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, 03 Sep 2010 02:50:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/02/blair-job-done-1997-numb-labour In Downing Street, Blair never fulfilled his early promise and let Brown in. Now he can only emit a long wail of impotenceWho said books are dead? Did he blog or tweet, video or iPad? No, Tony Blair wanted to get a message across, so he wrote a book. He smeared the black stuff on trees, stitched it together and made people go out to buy it. Good for him.Blair's mildly engaging stream of auto-eroticism shows him memoirising much as he ruled. He uses the first person singular a million times. He stages everything. He fixes on a theme and controls the narrative. The intention is to smother an Iraq apologia in endless quotables on Gordon Brown and his emotional idiocy and general hopelessness. It is cruel, but has worked a dream.Blair was a politician of great talent, and a miserable prime minister. The service he did his country was considerable, but it was done by the time he took office in 1997. It was to anaesthetise the Labour party while he turned it into a vehicle to make him electable and his newly espoused Thatcherism irreversible, much as Attlee had made welfarism irreversible in 1945. The British left is still in denial on the subject.When the Social Democratic party was formed in 1981, an ambitious young Blair abused them as "middle-aged, middle-class erstwhile Labour", with only "lingering social consciences [to] prevent them voting Tory". When, a year later, Anthony Blair fought Beaconsfield, he was for CND, against Trident and for withdrawal from Europe. (None of this is in his memoir.)When Blair arrived in parliament in 1983, he was eloquent in defence of clause IV renationalisation: "not a question of reinterpreting it … but a question of giving effect to it". There should be no curb on trade union rights, and privatisation should be abandoned "here, now and for ever". When Nigel Lawson cut income tax to 40%, Blair demanded Labour increase it to 60%. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:30:13 +0100 868553 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/_0Jjyx2bSxM/ Day 1: ALIA Access Conference (Brisbane) Information literacy with Christine Bruce: Shift of focus from libraries to a much more global scale How do we make it relevant? How can we bring transformative power of information use to peoples lives? (Pat Breivik) Empowering! Experts on information literacy: Dr Lana W Jackman www.infolit.org – paradox don’t assume that all learners have access. What about the digital divide? Patricia Senn Breivik – peoples need for abilities that empower them Diljiit Singh – no paradox we need information literacy and web 2.0 to be effective in this world Lin Ching Chen (Jean Chen) – how can we harness Web 2.0. We have a responsibility. Shelia Webber (Uni of Sheffield) – Web 2.0 information literacy skills important. Andrew Whitworth - knowledge never static; text is dynamic in Web 2.0 Sharon Weiner (Purdue Uni) – not a paradox. Need Web 2.0 to teach and learn about information literacy. David Loertscher (SLIS) - power of Web 2.0 to build collective knowledge. Tools and power. Mandy Lupton – Web 2.0 making it possible to learn through the process of content creation. Work collaboratively through using/creating info Mary M Somerville - Web 2.0 makes it possible to work with and transform understanding of different cultures Dr Hilary Hughes – novel info sources & learning opportunities; provocation to explore, experiment, evaluate and evolve with developing technologies Ross Todd – focus on user and content creation Clarence Maybee – a future with a different understanding of knowledge and making Susie Andretta – transliteracy across different platforms; transliteracy – transport abilities across different media; what a librarians doing; how do we create the spaces/places that allow people to develop transliteracy skills Annemaree Lloyd – Web2. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:25:54 +0100 868451 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/01/tony-blair-a-journey-review Amid torrid prose and Tony Blair's moral absolutes are truths and revelations that make A Journey impossible to put downNo political memoir has ever been like this: a book written as if in a dream – or a nightmare; a literary out-of-body experience. By turns honest, confused, memorable, boastful, fitfully endearing, important, lazy, shallow, rambling and intellectually correct, it scampers through the last two decades like a trashy airport read.You can't put it down. But then it is so badly written in parts that you can barely pick it up. Blair loved to describe his world as one of absolute contradictions, and what was true of his conference speeches is also true of his book.At times its great flaws are magicked away by his brilliance as a politician, the man who can make you believe. Then, pages later, you feel almost sick. There are at least three gushing sexual passages, more Mills and Boon than prime ministerial memoir.Yet the impressive thing for such a commanding figure, the only rival to Attlee in Labour history, is that he confesses to an absence of control. Government, as described in these pages, happened to Blair as much as because of him. Though this is surely true of all politicians, few are big enough to admit it.There is an underlying realism to his acceptance of weakness and eventual disappointment. This book is not by the "Bliar" of protesters' imaginations. It is by a man with a grasp of policy and an intellectual framework which he applied to power. The inexplicable thing is why he was a Labour prime minister, not why he was prime minister at all.Blair himself never answers the question. "After leaving Oxford I joined the Labour party," he writes, with no explanation why – as if it were as natural as taking friends for a pizza. Perhaps to him it was. But Blair's idea of Labour had nothing to do with the substrata of socialism embedded in Gordon Brown."I'm not a great one for the Establishment. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:07:27 +0100 868433 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6331 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // September 1, 2010 [1] [TUESDAY 9/7] Berkman Center Fall Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse) [2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) [TUESDAY] BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE ================================================================================== Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Campus (Map: http://bit.ly/poundmap) Free and Open to the Public Tell us if you're coming on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140755442627336) or Twitter (http://tweetvite.com/event/berkmanopenhouse) Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our dynamic, exciting environment. As a University-wide research center at Harvard University, our interdisciplinary efforts in the exploration of cyberspace address a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. If you're interested in the Internet’s impact on society and are looking to engage a community of world-class fellows and faculty through events, conversations, research, and more please join us to hear more about our upcoming academic year! Paid part-time research positions will be available in the fall, and you can visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships to see currently available positions. People from all disciplines, universities, and backgrounds are encouraged to attend the Open House to familiarize yourself with the Berkman Center and explore opportunities to join us in our research. We look forward to seeing you there! Refreshments will be served. For more information visit: http://cyber.law.harvard. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:31:14 +0100 868263 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/09/01/call-for-abstracts-international-conference-on-sustainable-remediation-2011-state-of-the-practice/ International Conference on Sustainable Remediation 2011: State of the Practice, Amherst, MA, June 1-3, 2011. The Environmental Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the U.S. EPA Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation are pleased to announce the International Conference on Sustainable Remediation 2011: State of the Practice to be held in Amherst, Massachusetts June 1-3, 2011. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners from around the globe to address the state of the practice and future needs in sustainable remediation across the themes of green chemistry, human health, and environmental response. Session presentations by scientists, practitioners, and regulators will feature new research, field applications, and lessons learned. Abstracts are encouraged in all areas of green and sustainable remediation as related to hazardous waste cleanup, from basic to applied research, from case studies to demonstration projects. The deadline for platform presentations is November 1, 2010. For more information and to submit an abstract, see http://www.umass.edu/tei/conferences/SustainableRemediation/callforabstracts.html . (Source: Environmental News Bits) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:16:31 +0100 868395 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/09/01/registration-now-open-2010-national-training-conference-on-the-toxics-release-inventory-tri-and-environmental-conditions-in-communities/ 2010 National Training Conference On The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Environmental Conditions in Communities, Washington, DC, November 1-4, 2010. This year’s conference expands on previous TRI National Training conferences to include sessions on sources of other environmental data and on conditions and trends in ecological and human health that collectively help to support environmentally-related decision making in communities . For more information and to register, see http://chemicalright2know.com/content/2010-national-training-conference . (Source: Environmental News Bits) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:15:20 +0100 868396 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/xDX50J39cCY/ In a nifty piece of forensic analysis, two researchers claim to have figured out how to tell when executives are lying. David Larcker and Anastasia Zakolyukina analyzed 30,000 conference calls between 2003 and 2007 to see if certain "tells" during the call were associated with earnings that were later "materially restated." (Source: Freakonomics Blog) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:30:33 +0100 868245 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/09/01/online-conference-ebooks-libraries-at-the-tipping-point-sepetember-29-2010/ From the August Issue (Published 8/31/2009) of the Book Industry Study Group Bulletin (BISG): BISG is a supporting organization for several industry conferences each year, including ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point presented by Library Journal & School Library Journal. Sponsored By: OverDrive (Platinum) Gold sponsors: Baker & Taylor; Capstone Digital; Gale Cengage; and Springer Keynote Speakers Ray Kurzweil, National best?selling author Kevin Kelly, Founder, Wired magazine R. David Lankes, Director of the Information Institute, Syracuse U. URL: www.ebook?summit.com ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point is an online conference that functions just like an in?person conference, with keynote speeches, special tracks and an exhibit area. The day?long event will bring together librarians, technology experts, publishers and vendors in a virtual setting to explore how the book is changing in the digital world. Date: September 29, 2010 Time: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. EDT Location: Online event Cost: Early bird pricing extended through August 13, 2010 with registration as low as $19.95 (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:21:45 +0100 868115 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60235 From the August Issue (Published 8/31/2009) of the Book Industry Study Group Bulletin (BISG): BISG is a supporting organization for several industry conferences each year, including ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point presented by Library Journal & School Library Journal. Sponsored By: OverDrive (Platinum) Gold sponsors: Baker & Taylor; Capstone Digital; Gale Cengage; and Springer Keynote Speakers Ray Kurzweil, National [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:21:45 +0100 868317 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/01/headteachers-literature-children-education-training Roald Dahl's Miss Trunchbull or Gillian Cross's Demon Headmaster demonstrate the exercise of power, study findsThey may be sadistic figures who hate children, but a study suggests that the savage portrayal of headteachers in children's literature possesses a grain of truth and may even be helpful when it comes to training teachers who aspire to lead schools.Characters like Miss Agatha Trunchbull, from Roald Dahl's Matilda, or the Demon Headmaster, from the sequence by Gillian Cross, can teach children to think about power and how it can be used for malign purposes, Professor Pat Thomson, director of the centre for research in schools and communities at Nottingham University school of education, has found.The study of 19 fictional headteachers found that nine are portrayed as evil or authoritarian, a further six are remote figures of power, and just one - JK Rowling's Professor Albus Dumbledore - is a positive role model.The study traces the origins of school stories to 19th century British fiction which – in stories aimed at boys – focused on the muscular discipline and militarism required for empire building.The books in the study were published between 1975 and 2009, and included Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as well as Matilda and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.Many of the books show power can be used corruptly, according to Prof Thomson.Sometimes this can have a contemporary, political twist: in The Inflatable School by Peter Wynne-Willson, the "evil, messianic" Mr Stemple plans to turn his school into an academy sponsored by a business with whom his family has a profitable relationship.Miss Trunchbull is one of only two female heads in the books studied and is described, as "formidable and repulsive". ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:00:10 +0100 868029 http://cubgovpubs.blogspot.com/2010/09/gao-reports-and-releases.html The Government Accountability Office (GAO) which is often called the investigative arm of Congress. This past week GAO investigated foreclosures, auditing, and other issues. If you would like to know more about GAO, check out the library's guide.ReportsTelecommunications: Enhanced Data Collection Could Help FCC Better Monitor Competition in the Wireless Industry. GAO-10-779, July 27.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-779Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10779high.pdfFederal Contracting: Opportunities Exist to Increase Competition and Assess Reasons When Only One Offer Is Received. GAO-10-833, July 26.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-833Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10833high.pdfOnshore Oil and Gas: BLM's Management of Public Protests to Its Lease Sales Needs Improvement. GAO-10-670, July 30.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-670Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10670high.pdfHurricane Recovery: Federal Government Provided a Range of Assistance to Nonprofits following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. GAO-10-800, July 30.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-800Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10800high.pdfNew Drug Approval: FDA's Consideration of Evidence from Certain Clinical Trials. GAO-10-798, July 30.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-798Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10798high.pdfPresentations by Acting Comptroller General"Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment," by Gene L. Dodaro, acting comptroller general, before the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers, and Treasurers. GAO-10-954CG, August 10, 2010http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-954CG"Challenges Facing Government and the Contracting Community," by Gene L. Dodaro, acting comptroller general, before the 2010 annual conference of the National Association of State Procurement Officials, in Washington, D.C. GAO-10-1021CG, August 23, 2010http://www.gao. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868424 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/09/wayback-wednesday-5-intersting-blog.html Since August 30, 2004, there have been more than 2000 posts published in this blog.  In order to surface some of the meatier posts, I'm starting "Wayback Wednesdays".  On Wednesdays, I'll be digging into the archives and pulling out blog posts that are worth remembering.  In this issue, let's sit back with a cup of coffee and remember some of the off-topic posts that attracted attention (and perhaps still do!):Seth Godin and librariesExperience before training My top seven presentation tipsAdvice to conference/training/event organizers as well as presenters/speakers/trainersOpinion: Katrina - The world is watchingWhat to dig into the archives yourself?  Use the "popular labels" on the right side of the blog OR use your favorite Internet search engine to search this site (e.g, site:hurstassociates.blogspot.com plus whatever terms are relevant to you.).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868388 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/jLAA4F8pq5c/wayback-wednesday-5-intersting-blog.html Since August 30, 2004, there have been more than 2000 posts published in this blog.  In order to surface some of the meatier posts, I'm starting "Wayback Wednesdays".  On Wednesdays, I'll be digging into the archives and pulling out blog posts that are worth remembering.  In this issue, let's sit back with a cup of coffee and remember some of the off-topic posts that attracted attention (and perhaps still do!):Seth Godin and librariesExperience before training My top seven presentation tipsAdvice to conference/training/event organizers as well as presenters/speakers/trainersOpinion: Katrina - The world is watchingWhat to dig into the archives yourself?  Use the "popular labels" on the right side of the blog OR use your favorite Internet search engine to search this site (e.g, site:hurstassociates.blogspot.com plus whatever terms are relevant to you.).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868240 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PegasusLibrarian/~3/6c0kBfru3yw/on-not-attending-conferences.html I realized today that I haven’t attended a conference since the fall of 2008. This brought me up short. I think of myself as attending about two national conferences per year, but apparently that’s not the case any more and hasn’t been for quite a while. I’ve heard from others who haven’t traveled to a conference in a few years because of budget cuts, so I know I’m not the only one who’s mostly stayed home for a while, but I hadn’t really thought about it until just today because I was never told I couldn’t travel — I just started deciding with each new announcement of an upcoming conference that I could skip that one that year, that there would be other conferences. And now here I am. I’ve skipped them all. I miss seeing my libraryland friends face to face, I miss seeing other places that I don’t otherwise visit, and I miss the dedicated time to think about libraries without actually working in one right that second. But what I haven’t lost is the networking, discussion, and general information sharing that keep me up to date with the world of libraries. That’s all still going on every day in my computer, thanks to the Library Society of the World and its FriendFeed room. I hope sometime soon I can get the full conference experience again, and I kind of hope that the next conference I attend will be an LSW unconference (hint hint, people!), but I’m really glad to have stumbled in with this crew of top notch people. Like Unlike (Source: Pegasus Librarian) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:20:55 +0100 867920 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/cmlp_csj_media_law_conference Citizen Media Law Project and Center for Sustainable Journalism Announce Conference Focused on Media Law in the Digital Age Cambridge, MA – August 31, 2010 – The Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University are co‐hosting a conference on September 25, 2010 entitled Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You? in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed for journalists, bloggers, and lawyers who work with media clients, the conference will be an opportunity to learn first‐hand the latest legal developments and to get your questions answered by experts in the field. The program will bring together legal practitioners, journalists, and academics to discuss the latest legal issues facing online media ventures. Topics will include: libel law, copyright law, newsgathering law, and advertising law, as well as the legal issues arising from news aggregation, managing online communities, and business law considerations for start‐up online media organizations. Small‐group workshops will focus on strategies for accessing government information and understanding legal terms in content licenses, freelancer contracts, and website terms of service and privacy policies. If you need personalized legal assistance before or after the conference, contact the Online Media Legal Network, a legal referral network for independent online media administered by the Citizen Media Law Project at the Berkman Center. For more information about the network, please visit its website: http://www.omln.org. Funding for the conference is being provided by the Harnisch Foundation, which has been a long‐time sponsor of the Center for Sustainable Journalism and recently provided a grant to the Berkman Center to support media law education. Visit the conference website for more information on the conference agenda, registration and logistics: http://csjconferences. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:30:00 +0100 867958 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/3h7ac1o4YL8/ This week’s list of things to watch out for… 1) IFLA world library report – An interactive map showing all sorts of facts and figures about libraries in different countries. 2) ALIA Access blogging – coming soon to an Australian Library Blog near  you…. the ALIA Access 2010 library conference that is happening in Brisbane right now. You can check out the official conference blog, follow the conference on its own Twitter account @ALIAAccess , or search for the hashtag #aliaaccess . 3) ALIA Access #leftbehind Western Australian tweetup – a bunch of us who are enjoying the Perth rain instead of the Brisbane sunshine are getting together tomorrow night to discuss how we aren’t at ALIA Access and don’t need to be when we have each other’s wonderful company.  All librarianly types are welcome. It’s at 7pm tomorrow (Wednesday)  night at Chocolateria San Churro, Leederville. (This is red so people notice it before the tweetup. I may change it to something more seemly after the event). 4) HTML5 This new standard for HTML will allow web browsers to be told how to do backflips and jump thorough hoops that previously third party browser plug-ins handled. Check out what can be done with HTML5 in “The Wilderness Downtown “, an interactive film starring the streetscape where you grew up (if you put in that address at the start). It does lots of neat video tricks and you can check out the HTML5 canvas element when you get an opportunity to write a postcard to … well, you’ll have to watch the film to find that out… 5)  Positive Tweeting in September .  Kat Clancy, Library Web Developer at Deakin University, who gave a great presentation at last week’s VALA meeting about m-libraries had a bright idea last night. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:07:51 +0100 868473 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html#2874479332929077945 I'm working on a re-cap of the K+5, RT5 weekend. And that, not surpisingly, is a lot of stuff to digest, puke into a big post, and then spend the rest of the week culling and rearranging the puke a bit. It's very much like one of those Saints game posts that never make it up until three weeks after the next week's game. (Just in time for football season, right?) Anyway try not to sleep on me in the meantime.Rising Tide 5: Capture the MagicIf you attended the conference and have some impressions or ideas you'd like to share, one thing you can do is visit the RT blog and leave a comment here. But be polite. Some of those kids are kind of sensitive. (Source: Library Chronicles) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868411 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/yoV2LAmymQc/ Late last week you would remember how I put together a blog post where I started collecting a number of the Daily #iPad Apps that I keep sharing across over in Twitter, for those folks who may be potentially interested. Also as a good reference for myself, i.e. as part of my own personal knowledge sharing experience, so that I can keep going back and forth over time and see what I may have shared and what not, just in case I may need it for a future reference. Then, my good friend Barry Leiba mentioned, in the comments, how he would be “interested in reading more about specifically HOW the iPad fundamentally changes your online interactions and experience“. Thus I thought I would go ahead today and put together a blog entry where I could share with folks my top 10 reasons why the iPad has changed my computing habits and overall Internet experience for good with no looking back! It’s going to be a rather interesting experiment, where I am sure I’m going to fall short on words on what it actually means for me, specially when not paying much attention to the tools and applications themselves, but more how I interact with the device. I know that some of those reasons will also surprise a bunch of folks out there who may have a perceived different persona of me than who I actually am, but I think that overall, it will help set the stage as to why I have finally fallen for the iPad as perhaps one of my last mobile devices I will own for a good while. A long one, actually. Thus without much ado, here are My Top 10 Reasons Why I Bought a 3G 64GB iPad, back while I was in Boston, in June, attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference event (Yes, I couldn’t buy one over here in Spain after having visited 18 shops!). ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:29:36 +0100 867964 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/ala-relaunches-website-for-conference-exhibitors/ Since we have many information vendors, publishers, etc. (aka companies you see at conferences) visiting ResourceShelf, a quick post and link to let them know that the American Library Association has relaunched their web site specifically for conference exhibitors. You can access the new site at: http://exhibitors.ala.org/index.shtml There has been no change to the URL. Source: ALA (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:39:01 +0100 867709 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/30/bundesbank-executive-book-race-row Merkel leads calls for Thilo Sarrazin to be sacked over remarks about migrants being 'unfit or unwilling to integrated' into societyThe German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has called for the dismissal from the central bank of a prominent board member who has repeatedly said that Muslim immigrants in Germany are unfit and unwilling to integrate into society.The Bundesbank said that comments made by Thilo Sarrazin in a highly publicised new book were harmful to the bank and violated its code of conduct. It said it would meet with the banker before deciding about his future.Sarrazin has unleashed an impassioned debate about Germany's immigrant population by saying that the behaviour of its members is putting the country under threat.His thesis, set out in a book published today , has stoked the wrath of politicians, and Muslim and Jewish groups, and led to calls for his dismissal from his €230,000 a year (£188,000) Bundesbank post and from the Social Democratic party (SPD).Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said that Sarrazin's remarks had "clearly damaged the national and international standing of the bank" and managers should consider his future.But Sarrazin has received the backing of others who say the former politician is merely outlining issues and concerns about integration that have remained taboo for too long.In Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab, or Germany is Digging its Own Grave, Sarrazin argues that most of the country's immigrants cannot be integrated into society and contribute nothing to it.He also blames foreigners – mainly Germany's Muslim population – for "dumbing down" society. He says that the rate at which Muslim women are reproducing means that Germans may soon become "strangers in their own country".The book is already a bestseller and has prompted comparisons to Geert Wilders, the head of the Dutch far-right Freedom party. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:18:07 +0100 867638 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=7561 With today’s shrinking travel budgets, and realizing that professional development is an essential part a librarian’s continuing education, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region 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 arenas outside our region 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, 30 Aug 2010 15:51:16 +0100 867705 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/UVxrQeJmkmA/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A stream of digital consciousness, originally uploaded by Paul Hagon. My research co-investigator Warren Cheetham shares a link to this photo by Paul Hagon and writes: “Another photo (also by Paul Hagon) from that same conference presentation by Mal, has a line that I try to always keep in mind when planning and thinking about digital library services – “Don’t try to replicate analogue processes”" (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:27:07 +0100 867536 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7686 State: Illinois Job Title: Librarian Job Announcement Number: DE-10-CHI-OTI-0143 Department: U.S. Department of Labor Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) SALARY RANGE: $51,995.00 - $67,589.00 /year OPEN PERIOD: Thursday, August 05, 2010 to Wednesday, August 18, 2010 SERIES & GRADE: GS-1410-09/09 POSITION INFORMATION: This is a full time position. This is a permanent position. DUTY LOCATIONS: 1 vacancy - Chicago Metro Area, IL JOB SUMMARY: Begin a challenging career with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and you will help shape the workforce of tomorrow. DOL offers rewarding opportunities to contribute to a noble mission; to serve and protect American workers, prepare them for new and better jobs, and to ensure the safety and fairness of American workplaces. This position is located: U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration Directorate of Training and Education Office of Training & Educational Programs The incumbent serves as a Librarian for the Office of Training and Educational Programs (OETP) within the OSHA Directorate Training and Education (DTE). OETP manages external training programs and includes the H. Lee Saltsgaver Technical Library and the Resources Center Loan Program. The incumbent is responsible for coordinating and administering all activities related to the Resources Center Loan Program and the H. Lee Saltsgaver Technical Library. This includes monitoring and analyzing the effectiveness of the services, and making recommendations for improvement as appropriate to support the changing emphasis of the Agency and the Directorate. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867351 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7689 State: International The University of Texas at Arlington Job Title Librarian Posting number 10-07-21-01-0100 Job status Open Information: http://utdirect.utexas.edu/pnjobs/index.WBX?comp=1 Check "Professional/Non-faculty" ___ Basic Information Date available 09/01/2010 Position duration Funding expected to continue Position open to all applicants Monthly salary $3333 negotiable depending on qualifications. Hours per week 40.00 Standard from 900AM to 600PM Location Arlington, TX Hiring department Library http://library.uta.edu General notes This is an entry level Science and Engineering Librarian position. Reference desk duty includes one week night, Sunday rotations and occasional holidays. Some instruction includes nights and weekends. Instructions about additional materials to be submitted by all applicants will be provided once you apply. Finalist(s) will be required to give a formal presentation on a library-related topic. Required Application Materials A Resume is required in order to apply. A Letter of Interest is required in order to apply. A List of 3 References is required in order to apply. Additional Information Purpose of position The Science/Engineering Librarian serves as liaison to assigned departments within the Colleges of Science and Engineering; contribute to and supports the Library's mission to foster and promote quality learning, teaching, and research. Essential functions Serves as subject liaison to assigned academic units for promotion and outreach of library services and resources for Science and Engineering disciplines, cultivates partnerships and relationships with faculty, staff and students. Provides general reference while maintaining a service desk area, also provides complex and/or consultative reference and research assistance in assigned subject areas including virtual reference. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867350 http://caslisottawainformation.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-for-submissions-ncr-fall-im-days.html The ARMA NCR Fall conference creates an opportunity for all of the private and public IM functional community to gather, share and learn from each other. This conference will provide the NCR with a chance to discuss “Information Culture.”Information Culture deals with methods, approaches, techniques and contemporary technologies that can be used to influence the way people work. Information Culture: Managing for Today, Preparing for tomorrow will be the place to meet and discuss new ways of ensuring that IM not only remains relevant to clients but that it is also a strong, vibrant domain within the work culture.Submission deadline: Friday September 3rd, 2010. For information on the submission process visit:  Call for Submissions: The NCR Fall IM Days  For more information, please visit www.imdays.ca*Please note the PDF indicates an incorrect submission deadline at the bottom; the correct deadline is the one stated at the beginning - September 3rd* (Source: Special Info) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868167 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3083 Here's a way to spend an enjoyable lunchtime: watch Carl Malamud give his Keynote address "10 Rules for Radicals" to the WWW2010 Conference in Raleigh, NC on April 30, 2010 -- and if you've got more time, you can also watch all of the law.gov workshops over on Carl's Internet governance space at the Internet Archive! Certainly some great rules to live by!! Call everything "an experiment." When the authorities finally fire the starting gun, run as fast as you can. Eyeballs rule. When you achieve your objective, don't be afraid to turn on a dime and be nice. Keep asking, keep rephrasing the question until they *can* say yes. When you get the microphone, make sure you make your point clearly and succinctly. Get standing. one can criticize all one wants, but if you can document malfeasance and wrongdoing, they have to talk to you. Try to get the bureaucrats to threaten you (related to rule 7). Look for over-reaching. Don't be afraid to fail [Thanks BoingBoing!] (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:53:41 +0100 867282 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3082 As many of you know, the Government Printing Office is transcribing their historic paper shelflist into the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP). The paper shelflist was operated from 1880 to 1992. There are over 6,000 records transcribed so far. While listening to the GPO Q&A from the Six State Virtual Conference, I learned that you can view records from the Historic Shelflist by searching the phrase "historic shelflist" in the CGP. Try it. It can be fun to specify a specific year, say 1930 or 1942. Learn more about this project by viewing a webinar titled "The GPO Historic Shelflist Project" presented in May 2010 by Laurie Hall, that is available at the GPO OPAL Archive at http://www.opal-online.org/archivegpo.htm. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:13:10 +0100 867283 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html#1066428744656809896 Also District 2 dismally comes down to Richmond vs Cao. (Dismal is not an unfamiliar modifier for District 2 elections.)At Rising Tide yesterday I got the impression that Richmond's problems may actually be even worse than current information suggests. But I'm still unable to understand exactly why the current information has not received more attention in the so-called mainstream press. Clancy DuBos and Stephanie Grace both seemed to agree that the LSED grants at the heart of the scandal are commonly understood as a poorly managed "slush fund" through which any state legislator can direct money to shell non-profits. But at the same time they both agreed that as long as that is done according to received convention, it isn't anything worth talking about. But if the received convention is tantamount to systemic misuse of funds intended to go into neighborhood programs, isn't that alone worth reporting on? The system appears to suck regardless of whether or not its rules are being followed. (And according to Dambala, they aren't.) Why should political reporters let that go unchallenged? Even more depressing is the wholly predictable event that a story these outlets have sat on throughout the primary will become fair game in the general election. And I'm sure we'll hear a lot about how well liked Joe Cao is to boot. Frankly I think Cao is a little weird, myself.On Friday morning, a contingent of Rising Tide attendees participated in a volunteer event at the Second Harvest Food Bank where they helped assemble food packages to be distributed to families in coastal Louisiana. Cousin Pat attempts to properly orient a package of paper towels for inclusion in a food box as the sounds of Steve Perry vocals serenade the crowd exactly the way a seal being clubbed to death might. It was a hot hot day outside at the warehouse and the packing was preceded by a near hour long press conference through which the volunteers patiently stood and waited in the heat. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868416 http://newslib.blogspot.com/2010/08/extra-aside-bar-from-editor.html The immediacy of a blog makes the subject of this post seem a little outdated, but we'd normally be addressing the SLA conference in New Orleans in the Summer issue and I didn't want it to go unmentioned.My SLA experience was largely colored by the fact that I was wheelchair-bound thanks not to a parachuting accident but sheer clumsiness the week before. A special thanks to Amy Disch for helping me get around, as well as the random librarians I met along the way who volunteered to help push me here and there.This year, the sessions to me seemed more informative than full of whiz-bang ideas to take back to your shop. Not that this is a bad thing; I still learned a lot.The conference really started up Sunday night with the annual News Division Silent Auction and Networking Reception -- if you could find it. Just like rumors on the internet, news researchers had to separate tales of the real room number from the false reports. We thought we could just follow the noise, but with fewer of us present than in years past, we had to get to the right floor first. Then, the fun began and the goodies were bidded upon and won.Bright and early on Monday, at Reality Check: Adapting to changes in media and dissemination, Angie Holan told us about Politifact.com and then Marcus Zillman told us about his bots and deep web research. Later, Tom Corbett, executive director of Cushing Academy's library, discussed how his facility went all-electronic at The All-Digital School Library: Managing Electronic Resources.I moderated Evolving Roles: Conversations in the Round, a session co-sponsored with the Knowledge Management Division. Karen Huffman of the National Geographic Society, Cindy Hill of Hill Information Consulting Group, Jessica Baumgart (lately of Needle) and I all discussed how the role of librarian has changed over time and what we see for its future. We also took questions from the audience and had a great discussion. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867817 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/pEIoKgxoq9w/web_2_summit_points_of_control_the_map.php (Cross posted from the Web 2 Summit Blog...) As themes for conferences go, Points of Control is one of our favorites. Our industry over the past year has been driven by increasingly direct conflicts between its major players: Apple has emerged as a major force in mobile and advertising platforms; Google is fighting off Microsoft in search, Apple in mobile and Facebook in social; and Facebook itself finds itself on the defensive against Twitter and scores of location startups like Foursquare. Nor are the Internet’s biggest players the only ones in the game – the rise of tablet computing has revived nearly every major hardware and handset manufacturer, and the inevitable march of online payment and commerce has roused the financial services giants as well. You know we’re in interesting times when American Express is considered an insurgent in its own industry. The narrative is so rich, it struck us that it lends itself to a visualization – a map outlining these points of control, replete with incumbents and insurgents – those companies who hold great swaths of strategic territory, and those who are attempting to gain ground, whether they be startups or large companies moving into new ground. Inspired in part by board games like Riskor Stratego, and in part by the fantastic and fictional lands of authors like Tolkien and Swift, we set out to create at least an approximation of our industry’s vibrant economy. (And yes, we give a hat tip to the many maps out there in our own industry, like this one for social networks.) *Ed note, I am also indebted to the late night jam session I had with a bunch of pals in my garage...you know who you are...* The result of our initial efforts is pictured above, you can go to the complete map here. We very much consider this to be “for your consideration,” an initial sketch of sorts, a conversation piece that we hope will garner a bit of your cognitive surplus. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867272 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/29/david-grossman-israel-hezbollah-interview The Israeli writer discusses his novel To the End of the Land, a memorial to his son who was killed while serving in the army, and why he remains an opponent of his country's policy towards the PalestiniansIn May 2003, David Grossman, one of Israel's most celebrated novelists, began writing a new book. It was to be about what the Israelis euphemistically call "the Situation", which was a little odd because, for the past decade, he'd carefully avoided writing about politics, in his stories, if not his journalism. It was not just that he'd long felt that almost anything he could say had already been said by one side or the other. There was the danger that such a story, even in his deft hands, would be creaky and polemical. Now, though, he felt suddenly that he couldn't not write about it. Grossman's eldest son, Yonatan, was six months from completing his military service and his younger son, Uri, was 18 months from beginning it. His feelings about this – in Israel, men serve three years – were so acute, it seemed they would push the pen over the paper for him.The story came quickly. It would be about a middle-aged woman, Ora, whose son, Ofer, only just released from army service, has voluntarily returned to the frontline for an offensive against one of Israel's many enemies. Ora, having moved from celebration to renewed fearfulness in a matter of hours, is in danger of losing her mind. She has no idea how she will get through the next weeks or months. Then, in a fit of magical thinking, it comes to her. She will mount a pre-emptive strike of her own. She will simply go away, absent herself from her home and her life. That way, she reasons, she will not be there when the army "notifiers" come to tell her of her son's death. And if she is not there, perhaps he will not die. ... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:03:46 +0100 866782 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/aug/28/will-self-bigness-and-littleness As a child, Will Self collected doll's house furniture, trolls and miniature dictionaries. In later life, he has come to have a special admiration for artists whose work addresses size and scale – and transcends the Lilliputian character of the modern ageSome time in the summer of 1992 I sat down in a four-square and fusty house that my then wife and I were renting in the Oxfordshire countryside and typed these words: "Some people lose their sense of proportion, I've lost my sense of scale." Over the succeeding five days I wrote a section a day of a piece called simply "Scale". Its ostensible subject was the mental disintegration of an opiate-addicted scholar living in a bungalow next to the Bekonscot Model Village in Beaconsfield – and this had obvious autobiographical resonances; but the organising principle of the material was the very perceptual conundrum implied by the opening line. Indeed, while like most writers I mistrust any romantic talk of "inspiration", even at the time I felt that "Scale" was coming to me with a peculiarly deductive fluidity, that each successive sentence seemed logically to derive from that initial and perplexing proposition.Eighteen years later I find myself on the brink of publishing a second work owing its genesis to my abiding preoccupation with the very big and the very little. The first part of a trilogy of fictionalised memoirs collectively called Walking to Hollywood, this piece, in fact, has the title "Very Little", and while seemingly a flight of – admittedly miserable – fantasy, detailing my destructive relationship with a monumental sculptor who happens to be a person of restricted height, it is in reality as close to a true piece of autobiography as anything I've written.Why should physical scale so preoccupy me? The most obvious explanation is that I myself am on the large side, as are most of the men from my family. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:05:35 +0100 866292 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/28/being-wrong-kathryn-schulz-review Stuart Jeffries is cheered by a writer who sees a social value in our habit of mucking things upOne day in 1972, Village Voice journalist Ross Gelbspan attended a press conference. It was being held to promote a book called The Limits to Growth, which postulated that, because of increasing population and pollution and diminishing resources, our future world would be a place where no one would want to live. During the conference, Gelbspan was struck by the happy sight of one of the book's co-authors, Donella Meadows. How heartening, he thought, that despite her book's grim prognostications, she was pregnant. He went back to the office and typed up a story about how there was some hope amid the gloom, symbolised by Meadows's swollen belly. His editors liked the story so much they put it on the front page.There was only one problem: Meadows wasn't pregnant. As I write this, I can feel blood rushing to my face in empathetic embarrassment. Even today, nearly 40 years after the error and almost a decade after Meadows's death, Gelbspan is still mortified. At the time, he wanted to die. However, let's snatch optimism from Gelbspan's understandable anguish. As Aristotle wrote in the Ethics, it is not good to feel shame – since it is bad to have done something one should feel ashamed of – but to do something wrong and not feel shame is a sign of wickedness. In an increasingly shameless world, Gelbspan's authentic distress is a sweet sign that not everything about us is going wrong.In this lovely book about human mistakes the sickeningly young, forbiddingly clever and vexingly wise American journalist Kathryn Schulz doesn't cite Aristotle, but he is a kindred spirit. Where Aristotle saw the value in a painful, ostensibly demeaning emotion, Schulz argues passionately for the value of error. The experience of being wrong, she argues, helps to make us better people, with richer lives.We have all sensed the shame of being publicly wrong. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:05:24 +0100 866301 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/08/27/the-2010-north-central-region-sustainable-agriculture-research-and-education-program-ncr-sare-youth-youth-educator-grant-call-for-proposals-is-now-available/ These grants are a part of the Farmer Rancher Grant Program. Their purpose is to provide opportunities for youth in the North Central Region to learn more about Sustainable Agriculture.  Sustainable agriculture is good for the environment, profitable, and socially responsible. A total of approximately $34,000 is available for this program. There are two options: 1. YOUTH GRANTS. These grants are for on-farm research, demonstration, or education projects by youth ages 8-18. Research and demonstration projects are for hands-on efforts to explore Sustainable Agriculture issues and practices. Education projects can involve teaching others about Sustainable Agriculture or attending a Sustainable Agriculture conference, workshop, or camp. $400 maximum. 2. YOUTH EDUCATOR GRANTS. These are grants for educators to provide programming on sustainable agriculture for youth. $2,000 maximum. Interested applicants can find the call for proposals online as well as useful information for completing a proposal at http://www.sare.org/NCRSARE/cfp.htm. Proposals are due by 4:30 pm, Friday, January 14, 2011 at the NCR-SARE office in Jefferson City, MO. Potential applicants with questions can contact Joan Benjamin, Associate Regional Coordinator and Farmer Rancher Grant Program Coordinator, at benjaminj@lincolnu.edu or 573-681-5545 or 800-529-1342 or contact Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant, Illinois SARE Coordinator, cvnghgrn@illinois.edu, 217-968-5512. For information about Illinois SARE funded projects, http://web.extension.illinois.edu/smallfarm/sare/ A hard copy or an emailed copy of the call for proposals is also available by contacting Joan Benjamin. We make slight revisions to our calls for proposals each year, which means it is crucial to use the most recent call for proposals. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:45:30 +0100 866466 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/article-note-on-when-eric-is-useful.html Citation for the article:Corby, Kate, "When is ERIC Useful? A Background and Current Overview of the Education Resources Information Center." The Reference Librarian 50.2 (2009): 137-149.   Read via Interlibrary Loan. This article updates and supplements the previous article I read on the topic, which discussed alternatives to ERIC. I still teach EBSCO's Education Research Complete as the primary database for education research, but I do mention ERIC mostly as a supplement and for its thesaurus. Let me mention another small update note after I wrote the note for the other article: We finally acquired Web of Science for the library. It's amazing what the threat of losing or not getting accreditation (or reaffirmation, which is the new term) does for money to suddenly appear for library development and enhancement. I am being perfectly honest and blunt in this case: were it not for that, we would not have been able to purchase WoS. Now my job is promoting more use of WoS for the education faculty as well and discovering all it can do for us in terms of education research. I like having options, but I digress. In the other article, I do discuss some tips for teaching research in education that are very applicable and relevant, so those of you who do instruction may want to go and look at the other link.Getting back to Corby's article, we get an overview of ERIC and its current condition. The article starts by providing an overview of ERIC's development history and design. ERIC was created to bring education research, which was being done all over the nation, under one roof. This is where the clearinghouses structure came in at first. ERIC also developed the Document Reproduction Service (EDRS), which served to provide those microfiche sets that some libraries still have (we still have our set, but I am not sure for how long since there is some pressure to weed it out. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:11:00 +0100 866510 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/27/madam-justice-fran-kiteley-to-keynote/ The organizing committee of the 2010 ODR and Consumers Conference to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia Nov. 2-3, 2010 is pleased to announce that Madam Justice Frances Kiteley will be a keynote speaker at the Conference. Madam Justice Kiteley: Co-Chair since 2006 of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (which she joined in 2005) and member of  the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Prior to her elevation to the bench, Madam Justice Kiteley was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1976;  she was in private practice in Toronto for 19 years and was elected as a Bencher of the Law Society in 1987 and 1991. In 1995 she was appointed to what is now the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario. Justice Kiteley had been involved in the Toronto Electronic Filing Pilot Project which planned, developed, implemented and maintained the first electronic filing end-to-end system in a court in Canada; she was also a member of the Ontario E-filing Implementation Committee which was involved in planning, developing and implementing pilot projects intended to lead to province-wide electronic filing. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:04:40 +0100 867042 http://libraryassessment.info/?p=575 clipped from www.arl.org Library Assessment Career Achievement Award Call for Nominations Washington DC—At the 2008 Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, Amos Lakos, Shelley Phipps, and Duane Webster were honored with the Library Assessment Career Achievement Award for their contributions to furthering the practice of effective, practical, and sustainable library assessment. They were recognized for their instrumental roles in articulating the culture of assessment and in moving the Association of Research Libraries to a leadership role in supporting the library assessment community. We are now soliciting nominations for the 2010 award which will be given at the Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore this October. The criteria are simple:   (Source: libraryassessment.info) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:01:48 +0100 866663 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/08/new_but_experie.php by Beth Wrenn-Estes I hope you will support me in my efforts to be elected to the California Library Association (CLA) board of directors. I want to share my leadership and organizational skills and to keep CLA a viable organization representing our member's needs. In order for the organization to weather the current economic storms in our profession a strong leadership team needs to be in place. CLA must remain responsive to the changing times if they are to keep our membership community working on common challenges and goals. CLA has professional lobbyists representing our issues to the state legislature but even more important are the efforts to continuously work to provide training and tools to grassroots advocates throughout the state. In order for the organization to weather the current changes and economic storms in our profession a strong leadership team needs to be in place. CLA must remain responsive to the changing times if they are to keep our library community together working for common goals. Providing quality membership services and programs is a critical area that CLA has and must continue to concentrate on. The annual conference serves as a centerpiece for quality professional development programs and networking opportunities for attendees. CLA leadership must continue to look for the most efficient and effective ways to manage the day-to-day operations of the organization (staff). My experience in management gives me skills and knowledge to use in this area of leadership as well. I am the new kid on the block having only moved to Northern CA from Colorado in November of 2008 but being the new kid gives me the advantage of looking at issues with "new" eyes. I was deeply involved in my state library association in Colorado (Colorado Association of Libraries - CAL) and know the power that a state library association can have with strong leadership and solid membership base. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:27:35 +0100 867929 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/08/we_not_me_us_no.php by Dave Tyckoson When I talk to people about the California Library Association, I am usually asked two questions: What's in it for me? What are they doing for us? This type of thinking is natural - when you join an organization you expect to get something in return. The California Library Association (CLA) is no exception - and membership can be expensive, especially for those of us fortunate to be making a good salary. However, CLA is not a me/they organization, it is an us/we organization. We get out of CLA what we put into CLA. It is the collective value of all of us as representatives of all different kinds of libraries that gives CLA its organizational strength. And it is participation by librarians of all types that is essential to that success. CLA is the one library organization in the state that represents all California libraries. It is the voice of libraries throughout the state -- public, academic, school, and special. The more libraries and types of libraries included in CLA, the better CLA can represent them - to the public, to the legislature, and to the media. In order for CLA to be successful, it needs to embrace all of the libraries and librarians in the state - including you. You get out of CLA what you put into CLA. And CLA provides a number of opportunities for you to get involved: Participate in CLA Snapshot Day. On October 4, libraries throughout the state will collect statistical data, stories, and images that demonstrate how they serve their communities. CLA staff will use that data to calculate the monetary value of those libraries. The more that participate, the better the data. Attend the CLA annual conference. The 2010 conference is a joint meeting with the California School Librarians Association, providing an excellent opportunity to share and learn from our colleagues in the K-12 environment. Come to Sacramento in November! Learn something new from the programs and exhibits at the conference. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:12:59 +0100 867930 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2372 Save this date if you’re planning to be in New Orleans next June for the ALA Annual Conference. Saturday, June 25th Library Juice Press, possibly with one or more other groups, will be hosting a party of some kind. What to call it? It will be more lively than a reception or a meet-and-greet, but less wild than some of the things viewed on public computer terminals. Doesn’t this French quarter penthouse look like a good place for a party? Please contact me if you’re with a group that has similar interests and would like to co-host our … maybe it should be a cocktail party? 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Register for Free The interview will focus on “Google Editions,” Google’s forthcoming new service that will allow users to buy digital copies of books they discover through Google’s book search, and enable book retailers to sell Google Editions through their own sites and share in the revenue from e-book sales. The foundation and distinction of Google Editions versus other online e-bookstores is its “cloud-based” platform, which provides consumers who purchase books with an “electronic bookshelf,” so they can access their books anytime, anywhere, from a variety of electronic devices, via the Internet. Nelson also will share his perspectives on the future of the book industry, among other important issues surrounding a shifting industry in which Google has been a dominant player. To reserve your front-row seat (@ your desk), sign up today Date … Thursday, September 16, 2010 Time … 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. (Also available later on-demand) Where … Your Computer – It’s Virtual Cost … $0 – It’s Free Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:34:40 +0100 866101 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=38437 Better Financial Management for Travel and Conferences Needed at DHS Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General (via U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security (GOP) oday, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report entitled “Audit of the Department of Homeland Security’s Handling of Conference Fees for the Process Control Systems Forum.” The Office of Inspector General report reveals that during FY2005 through 2007 the Department of Homeland Security inappropriately collected conference fees to defray the official costs of conferences it sponsored, which violated the law in effect at the time. In addition to illegally collecting fees, the Department failed to turn over those fees to the U.S. Treasury. The Department must now turn over that money to the Treasury and explain to Congress how its financial management system allowed these practices. The Committee on Homeland Security has held several hearings on the lack of controls in the Department’s financial management system including its travel practices. In December 19, 2009, a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight revealed that during FY2005-2007, the Department spent over $100 million on conference-related activities without the necessary internal controls, policies, or systems in place to assure adequate transparency and accountability. + Full Report (PDF) (Source: Docuticker) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:03:10 +0100 866098 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/27/humanities-mobile-the-man-booker-prize-for-fiction-now-has-its-own-free-iphonepadtouch-app/ Yes, even the world famous Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been bitten by the “app bug” has just released its own FREE iPhone/Pad/Touch app. More info (and links) about the prize itself are located below. From the Description: The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. Explore the full history of the prize, with access to authors, book titles and judges for each year the prize has been awarded. Expand your experience of the titles by watching specially created videos, listen to audio extracts and read Q&A interviews with the authors. The app will be updated at every stage of the prize and will provide easy access to everything related to the prize. You’ll also notice that GPS can be used to find a local bookshop. You can read more about it and download a copy of the app here. See Also: Official News Release This year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 7 September at a press conference at Man Group’s London headquarters. The winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 will be revealed on Tuesday 12 October at a dinner at London’s Guildhall and will be broadcast on the BBC Ten O’Clock News. Learn More About the Award via the Man Booker Prize Web Site From the FAQ: Any full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the United Kingdom for the first time in the year of the prize. The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation) and must not be self-published. If many pundits are correct and self-publishing grows market share to a certain percentage you have to wonder if those who run the award will remove the self-published restriction. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:19:27 +0100 866123 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html#4956903109471460212 Another Katrinaversary is upon us and with that comes, of course, a fair amount of heavy personal reflection for everyone. In a city of rituals, it's no surprise that a multitude of public happenings are planned around this time of year to commemorate the events of five years ago that changed everyone's lives. One such ritual happening I've become accustomed to attending is the Rising Tide new media conference which drops tomorrow morning at the Howling Wolf. (Yes, the very same "hallowed ground" which recently hosted the Airsex Championship. I hope we can come together as a nation and forgive RT for presuming to build their event there after all that venue has been through.)The conference aspires to foster the opportunity internet media presents to citizens to better inform themselves and one another about the challenges their community faces. The front page of the Rising Tide website readsWe come together to dispel myths, promote facts, highlight progress and regress, discuss recovery ideas, and promote sound policies at all levels. We aim to be a "real life" demonstration of internet activism as we continue to recover from a massive failure of government on all levels.I very much like that little block of text. It says an informed, engaged public can debunk and overcome damaging untruths which emerge either through general laziness or from powerful institutional malefactors. This is, in my opinion, the very best of what internet media offers us. And, as everyone living in New Orleans for the past five years should know, that tool can often seem like a Godsend.In a recent Times-Picayune column Jarvis DeBerry described New Orleanians' fanatic obsession with dispelling myths. It’s simple, really: We stand up for ourselves. We stand up because often the criticisms of this place seem as misinformed as they are unrelenting. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868417 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/digital-curation-conference.html 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10) will take place 6 - 8 December 2010, in Chicago. The main theme of this event is “Participation & Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade”. According to the conference’s website: “Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital data throughout the lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship”. For more information please visit this site. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866476 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/event-archiving-2011.html Received via email...IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.  The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010.  A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving.The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2011 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the October 17th deadline. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866457 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/7QejuYeFXUg/event-archiving-2011.html Received via email...IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.  The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010.  A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving.The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2011 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the October 17th deadline. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866369 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/live-blogging-2nd-library-link.html My session on e-books and e-reading at the 2nd Library Link Conference at the Filipinas Heritage Library commenced at 9:10 AM this morning. Around thirty five participants from various libraries attended the three-day conference. I've presented the roles and functions that libraries and librarians play; shown a video clip on the publishing and its possible demise; and grouped the participants for (Source: School Librarian in Action) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866312 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/live-blogging-2nd-library-link_27.html The three hour session I conducted earlier has come to a close. We're enjoying lunch now and light conversations fleet from one person to the next. The conference is spearheaded by the Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL) focusing on preservation of library resources. Seeing that e-books and e-readers are new formats of library resources, they included these topics for this year's conference. The (Source: School Librarian in Action) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866311 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16746 Web4lib folks, The full schedule for the edUi 2010 conference was announced yesterday. http://edui.vfhblogs.org/program/ If you're not familiar with this event, it's a conference on web design, user experience design and web programming specifically geared for web professionals working with large institutions like higher ed, museums and libraries. It takes place November 8-9 in Charlottesville VA and features a stellar list of speakers from all over the world. Here are just a few: Paul Boag - Boagworld podcast & Headscape Michael Stoner - mStoner Stephanie Sullivan - W3Conversions Greg Rewis - Adobe David Berman - Author of Do Good Design Nick DeNardis - dotEduGuru & edu Checkup Alistair MacDonald - Processing.js -Trey Begin Forwarded Message: Don't See The Images? Visit:http://www.virginiafoundation.org/enewsletter/edui/2010/schedule.html edUi 2010 Conference November 8-9 Charlottesville, VA [http://eduiconf.org] ___________________________________________________________________________ A learning (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866247 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/26/more-on-the-recent-dialog-proquest-launch-proquest-platform-preview-by-paula-hane/ The other day we posted an item (including a video, FAQ’s, Screencasts, etc.) about the first release of the new Dialog ProQuest platform. This release is intended for pharmaceutical and biomedical researchers in corporate and government organizations. Of course, much more is on the way. Now online (free) is an in-depth and fact-rich Info Today NewsBreak article by Paula Hane, Information Today’s news bureau chief and the editor of NewsBreaks. It’s titled, “ProQuest Dialog Begins New Platform Rollout; New ProQuest Platform Begins Preview Period.” You’ll read about the release earlier this week, how the new product was designed, what it hopes to providers users with, and future plans. The article includes comments from expert Dialog searchers Amelia Kassel and Marydee Ojala, who also is the editor of Online and conference planner of WebSearch University. Both were on an expert panel that advised Dialog ProQuest You’ll also here from several executives at Dialog and ProQuest including: + Lynn Christie, VP of product management, Dialog + Lynda James-Gilboe, senior VP, marketing and customer care, ProQuest + Bipin Patel, CIO, ProQuest Two images, one showing the user interface and the other showing a results page, are included. Paula was able to demo the new service. Here are a couple of her reactions to it: While I’m not a pharmaceutical searcher, I did enjoy trying some searches and playing with the interface. It was easy to just click and go—very intuitive and it offered fast response times. One of the limiters to narrow results is a date range option displayed as a bar chart. Hovering over one of the years displays the number of records available in that time frame. Drag the slider to change the time frame. Cool. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:25:32 +0100 865866 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15551 Director (Yazoo Library Association, Yazoo City, Mississippi) Director Yazoo Library Association B. S. Ricks Memorial Library 310 North Main Street Yazoo City, MS 39194 662-746-5586 The Administrative Board of Trustees of the Yazoo Library Association’s B. S. Ricks Memorial Library is seeking a creative and innovative Director who can blend traditional library services with the technology needs required by our citizens. Yazoo City is situated in Yazoo County, the Gateway to the Mississippi Delta. Named for a preeminent turn of the 20th century local entrepreneur, the B. S. Ricks Memorial Library is a 1901 Beaux Arts building that is also on the National Register of Historic Places. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:01 +0100 865542 http://kairosnews.org/cfp-association-of-teachers-of-technical All,   As the 2011 conference chair, I am pleased to share with you the call for proposals for the 14th annual conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Like previous ATTW conferences, the 2011 conference will be held on the Wednesday immediately preceding the start of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Atlanta, GA. That date is Wednesday, April 6th.   The theme for the 2011 conference is Networks of Technical Communication. The CFP is available at http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jswarts/ATTW_2011.html . I hope you find the theme as compelling as I do and that you will consider submitting a proposal by October 8, 2010.    If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at jswarts [at] ncsu [dot] edu.   Sincerely,   Jason Swarts  (Source: Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:24:37 +0100 866462 http://www.springerlink.com/content/k3p7m12617446865/ Introduction to special issue on the second international conference on the theory of information retrieval Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s10791-010-9142-8Authors Leif Azzopardi, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UKDawei Song, School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UKGabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, UKStephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, UKStefan Rüger, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UKMilad Shokouhi, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, UKEmine Yilmaz, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Journal Information RetrievalOnline ISSN 1573-7659Print ISSN 1386-4564 (Source: SpringerLink - Journal) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:16:09 +0100 867441 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/7U_PVsBnJNA/ JUst before going away on holiday, I popped up a questionnaire asking for a little help working out what sort of impact – if any – I had on folk that could weave in to my promotion case for support… Thanks to all who took the time out to reply (it was very humbling:-) Anyway, for what it’s worth, here’s a draft of the Case for Support, which I need to submit tomorrow. Whilst I haven’t been able to add direct quotes from the questionnaire responses – the word limit is set at 1500 words – your responses did inform what I wrote: some of the words are very heavily loaded and more densely packed, on occasion summarising whole responses… Tony Hirst – Case for promotion to Senior Lecturer My case for promotion is based around excellence in teaching and scholarship, with a strong theme of digital scholarship and community engagement. Teaching & contributions to the teaching system I have chaired three courses (production and presentation), and authored on four others, pushing the elearning agenda through technology and design innovation with a view to reuse. In 2000, I developed two units for T396 delivered via a novel electronic study guide, providing a unified browser-based interface to online, offline and CD-ROM content, and a mobile website for course alerts. This work identified issues relating to authoring content specifically for browser based delivery on desktop and mobile devices that have informed my work ever since. A major feature of my approach to the production of teaching materials relates to supporting reuse in other contexts. Whilst writing online material for the T184 robotics course, I commissioned several interactive browser-based activities that have been reused on courses such as TXR174, as well as for outreach. Using T184 software, I developed a range of activities for schools and OU regional Aim Higher/Widening Participation initiatives. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:55:39 +0100 866539 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/YPnksfi09xU/alao-conference-registration-open.html From the ALAO list serv, registration is now open for the 36th Annual ALAO Conference!Register now for the Academic Library Association of Ohio’s 36th Annual Conference, Academic Libraries: Now and Tomorrow.On Friday, October 29, 2010 join colleagues from Ohio and adjoining states for a conference which offers unique opportunities for learning and networking.Stephen Abram, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Markets for Gale Cengage, is the featured speaker for the program. His message will be followed by an exciting array of programs, presentations and poster sessions provided by library innovators from Ohio and beyond.There will also be a full complement of vendor exhibits.The conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Columbus North, 6500 Doubletree Avenue in Columbus. The location is near the intersection of I-71 and I-270 North.Please visit the conference web site for more details, hotel and registration information. Registration is $80 ($30 for graduate students) until September 17. Registrations received after September 17 will be $100. The registration deadline is October 15. -- Rocki Strader, ALAO President (8/24/10) (Source: Library Cloud) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:39:00 +0100 866420 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogjunction/~3/HEgMtpEWgF0/ Learn Better Together – Discover the potential of  cohort-based learning You’ve heard the saying, “two heads are better than one.”  As we all take the journey as life-long continuous learners, this statement rings ever true. Earlier this month, Betha and I had the opportunity to explore this idea of learning together for the joint conference for Pacific Northwest Library Association & Washington Library Association. During our session (sponsored by WLA/WALT),  Learn Better Together – Discover the potential of cohort-based learning, we introduced some of the characteristics of cohort-based learning: Learners move together through a program/event. Learners form a group identity and engage the power of relationships. Learners are active, not passive. Learners take control of their learning. We then shared 4 examples of successful cohort-based learning.  Roddenbery Memorial Library led a Library Internet Skills Cohort working to increase knowledge and use of the Internet and social media tools. The Arizona State Library facilitated a leadership skills cohort – Arizona Library Institute, Virtual Extension (ALIVE!),  a leadership program to help front line staff excel in their job at the public library  A group of librarians led the Kansas Web Conference Groupies Cohort – leveraging the 2010 Handheld Librarian Online Conference from their offices and with others in their state. WebJunction led web-conferencing and self-paced course creation cohorts helping WebJunction admins maximize the tools they had available. Diving into a new idea or technology with others on your immediate team, in other branches or within your state is a great way to harness existing motivation and light the fire of excitement for others who aren’t quite  sure what the fuss is all about. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:17:09 +0100 867275 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/tY6t2mLNMro/ From Michael: Christoph Deeg of the Zukunftwerkstatt in Germany agreed to do a guest post for me outlining the origins and philosophies of this group. I spent an incredible day with the group in Berlin – and learned so much from them.  I was honored to be asked to participate as a founding member last March and am pleased Christoph agreed to write for TTW – in English! The Zukunftwerkstatt Kultur- und Wissensvermittlung e.V. is a non-profit-organisation that brings people together who are active in public institutions or private enterprises dealing with future possibilities of mediating of cultural and scientific topics. It is the aim of our organisation to develop and realize concepts that will make knowledge society come true.  We are open to people and their ideas and consider ourselves mediators between institutions, enterprises, people and products, while not pursuing any financial interests. We are guided by the desire to find and support people of vision who believe – as we do – that cooperation at all levels will unfold new and exciting possibilities for all participants and hence for all customers or users. Dividing lines between learning and playing, between education and entertainment are breaking down. New virtual worlds and leisure time options are evolving. Interaction, multi-optional, individual and global communication systems are gaining ground. Negotiation and utilization of knowledge in the fields of science and culture will become essential. If we acknowledge the overall scheme of things, a new means in communication will emerge with new networks and unique possibilities of cooperation: Users will gain global access to cultural and scientific subject matter. Enterprises and institutions, if cooperating closely, will gain access to millions of interested, creative and openminded users and customers. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:12:12 +0100 865822 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html#7696115699950770898 New Orleans, LA – As required by the Louisiana Supreme Court, the New Orleans Police Department is issuing a public advisory regarding a sobriety checkpoint that will be conducted.The New Orleans Police Department’s Traffic Division will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Thursday, August 26, 2010, in the Algiers area, beginning at approximately 9:00 P.M., and concluding approximately 5:00 A.M. Motorists will experience minimal delays and should have proper documentation, i.e., proof of insurance, and a valid driver’s license if requested.The New Orleans Police Department would like to, as always remind motorists to drink responsibly and use a designated driver.H/T RickIf anyone is interested in asking the Chief why he favors this policy of peppering the city with Stasi checkpoints, you will have an excellent opportunity to do so during the Public Safety Panel at this Saturday's Rising Tide Conference. Yes you can still register (Only $25). If it doesn't sell out, it's $30 at the door. (Source: Library Chronicles) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866017 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=38441 New GAO Report and Presentations (PDFs) Source: Government Accountability Office 25 August 2010 + Report 1. Federal Contracting: Opportunities Exist to Increase Competition and Assess Reasons When Only One Offer Is Received – + Presentations By The Acting Comptroller General 1. “Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment,” by Gene L. Dodaro, acting comptroller general, before the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers, and Treasurers 2. “Challenges Facing Government and the Contracting Community,” by Gene L. Dodaro, acting comptroller general, before the 2010 annual conference of the National Association of State Procurement Officials, in Washington, D.C. (Source: Docuticker) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:44:45 +0100 865803 http://www.lisnews.org/keynote_speech_aall_2010_r_david_lankes Many people have watched the "Obligations and Opportunities" presentation by R David Lankes that is on LISNEWS here. Mr. Lankes was the keynote speaker at the AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) conference this year. Here is his keynote: Turn Right at the Obelisk from R. David Lankes on Vimeo. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:41:00 +0100 865579 http://lisnews.org/keynote_speech_aall_2010_r_david_lankes Many people have watched the "Obligations and Opportunities" presentation by R David Lankes that is on LISNEWS here. Mr. Lankes was the keynote speaker at the AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) conference this year. Here is his keynote: Turn Right at the Obelisk from R. David Lankes on Vimeo. (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:41:00 +0100 865296 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/08/presidents_colu_12.php It's almost September - and across California the change of seasons is beginning to show in the turning of green leaves into gold and brown, the slight hint of chill in the air - and in the harmonies of high schoolers fresh from their second week of school singing show tunes below the open library windows. That's right, steam punk-edged high-schoolers and "Les Miserables" - singing their hearts out and providing a memorable respite at the dwindling end of a very busy day. These days I actively seek out these moments of light, joy and grace - mostly unexpected and always a call to be present - in the midst of our depressed economies, continued unemployment, rising cuts and increasing community divisions. Life seems so much harder now, for so many - and what we do, everyday, in our places of work, wherever they are, illuminates a path and guides a myriad of ways for our communities. The shelter of libraries of all types (public, school, academic, law, special), the solace of words on a page, or sung full-voiced to a tune dancing invisibly in the air, the sustenance of an answer found and a connection affirmed, a smile and a nod that says "Welcome" - I treasure these moments and am proud to be in a profession, and a professional association, that supports and sustains our state through literacy, learning, sharing and community development - one person at a time. For the past eight months of my Presidency, I have had the honor and privilege to work with a tremendous Board, hard-working and creative volunteers on committees, interest groups and CALTAC, and a staff that is eager to serve and grow CLA for the future. Together, we have learned a lot and worked towards a positive and forward-looking approach for CLA. We have faced external challenges, survived transition and seized remarkable opportunities. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:32:56 +0100 867936 http://circandserve.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/ Every story comes to an end.  I haven’t been posting much at all because life and work have totally trumped blogging. I wish I could have found more time to write about the library-related thoughts that have been swirling around in my head these past few months, but I just didn’t have it in me.  For this reason, and another that I shall reveal in a moment, I have decided to end Circ & Serve.  I really feel strongly about ending something once it feels like it is over, and really with the lack of new content here, this is over. The other reason behind this decision:  I am very pleased to announce that I have accepted the position as Assistant Dean of the University Library at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.  I begin my new position there on October 1st.  My last day at NCSU Libraries is September 3rd. This was a difficult decision to make as I have enjoyed my time at NCSU.  The four years I’ve spent here have been an incredible learning experience.  I learned something every day from every person I had the good fortune to work alongside.  It is an incredible library and I will always be grateful for the opportunities I had while here. I am tremendously excited about joining the library at Pacific.  I loved everything I felt and saw while there.  The campus community is incredible.  The library is doing fantastic work and is committed to providing the best services possible to students, faculty, staff and the community.  My new colleagues have gone out of their way in making me feel welcome and I can’t wait to begin collaborating with them. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:30:53 +0100 865132 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/aug/25/orombi-rowan-uganda-religion-anglicanism Rowan Williams speaks to the African Anglican bishops: not exactly truth to powerThe Archbishop of Canterbury's presence in Kampala is an occasion for diplomacy. His host, Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda, has gone further than almost any other senior Anglican in formally denouncing him as a heretic. The Ugandan church is deeply implicated in a bill that would introduce the death penalty for homosexuals. Homophobia is here a recognised tool in church intrigues: Pastor Robert Kayanja, one of the most successful prosperity gospel preachers in Kampala was last year accused of being gay by rivals who kidnapped and may have tortured one of his assistants to prove this. Yet the links between Ugandan and English churches are close and in some cases personal. The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, was born there, and only came here as a refugee from Idi Amin's tyranny. In fact Robert Kayanja, the accused pentecostal preacher, is his half brother. Sandy Millar, the founder of the Alpha Course, and the epitome of an upper-class Anglicised Scot, was consecrated as a missionary bishop in the Church of Uganda when he retired as rector of Holy Trinity Brompton. That gesture looked at the time like a parking of tanks on Rowan's lawn, but Orombi's view is that liberals have no lawns. "[The] Time is now for 'African Anglicanism' to rise up and begin to bring fresh life in 'the ailing global Anglicanism'" He said: "The potentials represented today in this conference must be free to go to Europe and America with 'fresh wine' from 'new wine skins' to the mother church desperate for the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. I say 'the Church in Africa' must rise up. Shake off your fears, shame and superficial dependency. Take hold of this God-given opportunity and use it to his glory. Preach the gospel, evangelise and extend the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:30:00 +0100 865472 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-for-proposals-academic-librarian.html Call for Proposals: Academic Librarian Lightning Round! Innovative New Roles, ALA Annual Conference 2011CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALSThe University Libraries and College Libraries Sections invite proposals for our 2011 ALA Annual Conference Program:Academic Librarian Lightning Round! Innovative New RolesInnovative College and University Librarians are increasingly assuming new academic, governance, professional, and service roles and responsibilities. By forging new pathways and partnerships, academiclibrarians can reassert the centrality of the library in their colleges and universities, and expand their expertise to benefit the core missions of their library and their institution. This fast-paced program features a variety of Lighting Talk presentations (also known as Pecha Kucha presentations) that dive right to the heart of the issue and engage the audience. RULES: 5 minute presentation, 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide EXAMPLES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZOt6BkhUghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKe_cX5Ms_w&feature=relatedProposals should include a title and 75-word description of the presentation. They can be submitted here: Submission Form . Proposals will be due SEPTEMBER 15, 2010.Notifications of acceptance will be made by November 1, 2010. For more information, please contact Catherine Doyle,cdoyle0@zimbra.naz.edu (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866353 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/cfp-eastern-great-lakes-innovative.html CFP: Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group Meeting (Akron, Ohio)The Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group invites you to present your ideas, experiences, and views on the various modules of the Innovative Interfaces system at our annual meeting being held Friday, October 15, 2010 at the Akron-Summit County Public Library in Akron, OH.* Presentations for all levels of experience across all modules and Innovative products are welcomed* Proposals may take the form of programs, panel discussions, forums, hands-on instruction, and demonstrations* Have an idea, but don't think you could devote a full 60 minutes to it? Submit a proposal for a 5-minute presentation for our “Lightning Round”* “Birds of a Feather” (BoF) sessions, which take the form of informal discussions on a particular topic, module or issue(s) may also be proposedSubmissions may be made using the form posted on the Eastern Great Lakes IUG website at http://www.rodmanlibrary.org/iug/program/iug-proposal2010.htmlFor further information contact Suzette Burlingame, Program Committee Chair.Review the IUG website for presentation guidelines at http://www.innovativeusers.org/conference-guidelinesExtended Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, August 25, 2010.We look forward to receiving many wonderful submissions!Thank you,Suzette Burlingame sburlingame@starklibrary.orgProgram Committee Chair, 2010 Eastern Great Lakes IUG (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866351 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/cfp-conference-for-entrepreneurial.html CFP: The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians: "From Vision to Implementation"We seek presenters to tell their stories at the 2nd "Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians" sponsored by the libraries at Wake Forest University and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. We will explore the paths by which librarians have developed and marketed their entrepreneurial products and services. Our keynote speakers will be Mary Ellen Bates of Bates Information Services and Tim Spalding ofLibraryThing. See the conference website http://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/blog/iic/%20for more information. This conference will provide a forum to:* Share and celebrate the entrepreneurial accomplishments of librarians and information professionals* Inspire each other to innovate * Create a community to promote entrepreneurial practices Conference dates and location:March 10 and 11, 2011 on the campus of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NCProposal Highlights:We seek presentations from librarians and information professionals about projects that have become commercial successes or have transformed library services. The successful presentation could include:* An innovative approach that filled an unmet need or extended the scope of services or resources* A description of how a creative solution was designed and implemented* A discussion of lessons learned and what could have been done differently * A description of the keys to a successful project* A tone that inspires entrepreneurship, no matter how small the projectFormats:Presentations may be made in one of two formats:* One-hour break-out sessions with 45 minutes for presenting and 15 minutes for Q&A. These may be panels or single presenters. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words. * Five minute "lightening rounds" with time for Q&A after all have presented. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866350 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/chapters-needed-from-practicing.html Chapters Needed from Practicing LibrariansCo-Editor/ Editor: Carol Smallwood, MLSWriting and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook, American LibraryAssociation, 2010 http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2646Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook, American LibraryAssociation, 2010 http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2774Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians, McFarland,2008 http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3575-3Others by ALA, Peter Lang, Linworth, McFarland, Libraries Unlimited1. Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers and Related MaterialsBook Publisher: Scarecrow PressChapters sought for an anthology by librarians who are not archivists who've worked with local historical societies in preserving local history, newspaper preservation, managing manuscript/book collections of local authors, local photography collections, kept student oral and written interviews of community members, and have done/are doing related activities. Tips needed on overcoming liability and invasion of privacy issues, what to save, ways to preserve local material for current and future generations. Librarians are often the lastchance that important aspects of local culture have of being conserved.No previously published, simultaneously submitted material; 3,000-3,500 words. Concise, how-to chapters, using bullets, headings, sidebars. Compensation: a complimentary book, discount on additional copies.Please e-mail 1-2 topics described separately in 2-3 sentences by September 30, 2010 with a 75-90 word bio. You will be contacted which of your topics will fit. Kindly place, PRESERVING/Your Name, on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net2. Tips for Librarians Running Libraries Alone Book Publisher: Scarecrow PressChapters sought from special, school, public, academic librarians, LIS professors about managing a library alone.No previously published, simultaneously submitted material; 3,000-3,500 words. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866348 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/g2rPouAK_ck/event-mcn-2010.html As received in email...Registration for MCN 2010 is now open! http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2010-conference-registration From museums to libraries,From conservation to future technologies, From building communities to museum ethics, From case studies to the great debates of our age:MCN 2010 is what YOU make it!Help us keep Austin weird at Halloween: MCN 2010, October 27-30th (fun, costumes and instruments strongly encouraged)!I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In opens with a huge range of workshops to raise the bar on your professional skills, followed by three action-packed days of programmed sessions and a parallel ThatCamp Un-conference to cater to every interest and specialist topic. Learn, teach and share while playing the MCN 2010 ARG, crawling Austin's pubs, jamming to jazz during our silent auction, and touring Austin's great museums and amazing bat caves. Check out the full program on our Conference Wiki http://mcn2010.pbworks.com/Conference-Program!Registration fees:MCN Members: Earlybird: $450.00 | Regular: $500.00Non-Members: Earlybird: $550.00 | Regular: $600.00 Student / Emerging Professional Members: Earlybird: $200.00 | Regular: $250.00Daily: (members and non-members) Earlybird: $250.00 | Regular: $250.00 Guest Registration: Earlybird: $105.00 | Regular: $105.00 Half-Day Workshop Fee: $100.00Earlybird Registration Deadline: Friday, September 24, 2010. Register Today! http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2010-conference-registrationFollow us @mcn2010 (twitter)This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865691 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/08/partnerships-for-he-in-fe-library.html Conference on 26 November 2010 at UWE Conference Centre, Bristol, UK: Partnerships for HE in FE: the library perspective. "The conference will cover many aspects of supporting Higher Education in Further Education students, and in developing the HE/FE partnerships to best advantage. Book at https://www.formstack.com/forms/uwe-heinfepartnerships Full info at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/info/academic/docs/he-fe-programme.pdf Blog at http://heinfelibrary.wordpress.com/Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn anemones, Sheffield, August 2010 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864968 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/event-mcn-2010.html As received in email...Registration for MCN 2010 is now open! http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2010-conference-registration From museums to libraries,From conservation to future technologies, From building communities to museum ethics, From case studies to the great debates of our age:MCN 2010 is what YOU make it!Help us keep Austin weird at Halloween: MCN 2010, October 27-30th (fun, costumes and instruments strongly encouraged)!I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In opens with a huge range of workshops to raise the bar on your professional skills, followed by three action-packed days of programmed sessions and a parallel ThatCamp Un-conference to cater to every interest and specialist topic. Learn, teach and share while playing the MCN 2010 ARG, crawling Austin's pubs, jamming to jazz during our silent auction, and touring Austin's great museums and amazing bat caves. Check out the full program on our Conference Wiki http://mcn2010.pbworks.com/Conference-Program!Registration fees:MCN Members: Earlybird: $450.00 | Regular: $500.00Non-Members: Earlybird: $550.00 | Regular: $600.00 Student / Emerging Professional Members: Earlybird: $200.00 | Regular: $250.00Daily: (members and non-members) Earlybird: $250.00 | Regular: $250.00 Guest Registration: Earlybird: $105.00 | Regular: $105.00 Half-Day Workshop Fee: $100.00Earlybird Registration Deadline: Friday, September 24, 2010. Register Today! http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2010-conference-registrationFollow us @mcn2010 (twitter)This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864951 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/O0QRPLZikYg/ Here’s a video of me demoing The Elements ebook on the iPad at the Texas Library Association conference this past summer. Was just a quick tech demo of how things like The Elements will change our concept of a “book” in new ways because of the technological possibilities of these new platforms. (Source: Pattern Recognition) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:46:35 +0100 867682 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/24/canadian-clinical-legal-education-conference/ We all have our grievances about law school, as remote as it may or may not have been for us personally. Maybe what’s needed is greater academic discourse about the pedagogue of legal education. The University of Western Ontario Law School is hosting Canadian Clinical Legal Education Conference on October 22-23, 2010.  The program features a sitting Supreme Court Justice, legal academics, and legal administrators. Law societies should also be interested because John Campion, President of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC) will also be speaking. Speaker bios can be found here, and a draft agenda can be seen here. The conference is sponsored by the Law Foundations of Ontario and BC, as well as several law schools across Canada. What will probably feature prominently during the conference is the 2007 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching report called Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law [pdf summary]. The report notes that legal education is fundamental to a flourishing democracy, and provides 5 key observations: Law School Provides Rapid Socialization into the Standards of Legal Thinking Law Schools Rely Heavily on One Way of Teaching to Accomplish the Socialization Process The Case-Dialogue Method of Teaching Has Valuable Strengths but Also Unintended Consequences Assessment of Student Learning Remains Underdeveloped Legal Education Approaches Improvement Incrementally, Not Comprehensively The two major limitations identified under 3) above is that legal education rarely prepares students for professional practice, and fail to develop legal ethics and social skills. Canada may have an advantage over our American counterparts through our articling process, which is not part of the typical classroom education but still considered a necessary component for preparation for the practice of law. However, some educators are attempting to introduce more practical skills in the law school itself. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:41:19 +0100 867060 http://marklindner.info/blog/2010/08/24/some-things-read-lately-or-new-shit-has-come-to-light/ This blog used to have a “feature” entitled “Some Things Read This Week” but I ended it before my blogging dropped completely from sight. With no promises one way or the other I’d like to start blogging again about some of the things I read. As I said a couple of posts back: I am ramping back up the work on my CAS thesis via several angles of attack. I am working on the paper proper and I am also working on a journal article, which will be highly related (as in with a little reworking can become a chapter), and I am thinking about trying to come up with a presentation for a conference in early December. The conference is “Semantics for Robots: Utopian and Dystopian Visions in the Age of the ‘Language Machine’. ‘The Language Machine’ is one of Roy Harris’ early books, of course. Thus, I am reading and taking notes again. Along with trying to “reconstruct” work I have done previously, I am also continuing to pursue these interests further, along with pursuing other interests. In these areas I am also reading and taking notes. Having not written much of anything in quite a while I need to get assorted writing chops back in order, be it annotated bibliographic entries, blog posts, general and specialized note taking, summarizing, journal article(s), or CAS thesis. So I am going to jump in again. Any feedback is appreciated whether on style, further reading suggestions, etc. The first article I want to discuss is: Dill, E. A., & Janke, K. L. (2010). “New shit has come to light”: Information seeking behavior in The Big Lebowski. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2099 [pre-peer reviewed version of a forthcoming article in The Journal of Popular Culture.] No doubt, many of you saw references to the Dill & Janke article over the last two weeks. Many people, understandably, could not help themselves in mentioning it in one venue or the other. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:25:19 +0100 866005 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/I6zEUTpOabA/ Why can’t we all have fun while at work? I mean, some serious good fun while we are getting the job done! Don’t you think it is fair? I mean, don’t you think that knowledge workers should be entitled to have just as much fun behind the firewall as outside of the firewall? Don’t you think that it would help those same knowledge workers become much more productive, engaged, committed, involved and purposely determined than those who don’t? I am not sure what you would think, but this is something that I have been pondering for years now and, once again, I had an opportunity to talk about it while in Germany last week, on my latest business trip, as we talked about the impact of social software within the enterprise. Yes, that impact of social tools like YouTube and the wonderfully hilarious The Conference Call by David Grady. Ha! How did I manage to talk about one of those really fun YouTube videos that’s making the rounds over the last couple of weeks going viral big time, you may be wondering, right? Well, very easily. With a key concept that we seemed to have kept neglecting over the course of the years, but which, thanks to social software tools, it’s coming back into the workplace in full force: social capital to improve business processes. Indeed, I got to talk about it through a story. Like in most of these cases, stories are wonderful mechanisms to not only transfer your knowledge, but also to share your insights about something that will really stick with folks over time. People don’t remember information. People don’t remember knowledge. In fact, they can’t even manage it properly. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:36:40 +0100 866207 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/9FCUlTgOjjs/ Twitter is a nice conversation tool for quickly asking questions among friends/colleagues, sharing quick bits of information and news stories, and is also especially popular among conference goers.  But what happens when you want to refer back to an old tweet?  Is it easy to find?  Well if the person used a hashtag (a hashtag is a word with the number sign in front of it, like #mla) then you can search specifically for that hashtag.  But that can be complicated after a while because tweets seem to fall off the face of the Twittersphere after a few weeks.  Not all search engines are created equal especially when it comes to finding tweets.  Forget about regular Google that doesn’t work. David Lee King compiled a list of Twitter specific search engines that can find old tweets.  He was looking for old tweets regarding a question on how people get permission to use things.  His search engine list is organized on how well they performed.  He discovered Topsy, twazzup, and crowdeye found most recent tweet plus others, while many other Twitter search engines (including Twitter itself) found only the most recent tweet or nothing at all. David’s list is helpful for those finding old tweets.  But while I was researching how to find old tweets, I thought, “You know Google has to have gotten into this mess.  After all the dispaly tweets for ‘real time’ searching.”  Sure enough Google has a Twitter search, but it is in development and it is hidden.  Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land wrote, All The Old Tweets Are Found: Google Launches Twitter Archive Search describing Google’s Twitter archive service.  According to the article it currently works for tweets posted from Feb 2010-Present, but “soon it will be available for all tweets from March 2006, when Twitter was first launched.” It is a fairly robust search. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:12:56 +0100 865142 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogjunction/~3/MymWgF7bU_8/ WebJunction sponsored my “Inside, Outside, & Online” program at the joint PNLA/WLA conference in Victoria BC last week. I thought you might like to see my slides from that presentation. The program is based on my book (same title), available from ALA Editions here. (Sorry, I couldn’t help but insert a tiny bit of self promotion!) The program runs through the five elements of community building that we uncovered in our research for this work (needs assessment, service design & delivery, marketing, evaluation, and sustainability), and provides pictures and examples from many of the library staff that I talked with throughout the process. Embedded throughout are a number of questions for the audience – as I invited them to consider how their personal and organizational experiences related to the stories that I relayed. I invite you to do the same … I’d love to hear from you! (Source: BlogJunction) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:34:11 +0100 867276 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infoesfera/~3/2fZuJMbNn8E/4th-international-pdfa-conference-29-septiembre-1-octubre-2010 Organiza: PDF/A Competence Center Participa: Betsy Fanning (AIIM, Director of Standards) / Giovanni Battista Colombo (Vice President of Assografici and President of Gruppo Stampa Digitale) / Stephen Levenson (US District Courts) leer más (Source: infoesfera.com) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:05:19 +0100 865223 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/24/outsourcing-legal-information/ I tend to live in the future. I think about what it will be like when I’ve paid off all my debts, how I’m going to celebrate a significant event coming up next year, and what my next job will look like. So last December, when the legal outsourcing firm Integreon announced the first “Shared Information Service”, or outsourced law library services, I was very intrigued. At the time, I remember thinking, “how are they going to do this?” I can understand outsourcing research (be it legal, business development or competitive intelligence), but how do you outsource the physical library itself? Would they be circulating texts among their clients, like our courthouse and academic law libraries do? If so, how would you determine how many copies of each item you would need to have? How would you share resources? So I was happy to come across this report from @woodsiegirl (Laura – an information assistant at a London law firm) from the 2010 BIALL conference. This session, entitled Emerging alternative models for managing information resources in law firms, sounded like it would be informative. However, instead it was more like a sales pitch. It even ran over its alloted time, which didn’t allow for the probing questions that could have provided the answers conference attendees were looking for. What really interested me was how Integreon stressed that this was a great opportunity for law librarians. One firm had its entire library staff become Integreon employees. They emphasized that there was much more meaningful work because there were more clients, which I took to mean more research, analysis and report writing and less administration. There wasn’t much discussion about sharing physical resources, so I still don’t have an answer for that. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:00:49 +0100 867061 http://www.sla.org.uk/blg-summertime.php This summer seems to have flown by - and all the ‘catch up' time I thought I had has gone!  Seems like it was ever thus - and I'm sure many of you feel the same as school starts (in Scotland) and the first day of term looms (in England and Wales).I have just returned from a stimulating and invigorating IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Sweden.  The variety of libraries represented from all over the world makes this a fascinating and challenging experience.  The programme is still available to view and many of the sessions I attended, including the pre-conference arranged in conjunction with the Swedish School Library Association, are available to watch on the Nordic Ning for School Librarians - do have a look.  I also managed to visit an Upper School library (ages 16-19, equivalent to 6th Form college combined with FE college), as well as a community library whilst in Sweden - and I am sure the pictures I took there and the information I gleaned will make an interesting talk for the future!  One of the great advantages of this sort of conference is the opportunity to talk to colleagues from around the world.  To get an appreciation of the Herculean effort people are making the world over to get reading and literacy higher onto all government agendas and to show the immense value that libraries in general, and school libraries in particular, can have on enabling universal literacy.  Plenary speakers included Jan Eliasson, former President of UN General Assembly and Henning Mankell, author and campaigner, both gave impassioned and compelling speeches on the life giving necessity of literacy - you can see these and other presentations on the IFLA video stream.  This was the first IFLA congress where much added activity was available on line as blogs and tweets in multiple languages adding to sessions as they happened. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:13:47 +0100 866729 http://cubgovpubs.blogspot.com/2010/08/gao-reports-and-releases_24.html The Government Accountability Office (GAO) which is often called the investigative arm of Congress. This past week GAO investigated foreclosures, auditing, and other issues. If you would like to know more about GAO, check out the library's guide.ReportsHomeownership Preservation: Federal Efforts to Combat Foreclosure Rescue Schemes Are Under Way, but Improved Planning Elements Could Enhance Progress. GAO-10-787, July 15.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-787Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10787high.pdfConsumer-Directed Health Plans: Health Status, Spending, and Utilization of Enrollees in Plans Based on Health Reimbursement Arrangements. GAO-10-616, July 16.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-616Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10616high.pdfSuperfund: Interagency Agreements and Improved Project Management Needed to Achieve Cleanup Progress at Key Defense Installations. GAO-10-348, July 15.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-348Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10348high.pdfCritical Infrastructure Protection: Key Private and Public Cyber Expectations Need to Be Consistently Addressed. GAO-10-628, July 15.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-628Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10628high.pdfHurricanes Katrina and Rita: Federally Funded Programs Have Helped to Address the Needs of Gulf Coast Small Businesses, but Agency Data on Subcontracting Are Incomplete. GAO-10-723, July 29.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-723Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10723high.pdfGuidanceGovernment Auditing Standards: 2010 Exposure Draft. GAO-10-853G, August 2010.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-853GPresentation By The Acting Comptroller General"Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment," by Gene L. Dodaro, acting comptroller general, before AICPA's national governmental accounting and auditing update conference, in Washington, D.C. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865396 http://acrlog.org/2010/08/23/is-there-a-rescue-plan-at-your-library/ There are two kinds of academic librarians. The ones who immediately knew what this post is about, and those who have no clue. Until a short while ago, I’d have put myself in the latter group. That was before I attended this conference session on the topic of staff development. The speakers demonstrated a method for getting staff engaged in discussions about non-technical matters in the library – what you might call the soft skills needed to succeed with community members and colleagues while being able to skillfully defuse difficult situations. So the conversation turned to an experience nearly everyone who has worked in public services – or at a public service desk – has had: the difficult patron [Personal Note: I'm not a big fan of the phrase "difficult patron" but that's the terminology used by the session presenters; many of us prefer not to use it but on the other hand it offers a convenient and perhaps less derogatory way to refer to this particular individual]. It could be the person who always has a problem, the person that wants to get into an argument with you, the person who never stops talking to you and doesn’t pay attention to your need to get work done, or perhaps it’s all of the above. There are any number of strategies for dealing with these situations. But up until then I had not heard of the “Rescue Plan”. I don’t think you’ll see the Rescue Plan mentioned much in the library literature. The goal of the Rescue Plan is to extricate yourself from a situation involving a difficult patron by pre-arranging a diversionary or escape tactic with your colleagues. It might work something like this: The patron who just wants to talk to someone: “Say, did you happen to hear about [insert news or sports topic]. Isn’t that something else. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865355 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/08/report-from-ifla-information-literacy.html In this post I will describe some key items that came out of the IFLA Information Literacy Section committee meetings that took place during the IFLA conference held in Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-15 August (the poor pictures were takenat the section committee dinner). IFLA (International Federation for Library Associations and Institutions) has a very small headquarters in the Hague, Netherlands, and most of its work is done by its members. IFLA has many sections and divisions, representing different regions of the world and different subject areas. One of the sections is Information Literacy and I am a member of its Standing Committee. As with all IFLA comittees, it is truly international, with members from Africa, Australia, Asia, North America, South America and Europe (though there is a bit of a bias towards Europe).The IFLA Information Literacy Section website is at http://www.ifla.org/en/information-literacyAt the Section Committee, apart from talking about events we were organising, the following topics were discussed:1. International Information Literacy logo. The website where you can download this is at http://www.infolitglobal.info/logo/en/ We decided that we are going to make an effort to make this available in more languages (currently it is there in French, Spanish, Russian, English), so people have been asked to say what the right phrase is in their language and we will arrange the graphic design2. The Marketing manual for the logo was published earlier in the year at http://www.infolitglobal.info/logo/en/manual and is a useful online guide for marketing more generally3. “State of the art” of IL in different countries. Reports on some countries were drawn up a few years ago and are available at http://www.infolitglobal.info/en/ There are also some updates at http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/81 (scroll down to see them) There was a proposal to turn these into an open wiki so that they were easier to keep up to date. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864969 http://acrlog.org/2010/08/23/is-there-a-rescue-plan-at-your-library/ There are two kinds of academic librarians. The ones who immediately knew what this post is about, and those who have no clue. Until a short while ago, I’d have put myself in the latter group. That was before I attended this conference session on the topic of staff development. The speakers demonstrated a method for getting staff engaged in discussions about non-technical matters in the library – what you might call the soft skills needed to succeed with community members and colleagues while being able to skillfully defuse difficult situations. So the conversation turned to an experience nearly everyone who has worked in public services – or at a public service desk – has had: the difficult patron [Personal Note: I'm not a big fan of the phrase "difficult patron" but that's the terminology used by the session presenters; many of us prefer not to use it but on the other hand it offers a convenient and perhaps less derogatory way to refer to this particular individual]. It could be the person who always has a problem, the person that wants to get into an argument with you, the person who never stops talking to you and doesn’t pay attention to your need to get work done, or perhaps it’s all of the above. There are any number of strategies for dealing with these situations. But up until then I had not heard of the “Rescue Plan”. I don’t think you’ll see the Rescue Plan mentioned much in the library literature. The goal of the Rescue Plan is to extricate yourself from a situation involving a difficult patron by pre-arranging a diversionary or escape tactic with your colleagues. It might work something like this: The patron who just wants to talk to someone: “Say, did you happen to hear about [insert news or sports topic]. Isn’t that something else. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:23:32 +0100 866724 http://diylibrarian.org/archive/2010/08/23/the-other-side-of-the-booth/ APS booth at StampShow 2010 I’ve written before about my experiences attending technology conferences as a librarian outsider. Last week I got another perspective on conferences and trade shows as I sat on the other side of the booth at the American Philatelic Society’s StampShow in Richmond. It was an exhausting–but exciting–four days. Many APS members came to the booth looking to meet “the new librarian.” It was great to meet so many library users in person, because most of them use the library remotely. I got used to saying, “I don’t know, but I’ll see if I can find out,” pretty quickly. When interviewed for this job, I said that I would learn about philately in part from library users, and I learned quite a bit at the show, both from talking to people at the booth and from listening to my coworkers answer questions. I’ve gotten a taste of being behind the scenes at conferences before, by doing program planning for APLIC and for the SLA Social Science Division, but now that I’ve done everything from shake hands with a famous keynote speaker at a fancy dinner to pack up the booth at the end of the show, I have even more appreciation for what it takes to put on an event like this. (Source: DIY Librarian) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:22:17 +0100 867622 http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/?p=8239 iConference 2011 An open conference sponsored by Information Schools of North America, Europe, and Asia. Seattle, Washington, USA February 8 – 11, 2011 http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ ***SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 30, 2010*** Greetings to everyone! We are now just two weeks from the August 30 submission deadline for iConference 2011. This is the date on which full papers will be due, as well as poster abstracts and alternative events proposals. The 2011 iConference will be our sixth annual gathering of researchers and professionals who share the goal of making a difference through the study of people, information, and technology. The event will showcase diversity in research interests and approaches, and demonstrate how the field creates leadership and impact on a global scale. The four days will include peer-reviewed papers, posters, and alternative events. Also being organized is a Doctoral Student Colloquium (the application deadline is November 1) and a Junior Faculty & Postdoc Colloquium. The event will be held at Seattle’s Renaissance Hotel, locally hosted by the University of Washington Information School. Papers and poster abstracts will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors and organizers can now submit full papers, poster abstracts, and alternative events proposals at http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/participation/. The link for author registration and the submission process appears under the “Instructions for Authors” header. All submitting authors must also provide basic information and agree to copyright parameters as a condition of acceptance and publication. Preconference workshop ideas can be emailed directly to Program Co-Chair Karen Fisher: fisher@uw.edu. The iConference is sponsored by the iCaucus, a growing association of over 25 Schools, Faculties, and Colleges in North America, Europe and Asia that focus on Information. ... Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:49:20 +0100 865436 http://ntrls.blogspot.com/2010/08/interesting-webinar.html WEBINAR Fall 2010 - Register today!The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians Webinar will be held on September 17, 2010 from noon to 1:30pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Registration for the webinar is now open! The cost is $15 and libraries can feel free to share this access with a group.Tim Bucknall, the Assistant Dean, University Libraries at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, (Source: North Texas Regional Library System) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867205 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/08/changes-to-mcgill-guide-to-legal.html Last Friday on slaw.ca, Ted Tjaden wrote about recent changes introduced in the 7th edition of the McGill Guide, or Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation as it is officially known, the Canadian Bible to legal citation:"The biggest change to me in the new 7th edition of the McGill Guide is the aversion to periods (...). As such, we are now admonished to drop periods in almost all circumstances:" "Former: Gould Estate v. Stoddart Publishing Co. (1998), 39 O.R. (3d) 545 (C.A.) New 7th edition: Gould Estate v Stoddart Publishing Co (1998), 39 OR (3d) 545 (CA) [i.e., no periods after the "v" or after "Co" or for the abbreviations for the Ontario Reports Court of Appeal]"(...)"The other major changes of interest that caught my eye in the new 7th edition of the McGill Guide include: Hyphenating looseleaf to loose-leaf (argh!) The use of 'Delivered at' for delivery of papers at conferences – see Rule 6.13 The use of WL Can as an abbreviation for Westlaw Canada in citations to decisions from that database – see Rule 3.8.2 Example for citing a blog in Rule 6.16: Karen Montheith, “CIPO contemplating changes – Extensions of time in examinations”, (30 September 2009) online: Canadian Trademark Blog A whole new chapter on citing foreign sources" (Source: Library Boy) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864925 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3079 As you might have noticed, I was inspired to register for a PACER account because of the presentation from the Six State Virtual Conference. Today I'd like to share my brief initial experience with PACER. I received my password a few hours after applying for it. Today I logged into PACER and decided to look for documents related to Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger. I realize that some documents in this case are already publicly available, but I wanted something to search that I knew would be in the system. First I clicked on the database link for the Northern District of California, since I knew the case was heard in San Francisco. The resulting search screen offered my several choices, including searching by attorney name. I tried Theodore Olsen, knowing he was one of the attorneys. I got back two cases, but neither was Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger. I was charged $0.08. According to PACER documentation, I would have been charged $0.08 even if I had zero results. So I did a quick Google search to learn that Perry's first name was Kristen and did a party search for Kristen Perry. I immediately got Case Number 3:09-ev-02292-VRW, better known as Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger. This also cost me $0.08, but since I got a useful result, I didn't mind. I looked at the Case Summary ($0.08). I looked at the Case File Location ($0.08) and determined the case files might still be with Judge Walker. Then I looked at the Docket Report. There were 742 files associated with the case. PACER determined that this should be charged as 30 pages or $2.40. Browsing through the list I decided to pull up a 10 page letter from "Voter X" which was sent to Judge Walker during the trial. This person said they feared retaliation from pro-same sex marriage forces and represented themselves as just one of the many voters who voted for Prop 8. The letter was written like a legal brief and I suspect the author was an attorney or paralegal. Viewing and downloading this letter cost me $0. ... Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:59:09 +0100 865727 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Grumpator/~3/F0iI7AT-Ot4/let-fall-semester-anxiety-begin.html It's been a busy couple of months - we visited the Maughans in Utah, rented a cabin in Greer with the Perrys, Chris decided to start his own business, and now the fall semester is underway. All in all, it was a lovely summer. On the downside, I spent the summer in an unfocused fog at work.  I'm working on a paper that I find really interesting, but feel that I'm a little out of my league.  My abstract was not accepted for a paper proposal at a non-library conference this fall. We got some great feedback, but I can't help but feel that I could have better directed my efforts over the summer, and maybe I need to revise my focus for the paper.  Since the semester has begun, I now find myself a little overwhelmed by my list of things to do this fall.  Of course, that happens every year! Here's my list so far: Set up and administer a survey on the Library Minute in 1 week. Prepare a poster session that includes the survey results for the EDUCAUSE conference in October. Hopefully also turn poster & survey results into a paper I can manage to get published this year. Teach 2 instruction sessions for UNI 110 Serve as a mentor to a freshman, and coordinate about 20 other mentors for the Obama Scholars program Co-chair a new workgroup (I named it TOAD). Plan some activities for Open Access Week (also in October). Plan out and submit a poster proposal for the ACRL conference next spring (due in Nov. 1). Continue writing this other paper Continue planning the AzLA Annual Conference in November, of which I'm a co-chair Continue working on my packet for promotion and continuing appointment, due next summer. It's just the sort of thing you don't want to save for the last minute. All of this is while our reorganization is still vague, uncertain and unannounced, so I'm still trying to feel out where my place is, what my focus should be, and what, exactly, my job really is. ... Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866520 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/08/ifla-report-health-information.html At the IFLA 2010 conference, there was a session on health information. I'll pick out two presentations:Small steps to a healthier nation: providing and delivering health information across WalesSUE THOMAS (Health Promotion Library, Department for Public Health and Health Professions, Welsh Assembly Government, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom) http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla76/100-thomas-en.pdf and she was talking about the Health Promotion Library: http://www.wales.gov.uk/healthpromotionlibraryPublic access to health information: how partnerships can strengthen the role of librarians in developing healthSHANE GODBOLT (Partnerships in Health Information, Pinner, United Kingdom), EMMA STANLEY (Partnerships in Health Information, Wimborne, United Kingdom) and PAUL STURGES Loughborough University, United Kingdom) http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla76/100-godbolt-en.pdfPhoto by Sheila Webber: autumn anemones, Sheffield, August 2010 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864971 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/08/canadian-association-of-law-libraries.html The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is conducting a survey on CALL conference attendance.From an e-mail sent out on the CALL-L listserv:"If you have attended a CALL conference in the past 3 years, or if you have not and want to let us know why not, please take the survey today. Your answers will remain confidential and will be aggregated with others. Both members and non-members of CALL are encouraged to respond to the survey." (Source: Library Boy) Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864929 http://www.comarmsblog.com/2010/08/discovering-who-you-are-conference.html *Saturday, October 16, 2010* Registration: 8:00AM - 9:00AM Conference: 8:45AM - 4:00PM Held at the Mid-America All-Indian Center in Wichita, Kansas. Open to all interested in genealogy and family history. Speakers include representatives from Ancestry.com and The National Archives. The Wichita Genealogical Society is pleased to be hosting the "Discovering Who You Are" conference. During the 2009 WGS Research Trip to the Family History Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, the group was privileged to be the first genealogical society to receive an invitation from Ancestry.com for a "behind the scenes tour" of their campus in Provo, Utah. This tour sparked a partnership between WGS and Ancestry.com to index Kansas and local historical documents. In return, Ancestry.com has accepted a WGS invitation to speak at our "Discovering Who You Are" conference in October. In addition, the National Archives and Records Administration has also agreed to participate. WGS is grateful to have as a primary sponsor of this conference the Mid-America All-Indian Center for the use of their facilities. This is a wonderful example of community cooperation. Please see the attached brochure or WGS's web site at www.wichitagensoc.org for more information. (Source: CARL Book Beacon) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:39:00 +0100 865261 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ohiou/dxIf/~3/fLETVz9IAqA/college-athletics-clips Click to connect to College Athletics Clips College Athletics Clips contains executive summaries of college athletics news and issues. Connect to College Athletics Clips Note:  The link above will take you to the ALICE Online Catalog.  From there you will use the link to access the subscription with the provided username and password. Format:  Subscription website Designed for Athletic Directors, Associate/Assistant Athletic Directors, Presidents, VPs and Conference Commissioners, readers also include other college athletics administrators, sports management faculty / students and alumni / boosters. Topics include: Academics Arms Race Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling Coaching Compliance Conferences D2/D3/NAIA Facilities/Operations Fundraising/Boosters Gender Equity/Title IX Haves/Have-Nots Leadership Marketing/Licensing Minority Hiring/Race Motivation/Inspiration NCAA Nicknames/Mascots Recruiting Reform Revenues Salaries Sports Law Sports Media (Source: Business Blog) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:35:33 +0100 867251 http://splat.lili.org/node/400 Last weekend I returned to the US with an entirely different perspective on my access to information.  I had just spent the week at the PNLA Conference in Victoria, BC where connectivity was a major challenge for me. When I've traveled in the US, Ive always been confident that hotels and convention centers will offer me free, reliable wifi.  I admit now that I was incredibly naive as I crossed the border between 2010 and the 1980s.    I, unfortunately, was so caught up in getting ready for, and getting to, the conference that I forgot to plan ahead--I forgot to arrange for international calling and data transfer for my iphone.  It was quite the shocker to be able to turn on my phone once landing in Canada to be told by my trusted, omnipresent phone, that I have no coverage.  I was then advised that data transfer would by $15+ per certain amount of data transferred if I accessed the web.  Airplane mode went right back on at that point! I stayed at the historic Empress Hotel--which was lovely but did not offer wifi access.  Nor did it readily offer internet access--it was a land line and cost $15.64 Canadian per 24 hours.  I grumbled and bemoaned my fate and ponied up the credit card number.  i needed to access all that information I had so cleverly stored in the "cloud" for portability!  I whined to my fellow board members--who told me that the conference planners had been unable to negotiate internet access for conference attendees at the hotel or at the conference center for anyone except 1 presenter per room.  (I must have missed that vital piece of info during a board meeting.)  On a good note, I could join the hotel's VIP club and then get free internet access.  Well, for some reason I couldn't do it from inside the bubble of what I had paid for so I waited until the conference started and signed up at the internet cafe. ... Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:06:34 +0100 866146 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/icolis-2010.html The third International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS 2010) will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 9 -10 November. The conference’s main theme is: Towards Greater Information Accessibility. For more information about this event, please visit the conference’s website. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866477 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/08/20/govgreen-2010/ GOVgreen Conference and Exposition November 9-10, 2010 Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC For more information: http://www.govgreen.org/ FREE to federal government and military professionals, the GOVgreen Conference and Exposition will showcase federal leaders presenting case histories, best practices and their plans and programs to green the federal government.  More than 30 sessions will focus on the program areas affected President Obama’s Executive Order 13514, with tracks on energy, transportation, conservation and facilities. A high-profile panel from the private sector will present successful examples of corporate sustainability, and several sessions will address military-specific programs. Green and bio-preferred purchasing will be covered as well as federal budgeting strategies to meet the aggressive targets mandated by the Executive Order and quantified in each agency’s annual Sustainability Plan.  Also, a unique session will address using social media to communicate green government policies and strategies. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:18:10 +0100 865077 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/08/20/usgbc-launches-toolkit-to-help-state-legislators-advance-green-schools-agenda/ Greening Our Schools: A State Legislator’s Guide to Best Policy Practices debuted this week at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual Legislative Summit. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), this first-of-its-kind toolkit on green schools is a comprehensive guide for state lawmakers who are developing policy solutions that improve the health, productivity, efficiency, and fiscal responsibility of schools in their state. The toolkit is a product of USGBCs 50 for 50 Green Schools Caucus Initiative and sponsored by the Turner Foundation. “This toolkit will be instrumental in helping us achieve our goal of a green school for all children within this generation,” said Illinois State Representative Karen May (D-Highland Park), Chair of the National Advisory Council for the 50 for 50 Green Schools Caucus Initiative, at an event co-hosted this week by USGBC and the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators. She praised the work of the state legislators who participated in the development of the toolkit. “Green schools caucuses in 32 state capitals across the country are driving transformational policy that is being felt at the heart of communities across the nation,” said Roger Limoges, Chief of Staff, USGBC. USGBCs 50 for 50 program was launched in October of 2008 to draw focus and attention in state legislatures to the very real and powerful benefits of healthy, productive and efficient school buildings. “Building and retrofitting our schools so that they are healthy, safe and efficient is not only the right thing to do; it’s the fiscally smart thing to do and it’s putting money back into the classroom,” said Kentucky Representative Jim DeCesare (R-Bowling Green), Vice Chair of the 50 for 50 programs National Advisory Council. ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:54:34 +0100 865083 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogjunction/~3/G-jQr_AsXT0/ A Year with Project Compass The PNLA/WLA 2010 conference in picturesque Victoria BC provided my first opportunity to give a retrospective report on Project Compass, the year-long, IMLS-funded program to work with State Libraries and focus on building public library capacity to meets the needs of a workforce in crisis. After a whirlwind year, I could start to take a few steps back and look at what we (the big WE of state and public libraries all over the country) have accomplished in response to the economic downturn and the dramatic increases in demand for library services. My slide presentation describes the scope, goals and phases of the overall project, and then focuses on the past, ongoing and future actions of the states represented at the Pacific Northwest conference—Idaho, Montana and Washington. To get the full-throated understanding of all the amazing work that State Libraries are doing, browse the list of Showcases presented by participants at the Project Compass summits. Nobody is resting on their laurels either, as evidenced by the list of projects that are being implemented in the coming year. The most rewarding aspect of the year with Project Compass has been engaging in a vibrant knowledge exchange with the library community, not just with participants at the in-person and online summits, but with library people everywhere. From those who attended my conference session, I got to hear perspectives from the front lines and from rural libraries about what was needed to serve job-seekers. I hadn’t heard before about the need for wifi printers so users could print directly from their laptops and not have to queue up for the public computers. Or the need for space in small libraries; job-seeking can be an all-day effort and the job-seekers impact the tiny spaces of many rural libraries. For ongoing connections, there is the community of practice for Workforce Resources on WebJunction. This section burgeoned since the start of the project. ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:11:16 +0100 867278