" yet are finding themselves left behind.  (I should note that universities are offering courses on digitization, digital libraries, etc., which go into more depth and which are attracting a high number of students. These courses prepare the students for the growing number of digital library positions that are being advertised.) In the same vein, one thing to notice is that digitization is no longer in the news as it has been. It is no longer that shiny object that captures the media's attention.  For a while, Google Book Search kept digitization in the news, but even that story is no longer capturing headlines as the sides work toward an agreement. Digital preservation is where most of the action is in terms of conversations, conference sessions, research, etc.  This is true because we are a digital society and if we cannot ensure long term access to our digital content, we're doomed.  Losing digital content could mean losing the data and information that we need to run our governments, businesses, academic institutions, etc.  It could also mean losing our history.If you are not thinking about how to ensure long-term access to your digital content, please begin thinking about it now. You might even make it a New Year's resolution. (Yes, do jump on the digital preservation bandwagon. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895589 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/12/twenty-years-later-has-anything-changed.html In 1990 I attended a pre-conference meeting for a White House Conference on Libraries, and I wrote in my notes (and I was a liberal then):". . .libraries will be killed off too if they don't put the brakes on seeing themselves as the social change agent for the nation, believing: they can correct what the churches did wrong; they can teach what the schools didn't; they can prevent what the social workers missed; and stop what the government couldn't. . . Librarians will do more good in the long run if they leave Mapplethorp to the cultural arts commissions and instead see to it that a child can check out material on photography to become the best photographer she can be."Right now because their man is in the White House, maybe librarians have lowered their expectations and will let politicians handle these things? (Source: Collecting my Thoughts) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895585 http://www.teleread.com/library/videos-and-other-material-from-why-books-conference-available/ The “Why Books?”Conference took place on October 28-29, 2010 at the Radcliffe Institute  for Advanced Study, Harvard University. “Why Books?” probes the form and function of the book in a rapidly changing media ecology. Speakers from a variety of disciplines—literature and history to sociology and computer science—will discuss the public-policy implications of new media forms and will explore some of the major functions that we identify with books today: production and diffusion; storage and retrieval; and reception and use. New: Videos of Opening “Conversation” and Three Panels Session Summaries and Site Visit Summaries Welcome, Intro and Opening Conversation: “Future Formats of Texts: E–books and Old Books” Session I: “Storage and Retrieval” Session II: “Circulation and Transmission” Session III: ”Reception and Use” Conference Speakers A selection of post-conference press coverage can be found on the conference homepage. Hat Tips: Peter Suber and Matthew Kirschenbaum Via Resource Shelf (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:21:32 +0100 895406 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62949 The "Why Books?"Conference took place on October 28-29, 2010 at the Radcliffe Institute  for Advanced Study, Harvard University.  "Why Books?" probes the form and function of the book in a rapidly changing media ecology. Speakers from a variety of disciplines—literature and history to sociology and computer science—will discuss the public-policy implications of new [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:33:00 +0100 895440 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16256 Sales Consultant (Innovative Interfaces, Inc., USA) For over 25 years, Innovative Interfaces has dedicated its energies to meeting the needs of libraries and the challenges of library automation. The company has fulfilled this mission with first-rate services and products such as the Millennium integrated library platform, the INN-Reach direct consortia borrowing solution, Electronic Resource Management, and the Encore discovery services platform. Today, thousands of libraries of all types in over 40 countries rely on Innovative's products, services, and support. The company is located in Emeryville, California with offices around the world. Territory: South-Central US; Western US. ... Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:20:02 +0100 895322 http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/28122010013434PMUNRPSP.htm This report is an outcome of the 8-10th June, 2009 climate conference initiated by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),and was hosted by the Norwegian Polar Institute.The report presents an update based on presentations and ... (Source: UN Pulse | A Service/Blog of the United Nations Library) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895735 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16308 University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian (Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts) This is an Exempt Position that falls within the MSCA Union (Massachusetts State College Association). General statement of duties: Lead, manage, and coordinate the Archives and Special Collections unit of the Bridgewater State University library. Specific examples of duties: Manage all phases of activity of the Archives and Special Collections unit based upon the types of materials held, including but not limited to maps, photographs, print, ephemera, and digital objects.  Maintain a regular and convenient service schedule for public access to the collections. Plan, coordinate, and direct staff activities and work flows in the unit. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:20:01 +0100 895233 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16313 Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library (University of Virginia, Virginia) Curator for the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Faculty Opening   The University of Virginia Library seeks a Curator/Americana Specialist for the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.   Under the general guidance and supervision of the Director of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, the Curator will provide leadership for and general oversight to overall collection development activities, while working collaboratively with established area specialists. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:20:01 +0100 895225 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/jIcIwH2V_XE/ http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org/ It’s the first cycling unconference for librarians! Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent unconference and a bicycle tour.  We are bicycling from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany via Gedser and Rostock from 28th May to 7th June 2011. Read more about the route. The tour will take about 10 days. At the moment we have confirmed only the day of the closing seminar, which will be on June 6th in Berlin. The official closing will be on the next day after participating the opening ceremony and the joint cycling event of the German Library Conference. It builds physical and mental well-being of library professionals, grassroots networking, and internationalism and — last but not least — the crucial role of libraries for the society and for the intellectual and scientific education in general. Cycling for libraries also supports environmental values and ecological way of life. Cycling for libraries inherits many values from librarianship. Openness, liberalism, access to information, lifelong learning and innovativeness are among these values. Librarianship is also by it’s very nature humanist, internationalist, cross-boundary and concrete. What a wonderful idea! Taking care of the body and engaging the mind! Might I suggest a yoga for Libraries conference? (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:02:46 +0100 895254 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62930 New Media and the Courts: The Current Status and a Look at the Future (PDF) The Conference of Court Public Information Officers report on new media and the courts finds that more than one-third of state court judges and magistrates responding to a survey use social media profile sites like Facebook, while [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:59:00 +0100 895279 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/3qpfEe2LYmc/3358-7-sites-for-information-on-busnisses-and-organisations.html Whether you are a business owner looking for information on your competition, a consumer wanting to make informed purchases or an information professional or journalist doing research, the call for transparency that has resulted from social media has led to a number of web sites where businesses share their info for free or where customers share their opinions. Here are 10 places to go to find info on all kinds of businesses and organisations. LinkedIn LinkedIn used to be a place to display your business card on-line with the option to add information about your education and past and present jobs. Today, LinkedIn hosts profiles for both businesses and people in addition to groups for discussing all kinds of professional themes. The profiles might also contain information from blogs, presentations from Slideshare and more. Examples: Search Engine Land business profile SEO SEM group Facebook Facebook started out as a web site for freshmen at Harvard to get to know each other. It soon opened to students at other schools and is now open for anyone to join. It is no longer just a place where teenagers share photos from parties. Here in Norway, 50 % of the population has a Facebook profile. This makes the site a great place for businesses to market themselves and for consumers to pool their knowledge. Examples: WikiLeaks’ page Google’s page Wikipedia On LinkedIn and Facebook, the companies themselves write their profiles and can, to a certain extent, control the content. Wikipedia has guidelines that prevent people with close ties to a business from editing the article about that particular company. Examples: British Petroleum Nestlé Youtube Every minute 24 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:36:51 +0100 895392 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/27/what-happened-next-feminism-women A great year for women? Twelve months ago we predicted that it would be. Were we right?This time 12 months ago we promised it was going to be the biggest year in feminism ever. So was it? Er, sort of. We weren't wrong about it being a celebratory year. But our predictions of the feminist events to watch in 2010 were a bit hit and miss. Where did we strike gold? The significance of the movie Precious, the story of an overweight, illiterate teenager in 80s Harlem, pregnant by her abusive father ("primarily female cast", "a must-see", we said). Come the Oscars, the film won six nominations and two awards. What did we overestimate? The impact of Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It! ("a great film"). That turned out to be a bit of a howler. The film went right under the radar, more's the pity.So what else did we get right? Well, it was always going to be a bumper year and maybe we could have even got a bit more excited about it. 2010 marked the 40th anniversary both of the publication of Germaine Greer's still controversial The Female Eunuch and of Kate Millett's landmark Sexual Politics. It was also four decades since the agenda-changing first ever National Women's Liberation conference. This killer combination of events galvanised campaigning groups everywhere and if anything our predictions of a feminist bonanza in 2010 underestimated the resurgence of grassroots activism.The first ever Feminism Summer School, hosted by UK Feminista in July, was a major success, picking up international coverage. And the Reclaim the Night movement was invigorated in force, with more than 2,000 women attending candlelit vigils in central London in November, where DJs kept the crowds going until 2am. Meanwhile more than 1,000 people attended London Feminism Network's October conference. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:00:17 +0100 895143 http://ricklibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/ricklibrarians-books-that-matter-and.html 2010 was a good book year for me. As I look back, November was especially stellar, as almost every book that I read for a few weeks was superb. It was difficult deciding which were best of the year, but I took a stab at it anyway. I also selected movies and music.In this post, I also include links to all my reporting from library conferences and to all my reviews of new reader's advisory sources.Have a Happy New Year for good reading and cultural experiences.Recent NonfictionClaiming Ground by Laura BellDangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour by David BianculliThe Grace of Silence: A Memoir by Michele NorrisI Am Nujood, Age Ten and Divorced by Nujood Ali and Delphine MinouiThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLife List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds by Olivia GentileLighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain by Roy Morris, Jr.Mark Twain: The Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years by Michael SheldenA Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School by Carlotta Walls LaNierNine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William DalrymplePacking for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary RoachZeitoun by Dave EggersRecent FictionCorduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall SmithThe Man from Beijing by Henning MankellThe Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia StuartGreat Old BooksFirst Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer by Noel PerrinIn Patagonia by Bruce ChatwinRoseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per WahlööChildren's BooksAn Egret's Day by Jane YolenFace to Face with Elephants by Beverly JoubertMarching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth PartridgeSaving the Ghost of the Mountain by Sy MontgomeryZen Shorts by Jon J. Muth and Zen Ties by Jon J. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895302 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/17246 Posted on behalf of Greg Williams, <gwilliams-ySO5qXNhEWZYx4ufuVR0v+1ftBKYq+Ku< at >public.gmane.org >. Roy ------------------------------------------------------- Hi all,   I¹m giving a conference presentation on the EPUB ebook format early next year, and I¹m planning to include some discussion of how the EPUB format (both as implemented by the current 2.0.1 specification, and the upcoming EPUB3 specification) might be utilized/leveraged by libraries now and in the future, and what implications the format might have for future library services.  Of course, being neither omniscient nor precognitive, I¹m keen to hear my colleagues¹ thoughts on the subject!   Since EPUB is, at heart, a web-based content format, I¹m posting to this list first (I¹m thinking y¹all likely have some experience with speculating about/innovating with web-based content) .  If you¹ve got ideas for using EPUB (even if it¹s a ³10-years-down-the-road-if-at-all² type of idea), or thoughts on how the format might impact future li (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895121 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AginfoBlogFromIaald/~3/ibViWM32UDY/iaald-2012-to-be-hosted-by-cornell.html The 14th IAALD World Congress to be held July 22-25, 2013 at Cornell University. The theme will be “Emerging Priorities for Scientific Information Research and Discovery”. Plans are already being made for innovative and diverse programming as well as opportunities for learning and networking with agricultural information professionals from around the world. A conference website will be made available in the coming months to provide many more details. (Source: AgInfo News from IAALD) Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895047 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/2uOqrxFutbs/2010-library-assessment-conference-wrap.html "The vibrant 2010 Library Assessment Conference, held October 25–27, 2010 in Baltimore, attracted more than 470 professionals interested in library assessment. The conference website now includes detailed information about the event including keynotes, presentations, and poster sessions" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:16:31 +0100 894959 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/2uOqrxFutbs/2010-library-assessment-conference-wrap.html "The vibrant 2010 Library Assessment Conference, held October 25–27, 2010 in Baltimore, attracted more than 470 professionals interested in library assessment. The conference website now includes detailed information about the event including keynotes, presentations, and poster sessions" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895668 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/24/government-against-reading The withdrawal of funding from Booktrust's free books programmes recklessly ignores the all-round educational benefits of booksThe government has just cut all funding of the free book projects administered by Booktrust – the independent charity that provided millions of children with free books.People will remember Michael Gove speaking at the most recent Conservative Party conference calling on schools to be places where children read great authors, such as Dryden and Pope. Though some of us were a little mystified as to why he had plucked those two particular authors from the pile, I for one thought for half a moment that perhaps this government was going to set out its stall as a champion of the reading of literature. As the Guardian recorded, I tried on several occasions to interest first Ed Balls and Jim Knight, then Vernon Coaker in the idea of the Education department asking schools to develop their own policies on reading for pleasure.Reading for pleasure can easily sound like some kind of wishy-washy, soft option, while instructional stuff like learning-to-read through "synthetic phonics" and endless worksheets requiring children to answer questions about the facts in short passages, sounds tough and purposeful. In actual fact, as the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) research of 2006 showed, children who read for pleasure achieve better school performance than those that don't.How come? Because literature takes children into abstract thought in two key ways. Firstly, it marries ideas with feelings: while the reader is caring about what happens, the scenes and the flow of the book deal with ideas of, say, anger, fear, jealousy, justice, compassion and much, much more. Secondly, it gives rise to what we can call "acts of comparison". Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how they're reading. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:23:59 +0100 894798 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TomRopersWeblog/~3/tNLSiAqyGo8/32nd-annual-conference-on-book-trade-history-the-book-trade-and-the-classical-world.html (Source: Tom Roper's Weblog) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894954 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/HfcHbjRvEbo/ As we keep witnessing how the iPad is entering a whole bunch of new markets for tablets that perhaps never thought they would be making it that far, while being taken by storm by the iPad itself like they are at the moment, here I am, once again, ready to go and share with you folks the next blog post from the series of My Top 5 iPad Apps of the Week, this time around with Week #9. First though I would want to share with you folks a couple of rather helpful articles you may want to check out, specially, if you are a librarian or perhaps an English language teacher. They are just basically a couple of articles with plenty of helpful tips and recommendations on Apps to check out, specially for those two groups, which I am sure is going to keep you all busy for a while. To name: “40 iPad Apps That Librarians Love” and “iPad Apps for English Language Teachers“, respectively. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:17:23 +0100 895533 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Hangingtogetherorg/~3/cH5ldhrbUzU/ As 2010 comes to a close, we’d like to call attention to some of the things we’ve worked on or created this year. You can see a rundown of highlights here. VIAF (or the Virtual International Authority File) is another one of these cool projects developed by our Dublin-based colleagues in OCLC Research. Since 2003, OCLC has been working with the Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France to produce a merged resource with authority files from 18 participants. I don’t monitor this project closely but it seems like new participants are joining all the time. VIAF does not privileged one authoritative form over another, instead uniting all forms so that the most appropriate form can be identified. Just last month VIAF was expanded to include corporate (and conference) names in addition to personal names. As Thom explains in this blog post, corporate names are more difficult to match across the files than personal names. But at this point the project team has such finely honed algorithms and magical matching powers that they were able to fold corporate names into the mix. If you want to see an example of how complex corporate names can get, take a look at this entry for the United Nations (with 165 different alternate forms of the name, in addition to the twelve authoritative headings). Resources like VIAF, which are machine derived but built on the very human labor of catalogers worldwide, will help to power multilingual searches, thus enabling improved discovery of materials, regardless where they are held or where they are cataloged. For more information on VIAF, see the project page. More? Check out a three-page summary of an accounting of accomplishments over the last five years! (Source: hangingtogether.org) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:29:15 +0100 895036 http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/62826 Review of Combat Stress in Women Veterans Receiving VA Health Care and Disability Benefits (PDF) Source:  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General As directed by the Conference Report to Accompany the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-117), we conducted a review to assess the Department of [...] (Source: Docuticker) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:37:00 +0100 894666 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Grumpator/~3/SHuAIhXp15g/taking-stock-2010.html Today's my last day of work for 2010. After completing my major goal for this week, I'm rewarding myself by taking some time to reflect on this past year, and do a little goal-setting for 2011. I enjoyed this exercise last year, so let's try it again. Looking back on 2010. All things considered, 2010 was a good year. I've really settled into my position, and have a much more defined sense of what is expected of me, as well as which directions I'd like to push forward. Our university administration sent me to the Science Commons Symposium in February, which was a much-needed validation of my particular position. I applied for and was accepted to attend the Mountain Plains Library Association Leadership Institute, which was simply amazing. It really revitalized me and helped me see ways I could improve my work, and be a leader even without any official leadership responsibilities. As the fall semester got underway, I administered a survey about the Library Minute and c0-presented a poster session at EDUCAUSE, got off some stagnant committees and got on some new, more exciting ones. I am now integrated into our digital repository management group, as well as co-chair of a new Open Access/Digital Repository policy committee - both of which are much more relevant to my position than most of the other committees I've been on. I successfully managed to co-chair the AzLA Conference Planning Committee for 2010, and will continue in that capacity for 2011. I just finished writing the first full draft of an article about the Library Minute I hope to submit to College & Research Libraries News in early January. So all in all, it's been a stimulating year. That's not to say I didn't have some failures. I initiated a collaboration to write a paper, hit several roadblocks and speedbumps, got lost, wandered in circles, and now I think it'd be best to drop it and move in another direction. I pretty much wasted my summer on that. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895032 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/elpub-2011.html 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies will be held in June 2011, in Istanbul. The main themes of the conference include: Digital Publishing and Mobile Applications, Digital Publishing and Libraries, Archives and Museums, Scholarly Communication and Mobile Information Services, Social Networks and Mobile Technologies, Mobile Learning and Digital Cultural Heritage, and Mobile Information Organization and Retrieval. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895022 http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/elpub-2011-call-for-submissions.html The deadline for proposals for the ELPUB 2011 conference, the 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing to be held July 11-15, Istanbul, Turkey, is coming up on January 14. The theme for this year's conference is Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies.Subscribe to OA Librarian (Source: OA Librarian) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894978 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/5gMwnAt5JBM/signal_la_agenda_is_up.php I'm pleased to announce that the preliminary agenda for our first ever Signal conference, Signal LA, is live and online. Signal is FM's conference series highlighting one major trend in digital media and marketing, in one city, on one day. First up is Los Angeles, Feb 8th, with a focus on Content Marketing. Check out the amazing lineup:    Register today, I expect this to sell out. I'm thrilled to be doing more of these high quality events next year. It's going to be a lot of fun. And it doesn't hurt that we're doing Signal LA at the SLS Hotel, which is pretty much the best place going at the moment.... (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894739 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/23/in-praise-of-booktrust Through its gift programmes for children the charity distributed around 6m books last year to toddlers and teenagersThe best work done by Booktrust does not sound like much: it gives new books to young children. But it amounts to a lot: toddlers gain their first exposure to the published word, primary-school pupils get shiny new novels to cart around – and families who otherwise would have little in the way of shared entertainment gain a new means of communication. Through its gift programmes for children – Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up – the charity distributed around 6m books last year to toddlers and teenagers. Since the initiative began in 1992 it has also been copied in 24 other countries – from Australia to Qatar. A success story, then; except that the government has just announced it will axe all of its £13m funding for the English schemes from next April. It is hard to know which aspect of this decision is more perplexing: the fact that the announcement was made without warning last Friday, leaving Booktrust just over three months to cobble together alternative funding; or that government ministers have previously made such warm noises about the schemes' encouragement of reading (Nick Clegg was snapped chatting away at the Booktrust stall at the last Lib Dem party conference). Or, perhaps, that a programme where a small amount of public money helps bring in tens of millions more in private-sector cash now faces a very uncertain future. Public and private sectors combining to provide a public good: wasn't that meant to be what the "big society" was all about?Charitiesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:23:00 +0100 894466 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/XMfQxAsDUVI/look-here-project-conference-uk.html Look-Here! Project Conference - 8 February 2011 - London, UK - This event is organised by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) to celebrate the work of the JISC-funded Look-Here! Project, which is working collaboratively to develop skills and strategies for digitisation in the arts education sector. The conference will include a keynote from JISC and presentations from the project partners including: the Visual Arts Data Service, Knitting Collections at University of Southampton, Libraries at University for the Creative Arts and University College Falmouth, Archives and Special Collections at University of the Arts London, Design Archives at University of Brighton, and Museum of Design in Plastics at Arts University College Bournemouth (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:39:28 +0100 894491 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/qPhIV8hdu2M/special-request.html I received this email from a long time friend and colleague, Ed Rivenburgh. Please read and act on it. -----Original Message----- From: ids-l-bounces@geneseo.edu [mailto:ids-l-bounces@geneseo.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Rivenburgh Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 1:55 PM To: Information Delivery Services Project Subject: [ids-l] A Special Request Colleagues: Please read the message below from Loretta Ebert, Director of the New York State Research Library. Loretta is a strong supporter of the IDS Project and the New York State Library is a member of, and great contributor to, the IDS Project. This summer's IDS Conference (August 2 & 3) will be at the Albany Law School and the Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. Loretta and her staff are hosting a very special conference reception Tuesday evening at the New York State Museum. I have been an admirer of the State Librarian, Bernie Margolis, for many years. Bernie is one of those library administrators who truly embodies a willingness to speak truth to power. For ten years, Bernie fought the good fight for all our libraries as he led the Boston Public Library to dramatically improve its services while battling the desire for debilitating control over BPL's activities by some influential politicians. In his first year as our State Librarian, Bernie quickly became a leader representing the best interests of all libraries and was beginning to work closely with other statewide library organizations, including the IDS Project. Then Bernie received the devastating news that he had leukemia. For almost a year now Bernie has demonstrated incredible true grit while battling this blood cancer. We all want Bernie to get well very soon and join us again as a leader for New York State libraries. Ed Dear Friends, On January 8th and 9th my husband Ken and I will be running in the Disney Marathon and Half-Marathon with Team Leukemia. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:30:00 +0100 894499 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6526 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // December 22, 2010 [SAVE THE DATE 1/11] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Master Switch" with Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch and Professor of Law at Columbia University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu) [SAVE THE DATE] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE MASTER SWITCH ================================================================================== 1/11/11, 12:00pm ET, Harvard Law School **Please note earlier start time for this date only** RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu) Topic: The Master Switch Guests: Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch and Professor of Law at Columbia University Tim Wu presents his widely acclaimed new book THE MASTER SWITCH:  The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. "A Masterpiece" - Lawrence Lessig.   "A ripping yarn" - The Atlantic About Tim Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate and author of The Master Switch.  He is a professor at Columbia Law School, the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine, and in 2007 Wu was listed as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine. Tim Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he has also written about copyright, international trade, and the study of law-breaking. He previously worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School. Wu has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Forbes, Slate magazine, and others. He can sometimes be found at Waterfront Bicycles, and he once worked at Hoo's Dumplings. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:48:00 +0100 894458 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/2010/12/education-presentation-on-cochrane-colloquium-jan-11th-9-am-mt-10-am-ct/ Lilian Hoffecker will be recapping her experience at the Cochrane Colloquium, an annual international conference of the Cochrane Collaboration, held this past October in Keystone, Colorado.  The Collaboration is a network of primarily healthcare professionals including librarians who develop the Cochrane systematic reviews.  Lilian will talk about the role of librarians in the Cochrane Collaboration and specifically about the literature searching workshops she attended.  Lillian is reporting on this activity after having been awarded a Professional Development Award from the NN/LM MidContinental Region. For more information on the award see:  http://nnlm.gov/mcr/funding/ URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/ Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone, Login: as a guest with your first and last name, Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in. Captioning will be provided. Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:27:29 +0100 894481 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/12/22/3835 Bruno BAUER: alles – einfach – sofort: Service in Medizinbibliotheken [Editorial] Zusammenfassung: Schwerpunktthema der aktuellen Ausgabe 3/2010 von GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information ist die Jahrestagung 2010 der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen (AGMB) in Mainz; das Motto der Tagung lautete „alles – einfach – sofort: Service in Medizinbibliotheken“. Zentrales Thema der diesjährigen Tagung waren innovative Dienstleistungen und Produkte in und für Medizinbibliotheken. Weitere Beiträge setzten sich mit Themen wie Bibliotheksneubau, Benutzerschulungen und Qualitätsmanagement auseinander. Die Beiträge der Schwerpunktausgabe wurden verfasst von Bruno Bauer, Daniel Formanek & Marian Miehl (Virtuelle Lehrbuchsammlung und E-Books-On-Demand als Facetten der Hybridbibliothek: zwei innovative Services der Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien), Markus Fischer, Stefan Kandera, Dieter Sulzer, Susanne Mayer, Maike Krone, Erika Niedermann & Veronika Kleibel (bibnet.org – kooperative Referenzdatenbank für das Gesundheitswesen), Franz Josef Kühnen (40 Jahre AGMB – Gründung und Anfänge), Oliver Obst (2. Zukunftskolloquium der Zweigbibliothek Medizin der Universität Münster, 28./29. Juni 2010), Manuela Schulz (Service vor Ort – Die Bibliothek geht zum Nutzer), Sabine Hoyer (Entdecken Sie die Bibliothek mit Rüdiger: ein virtueller Rundgang der etwas anderen Art durch die Fachbibliothek Medizin in Mainz), Eike Hentschel & Anja Kaiser (alles – einfach – sofort: Service in Medizinbibliotheken: Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen (AGMB) e.V. vom 27. bis 29.9.2010 in Mainz: Tagungsbericht) und Diana Klein (Aus der AGMB). ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:28:36 +0100 895378 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/22/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name/ I recently participated in a panel discussion called “Unbundled Work/Unbridled Success: Sourcing Canadian Legal Services Differently” at the Sixth Annual Canadian Bar Association Law Firm Leadership Conference. A significant portion of the conference covered legal process outsourcing (“LPO”). Professor Richard Susskind moderated the session on LPO. The conference was well attended by virtually all of the major law firms in Canada and the majority of the attendees were the managing partners of these firms.  The conference was a personal highlight for me, for two reasons. Firstly, Richard Susskind was the moderator of the LPO session. Need I say more? For those of you who don’t know who Richard Susskind is; let me enlighten you. Susskind published The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services in 2008; and in 1996, he published The Future of Law. Suffice it to say that Susskind has a very strong opinion about where the legal industry is going globally in the future.  Susskind’s books predict significant new pressures on the legal marketplace and, as a result, great change in the legal industry. Susskind challenges lawyers by asking them to ask themselves what elements of their current workload could be undertaken more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently, or to a higher quality using new methods of working. He argues that the market will not tolerate expensive lawyers for tasks that can be better performed with modern systems and techniques; and he claims that the legal industry is being drawn towards the commoditisation of legal services, and by new and disruptive legal technologies. Is there a threat to local lawyers? According to Susskind, their jobs may be eroded; however at the same time, for entrepreneurial lawyers, Susskind foresees different law jobs emerging which may be highly rewarding, even if different from the law jobs of today. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:00:26 +0100 895192 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3145 This just in: the U.S. Census Bureau today released the first results of the 2010 census. The new census showed the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538. Check out the Census news conference and 2010 census winners and losers. (NYT) These are the first results from the census conducted this year, and they will be used to reapportion seats in Congress, and, in turn, the Electoral College, based on new state population counts. The figures will influence the landscape for the 2012 presidential race and the makeup of the Electoral College, with Republican-leaning states from the Sun Belt gaining more political influence at the expense of Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states. According to the new counts, Texas will gain four seats, Florida will gain two, while New York and Ohio each lose two. Fourteen other states gained or lost one seat. The gainers included Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina and Utah; the losers included Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts and New Jersey. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:05:02 +0100 894394 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/collnet-2011.html Seventh International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & Twelfth COLLNET Meeting will take place 20-23 September, 2011, at Istanbul Bilgi University. According to the conference call for paper: the broad focus of the conference is on collaboration and communication in science and technology; science policy; quantitative aspects of science of science; and combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches in study of scientific practices. Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of the conference can be listed as follows:Emerging issues in scientometrics / informetrics /webometrics and history of science,Impact and role of open access and digital libraries on patterns of collaborations and sciences,Science policy and collaboration,Collaboration studies for science & society,Collaboration, knowledge management & industrial partnership,Collaborative bridge between academic research and industry,Methods for collaboration studies,Visualization techniques in collaboration studies,Quantitative analysis of S&T innovations,Informetrics laws and distributions, mathematical models of communication or collaboration,Nature and growth of science and of collaboration in science and its relation with technological output,Collaboration in science and in technology from both quantitative and qualitative points of view,Evaluation indicators for scientific productivity and other science related practices. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895023 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/call-for-bloggers-at-midwinter-2011.html Call for Bloggers at Midwinter 2011Do you plan to attend ALA Midwinter in San Diego? Take this opportunity to become a LITA Blogger. The LITA Blog (http://litablog.org) will again be on hand to report what is happening and share the terrific Midwinter experience with those who cannot attend this year.If you like to write and are looking for new ways to get involved (or have blogged in the past and would like to blog again), please email me at thebrewinlibrarian@gmail.com and let me know what sessions you would like to cover. The blog schedule for Midwinter (http://litablog.org/2010/12/call-for-bloggers-midwinter-2011-schedule/) has been posted and will be updated as we receive volunteers.We will be taking volunteers up to and during the conference. Thank you very much in advance!Matt Hamilton, LITA Web Coordinating Committee (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894988 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-3rd-qualitative-and-quantitative_22.html CFP: 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011) URL: http://www.isast.org/qqml2011.htmlWe invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011), 24 - 27 May 2011, Athens Greece . First Call of Proposals QQML2011 Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 3rd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011) at 24 - 27 May 2011, Athens Greece . Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research. The 3rd QQML2011 was scheduled during the previous 2nd QQML2010 Conference. It was also decided that the 4th QQML 2012 International Conference will be organized in Limerick Ireland . QQML2009 and QQML2010 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2011 will continue and expand the related topics. Papers are invited for this international conference. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894987 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/call-for-papers-childrens-and-young.html Call for Papers Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture for the PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture AssociationsJoint ConferenceApril 20-23, 2011San Antonio, TXhttp://www.swtxpca.org/You may submit your proposals online by going to the conference event management database, here: http://ncp.pcaaca.org/Once in the database, create an account, and then submit a proposal. For submitting to this area, please use the pull down menu for the Topic Area: choose the one that reads: Children's/Young Adult Literature and Culture (Dominguez). This will make sure your presentation is submitted to my area for programming purposes (the national PCA/ACA also has a children's literature and culture area).You may also submit proposals to me directly:Dr. Diana Dominguez, Area ChairE-mail submissions preferred:gypsyscholar@rgv.rr.comPlease put SWPCA Submission in e-mail subject line.Proposal submission deadline extended to: December 31, 2010Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio101 Bowie StreetSan Antonio, Texas 78205 USAPhone: 1-210-223-1000Now accepting proposals for the Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture area of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations Conference. This area is not limited to proposals/papers about traditional literature; children's and young adult culture can encompass a myriad of media: books, television, film, computer/internet culture, fan fiction, toys, marketing issues, music, comics and graphic novels, and non-fiction mediums like documentaries, non-fiction books or magazines, textbooks, television non-fiction shows. Theoretically-based papers about the very nature of "children's" and "young adult" categories/genres also encouraged. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894986 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-llama-journal-library-leadership.html CFP: LLAMA journal Library Leadership & ManagementGreetings LLAMA Members, We wanted to let you know what was happening with the LLAMA journal Library Leadership & Management and why you will not be seeing a new issue announcement this month. We are currently in the process of moving the journal to an Open Access platform for improved usability and future enhancements (no more having to remember a login). We are still tweaking the look but the archival issues are already in place and can be seen at the current url: https://journals.tdl.org/llm/issue/archiveBecause we will no longer be using outside services for the journal, we have more freedom to set a publication schedule that better corresponds to LLAMA activities and planning/following up on events. The publication schedule is shifting to the following: v. 25, no. 1, Winter February 2011 (post mid-winter meeting/pre-elections) v. 25, no. 2, Spring May 2011 (pre-Annual Conference) v. 25, no. 3, Summer August 2011 (post Annual Conference) v. 25, no. 4, Fall, November 2011 (pre mid-winter meeting/post Executive Board fall meeting) So watch for a new issue in February. We have a great set of articles that will look at topics such as preventative planning for an active shooter situation and applying return-on-investment modeling to libraries. If you have manuscript ideas, we are open to them and offer both editor-reviewed and peer-reviewed options as well as the opportunity to publish multimedia content (like presentations, audio files, etc). Per the announcement in the previous issue, we are seeking a new columnist or section editor for a column featuring noteworthy or newsworthy books, websites, toolkits, or other skill building resources. Finally, if you are interested in being a part of the journal as a guest columnist, guest section editor, or serving on the LL&M Advisory Committee, let us know. Author submissions can also be done online through: https://journals.tdl. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894985 http://michaelgolrick.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-every-library-school-student.html Back in November, a series of posts caught my eye...it was about what Library School students need to know.Jill Hurst-Wahl's post is from the viewpoint of a faculty member. In addition to being up beat, she has a few key words of advice which I am excerpting here:Your coursework won't teach you everything you need to know.Every information professional you meet during your graduate program is a person who can connect you to a job. Your reputation, CV/resume and portfolio matter.She then followed up (in a different forum) with some comments and links to the other posts on which I will comment below.Bobbi Newman gathered together a number of posts which address the topic under the title "Is She Crazy to Want to Work in Libraries?"Her post was succeeded on Will Manley's blog with two posts:“Any Advice for an Aspiring Librarian?”“Do Grade Point Averages Make a Difference in the Hiring Process?”I suggest that you read both, and the comments...Finally, Roy Tenant added to Jill's post by noting several points that I am highlighting by pasting below:No matter how close to graduation you are, your education has only just begun.Although it might sound like work, constant learning is fun.and in practical advice:Find someone in the profession you admire, and offer to take them to lunch or drinks or dinner at a conference you are both attending. (Source: Thoughts from a Library Administrator) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894979 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/XMfQxAsDUVI/look-here-project-conference-uk.html Look-Here! Project Conference - 8 February 2011 - London, UK - This event is organised by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) to celebrate the work of the JISC-funded Look-Here! Project, which is working collaboratively to develop skills and strategies for digitisation in the arts education sector. The conference will include a keynote from JISC and presentations from the project partners including: the Visual Arts Data Service, Knitting Collections at University of Southampton, Libraries at University for the Creative Arts and University College Falmouth, Archives and Special Collections at University of the Arts London, Design Archives at University of Brighton, and Museum of Design in Plastics at Arts University College Bournemouth (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894618 http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/12/acrlny-innovation-by-design-re-visioning-the-library/ Earlier this month I had the fortune to attend the 2010 ACRL/NY Annual Symposium at Baruch College, Vertical Campus Conference Center in New York. The theme of the symposium was “Innovation by Design: Re-Visioning the Library.” The symposium was a really well run event. ACRL/NY is an excellent organization, and they know how to put on a one-day conference. I’ve been eyeing them for the past few years and was really thankful to be able to participate in one. These events have been taking place since the 1980s and themes have included: emerging leadership, 21st century libraries, and assessment. This year’s theme, as you can tell, was design. The first speaker of the day was Bill Mayer of American University. As University Librarian, he’s implementing a number of changes that will be familiar to us at ZSR: moving materials off site, bringing in other service providers, rethinking services, putting library people in the community, etc. He was an engaging speaker and it was really good to see the message out there and getting a good reception. If you’re interested in more, here’s an article about his thoughts on next steps at American. Aaron Schmidt, of Walking Paper fame, spoke on designing the user experience. He covered both designing the physical experience as well as the virtual, and clearly came at his topic from a designer’s angle. Aaron is a dynamic speaker, with I’m guessing no less than 100 high-impact slides while walking around and interacting with the audience. He’s really interested in getting libraries to identify a few things they can do really well (and generate enthusiastic supporters) rather than trying to do everything decently (and having lukewarm supporters). Finally, Leah Buley from Adaptive Path, spoke. Leah came from a different angle, as she doesn’t work in a library. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:29:04 +0100 894420 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/-9Wsb8wf7eM/ I contributed my final post as a regular author this week at ALA TechSource. I must say it makes me a bit emotional but it’s time to move on to focus on other things. I thought I take this chance to point back to some of my favorite posts from the last 5 years of writing at TechSource. One of my favorite things to do was a “back and forth” interview/discussion style post. Here are some of the best of the best: John Blyberg: On the L2 Train | Information Experience Michael Casey: Where Do We Begin? | Better Library Services for More People Robert Doyle (Illinois Library Association) Michael Edson (Smithsonian Institution) Michael Golrick | Stacey Greenwell | Christopher Harris | Cliff Landis And some of my FAVORITE solo posts: November 2005: Do Libraries Matter: On Library & Librarian 2.0 The library encourages the heart. As we reach out to users, we must remember all of the folks we serve. To me, Library 2.0 will be a meeting place, online or in the physical world, where my emotional needs will be fulfilled through entertainment, information, and the ability to create my own stuff to contribute to the ocean of content out there – the Long Tail if you will. Librarian 2.0, then, will be available to guide me and teach me to use the systems provided by the library to do just that. As Abram said, librarians will provide clarification: Librarians need to position themselves and the library to help with finding the answers to: how? and why?” February 2006: Are You Dreaming? That’s where dreaming comes in. Have you had the chance to dream at your library job? Have you had the chance to stop for a minute in the buzz buzz of your routine and think about the future? Are you encouraged to innovate? If not, then I urge you to do so. And I urge library administrators to encourage dreaming on the job. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:57:37 +0100 894289 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/21/facts-and-trends-in-dispute-resolution-in-sweden-and-finland/ ♬ Yeah i just need light I need light in the dark as i search for the resolution I need light in the dark as i search for the resolution…♬ Lyrics, music and recorded by: Jack’s Mannequin. The “Roschier Disputes Index 2010 – Facts and Trends in Dispute Resolution in Sweden and Finland” has just been released. Roschier is a Finnish law firm with over 70 years of experience in Finland and Sweden. This report offers an insightful look into trends of dispute resolution in Sweden and in Finland. This report is noteworthy in at least a couple of respects. The first is that respondents include not only General Counsel and CEOs, but also CFO’s, officers rarely surveyed on international commercial arbitration. The second is that it is rare for most of us to have a law firm undertake such a survey. The report provides a ‘look and see’ what is happening in other jurisdictions and allows us to compare and contract their (surveyed) experience to our (anecdotal) one. The report mentions the uniqueness of the survey: As for the rest of the world, most countries have never independently surveyed the general mood of their large and/or mid-cap corporations on ADR. In terms of the major finding of the report: [A] single conclusion stands out as the thesis of the report: despite the experiences with booming dispute resolution during the last downturn, no signs of a boom are as yet in sight. On the contrary, a majority of the companies surveyed have not experienced significant growth in the number of disputes and do not anticipate such growth over the coming years either. From a social perspective, it is good news that the number of disputes have not grown despite the downturn in the economy. But in terms of resolving the disputes that do occur: Companies are also clearly interested in exploring alternative ways of resolving disputes. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:51:46 +0100 895199 http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/dec/21/1 What we enjoyed readingJoshua Rozenberg, columnistThe Life of Hersch Lauterpacht by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht (Cambridge University Press, £85)This 500-page biography, with copious source material, charts the Jewish immigrant who arrived in London in 1923 with little more than his towering intellect and who, just over 30 years later, was elected by the United Nations to be Britain's representative at the most important international tribunal in the world. Eli Lauterpacht, himself a distinguished international lawyer, reveals how his father was supported by the Foreign Office for appointment to the International Court of Justice, even though a junior minister, Selwyn Lloyd, thought that "owing to his origins", Lauterpacht "would not perhaps be what we should regard as entirely sound from our point of view on matters of human rights" – and even though the Attorney General, Sir Lionel Heald, thought it was desirable that "our representative at The Hague both be, and be seen to be, thoroughly British; whereas Lauterpacht cannot help the fact that he does not qualify in this way either by birth, by name or by education".Editor's note: Hersch Lauterpacht is Philippe Sands' legal hero.Gill Phillips, director of Guardian Editorial Legal ServicesReputation in a Networked World: Revisiting the Social Foundations of Defamation Law (pdf) by David S Ardia A thought-provoking article about what is reputation, whether a party has been defamed and if so to what degree, and who should be the judge of that - the complainer, or their relevant community. It also offers a fascinating analysis of the possible harms that defamatory speech can cause. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:16:38 +0100 894247 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seealso/~3/b9zIxtLmmhw/ad_lib_instruction.html Last week, I had the joy of talking to Anna, Jason, and Rachel on their podcast, Adventures in Library Instruction. Our topic was “Winging It,” something I have done a bit of writing about already . This isn’t what they talk about every month on the podcast, despite the “AdLibInstruction” abbreviation of the full podcast title. I had fun recording the show, which ended up sounding like a discussion at a conference or like a FriendFeed thread in real time and out loud. I think I had a chance to say everything I wanted to say during the recording, so now I’ll just mention that the reason that I wanted to talk about Colorado College’s block plan, and my own training as an actor, is because I wanted to show that I think that wanting or needing to “wing it” is based on situation and personality as much as anything. Sweeping proclamations about libraries and librarians are seldom very useful, and I think it helps to know as much as possible how a person arrived at his or her point of view. (Source: See Also... a library weblog by Steve Lawson) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:01:40 +0100 894645 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/21/pedophile-guide-author-obscenity-charges Phillip Greaves has been arrested on the charge of distributing obscene materialPhillip Greaves, the author of the "Pedophile's Guide" which caused a storm of outrage when it appeared for sale on Amazon.com earlier this year, has been arrested in Colorado.Greaves' book, The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct, was pulled from the online retailer's site in November after provoking fury among Amazon.com customers and children's charities.But the furore brought his case to the attention of police and the 47-year-old author was arrested in Pueblo, Colorado, yesterday on the charge of distributing obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct.The arrest came via a Florida felony warrant, after undercover detectives from the state bought a copy of the book from Greaves through the post. Phillip Greaves. Greaves waived his right to fight extradition and was taken to Florida to face the charges of violating the state's obscenity law.At a news conference, Sheriff Grady Judd of Florida's Poke County said the book "actually provided a how-to guide to commit sexual battery against children," with the graphic depiction of an adult having sex with underage boys."You cannot engage or depict children in a harmful relationship," Judd said. "There may be nothing that the other 49 states can do, but there is something that the state of Florida can do ... to make sure we prosecute Philip Greaves for his manifesto."However it remains unclear whether Greaves' book is in fact protected under the right to free speech granted in the US constitution.Benedicte Pageguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:00:04 +0100 894245 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62786 Full Text Paper (4 pages; PDF) Title: Mobile Phone Search for Library Catalogs by Ramona Broussard, Yongyi Zhou, and Matthew Lease School of Information, University of Texas at Austin Source: Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting Volume 47 (2010) From the Abstract: While some libraries have begun to offer [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:27:00 +0100 894195 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/21/bed-of-procrustes-digested-read Allen Lane, £14.99Procrustes, in Greek myth, was the cruel owner of an estate in Attica who abducted travellers and cut off their heads to ensure they fitted his bed perfectly. Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts: faced with the imperfection of the unknown and the unobserved, we humans tend to backfit the world into reductive categories such that only someone of my immense intellect is able to point out the inherent futility of modern life.Since aphorisms lose their charm whenever explained – especially when they are as banal as the ones that follow – I pompously relegate further discussion to the postface, though they all revolve around matters more deeply dealt with in my extremely significant and influential book, The Black Swan.▶ If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice: If it increases, you suffered injustice.▶ The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.▶ Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.▶ The more a writer thinks himself to be serious, the less serious his writing becomes.▶ A man who is labelled a guru for his last book, will think himself a philosopher in the next.▶ You can be once, twice, three times a lady; but only once a man.▶ People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.▶ A stitch in time saves eight. That's progress.▶ I went to a happiness conference: researchers looked very unhappy.▶ You don't need money, don't take fame. Don't need money to ride this train. That's the power of love.▶ Wise men say only fools rush in. A philosopher starts by walking slowly.▶ The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street may talk like an angel. But she's the devil in disguise.▶ What have I got to do when sorry seems to be the hardest word?▶ Money, money, money. Must be funny in the rich man's world.▶ Those who do not think that employment is systematic slavery are either blind or employed. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:52:09 +0100 894137 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/9TP7Qm8IC2g/latest-from-lab.html Over the last couple of weeks, lots of apps have debuted on Google Labs, a laboratory where our more adventurous users can try our experimental products and offer feedback directly to the engineers who developed them. Teams at Google are gearing up to deliver more and more cool innovations to users, and this month alone, we’ve launched six new products on Google Labs. Here are the highlights of our recent releases.App Inventor for AndroidApp Inventor for Android makes it easier for people to access the capabilities of their Android phones and create apps for their personal use. Until now, it was only available to a group of people who requested and received invitations. Last week, we announced that App Inventor (beta) is now available to anyone with a Google account. Visit the App Inventor homepage to get set up and start building your own Android app—and be sure to share your App Inventor story on the App Inventor user forum!Body BrowserBody Browser is a demo app that allows you to visualize complex 3D graphics of the human body. It works in the latest beta version of Google Chrome and uses WebGL, a new standard that enables 3D experiences in the web browser without any plug-ins. Using Body Browser, you can explore different layers of human anatomy by moving the slider to rotate and zoom in on parts you are interested in. Not sure where something is? Try the search box. You can also share the exact scene you’re viewing by copying and pasting the corresponding URL.DataWikiDataWiki is a wiki for structured data, extending the idea of a normal wiki to make it easy to create, edit, share and visualize structured data, and to interlink data formats to make them more understandable and useful. The project is inspired by the need to create customized data formats for crisis response, for example to quickly create a person-finder application after an earthquake, or share Internet and cellular phone connectivity maps from an affected area. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894544 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/jZUVkByyw-U/trip-report-google-and-youtube-in.html Earlier this month, a team from Google and YouTube went to Pakistan to explore business and content opportunities, following up on Google’s Clinton Global Initiative commitment to Pakistan and to sponsor and participate in Pakistan’s first International Youth Conference and Festival. It’s hard to imagine a country more at the nexus of geo-politics today than Pakistan, and our team learned a lot about the state of the Pakistani technology, media and non-profit sectors.Internet connectivity in Pakistan is quite low—estimates put penetration at around 10%—but opportunities for growth are evident. For one thing, broadband costs are quite cheap compared to other parts of the world—around $13/month. Smartphone usage is also on the rise, and there are a growing number of Pakistani developers who are creating mobile applications for sale both in Pakistan and abroad. Around 60% of Pakistanis have a mobile phone, and their average bill is around $3/month. Not surprisingly, SMS is one of the primary means of communication in Pakistan.One of the keys to bringing more Pakistanis online is the amount of local Pakistani content available on the Internet. There are some great examples so far: for instance, Coke Studio, a “fusion” music project sponsored by Coke that features popular Pakistani musicians, grew so popular on YouTube last summer that it was the 11th-most viewed channel on the site. Dozens of news organizations have begun to use YouTube as a global distribution platform as well, reaching not only Pakistanis online but the diaspora abroad. The Pakistani media is young and voracious—it was just eight years ago that the government opened up the airwaves to allow non-state media channels to exist, and in that short time the media has grown to become an important player in the public discourse in Pakistan, despite occasional crackdowns from authorities. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894542 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62789 Title: How Historians use Historical Newspapers (4 pages; PDF) by Robert Allen (Drexel University) and Robert Sieczkiewicz (Drexel University) In: Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Volume 47 Newspapers have long been rich resources for historians. In the past several years many historical newspapers have been digitized, offering the promise of [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:11:00 +0100 894197 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/12/executive_direc_6.php by Holly Macriss, CLA, Executive Director Thank you to all of the California libraries who participated in the 2010 California Library Snapshot Day! More than 1 million visitors entered the doors of more than 1,000 libraries representing more than 300 library systems and jurisdictions. Read more... Thank you to all who attended Navigating the New! We are still wrapping up and will have more to share from this event in coming months, but we want to congratulate the 2010 Award and Scholarship winners. To read about this year's winners, click here and click on each award and scholarship listed on the left hand side of the website. Congratulations to Rio Hondo College Library on receiving a $15,000 grant from Verizon in support of Reinforcing Literacy@ Rio: A Librarian-Faculty Collaboration. http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/12/verizon_gives_1.php Thank you to Paul Birchall, Michelle Jeffers, Eve Nyren and Kathleen Wade for providing us with great blogs and articles to include in our member communications. Don't miss the information regarding the upcoming Advocacy Institute at the ALA Midwinter Conference. CLA is proud to be a co-sponsor of this extremely important and timely event. Deborah Doyle, CLA Legislative & Advocacy Committee Chair, will be presenting. We will also have information regarding 2011 legislative events. http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/12/advocating_in_a_2.php Speaking of the ALA Midwinter Conference: CLA will have a booth in San Diego, so please come by booth 2151, say hi and pick up information regarding the 2011 Annual Conference in Pasadena. We've made it worth your visit J CLA is also co-sponsoring Money Smart Week April 2-9, 2011. This is an opportunity for your library to create programming and partnerships with your community leaders to promote financial literacy and help consumers better manage their personal finances. http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/12/cla_joins_ala_t. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:51:26 +0100 894335 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/12/20/u-of-m-students-attending-climate-talks-hope-for-progress/ Read the full story from Minnesota Public Radio. The 15 University of Minnesota students attending the climate change conference in Mexico this week know there isn’t as much interest in the event back home as there was during the same conference in Denmark a year earlier. But several of them are expressing hope that enough progress will be made at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun to make up for some of the disappointment after the Copenhagen conference (Source: Environmental News Bits) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:40:40 +0100 894205 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/12/20/u-s-epa-reveals-game-day-challenge-results/ Over the month of October, more than 75 participating schools targeted more than 2.8 million fans and diverted more than 500,000 pounds of waste, which prevented nearly 940 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being released. The greenhouse gas emissions avoided is equal to the carbon dioxide emissions from more than 105,000 gallons of gasoline being consumed or from more than 39,000 propane cylinders used for home barbeques. Winners of the challenge are: Waste Minimization Champion (Per Capita Waste Generation) – Ithaca College and University of Tennessee at Martin Diversion Rate Champion (Diversion Rate) – University of California, Davis Greenhouse Gas Reduction Champion (Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Reduction) – University of Central Oklahoma Recycling Champion (Per Capita Recycling) – University of Central Oklahoma Organics Reduction Champion (Per Capita Organics Reduction) – Marist College Complete results by state, division, conference, and award category are available at http://www.epa.gov/osw/partnerships/wastewise/challenge/gameday/results.htm. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:33:26 +0100 894209 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/2010/12/education-affordable-training-and-the-professional-development-award/ The American Library Association is offering several e-Courses, including Time Management, Innovation in the Workplace, Customer Service,  Project Management and Communicating with Power.  Check them out at:  http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?eli=v1168020&si=i191468986&cfc=3html The NN/LM MCR still encourages applicants for the Professional Development award and will be awarding approximately 25 Professional Development subsidies (up to $1,500 each) to support health science or hospital librarians who wish to attend a conference, or take a training or workshop of their choice by the end of April 2011. Priority will be given to professional development in the areas of emergency preparedness, personal and electronic health records, health information literacy, or library advocacy, and would include online training opportunities. Applicants are encouraged to think about areas of interest so that learned information can be shared with MCR members. For more information and application information see: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/funding/ (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:40:27 +0100 894134 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/20/a-festivus-for-the-legal-information-industry/ Why don’t law librarians, legal IT folk and legal publishers all just get along? Do we need a Festivus airing of grievances? This is the suggestion from Sarah Glassmeyer, Faculty Services and Outreach Librarian at the Valparaiso University School of Law in Valparaiso, Indiana, in her controversial guest blog post The Loris in the Library at the prominent VoxPopuLII blog at the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School. She says: I wish I could say, “Librarians . . . computer scientists . . . legal publishers . . . let’s all hold hands now and sing kum-bay-yah!” However, while I am hopeful that cultural differences between these groups can be diminished and a feeling of amity develops between them, I am realistic. So instead I say, “Get in the goddamn wagon or get out of the goddamn way.” I imagine at times the ride will be about as comfortable and collegial as a bunch of children crammed in a station wagon for a family vacation road trip. There is no ultimate “Mother” authority to keep us all in line with the threat of turning around, however. For these collaborative efforts to be successful, no constituency or person gets to be “in charge” all the time. It doesn’t matter how many millions of dollars in grant money one has, or how many thousands of members in one’s organization; everyone’s expertise needs to be used and respected. It won’t be easy and it won’t feel natural, but we all must make a conscious effort to work together. She goes on to make a recommendation for change: More multi-disciplinary organizations, conferences, and publishing platforms (like Vox PopuLII) need to be created so that we can learn from each other. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:43:06 +0100 895206 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/kKPe9bJH7Ms/going-green-at-google-in-2010.html (Cross-posted on the Google.org blog)At Google, we’re committed to building a clean energy future because we we want to be good environmental stewards, and because we think it makes business sense. We’ve had a busy year with our clean energy initiatives. Take look at our redesigned green website and this new video from the Google green team to learn more about the priorities we’re pursuing:As we look back on 2010, we wanted to highlight what we’ve been working on this year to help build a more sustainable future—for Google, and the world.Greening our operations. We already have the most energy efficient data centers in the world, and use renewable energy whenever possible. This year we created a subsidiary, Google Energy LLC, to enable us to purchase renewable energy on the wholesale power markets and to help spur development in the sector.Flexibility in buying renewable energy. In February, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted Google Energy LLC the authority to buy and sell energy on the wholesale market, giving us the flexibility to procure renewable energy at competitive prices.20-year green power purchase. Our FERC authority enabled Google Energy LLC to enter a 20-year green Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in July to buy clean energy from 114 megawatts (MW) of wind generation at NextEra’s Story County II facility in Iowa (read more about how the deal is structured). By purchasing so much energy for so long, we’re giving the developer financial certainty to build additional clean energy projects.Developing green products and tools. Just a few weeks ago, during the the U.N. Climate Change Conference in sunny Cancun, Mexico, we launched Google Earth Engine, a new Google Labs product. Google Earth Engine is a technology platform that makes an unprecedented catalog of imagery and data available online in one place for the first time. It enables global-scale monitoring and measurement of changes in the earth’s environment. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894545 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/australian-law-reform-commission.html Just discovered this the other day: the Australian Law Reform Commission very recently started producing podcasts.The most recent one was Dec. 17 and dealt with indigenous issues and the Commission's family violence inquiry.As the Commission explained on Nov. 3, 2010 in a conference presentation called Opening Up the Conversation | Gov 2.0 Conference, it has been modernizing the tools it uses to reach out to the wider community:"First we would consult and then produce an Issues Paper, and call for submissions from stakeholders, then we would produce a Discussion paper, consult more and call for further submissions and then finally after more consultation, we would produce final Report with recommendations for reform." "This was time intensive process for us and for our stakeholders, and it was also pretty expensive to produce and distribute all these different printed documents. While the process definitely encouraged a two way conversation, we ask a question and you give us your opinion, what it didn’t encourage was a more dynamic backward and forwards dialogue, and it was a very formal process." "The online tools that we have adopted just in this past year, have started to subvert this three stage process and have allowed us to replace some of the steps and to encourage stakeholders to interact with the ALRC in a more fluid and dynamic way....getting involved at an earlier stage in the process and being able to engage in a more flexible, informal and interactive manner." "The tools that Marie Claire [Marie-Claire Muir, the Commission Web Manager] is going to go through briefly – our e-newsletters, blogs, closed social networks and Twitter - encourage a more immediate and dynamic conversation. They have also opened up the ALRC’s own processes more to the public, so that our inquiry work and the thinking that goes into our the development of our recommendations, is more transparent (... ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894101 http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/12/town-gown-meeting-in-boulder-examines-uc-campus-plan.html Leaders from the University of Colorado and the city of Boulder met Tuesday night for a discussion about campus growth plans, and the presentation prompted questions from City Council members about why there were no proposals for a conference center. Overall, city leaders were complimentary of the preliminary ideas. The plan is scheduled to be adopted by fall 2011, but it first needs approval from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and CU regents. Overarching goals in CU's master plan include growth on the east campus; partnering with the city for flood mitigation; offering affordable housing for graduate and international students, as well as employees; and bettering transportation options to link the east and main campuses. Read more at: http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_16861212#ixzz18OwhI51S (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893927 http://www.lisnews.org/cycling_libraries Librarians on bikes, unite! From the website: We (Finnish librarian Kai Halttunen, Tampere University) – me with a team of keen library lovers – will arrange this tour supported by library associations and collaborators in different countries and I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience for all you who like cycling, get-together and passionate and visionary conversations about a variety of library topics. Our aim is also to bring libraries, their highly proactive staff and the work all librarians do more to publicity and media. We mean to make this public by using internet and social media and making a documentary about how we handle this challenge of cycling 650 km --from Copenhagen to Berlin in spring-summer 2011 (We leave Copenhagen 28.05.2011 and arrive in Berlin 05.06.2011; 6th and 7th of June we have programme in Berlin). We all know that good ideas are generated in cafes and hallways and not so much on lecture halls’ benches or somewhere we expect them to generate. That is why we go to this courageous venture of cycling about 10 days together – to see what kind of spectacular performances the library staff can reach if they just wish to. This is a challenge for you, and I hope that you accept it. Let’s go cycling for libraries! The participation is open to all librarians and everybody interested in the field of libraries. Stay tuned by following this site or our Facebook page. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:54:10 +0100 894892 http://lisnews.org/cycling_libraries Librarians on bikes, unite! From the website: We (Finnish librarian Kai Halttunen, Tampere University) – me with a team of keen library lovers – will arrange this tour supported by library associations and collaborators in different countries and I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience for all you who like cycling, get-together and passionate and visionary conversations about a variety of library topics. Our aim is also to bring libraries, their highly proactive staff and the work all librarians do more to publicity and media. We mean to make this public by using internet and social media and making a documentary about how we handle this challenge of cycling 650 km --from Copenhagen to Berlin in spring-summer 2011 (We leave Copenhagen 28.05.2011 and arrive in Berlin 05.06.2011; 6th and 7th of June we have programme in Berlin). We all know that good ideas are generated in cafes and hallways and not so much on lecture halls’ benches or somewhere we expect them to generate. That is why we go to this courageous venture of cycling about 10 days together – to see what kind of spectacular performances the library staff can reach if they just wish to. This is a challenge for you, and I hope that you accept it. Let’s go cycling for libraries! The participation is open to all librarians and everybody interested in the field of libraries. Stay tuned by following this site or our Facebook page. (Source: LISNews.org) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:54:10 +0100 893857 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/zcGn/~3/kIDD7-1Ntbg/ny-public-library-does-true-marketing.html I was thrilled to see this great article about programs at the NYPL -- it's called "Stars Rock New York's Public Library."  Sure, it's awesome that they bring in guests like the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, Princeton's Dr. Cornel West, and rapper Jay-Z. And not all libraries can do that. But here's what NYPL is doing that's more important -- and it's something you can all do -- that is, ASK users what they want from the library. This is one of the points I always preach when I give workshops and speak at conferences. One of the main tenets of what I call "true marketing" is to find out what users want instead of just planning programs and collections according to what you think users want.  Paul Holdengräber is the amazing man who runs the lecture series called Live from the New York Public Library. I've seen him speak and I love the way he views libraries. (Check out this video, where Paul is interviewed by Erik Boekesteijn during the first ShanachieTour and this blog post about another interview at Computers in Libraries 2009 conference.) Paul has been practicing what I preach (tho he was doing it first!) for years. In this article, he reveals: The trick, says Holdengräber, is to "Find out what the people are interested in and give them much more." In this article, from Voice of America news, another librarian notes that NYPL does something else that I recommend – it studies demographics and targets populations that aren't usually library users. They're making the library appeal to a broader base. So, how do you find out what patrons (and potential patrons) want? There are many ways: surveys, focus groups, casual conversations, online polls, outreach programs, reading other studies. I talk a lot more about this in my book, The Accidental Library Marketer. ... Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894958 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/19/once-upon-life-peter-leonard As the son of Elmore Leonard, Peter was no stranger to gripping stories with unexpected plot twists. But nothing prepared him for his experience in a Roman jail when a drunken jape as an Italian student backfiredI was in a year-abroad programme, one of 240 American students attending Loyola University's Rome Center in Italy. The school year was winding down. I went out to dinner with a group of friends in Trastevere. After several courses and many bottles of wine we went to a bar, and listened to a singer do jazz standards.Around 11.30pm Steve Pappas, a friend from Vallejo, California, and I decided to peel off from the group and take a cab across town to Harry's Bar, an old Hemingway haunt on Via Veneto where we'd sit outside, drink whisky and talk to the prostitutes, beautiful women who walked down from the park, Villa Borghese, looking for a rich guy staying at one of the expensive hotels.We left the bar and I saw a taxi on the other side of the piazza under a full moon. I walked to it and I got in the back and closed my eyes, feeling the effects of many drinks. I heard the front door open and close, looked and saw Pappas grinning in the driver's seat. "We're going to Harry's."I thought he was kidding. But then I heard the engine start, saw him slip the shifter in gear, and we did a couple doughnuts in the middle of the piazza, tyres squealing, and pulled out, turning right on to a street heading for the Tiber River.I said: "Are you out of your mind?"He looked at me in the rear-view mirror and laughed.Minutes later, negotiating the narrow cobblestone streets of Trastevere, we passed a Carabinieri (national police) sedan parked on the side of the road. I could see the cops look at us in what seemed like slow motion. The next thing I remember, the taxi came to a stop. Unlikely as it was, we were stuck in a traffic jam on the backstreets of Rome. ... Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:05:16 +0100 893720 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/CF5m3zZ_dy4/bc-library-conference-2011-canada.html BC Library Conference - April 7-9 2011 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:42:46 +0100 893631 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/208yOS0eRm8/dc-2011.html DC-2011, the eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will take place at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, 21-23 September 2011. Further information about the conference will be made available in January 2011 (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:51:20 +0100 893632 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/wXbdlI-V3Wo/45th-annual-arsc-conference-2011.html The 45th annual ARSC Conference will be held in downtown Los Angeles, California in May 11-14, 2011. The conference will be hosted by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive in honor of their 50th anniversary (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:37:55 +0100 893644 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/208yOS0eRm8/dc-2011.html DC-2011, the eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will take place at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, 21-23 September 2011. Further information about the conference will be made available in January 2011 (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894640 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/CF5m3zZ_dy4/bc-library-conference-2011-canada.html BC Library Conference - April 7-9 2011 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894639 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/theory-and-practice-of-digital.html The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2011 continues the tradition of the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL). The conference is going to bring together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2011 is organized by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, the Computer and Media Services and the Department of Computer Science). More details are available here. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893786 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/12/embedded-librarians.html Thanks to Simon Hart for alerting me to the presentations from the LIANZA conference held in Dunedin, New Zealand, 28 November - 1 December. The proceedings page is http://www.conference.co.nz/lianza10/full_papers_and_powerpointsIn particular Simon highlighted the powerpoint of David Shumaker on Succeeding with embedded librarianship (here is the presentation). David Schumaker has an Embedded Librarian blog at http://embeddedlibrarian.wordpress.comI will also mention the presentation at LIANZA by Jesus Lau on Information Literacy.Photo by Sheila Webber: Winter branches, December 2010 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893686 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/video/LC-LAW_20101015_Katrina_Sharman.flv 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis 2010 Animal Law Conference – Katrina Sharman Keynote Address October 15, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need – Keynote Address on Friday Katrina Sharman, Corporate Counsel for Voiceless, the Animal Protection Institute (Australia) Introductions and welcome: Stefan Heller – 3L, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund co-director, Lewis & Clark Law School Kathy Hessler – Clinical Professor of Law & Animal Law Clinic Director, Lewis & Clark Law School Aurora Paulsen – 2L, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund conference coordinator, Lewis & Clark Law School Katrina Sharman is the Corporate Counsel for Voiceless, the animal protection institute. Prior to assuming that role in 2004, she worked as a Senior Associate at Minter Ellison Lawyers. Sharman is a former Chair of NSW Young Lawyers Animal Rights Committee and a former member of the Animal Research Review Panel (NSW) and the National Health & Medical Research Council, Animal Welfare Committee. Sharman has spoken about animal law issues at numerous conferences including the ‘Future of Animal Law Conference’ (Harvard Law School, 2007). Sharman has also contributed to numerous publications including ‘Animal Law in Australasia’ (The Federation Press, 2009) and ‘Animal Law in Australia and New Zealand’ (Thomson Reuters, 2010). In 2009, Sharman was included in Australasian Legal Business Magazine’s showcase of top 20 in-house Lawyers. She has also previously been shortlisted as Australian Corporate Lawyers Association In-house Lawyer Young Achiever of the Year The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 15th, 2010. View This Video Full Screen (Source: Lewis) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:05:46 +0100 894232 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/KvSCUjWj_F4/ Over the last couple of months I have been participating on a number of different podcasting episodes, (Internet) TV interviews, news articles and a whole bunch of other kinds of rich media publications talking, most of the time, around the topics of Enterprise 2.0, internal social software adoption and 2.0 evangelism, and, lately, the new social term that seems to be en vogue nowadays: social business. I originally had planned to share a few insights about the most interesting ones and point folks to the original resource to watch or read through them, but then I realised that there are out there far too many to mention in a single blog post, more than anything else, because some of the conversations have been substantially different from one another. So I thought that perhaps I would drop by over here, every now and then, and point folks to the odd one or two, so you could have a look into some of them, if you would be interested, but always being conscious of trying to strike a balance on not sharing them all one right after the other. That’s why I have decided as well that I will be splitting them up half in half and share some other pointers over at my Posterous site, which would also give me an opportunity to keep things going over there as well, as I keep making a much heavier use of it from here onwards… Thus, what a better way of kicking things off than sharing with you folks a recent podcasting episode that I participated in with the wonderful folks from The Taking Notes podcast, Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux. That’s right, back in November, Bruce invited me to participate in their #126 episode and talk with them about the topic of “Social Business”. Now, you may have noticed already, how for the last few weeks, probably since right after the Enterprise 2.0 conference event in Santa Clara, there seems to be a growing trend of switching away from the Enterprise 2. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:14:21 +0100 893464 http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/62657 Briefing on the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun Source: U.S. Department of State Let me turn to the events of the last couple of weeks. Over the last two weeks, representatives from more than 190 nations met in Cancun for the 16th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on [...] (Source: Docuticker) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:38:03 +0100 893391 http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2010/12/scifinder-web-has-replaced-scifinder-scholar/ Effective December 10, 2010, Auburn University has migrated from the SciFinder Scholar database to the SciFinder Web database. SciFinder Web is a Web-based Chemistry database that searches the same data as SciFinder Scholar.  First-time users must create a user name and password. SciFinder Web is the most important database for Chemistry.  SciFinder Web covers articles, patents, book chapters, conference proceedings, and dissertations that have been indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service from 1907 to the present. Search by keyword, structure, reaction, chemical name or CAS Registry Number. SciFinder Web  indexes articles in the publications of many fields in addition to chemistry if they describe new chemistry. These fields include agriculture, biology, engineering, medicine, physics, textiles, and veterinary medicine. Please use either of these access points below for more information about and access to SciFinder Web: SciFinder Web or Chemistry =. The links are prominent on the Chemistry LibGuide. Please NOTE:  due to licensing restrictions, only SEVEN simultaneous users may have access to this database at one time. (Source: What's New at the Auburn Libraries) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:11:53 +0100 893469 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/8WzKtDiha-c/tpdl-2011-theory-and-practice-of.html "The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. The conference will continue to bring together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2011 is organised by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, the Computer and Media Services and the Department of Computer Science). Main conference: September 26-28, 2011" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:41:31 +0100 893374 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/IPJJyyn4WYs/johnt Social Software, Community, and Organization: Where Practice Meets Process « Skilful Minds http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2341423499/enterprise-2-0-is-not-just-goal-oriented-collaboration Rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Strategic Organization Social Learning and Exception Handling « Skilful Minds http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2341850344/training-for-solved-solutions-vs-collaboration-for Launch of the Enterprise Social Network Strategy report: what senior executives REALLY think about social networks inside the organization - Trends in the Living Networks http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342115281/hive-around-problems-or-hierarchy-or-both Thinking about processes as “science” and “art” « John Caddell's blog http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342269147/using-narrative-to-qualify-adaptive-case-management HBR article demonstrates that leaders need to manage complexity « John Caddell's blog When Should a Process Be Art, Not Science? - Harvard Business Review http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342471394/best-practice-may-neglect-adapting-to-real-needs PEG · People don’t like change. (Or do they?) http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342954608/what-gets-measured-determines-what-gets-done How Customer-Centricity Drives Profits | CustomerThink How to Find Answers Within Your Company - The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2345893789/cop-success-story conversation matters: A Knowledge Management Conference that Actually Used KM Principles (Source: Library clips) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:00:00 +0100 893993 http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/2010/12/dewey-breakfastupdate-at-ala-midwinter-2011.html Please join us for the Dewey Breakfast/Update at the ALA Midwinter Meeting on Saturday, January 8, 7:00–8:00 a.m., Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, Sapphire Ballroom A.  The  program will feature a demonstration of WebDewey 2.0 (it’s here!), practical applications of our linked data web service dewey.info, and a sneak preview of DDC 23.  The ALCTS Public Libraries Technical Services Interest Group will meet in the same room directly following the Dewey Breakfast/Update. If you haven’t done so already, please register for the meeting here.  See you in San Diego! (Source: 025.431: The Dewey blog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893896 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/taming-information-tsunami.html The 53rd NFAIS Annual Conference will discuss Taming the Information Tsunami: The New World of Discovery. Main issues to explore in this meeting are: How can content providers efficiently navigate the information tsunami to provide scholars and researchers with the reliable, relevant information that deserves their time and attention - no matter what the source or format? How does that information get filtered, made consumable, and incorporated into workflows? What roles can semantic search, image search and the social graph play in finding the specific information that users want? Who is improving the overall search experience with touch technologies, predictive tools and personalized search? How can large volumes of information across all media be acquired, processed and transmitted to an increasingly mobile and collaborative global research community? Where is that content stored - on the desk, shelves, servers or in the Cloud? And what new business practices are emerging that are in sync with the delivery of data "chunks" and expectations for reuse of content? (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893789 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/social-theory-in-information-systems.html The 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), will take place in Detroit, Michigan, August 4-7, 2011. In one of the panels, researchers in this area will focus on research that makes use of social theory to investigate the dynamics of online and virtual communities. According to their call for contributions: “… they seek to attract research papers, research-in-progress papers, and panels from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, socio-technical theorists, and cultural anthropologists in their online and virtual communities research. They are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory to address issues of virtual collaborations. They will address issues such as:How and under what conditions do these communities form, self-organize, maintain and manage themselves and dissolve? What are the roles that information and communication technologies play n the dynamics of online and virtual communities? (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893787 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/12/16/detecting-and-redirecting-mobile-devices Remember a few months ago, when I was inspired by Steve Butzel’s presentation at NELA2010 and created a mobile version of my library’s website? I bet you have that date marked on your calendar. Anyway, one lingering problem I had was some mechanism to automatically detect mobile devices when they visited our website, and reroute them to the mobile version instead of the full web version. I finally had some time this week and was able to accomplish that - aided by the fact that it was easier than I expected. The ultimate goal is to redesign our entire site along the lines Brett suggested, by creating a stylesheet specifically for mobile devices. Brad pointed out that the Canton Public Library employs this, awesomely: visit their site and slowly make your browser window smaller, and watch the website flip from “full web” mode to “mobile” mode. That was more than I could handle this week, so I opted for the detect-and-redirect approach. I had found online instructions using both javascript and php, and I went with the php method because I think php is more reliable than javascript, because javascript depends on the browser whereas php runs on our server Php is more fun, and I know our server runs php The website offering the php method is http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi, and very happily they make it available free for non-profits. Here’s what I did: Read and reread their website Downloaded the main bit of code, and uploaded it to our web server Used their Function Generator to create the snippet of code to paste into the top of our homepage. I chose to treat all of their options as a mobile browser, and redirect them to http://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/mobile - the resulting code looked like this: require_once('mobile_device_detect.php'); mobile_device_detect(true,true,true,true,true,true,true, 'http://www.chelmsfordlibrary. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:00:27 +0100 893188 http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2010w50/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:by E-mailby RSSDelivered by FeedBurner This week’s Thursday Threads highlights includes two legal cases that bear watching. The first is the case of SkyRiver/Innovative Interfaces versus OCLC (covered on DLTJ previously); now that the case has been moved to OCLC’s home court (the federal district court located in Columbus, OH), it is asking for the case to be dismissed. The second legal cases is the UCLA streaming media case, with issues ranging from fair use to licensing terms to DMCA violations; if this one goes to trial we might get some new case law surrounding the intersection of copyright and libraries. The remaining two pieces are a look at how publishers (and librarians) should avoid paving cow-paths and the origins of the hash symbol.If you find these threads interesting and useful, you might want to add the Thursday Threads RSS Feed to your feed reader or subscribe to e-mail delivery using the form to the right. If you would like a more raw and immediate version of these types of stories, watch my FriendFeed stream (or subscribe to its feed in your feed reader). Comments and tips, as always, are welcome.OCLC Files Motion to Dismiss SkyRiver/Innovative LawsuitThis case arises because Plaintiffs believe they are entitled to free access to OCLC’s proprietary WordCat service, a comprehensive database of library records, developed over the past forty years. While framed as an antitrust case, Plaintiffs’ Complaint alleges only that OCLC has engaged in the types of appropriate behaviors expected of competitors: compete vigorously on price (or, at worst, price a product too high), work with libraries to develop new products, introduce innovative new products that threaten Plaintiffs’ profitability, and sell less expensive subscriptions than à la carte services. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:52:54 +0100 894346 http://ntrls.blogspot.com/2010/12/stipend-for-tla-conference.html Thanks to the generosity of the Texas State Genealogical Society, the Archives, Genealogy, and Local History Round Table is able to offer a $500 stipend to the Texas Library Association Annual Conference in April, 2011 in Austin. Please direct questions to me. Thanks! Laurie Mahaffey, Genealogy Conference Stipend Committee Chair Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy DirectorCentral Texas Library System, Inc (Source: North Texas Regional Library System) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894054 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AginfoBlogFromIaald/~3/7nJndMU1LQA/new-e-agricuture-platform-launched-new.html The e-Agriculture Community is launching a totally new online platform today, 16 December 2010. The launch is in conjunction with the ICTD2010 conference, where a special half day session on enhancing the impact ofICT in rural development has been organized by FAO and other partners in the e-Agriculture Community.After three years of exciting growth, collaboration and knowledge sharing around ICT for rural development, this new platform has been developed to keep pace with the needs of your e-Agriculture Community in the coming years. This totally new platform is the result of the Community's suggestions and input, the combined effort of manyindividuals, and takes advantage of appropriate new tools including Drupal and social media applications. The result is not only a new website, but a new way for the Community of more than 7,000 members from 150 countries to interact, collaborate, share experiences, andexpand their collective understanding of key issues in the ICT4D field.Visit the new website. (Source: AgInfo News from IAALD) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894000 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/call-for-posters-innovation-best.html Call for Posters: Innovation & Best Practices in Business Librarianship (SLA Annual Conference)Location: 2011 SLA Annual Conference – Philadelphia, PADate/Time: Monday, June 13, 2011 – 4:00pm – 5:30pmIn this call for posters, the Business and Finance Division of SLA is providing an opportunity for business librarians to share ideas and develop research collaborations. We are looking for case studies or practical applications on a wide range of issues including: • Standards and competencies for business information librarians• Pedagogic approaches to business information education• Assessment of learning outcomes • Integrating business information with the curriculum• Librarian / faculty collaboration• New technologies for teaching business information topics• Business information education in multi-disciplinary contexts• Professional development for business librarians• Promoting business information research servicesHelp your colleagues learn from your work, both successful and unsuccessful. Share the results of your efforts at the upcoming poster session at SLA in Philadelphia, June 2011. This session is sponsored by the Business & Finance Division and the College & University Business Librarians Section. Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Business & Finance Division website at http://units.sla.org/division/dbf/conferences/2011posters_guidelines.htmlThe deadline for abstract submissions is March 7, 2011. Please submit your name, institution, fax, email address, poster title, and description (250 words or less) by email, fax, or surface mail to Karen MacDonald at the address given below. Any SLA Member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the Business & Finance Division will be given preference. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893694 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-importance-of-information-literacy.html There is a call for papers for a session at the World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, which takes place 13-18 August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The topic is The Importance of Information Literacy for Multicultural Populations: Needs, Strategies, Programs, and the Role of Libraries. The session is organised by the Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section, the Information Literacy Section and the SIG on Indigenous Matters.Subjects for this three hour session include: How do we identify the needs of multicultural population in the field of the information literacy? How can librarians, through information literacy programs, help develop understanding and tolerance for cultural diversity? How have you overcome obstacles to introducing information literacy strategies among cultural diverse societies? What are the benefits of offering information literacy programs to diverse populations and which strategies have worked best in your library? What unique or interesting ways have libraries reached out to diverse communities to provide information literacy?Proposals should include an abstract of paper (approximately 500 words) and a summary of the author(s)' details (name, institution, position) and brief biographical statement of no more than 50 words.Submit proposals electronically to ifla2011.il.multiculturality@gmail.com by 25 January 2011 and put “IFLA proposal” in the subject line. For more information, please contact Stephen Stratton (stephen.stratton@csuci.edu) or Zuza Wiorogórska (z.d.wiorogorska@uw.edu.pl)Photo by Sheila Webber: Helicopter, light and branches, December 2010 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893131 http://kairosnews.org/call-for-proposals-%E2%80%93-2011-graduate-resea The Graduate Research Network (GRN) invites proposals for its 2011 workshop, May 19, 2011, at the Computers and Writing Conference hosted by the University of Michigan.  The C&W Graduate Research Network is an all-day pre-conference event, open to all registered conference participants at no charge. Roundtable discussions group those with similar interests and discussion leaders who facilitate discussion and offer suggestions for developing research projects and for finding suitable venues for publication.  We encourage anyone interested or involved in graduate education and scholarship--students, professors, mentors, and interested others--to participate in this important event.The GRN welcomes those pursuing work at any stage, from those just beginning to consider ideas to those whose projects are ready to pursue publication. Participants are also invited to apply for travel funding through the CW/GRN Travel Grant Fund. Deadline for submissions is April 25, 2011.  For more information or to submit a proposal, visit our Web site at http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/writling/GRN/2011/index.html or email jwalker@georgiasouthern.edu. (Source: Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:08:24 +0100 893323