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This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the News Librarianship interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:09:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://granite.medlib.iupui.edu/rlmlnews/?p=210 Tuesday-Wednesday, Nov 25-26, 2008 - Open 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Thursday, November 27, 2008 - Thanksgiving Day - Closed Friday, November 28, 2008 - Friday After Thanksgiving - Closed Saturday, November 29, 2008 - Resume Regular Hours (Source: IU Medical Library News) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:34:12 +0100 670751 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/11/08/news-briefs-29/ News Briefs + Copyright Office Announces Interim Regulation Regarding Section 115; Requests Comments (U.S. Copyright Office) + The Library’s National Recording Registry To Be Featured in a Five-Part Series On NPR (Library of Congress) + Wireless industry has ideas for Obama (Government Computer News) + Library to house Dunkin’ Donuts (FortWayne.com) + Lincoln re-election speech to be auctioned in NYC (AP, via Google News) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:38:58 +0100 670144 http://conniecrosby.blogspot.com/2008/10/internet-librarian-stephen-abram-on.html Enterprise Trends: Beyond the Simple IntranetThis presentation will be posted to Stephen Abram's blog http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/.Connie's note: These are notes from Stephen's talk. Any errors or omissions are mine.You need to be ahead of the curve.The opportunity finally exists to use social software inside the organization. We can finally use some of this social software to lift ourselves up.We can't wait for everyone to change at once. You've got to keep up. Anyone who doesn't use the Internet is looking to be unemployed; if you don't have a Facebook account you are looking to be irrelevant. However, it takes a while for things to filter through and people to adapt.If information isn't in text, how are you accessing it?Stephen Abram on Enterprise TrendsAt the Internet Librarian 2008 conference in Monterey, CA. Stephen Abram speaking on world trends in learning. il2008We see a fundamental shift in how questions are asked and answered. People will ask questions on Facebook and MySpace. Open Social, G3 phone coming out today - if everybody's stuff is on their phone e.g. geotagging - customize a search and customize search engine rankings. You can change the search engine rankings of your organizations based on geographic location e.g. Obama campaign money spent on localized search engine rankings - political searches show up different results in different neighbourhoods. Does democracy start to become at risk?What is not advertising-based search engine ranking? Us!Some of us are coming to the realization that we are not creating information just for us - we are doing the work for others who work differently than us.Enterprises exist because people need to work together. Need to work to coming to the same conclusions when you are working together.Circles of trust inside organizations - we see this exactly replicated in social software such as Facebook - you have your inner circle of friends who you trust. ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:33:00 +0100 664034 http://granite.medlib.iupui.edu/rlmlnews/?p=195 In observance of the Labor Day Holiday The Medical Library will be Closed on Monday September 1, 2008 (Source: IU Medical Library News) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:44:51 +0100 639937 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Good_news_and_bad_news_library_tech_amp_troubles As opposed to the Internet decreasing people's needs to go to public libraries, library officials have found the technology to be a useful tool in he (Source: pligg - all) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:16 +0100 639745 http://hedgehoglibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/08/day-in-life-of-librarian-weekend.html It's been interesting to watch the "Day in the Life" meme floating around. This is from Saturday.Prework: Starbucks--I was doing a riverside watch until 3 a.m. for Kiwanis to ensure no one hopped into the Mississippi last night so caffeine was really necessary. Saw my favorite barista who wished me "good luck" along with my iced latte.8:30Turning on the children's internet computers, pre-loaded game computers, self-check, catalog computers, youth reference desk computer. Pile up stuff to work on today at desk, remind circulation staff I'm completely on my own in dept until noon (no aide), grab full book/DVD carts to sort for aide before she comes in.8:50-9:02 Discuss with B the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. B had gone to pick up book at midnight. Debate whether or not male lead is controlling/unhealthy relationship/role model and if it's good/bad for girls to read that kind of relationship.9:02 First DVD returned from patron who brought case back, but not DVD. We get a lot of those. Sorting book cart. Check email and pull up RSS feeds to start through news, library world, and knitting community.9:40 Chat with mom about making sure kids keep reading after summer reading program. Incentives are good but we both hope they'll keep reading. Considering stack of books being checked out, I have faith. First parent/child disagreement over whether or not it's time to get off the computer--high cause of whining in kids dept.10:22 Add Beacon Street Girls and Ann Martin's Main Street series to list of "Girl Protagonist" books for display hopefully going up tomorrow. Start list of "Boy Protangonist" books that will go up after that.10:30 Noting, yet again, it's send dad and kids to the library morning. Used to be like this at Gymboree too. Power dads who worked all week would come in for classes on Saturday with their little ones. Me and the stock brokers, financial dealers, lawyers, etc....and a parachute. ... Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:40:00 +0100 631526 http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/blogs/?p=911 Did you miss the 2008 Undergraduate Research Day? Or perhaps you want to revisit the more compelling student projects? Good news! Research Day projects are now archived online by the UW Libraries. Visit them and learn more. Undergraduate Research Day 2008 is our newest digital collection. We are also adding a [...] (Source: Libraries Blog) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:58:54 +0100 629038 http://blogs.ala.org/coswlcause.php?title=female_ex_googler_launches_rival_search__1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 A new search engine has been launched by former (woman) Google employee, Anna Patterson. From CNN.Money.com .... Developers of new engine say it offers a more comprehensive way to search the Internet. Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale. Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet. The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday. ..... For starters, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages. Patterson believes that's at least three times the size of Google's index, although there is no way to know for certain. ..... Rather than trying to mimic Google's method of ranking the quantity and quality of links to Web sites, Patterson says Cuil's technology drills into the actual content of a page. ..... Finally, Cuil is hoping to attract traffic by promising not to retain information about its users' search histories or surfing patterns - something that Google does, much to the consternation of privacy watchdogs.more Are you 'Cuil'? Try it and see at http://www.cuil.com/ (Source: ALA Weblog Service) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:09:09 +0100 628920 http://blog.librarysupportstaff.org/?p=577 In February, I wrote about the shootings at Northern Illinois University, which happened about 100 yards away from a former co-worker (and current friend).  I stressed that until something like this happens in your community, it seems remote and somehow not fully real.  However, we must strive to remember that these things happen in real communities, to real people, and that individuals, organizations and institutions (such as libraries) can do much to be better prepared for tragedy. Jessamyn at Librarian.net writes about a horrific murder which indirectly involved the local public library, and how they have reacted.  As you read her post, and the news articles she links to, ask yourself what your library or organization can do now to be prepared for not only this type of event, or a shooting, or a book challenge, but what you can do to simply be prepared. Once you have thought about it, discuss it with your co-workers and community members.  Solicit ideas.  Take the best ideas and put them into action.  You may never need this, but if the unthinkable happens you will be in far better shape than if the only response is “we never imagined it could happen here!” Do it this time, starting today… because you cannot predict where, or in what form, the next horrific event will occur.  At worst, you will be prepared for something that may not happen; at best you may save lives. (Source: LibrarySupportStaff.Org) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:17:29 +0100 620713 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/01/llrx-top-notch-resource-for-law-librarians-and-others-and-its-free/ How to get the lowdown on a rival company going after your markets—or collect other forms of competitive intelligence? Legal research tips, anyone? Where can you find links to court rules, forms and dockets at federal and state levels? And what’s the latest in legal technology? Those are among the goodies that some 140,000 visitors a month can enjoy for free from the LLRX site, run by Sabrina Pacifici, a special librarian with more than three decades of library experience. She also runs relevant commentary, and you may occasionally see posts from me pop up there in the future. Via LLRX’s beSpacific blog, Sabrina herself  keep readers up to date on the latest U.S. government reports and other actionable information. Topics range from oil prices to the war in Afghanistan to biometric palm-reading systems for medical libraries. Already spotlighted by LibraryJournal, Sabrina, who lives in the D.C. area, has just won the Technology Innovations Award for 2008, from the Special Libraries Association. A video is here. Barbara P. Semonche, owner of the NewsLib list for news librarians and researchers, one of Sabrina’s haunts, has praised LLRX for "comprehensive, accurate, focused, reliable resources, updates and guides on a wide range of complex and research related issues. All data is tagged and fully searchable." Congratulations, Sabrina, on some long overdue recognition for your hard work—all in your spare time, outside your law firm work! And, no, I won’t ask about any coven connections. That would appear be more of Mindy Klasky thing. Related: Book Groups Wiki to bring authors, book groups together: Lit covens next from organizer Mindy Klasky? (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:27:10 +0100 618297 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=News_Library_2-0_Scholarly_Publishing_Library_Lingohellip_CrossRef_--- Librarians are in the service profession, and convenience is King. (That makes Good Service… Queen!?) All of these endeavors are standard, daily even (Source: pligg - all) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:16 +0100 616636 http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/blogs/?p=850 Those of you interested in Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts will be happy to learn that you can now view over 24,000 digital images of manuscript drawings and paintings from the Bodleian Library’s collection via ARTStor. According to the ARTStor database: With more than 10,000 volumes, the Bodleian Library’s Department of Special Collections and Western [...] (Source: Libraries Blog) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:02:06 +0100 616357 http://granite.medlib.iupui.edu/rlmlnews/?p=158 The Medical Library will be Closed on Friday, July 4th 2008 In observance of Independence Day Regular hours will resume on Saturday July 5th, 2008. (Source: IU Medical Library News) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:22:08 +0100 615308 http://newslib.blogspot.com/2008/06/catching-up-on-conference.html Great session today on the future of news libraries. With all the recent announcements about buyouts and layoffs, some of us expected this to be a depressing session. Conversely, I think most of left encouraged and optimistic about the future. I believe we got the full audio recorded on this session. Amy will be posting that once she has caught up on sleep.The session this morning on "There's gold in them thar files" also received great comments. You can view Elaine Raines presentation here.The banquet Tuesday night had great food, drinks and company. Amy Disch presented the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award to Heather Cottle of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Chris Hardesty presented the Agnes Henebry award to Leigh Poitinger. Justin Scroggs presented the other Agnes Henebry award to me and also presented the Joseph F. Kwapil Memorial Award to Ginny Everett.This Tuesday session, Using blogs, podcasts and newsgroups for competitive intelligence research, was pretty interesting. It was a session shared with the Competitive Intelligence Division and this presentation will not be posted to the Web. May have more information later about this.I think there will be handouts forthcoming to the Web site from the other sessions on Tuesday that were not shared with other divisions, in particular the session on Web 2.0. Lots of interesting information from this session.Although we had a smaller crowd at the conference this year, the silent auction on Monday night was quite successful. I don't remember hearing who won the pair of underwear from the Cleveland Plain-Dealer so I'm guessing some lucky person got that in the raffle of leftover items at the banquet on Tuesday night.Jessica had already posted on her and Derek's great session. Keep checking the news division program for presentations and handouts. Several are up on that page.And many pictures to come! (Source: NewsliBlog) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 613693 http://newslib.blogspot.com/2008/06/sunday-evening-in-suite.html On Sunday night, we had the meet and greet of the mentors and mentees in the News Division Suite. Shira Kavon, who does an excellent job organizing this event, provided gift bags to the mentors and mentees. The bags included many items such as coffee from Pennsylvania, M&Ms, a coffee mug and small magic 8 ball to ask questions about the future. When asked about the future of news libraries, a magic 8 ball responded with "Ask again." It was an opportunity for newbies to meet experienced conference attendees. We got to catch up with colleagues we knew and meet some new ones. Heritage Microfilm provided some great appetizers and beverages, dinner for some of us. (Source: NewsliBlog) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 612460 http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/blogs/?p=827 Please join us in watching the final beam hoisted into place on the Coe Library Addition next Tuesday at 11:30. The beam will be available to be signed on Monday and Tuesday of next week - leave your message for posterity! (Source: Libraries Blog) Fri, 30 May 2008 14:14:09 +0100 604501 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/17/uk-five-year-plan-aims-to-make-every-library-a-great-library/ From the news release: The Action Plan from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council is the result of extensive consultation and engagement with stakeholders and sets out an agenda for change for public libraries in England with the aspiration of making every public library a great public library. Source: MLA (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 16 May 2008 18:18:33 +0100 599041 http://granite.medlib.iupui.edu/rlmlnews/?p=155 SaturdayMay 24, 2007Open, 8:30 am to 9 pm SundayMay 25, 2007Open, 12 Noon to 5 pm MondayMay 26, 2007Closed (Source: IU Medical Library News) Fri, 16 May 2008 16:09:18 +0100 599242 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/16/wales-21st-century-library-strategy/ From the BBC: A three-year strategy to modernise libraries across Wales will be launched by the Welsh Assembly Government later. £10.5m funding for the Libraries for Life programme had already been announced in March. It aims to improve facilities and allow more than 20% of libraries to open at least 10 hours a week by the year 2011. Source: BBC (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 15 May 2008 18:23:05 +0100 598528 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/16/library-briefs-6/ + Former Saskatoon librarian pleads guilty to nearly $1 million fraud (via CP) + The Transparent Library: Embracing Service to Teens (via LJ) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 15 May 2008 18:03:09 +0100 598535 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/14/webcast-lisradio-university-of-missouri-interview-with-jean-darbyshire/ From the website and Podcast: Jean Darbyshire Director Organization Development Programs, Kansas State Libraries, Manhattan, Kansas Jean Darbyshire is Director of Organization Development Programs at Kansas State Libraries in Manhattan, KS. The Kansas State Libraries believe it is very important to have a quality faculty and staff and provide quality development opportunities for them. One of their most important Organization Development Programs is the LIS Recruitment Program. Source: LiS Radio (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 13 May 2008 18:07:03 +0100 597574 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/13/lc-works-to-make-collections-accessible-and-compelling/ LC Works to Make Collections Accessible and Compelling by Paula Hane The venerable Library of Congress (LC), said to be our nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, has certainly not been acting staid and traditional. Lately it’s been leading the way with some exciting digital preservation projects, working with leading multimedia partners on innovative projects, and reaching out to other international organizations to establish a World Digital Library (WDL). Source: ITI News Link (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 13 May 2008 15:23:02 +0100 597577 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/12/new-issue-of-educause-review-magazine-now-online/ Articles include: + In Search of Certitude + Big Broadband Connectivity in the United States + Top-Ten IT Issues, 2008 + The Need to Formalize Trust Relationships in Digital Repositories + A Steady Vision for Libraries (Podcast) Source: EDUCAUSE (via Kept-Up Librarian & Pete W.) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 11 May 2008 18:11:13 +0100 596804 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/10/to-catch-a-thief-librarians-and-archivists-involved/ From the article: How a Civil War buff’s chance discovery led to a sting, a raid and a victory against traffickers in stolen historical documents. Source: Smithsonian Magazine (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 10 May 2008 14:18:03 +0100 596487 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/09/new-issue-online-the-electronic-journal-of-academic-and-special-librarianship/ v.9, no. 1 (Spring 2008) Table of Contents includes the following: Trend Setters: Computers in the Commons Environment Kim Granath and Sue Samson Back to Basics: Reviving Ethical Practice in Library Management Suzanne Milton Increasing Impact of Scholarly Journal Articles: Practical Strategies Librarians Can Share Laura Bowering Mullen Old Maids, Policeman, and Social Rejects: Mass Media Representations and Public Perceptions of Librarians Maura Seale Perceptions of LIS Professionals about Digital Libraries in Pakistan: The Pakistani Perspective Ashfaq Hussain, Khalid Mahmood and Farzana Shafique (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 08 May 2008 18:31:36 +0100 595626 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#4334274019461864645 Daisy emails us this very important news item!LAMA members vote to adopt name with leadership focusThe membership of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) has voted overwhelmingly to change the name of the association to the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA). Election results were released today by the American Library Association. The new name will become official Sept. 1.When told of the news, LAMA President W. Bede Mitchell said, "The proposed name change was intended to help ALA members, the profession at large and the general public to understand the important role we play in developing library leaders of the present and the future. We have assumed this role for years, but our division name has not reflected our work. We are gratified at the overwhelming response of our division members to the proposed name change." Mitchell went on to stress that this name change should in NO WAY be taken as an attempt by the Association to further the public confusion of their organization with ill-tempered South American dromedaries. According to Mitchell, "LLAMA would never spit in the face of public perception... metaphorically speaking." It was also rumored that LLAMA will be celebrating Mothers' Day with specially tailored gifts for members who happen to be parents of young children. But no LLAMAs were available for comment on this issue. (Source: Library Chronicles) Thu, 08 May 2008 17:04:00 +0100 596006 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/08/library-and-info-briefs-3/ + Ex-librarian pays back city $4,500 (via Austin American-Statesman) + Assumption librarian gets rare certification (via Daily Comet) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 07 May 2008 20:11:06 +0100 595041 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/08/leaders-consider-more-security-for-area-libraries/ Leaders consider more security for area libraries For the first time since a teenager was brutally attacked outside a Hillsborough County library, a group of experts will come together to take a closer look at safety measures at county libraries. The high school student that was attacked in April is still in critical condition. Currently, four out of 25 libraries have security cameras, but the cameras are only on the inside. And Bloomingdale Regional Public Library, where the attack took place, is not one of them. Neighbors and parents have mixed reactions about possibly adding security cameras. Source: Bay News 9 (Tampa Bay) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 07 May 2008 18:09:04 +0100 594971 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/07/briefs-library-launches-spanish-%e2%80%98infoline-chat%e2%80%99-service-and-more-news/ + Live Search’s New Design Goes Live (via SEL) + Library launches Spanish ‘InfoLine Chat’ service (Queens Courier) + Canada: Commissioner’s office blasts database shutdown (via The Globe and Mail) + Oxford University Library Services Chooses MetaLib by Ex Libris (via eContent) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 06 May 2008 19:19:16 +0100 594513 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/06/uk-tesco-supermarket-launches-store-with-its-own-library/ From the article: A TESCO store is to set to be built in an inner city area of Birmingham - with its own public library. The supermarket giant has applied for planning permission for the new outlet on the site of the former Brookfields Shopping Precinct, in Ladywood. The scheme - costing around £50 million - will also include eight shops and offices and six three-storey homes. (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 05 May 2008 18:01:21 +0100 594059 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/05/library-briefs-5/ + Library thinks outside the bookbinding (via Kenosha News) + Complaint prompts library arrest (via The Cincinnati Enquirer) + (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 05 May 2008 16:17:05 +0100 593974 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/03/new-from-ala-issues-brief-examines-public-library-internet-connectivity/ From the summary: In the first of a series of reports related to technology access in U.S. public libraries, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Research & Statistics (ORS) is drawing attention to challenges and opportunities related to available bandwidth for patron Internet access and online library services. The issues brief draws from national data published in the Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study (www.ala.org/plinternetfunding). Source: ALA (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 02 May 2008 19:09:23 +0100 592985 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/02/library-and-info-briefs/ + Award Recognizes Work of NIST Information Services Group + EUA urges universities to develop clear strategies to advance open access + LAMA And IIDA Announce Winners Of The Library Interiors Competition + Historic Documents: National Archives Celebrates 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel (via NARA) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 01 May 2008 19:11:44 +0100 592484 http://blogs.ala.org/coswlcause.php?title=introducing_genderbiology_net&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Dear COSWL Friends, I would like to introduce you to a news site I created called GenderBiology.net. It is the culmination of a long-standing interest in women's health issues. During my experience as an RN for over twenty years and numerous personal accounts (family, friends, and self), I have seen women attempt to get professional health care only to be told that it 'wasn't possible' to be having the symptoms they had because they weren't in a textbook -- and they were treated as if they were over-reacting, unable to cope (with any number of things), or just plain making it up. It just didn't make sense. These women had considerable responsiblities with their families, jobs, communities. Stellar reputations. And they were invalidated because there sumptoms could not be explained! Well, yes those sytmptoms can most certainly can be explained; and when they cannot, it is because no one has bothered to investigate them yet. Why is this the case, you say? Because most of the research was done and men and exptrapolated to women. Thanks to visionary advocacy from some in the scientific, political, governmental, and lay community, a body of research is being developed. As it turns out our hormones relate to most every organ and cell in our bodies, and this biological reality affects how health and disease present in women and men. Right away you can see the enormity of this fact. Healthcare professionals and consumers must be aware of this essential information when planning care. And librarians can help connect people with it. GenderBiology.net is a resource to help all in this quest. Until our personal doctors shows the most remote acquaintenance with the concept of gender medicine, we have work to do. I am so very excited about the research that is being done, and the validation it gives to countless women over the ages. ... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:00:12 +0100 591955 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/01/meet-tim-rozgonyi-st-petersburg-times-research-editor/ Conversation With…Tim Rozgonyi It was his ability to recognize good opportunities – and maybe a little bit of luck – that allowed Research Editor Tim Rozgonyi to find a career that combines the two things he believes represent democracy at its finest – freedom of the press and freedom of information. Source: Tampa Bay Library Consortium (Wavelinks newsletter) Note: ResourceShelf Editor Shirl Kennedy works as a news researcher at the St. Petersburg Times. (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:03:16 +0100 591869 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/01/library-briefs-library-of-congress-receives-original-spider-man-story/ + Library of Congress Receives Original Spider-Man Story From the news release: In a deed of superheroic proportions, an anonymous donor has given the Library of Congress the original artwork by Steve Ditko for Marvel Comics’ “Amazing Fantasy #15″ — the comic book that introduced Spider-Man in August 1962. + Law would close book on getting library records without court order (Rutland Herald) + Houston Launches Web Site for Residents To Compare Insurers (via iHealth Beat) + IMLS Awards Almost $2.8 million For Critical Conservation at Nation’s Museums + Google Teams Up with Leading Artists to Create New Themes for iGoogle (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:51:01 +0100 591872 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/05/01/libraries-are-teen-magnets-and-the-staffs-dont-mind/ Libraries Are Teen Magnets, And The Staffs Don’t Mind To get inside Bloomingdale Regional Public Library after 3 p.m. on any weekday, a patron has to navigate through a throng of teenagers, all refugees from the adjacent Bloomingdale High School. They walk here. They sit outside and chat. They go inside to use a computer or finish up homework. Authorities say one of them was here late Thursday when an 18-year-old girl drove up after-hours and tried to return some books in a repository. Kendrick Morris, a 16-year-old freshman at Bloomingdale High, is accused of raping the teen and beating her unconscious. He remains in custody at a juvenile assessment facility, held without bail. Authorities said Morris came to the library after school, waiting for his mother to pick him up when she got off work. Lots of students use the library that way, and sometimes it creates a problem, said Jennifer Heath, a parent who regularly takes her children to the library to work on school projects. “A lot of people use it for babysitting,” she said. “I feel sorry for the librarian.” … A crowd of teenagers congregating at a library is not a bad thing, said Hillsborough library services director Joe Stines. “I’ve been a librarian for 40 years,” he said, “and this is an age-old question. Librarians embrace the youth coming in and see them as an opportunity.” Source: Tampa Tribune (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:07:07 +0100 591876 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/30/just-released-1st-version-programme-and-proceedings-world-library-and-information-congress-74th-ifla-general-conference-and-council/ (1st Version) Programme and Proceedings: World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council The IFLA conference will take place in Quebec City this August. We will do out best to highlight papers from the proceedings as they become available. Source: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:05:44 +0100 591268 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/28/library-briefs-relaxed-admission-brings-chaos-and-confusion-to-the-british-library-and-more/ + Librarian who stole $101,000 may avoid criminal record (via Washington Examiner) + Relaxed admission brings ‘chaos and confusion’ to the British Library (via IHT) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:34:07 +0100 590689 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/28/2008-survey-update-library-vocabulary-ready-reference-and-collection-development-core-tools/ Librarian and trainer supreme, Diane Kovacs, tells ResourceShelf that she has revised several of her important library and core collection surveys using Survey Monkey. We encourage all of you to complete and use the numerous surveys. She tells ResourceShelf: I’ve re-created these updated surveys on SurveyMonkey after receiving back many useful suggestions for making it more useful. I am revising other subject reference surveys as well and will post when they are ready. As always, I will post the data I’ve gathered on core subject reference topics back to the lists I posted the surveys to for everyone to share as well as posting the data to http://www.kovacs.com/misc.html. Data from previous years is available on that page now scroll down past the current survey links. Direct links to the Surveys: ++ Library Vocabulary Survey ++ Ready Reference Core Tools Survey (Multi-Subject) ++ Collection Development Core Tools Survey Source: Diane Kovacs (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:11:59 +0100 590691 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/278301377/ Margaret Fosmoe writes at the South Bend Tribune: (Link will expire very soon) The county library plans to cut service hours, purchases and staff by 12 percent this year and 12 percent in 2009. Staff will be reduced through attrition and not layoffs, Napoli said. The summer Saturday closings will help achieve the goal of fewer service hours, thus reducing salaries and utilities, he said. Very similar to what ACPL has planned. I feel bad for Indiana libraries. Didn’t the folks in charge down in Indy realize how the prperty tax reform would mess with library budgets? Do they care? Library administrators will recommend by August how to proceed with hours for the rest of 2008. Saturdays are busier after schools resume. “We may be looking at something very different during the school year,” Napoli said.  Other library cuts approved: -A $900,000 reduction in personnel. So far this year, 15 positions have been vacated or soon will be vacated through resignations or retirements. Including benefits, total savings so far is about $369,000, said Napoli, who referred to it as a “semi-freeze” on hiring. -A $300,000 reduction for 2008-2009 in purchases of new books and other materials. -A $300,000 reduction in spending for services and supplies, including savings on cleaning supplies, a cheaper supplier for light bulb purchases, setting thermostats 2 degrees cooler in the winter and 2 degrees warmer in the summer, and elimination of all travel for professional meetings.  It’s the last one that really stung - I remember always having a budget to attend ALA or CIL when I worked at SJCPL. What I would suggest is the Staff Development folks at the library look at all of the online opportunities for conference-type sessions and take full advantage. Just think: staff could checkout 5 shared presentations from CIL2008 that have audio and slides and then discuss. ... Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:50:29 +0100 590101 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/25/library-briefs-png-national-library-reopens-and-other-news/ + Woman trying to make a library a reality in Colorado City (via KSL) + UK: Library chief slams ‘fearful’ thinking (via The Bookseller) + PNG national library reopens (via Radio Australia) Papua New Guinea’s national library reopens Thursday after undergoing a $US2.85 million refurbishment funded by the Australian government. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:17:23 +0100 589263 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/24/new-issue-available-wise-guide-from-the-library-of-congress/ This April issue is now available. Articles include: + Thomas Jefferson, the Poet + Women of 4 Wars + Honestly Abe, Is that You? + Microform, Macro Impact + A Goddess in the Library: Minerva Source: Library of Congress (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:27:29 +0100 588712 http://www.passingnotes.com/archives/2008/04/21/deep-thoughts-librarians-are-so-hot-they-make-me-sexist/ okay, so i just got back from vancouver where the lovely carla graebner invited me to present a session on competitive intelligence in libraries - it was a blast…and so if you quickly refer to the 2nd edition of the Guide to Standard Male Fantasies, after the one where the hot female doctor asks you to cough again but before the one where the hot female cop tells you there’s a way out of the speeding ticket, there’s this one where the librarian takes off the glasses and lets her hair down and turns into the chick from van halen’s ‘hot for teacher’ - it was like that… …hmmm, so vancouver, beautiful city, the most diverse group of white and asian people i’ve met in years…a lotta money there, blenz coffee rules, great sushi, nice views… as for the library industry, because lets think of it like an industry for a moment, it seems that there was this ‘industry in potential decline’ theme glazing the edges of the conference cake…while individual sessions were reasonably granular, there was an overall trend toward (many) looking at how to increase the relevance of libraries to patrons…and while i suppose many of the tactical and strategic ideas make incredible sense, from gaming and use of web 2. ... Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:25:34 +0100 587575 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2008/04/17/robbing-the-cradle-of-civilization/ Like everyone and everything else in Iraq, the National Library and Archives have had a rough go of it since the Occupation: The sacking of the library that began April 11, 2003, was a bad one. The current Director of Iraq’s National Library and Archive, Dr. Saad Eskander, estimates that over three days, as many as “60 percent of the Ottoman and Royal Hashemite era documents were lost as well as the bulk of the Ba’ath era documents…. [and] approximately 25 percent of the book collections were looted or burned.” Other Iraqi manuscript collections and university libraries suffered similar fates. Since then, Iraqis have once again tried to rebuild their library. The occupying powers have played along, but like so much about the Iraq War, their effort has been marked by ineptitude, hypocrisy and a cruel disregard for Iraqi people and culture. Early in the occupation, L. Paul Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), demonstrated an unwillingness to provide the basic funds necessary for the reconstruction of Iraq’s educational and informational infrastructure. Dr. Rene Teijgeler, senior consultant for Culture for the Iraqi Reconstruction Management office at the American Embassy in Baghdad, left his position in February of 2005, not having “the supplies of ready cash that could be used to acquire something as simple as bookshelves.” His position was left empty. When John Agresto, the education czar of the CPA, asked for $1.2 billion to make Iraqi universities viable centers of learning: he received $9 million. He asked USAID for 130,000 classroom desks, and received 8,000. So the NLA staff have looked elsewhere, occasionally finding pieces of the old collection for sale there on Al Mutanabi street, home to Baghdad’s booksellers. ... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:04:44 +0100 586566 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/18/libraries-far-from-dead/ Libraries far from dead About 15 years ago, when I worked at a local public library, an acquaintance told me, “You’re going to have to find a new job soon. There won’t be any libraries. It will all be on the Internet.” Could it really be, I wondered? Could our public libraries — brainchild of Benjamin Franklin’s philosophical society — be killed off by Google and Wikipedia? Today, I am still employed with a local public library, and I know firsthand that public libraries aren’t dead. They aren’t even wheezing. Source: Denver Post (Ellen Schroeder Mackey, librarian, Douglas County) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:04:32 +0100 586022 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/17/library-briefs-4/ + Quiet Please, The Librarian is Watching (Orange County Register) + Dingell examining closure of Hopkins health database (via Baltimore Sun) + Librarian behind Harry Potter lexicon breaks down on the stand (via IHT) + National Library Week: Libraries still matter (Jacksonville Times-Union) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:03:52 +0100 585430 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/16/meet-the-library-director-dr-victor-v-fedorov-director-of-the-russian-state-library/ A short list of the services the Russian State Library provides users. Source: European Library Newsletter (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:51:34 +0100 584866 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/15/history-channel-teams-with-library-of-congress/ From the article: A&E Television Networks’ History brands, which include the History channel and its Web site, have teamed up with the Library of Congress on a multimedia partnership that will encompass on-air and online content. The goal of the partnership — which also reaches across History International, History en Espanol and Military History Channel — is to bring the Library of Congress’ collections to the “next generations of users” on the platform of their choice, be it mobile, broadband or in high-definition on History HD. Source: Reuters (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:01:55 +0100 584290 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/14/trendspotting-and-microtrends-in-academic-libraries/ From the article: Like Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Naisbitt’s Megatrends, Microtrends is a fascinating and informative study of the counterintuitive trends of our times. Freedom of choice and individualism are at all time highs, Penn notes, and we’ve moved from the Ford economy (where thousands of workers turn out the same car millions of times) to the Starbucks economy (where thousands of individuals order customized coffee products with or without caffeine, fat, or sugar). Academic librarians are already seeing the effects of this new society play out in how, when, and where we deliver library services. But what are the implications for the type of workforce and workplaces we want to create now and in the future? Source: C&RL News (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:41:14 +0100 584156 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/14/internet-blamed-for-sharp-drop-in-library-book-borrowing/ From the article: In this technologically savvy society, students seem to be relying more on electronic resources and less on books when it comes to research. According to circulation statistics, from July 2006 to June 2007, University of Rhode Island students and faculty members checked out 53,227 books. Twenty years ago, students alone checked out more than twice that amount. In fact, students were checking out more and more books each decade until the mid-1990s when the use of the Internet became more widespread. Source: UWire (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:58:22 +0100 583883 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/14/library-briefs-3/ + Library week raises issues of new technology (The Reporter) + Bay Area Library Week Events (News Release) + http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080413/aqsu001.html (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:55:25 +0100 583884 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/13/here-we-go-happy-national-library-week-2008/ From the entire ResourceShelf and DocuTicker team to all of you celebrating in the U.S., HAPPY NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK. For those of you who are not librarians (aka info professionals), make sure to let your favorite librarian(s) know how much you appreciate their work. See Also: ALA celebrates National Library Week in Second Life See Also: Learn About Tuesday’s National Library Worker’s Day (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:16:24 +0100 583849 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/13/coming-very-soon-the-library-of-congress-experience-and-mylocgov/ From the announcement: Starting at 11am on April 12th the Library of Congress will introduce its new dynamic experience for visitors. Come to see our new exhibits and our interactive activities. Teachers will be able to learn about our lesson plans and other activities that they can use to bring the experience of visiting the Library into the classroom. We look forward to seeing you at our opening day festivities which will include music, crafts for kids and the opportunity to meet the Library’s newest Living Legacies. After you visit the Library look for teacher resources on www.myLOC.gov. There will be five new multimedia activities to engage young people and get help them to think critically about primary sources from the Library’s collections. There will also be teacher-tested standards-based lesson plans to provide educators with the tools they need to integrate artifacts from the exhibitions into their curriculum. Source: LC (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:17:00 +0100 583617 http://newslib.blogspot.com/2008/04/student-stipend-applications-sought.html Hey LIS graduate students and recent grads interested in news librarianship: want $1500 to help fund your first trip to the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference? We members of the Vormelker-Thomas Student Stipend Award Committee eagerly await your applications! Complete application instructions are at: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/about/vormelker2008.htm.Selection Criteria:Applicants must be members of the Special Libraries Association when they apply for the stipend.Applicants must be attending their first SLA conference.Applicants must be graduate students or December 2007 graduates interested in a career in news librarianship.Applications must include:a word-processed essay (500-1,000 words) addressing an issue in news librarianshipa letter of reference from a news librarian, a news editor, or a faculty membera resumea list of course work undertakena statement of professional goalsa statement of what the applicant expects to gain from attending the conferenceApplications must be e-mailed no later than Wednesday, April 16 at 5 p.m.Yes, it seems like applying for the award is a lot of work, but it's worth it. The money really helps defray the cost of the conference and the award looks pretty on a resume. Few people apply, so your chances of winning are very good. Past winners include a lot of folks who go on to do great things for news librarianship. (Source: NewsliBlog) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100 583701 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/11/coming-very-soon-the-library-of-congress-experience-and-mylocgov/ From the announcement: Starting at 11am on April 12th the Library of Congress will introduce its new dynamic experience for visitors. Come to see our new exhibits and our interactive activities. Teachers will be able to learn about our lesson plans and other activities that they can use to bring the experience of visiting the Library into the classroom. We look forward to seeing you at our opening day festivities which will include music, crafts for kids and the opportunity to meet the Library’s newest Living Legacies. After you visit the Library look for teacher resources on www.myLOC.gov. There will be five new multimedia activities to engage young people and get help them to think critically about primary sources from the Library’s collections. There will also be teacher-tested standards-based lesson plans to provide educators with the tools they need to integrate artifacts from the exhibitions into their curriculum. Source: LC (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:56:10 +0100 582694 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/10/library-briefs-2/ + Seattle PL’s Deborah Jacobs Leaves To Head Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries Program (via LJ) + Technology and the Library Give Local Students the Edge + Libraries debate Web filters (via Detroit News) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:01:26 +0100 582651 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/10/innovative-displays-at-library-of-congress/ From the article: If experience really is the best teacher, the Library of Congress is determined to teach the public just how valuable — and, yes, modern — the venerable institution can be. A series of largely interactive exhibits labeled the Library of Congress Experience, opening Saturday, will showcase the library’s history and holdings in innovative ways that are even a bit flashy. Some dignified flash probably is good for a place that too often is regarded by the uninformed as off limits except to scholars and, of course, members of Congress. In addition to the ambitious new project that Matt Raymond, director of communications, calls “easily the biggest project we’ve ever done,” there is a new institutional logo — an open book resembling the American flag in abstract — and a new motto: “Explore, Discover, Be Inspired.” Those three activities describe precisely what organizers hope visitors will do when the bronze doors leading to the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building open to the public Saturday for the first time since 1990. Source: Washington Times (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:59:29 +0100 582585 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/09/libriarian-starts-history-project-for-gays-lesbians/ From the article: Tami Albin was always very careful. The 11-year-old didn’t go to the library with friends. She never wrote down the call numbers of the books she was looking up. She dodged well-meaning librarians whenever possible. She trolled the aisles, constantly in a state of childhood fear of anyone knowing she might be up to something. She was reading anything from the tiny shelf labeled “HQ76.5.” “Of course, librarians want to be helpful and would ask me if I needed help, and I’d run and hide,” says Albin, now 38 and a librarian in her own right at Kansas University’s Anschutz Library. “It was one of those things where it’s like a deer caught in the headlights. It’s like - blink, blink - oh my God, you know what I’m doing! I’ve been exposed! And you run off, you scamper away.” Source: KSHB (Kansas City) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:33:05 +0100 581608 http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/blogs/?p=790 Librarians made the news this week when they discovered that searches for “abortion” in the POPLINE reproductive health database no longer provided results. Turns out that Bush Administration officials complained about a couple of abortion-advocacy-related articles in the database. POPLINE is funded by USAID, the federal office which provides health care funding to [...] (Source: Libraries Blog) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:27:20 +0100 581555 http://blogs.ala.org/coswlcause.php?title=health_database_was_set_up_to_ignore_abo&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/05popline.html?_r=1&oref=sloginFrom The New York Times Health Database Was Set Up to Ignore ‘Abortion’ By ROBERT PEAR Published: April 5, 2008 WASHINGTON — Johns Hopkins University said Friday that it had programmed its computers to ignore the word “abortion” in searches of a large, publicly financed database of information on reproductive health after federal officials raised questions about two articles in the database. The dean of the Public Health School lifted the restrictions after learning of them. From Women's Health News by Rachel Walden: Access to Abortion Search to be Restored in POPLINE: Johns Hopkins Releases Statement April 4, 2008 Following Wednesday’s revelation that the USAID-funded POPLINE reproductive health database had deliberately blocked users from performing a simple search on “abortion” because, “As a federally funded project, we decided this was best for now,” medical librarians, feminists, public health professionals and others responded with outraged blog posts and calls and letters to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where the database is managed. ... Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH (Dean of the School at Hopkins) has released a statement detailing the events and indicating that the ability to search the database for “abortion” will be restored. (Source: ALA Weblog Service) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:43:25 +0100 580915 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/05/library-briefs-fired-librarian-attorney-release-records-online-terremark-to-host-new-mylocgov/ + Terremark to host Library of Congress Web site The site, myLOC.gov, which will launch April 12, will be hosted by Terremark Federal Group Inc., a subsidiary of Terremark Worldwide. + Fired librarian, attorney release records online (via Visalia Times-Delta) Records released on the Internet Thursday by lawyers for former Tulare County librarian Brenda Biesterfeld come from two separate files, not a single personnel file. + Nichols Memorial Library receives historic donation (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:51:28 +0100 579842 http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/blogs/?p=751 The JSTOR database unveils a new interface on April 4, 2008. Some of the improvements: - “My JSTOR” allows you to manage and store citations. With your My JSTOR account, you can save or email citations or send them to bibliographic software like Endnote. - Limit searches by discipline or specific journal title. - Try the new “search [...] (Source: Libraries Blog) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:12:36 +0100 579657 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/03/database-libraries-new-version-of-iflas-success-stories-database-available-now/ From the IFLA announcement: Within the framework of its activities for WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) and in order to contribute to the ongoing and long term presence of libraries in the world, IFLA has set up a database that aims to showcase the value of libraries to society as a whole. In this new version, you can add online your Success Stories into the database in English, French, German and Spanish. Direct to the database Source: IFLA (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:59:30 +0100 578725 http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/blogs/?p=782 UW Libraries adds the GreenFILE research database this week. According to provider EBSCOhost: In keeping with our commitment to environmental consciousness, EBSCO proudly offers GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate [...] (Source: Libraries Blog) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:27:18 +0100 578504 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/04/02/final-report-from-nclis-meeting-the-information-needs-of-the-american-public-past-actions-and-future-initiatives/ Meeting the Information Needs of the American Public: Past Actions and Future Initiatives 114 pages; PDF. From a letter from Beth Fitzsimmons: This will be the final report from the U.S. National Commission on Library and Information Science. I contracted this work when we were seeking advice to assist the Commissioners in deciding the research issues we would undertake during the fiscal year. As events unfolded during the past few months, it became clear that the report needed to serve two functions: (1) to document the history and accomplishments of the Commission and (2) to remind the public and those who take up this mantle that the work of the Commission is not done. A compelling future agenda for information policy research and development is also presented as part of this report. Dated, March 2008 Source: NCLIS (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:01:11 +0100 578193 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/28/library-more-relevant-than-ever/ Library more relevant than ever A Michigan library director shares her views in a local newspaper. From the article: “Especially with the economic times we’ve had in the community … the resources the library offers are just that more valuable to the members of the community who may be having the toughest time,” said Mimi Herrington, Bad Axe District Library executive director. Source: Huron Daily Tribune (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:07:16 +0100 576005 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/28/briefs-digital-bookmobile-to-launch-national-tour-at-public-libraries/ + Digital Bookmobile to Launch National Tour at Public Libraries (via OverDrive) OverDrive, Inc. has unveiled drawings and details of a traveling community outreach exhibit entitled the Digital Bookmobile (www.digitalbookmobile.com). Starting in August 2008, the Digital Bookmobile will host hands-on, interactive training events at public libraries in cities around the United States, including Boston, Cleveland, New York City, Phoenix, Seattle, and Washington, DC. Libraries will be encouraged to make the Digital Bookmobile a part of multi-day community events, book fairs, and other reading initiatives. + Library system benefits from Gates grant (via Business First) The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library has received word of a $140,400 grant awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:03:45 +0100 576006 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/27/library-briefs-the-boxing-library-and-more/ + ‘Purest’ librarian to lead Salt Lake system (Deseret Morning News) + Librarian makes noise with gloves (via Grand Rapids Press) From the don’t stereotype librarian file. Good Luck Gerardo!!! + Bee Exclusive: Warrants allege library scheme (via SacBee.com) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:11:08 +0100 575523 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/26/afghanistan-digital-library-initiative-revitalizing-an-integrated-library-system/ Afghanistan Digital Library Initiative: Revitalizing an Integrated Library System by Han, Yan and Rawan, Atifa (2007) This paper describes an Afghanistan digital library initiative of building an Integrated Library System (ILS) for Afghanistan universities and colleges based on open source software. As one of the goals of the Afghan eQuality Digital Libraries Alliance, the authors applied systems analysis approach, evaluated different open source ILS, and customized the selected software to accommodate users’ needs. Improvements include Arabic/Persian language support, user interface changes, call number label printing and new ISBN-13 support. To our knowledge, the ILS is the first big academic libraries in the the world running on open source software. Source: Information Technology and Libraries 26(4):pp. 44-46. (via D-LIST) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:49:45 +0100 574938 http://blogs.ala.org/yalsa.php?title=teen_services_past_present_future&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Over the past several weeks The New York Public Library has been in the news - library, local, and national - because of projects and programs that have a lot to do with the way teens are served in the public library. In thinking about the recent news at NYPL, I realized that what's been going on is a perfect example of where teen services have been, where they are now, and where they are headed. For example: On Saturday, March 22, NYPL hosted the 79th Books for the Teen Age celebration. This annual event is the unveiling of the library's print publication that highlights recently published titles of interest to teen readers. Authors, librarians, interested adults, and teens get together to celebrate the launch of the latest list. Obviously, in its 79th year, Books for the Teen Age is not something new. It's an example of the kinds of services libraries have provided to teens for the past several decades. Just the night before this year's Books for the Teen Age celebration, NYPL hosted a historic event with its Game On @ The Library. 200 teens signed-up to play games at NYPL. Of course, libraries have been hosting gaming events for the past few years. What made this event so historic is that it was held in Astor Hall, the entranceway/lobby of New York Public Library's probably most well known research facility. (The one with the lions out front.) This is a facility that has traditionally been seen and used as a staid and somewhat formal research facility. When you put 200+ teens and adults in the space to play games, staid is no longer the word to use. This event shows the library of today. One in which space is opened up to teens in order to meet their current needs and interests. Then there is the library of the future. NYPL is in the midst of change. The Library recently announced that two of its primary Manhattan facilities are going to close. ... Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:40:55 +0100 574861 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/24/library-briefs/ + 300-year-old library reopened in Aurangabad (Times of India) + Are libraries keeping up with technology demands? (Video) + 2 Mass. towns mull library privatization (via UPI) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:19:14 +0100 574129 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/24/getting-ready-for-school-library-media-month-april-2008-and-national-library-week/ The theme of this years celebration is “Join the circle of knowledge @your library.” You can find a selection of resources (posters, activities, etc.) here. Source: AASL See Also: Resources for National Library Week (April 13-19, 2008) Note: This years theme is also “Join the circle of knowledge @your library.” Source: ALA (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:11:13 +0100 574130 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/22/senate-confirms-president%e2%80%99s-nominees-to-national-museum-and-library-services-board-2/ Senate Confirms President’s Nominees to National Museum and Library Services Board The U.S. Senate confirmed four presidential nominees to serve as members of the National Museum and Library Services Board March 13, 2008. The board advises the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an independent federal agency that is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s museums and libraries. “The new board members bring vast and varied experience to the National Museum and Library Services Board. We look forward to working with them and to their contributions in support the nation’s museums and libraries,” said the Institute’s Director Anne-Imelda M. Radice. Source: IMLS (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:39:35 +0100 573504 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/22/ala-pio-launches-new-blog/ ALA PIO launches new blog The Public Information Office (PIO) of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Campaign for America’s Libraries are sharing valuable tips on promoting libraries with a new blog, Visibility @ your library®. This blog will provide librarians and library supporters with news and information about important communications issues. In addition, Visibility @ your library will offer useful tools for PR practitioners to help support their efforts, according to Mark Gould, director of the Public Information Office. (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:37:50 +0100 573505 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/21/senate-confirms-president%e2%80%99s-nominees-to-national-museum-and-library-services-board-2/ Senate Confirms President’s Nominees to National Museum and Library Services Board The U.S. Senate confirmed four presidential nominees to serve as members of the National Museum and Library Services Board March 13, 2008. The board advises the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an independent federal agency that is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s museums and libraries. “The new board members bring vast and varied experience to the National Museum and Library Services Board. We look forward to working with them and to their contributions in support the nation’s museums and libraries,” said the Institute’s Director Anne-Imelda M. Radice. Source: IMLS (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:03:35 +0100 573052 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/21/library-bits-2/ + New Jersey: After protests, Freehold schools to keep librarian (via Asbury Park Press) + Will Jan Kaplicky’s Prague National Library make him a local hero? + US Library of Congress Puts Knowledge on the Web (via VOA) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:55:35 +0100 573054 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/21/full-text-article-etds-scholarly-communication-and-campus-collaboration-opportunities-for-libraries/ ETDs, scholarly communication, and campus collaboration: Opportunities for libraries by Richard Fyffe and William C. Welburn Electronic submission, storage, and dissemination of student theses and dissertations are growing more common in universities and colleges. For many libraries, ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) are the first targets for an institutional repository program, and represent an opportunity to engage graduate students and their faculty advisors in broader conversation about open access, intellectual property management, long-term management of digital content, and other scholarly communication issues. Source: C&RL News (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:31:16 +0100 573056 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/20/arl-statistics-2005%e2%80%9306-now-online/ ARL Statistics 2005–06 Now Online 136 pages; PDF. From the introduction: The ARL Statistics 2005–06 describe a familiar picture for research libraries in North America. The rising cost of serials is outpacing general inflation, the cost of monographs is hovering close to inflation, and salaries are increasing moderately more quickly than inflation. As seen in Table 1 and Graph 1, the numbers of reference and circulation transactions have fallen from their levels of 10 years ago, but more users participated in instructional services offered by the library. Librarians are becoming more involved in the instructional process and are increasingly an integral part of the teaching and learning infrastructure at their institutions. Source: Association of Research Libraries (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:53:01 +0100 572454 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/20/brooklyn-public-library-hopes-its-blogging-leads-to-live-chats/ From the article: The Brooklyn Public Library has taken up blogging. The “No Shush Zone” launched Sunday, aiming to lure cyber-readers away from their computer screens and into the Central Library or one of its 59 branches. “BPL created the ‘No Shush Zone’ blog to develop more - and newer - ways to engage with the Brooklyn community,” said Dionne Mack-Harvin, executive director of Brooklyn Public Library. “This new channel of communication will allow customers to provide feedback and tell us what’s important to them, so we can serve them even better.” Since becoming executive director last year, Mack-Harvin has been working to reshape and update the image of Brooklyn’s libraries, making them more like community centers than the traditional sites of quiet research and study. Source: NY Daily News (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:07:32 +0100 572460 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/19/highlights-from-new-report-library-services-for-distance-learning-programs/ A new fee-based report from Primary Research Group. Here are some highlights from the report: Some of the report’s many findings are that: • Exactly half of survey respondents offered special classes or training programs for distance learners. Non-U.S. libraries were 20% more likely than U.S. libraries to offer such classes. • Just over a third of the sample, 37%, offered any kind of formal non-credit or credit course worth 1, 2, or 3 credits on the subject of information literacy for either distance learners or traditional students. • The majority of the sample, over 72%, had a Web page on the library Website dedicated to the needs of distance learners. (more…) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:53:27 +0100 571857 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/19/preview-new-library-of-congress-experience/ Library of Congress Experience Preview the new exhibitions and technologies designed to inspire and engage, that will be launched in April in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington. Source: LC (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:49:04 +0100 571861 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/19/briefs-librarian-in-nations-headlines-jazz-trumpeter-irvin-mayfield-plans-ambitious-overhaul-of-new-orleans-library-system/ + Librarian in nation’s headlines: Lindsay firing sparks debate on news sites and among bloggers (via Visalia Times-Delta) + Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield plans ambitious overhaul of New Orleans library system (via AP) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:45:34 +0100 571863 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/18/voice-of-america-airs-segment-about-digitization-at-the-library-of-congress/ US Library of Congress Puts Knowledge on the Web Watch or listen to this feature. From the text report: The Library of Congress has been preparing for the digital age since the 1960’s, when it used early technology to create and share its bibliographic information in electronic form. In the 1990’s, the library started distributing digitized versions of its treasures to schools and libraries across the United States. Now, there are millions of digitized contents available on the library’s web site for users across the world. Source: Voice Of America (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:37:40 +0100 571344 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/18/asian-library-at-uc-berkeley-is-first-of-its-kind-in-us/ From the article: A new $46.4 million, four-story East Asian Library opens today at the University of California-Berkeley, with 450,000 items in Chinese, Japanese and Korean under one roof for students, scholars and members of the public alike. The university says it is the first freestanding structure at a U.S. university built solely for East Asian collections. It also boasts the world’s largest collection of materials on contemporary China outside of China. The university began collecting East Asian works more than a century ago. The library’s holdings have been scattered across the campus and stored at sites as far away as Richmond. Source: San Jose Mercury News See Also: Cal’s East Asian library’s gold is on shelves (via SF Chronicle) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:41:02 +0100 571345 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/03/16/moving-and-shaking-in-kansas/ Congratulations to fellow Kansan David Lee King, who has been named as one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers for 2008. David is doing amazing stuff at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library (and inspiring others at the library to do amazing stuff), as well as blogging and speaking nationally about library progress. Thanks for representing Kansas progress in Libraryland, David! Congratulations to all of the other 2008 Movers and Shakers, including the Lady of the Rebel Yell, Michelle Boule, New Jersey Transformer (more than meets the eye!) Peter Bromberg and LibraryThing mastermind Tim Spalding. Well done, all of you! (Source: the goblin in the library) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:24:52 +0100 571166 http://granite.medlib.iupui.edu/rlmlnews/?p=153 The Medical Library will be open from 7 am to 5 pm on Friday March 21st 2008. (Source: IU Medical Library News) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:21:57 +0100 571304 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/03/16/moving-and-shaking-in-kansas/ Congratulations to fellow Kansan David Lee King, who has been named as one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers for 2008. David is doing amazing stuff at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library (and inspiring others at the library to do amazing stuff), as well as blogging and speaking nationally about library progress. Thanks for representing Kansas progress in Libraryland, David! Congratulations to all of the other 2008 Movers and Shakers, including the Lady of the Rebel Yell, Michelle Boule, New Jersey Transformer (more than meets the eye!) Peter Bromberg and LibraryThing mastermind Tim Spalding. Well done, all of you! (Source: the goblin in the library) Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:17:28 +0100 570908 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/14/new-issue-online-ifla-journal-2008-no-1/ New Issue Online: IFLA Journal, 2008, No. 1 132 pages; PDF. Articles include: + Editorial: From Grassroots to National Libraries + Reaching Out to Vulnerable Groups in China: a broad library with social inclusion + E-Government in the Islamic Republic of Iran: reaching out to the world? + Recognizing Best Practice in Portuguese Higher Education Libraries + The Reflective Online Searching Skills (ROSS) Environment: embedding information literacy into student learning through an online environment + Library Personalization Systems: an Indian experience + Library Services for Blind People: an African perspective + The National Library of Pakistan: an overview Source: IFLA (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:59:56 +0100 569757 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/13/blackwell-gives-5-million-to-oxfords-bodleian-library/ Blackwell gives £5 million to Oxford’s Bodleian Library Julian Blackwell has donated £5 million from his personal Trust to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, “the largest single cash donation ever made to a university library in the UK” according to the University. The donation will help transform the housing of the Bodleian’s collections and will open up its treasures to the public. Source: UKFundraising (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:49:44 +0100 569138 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/12/blackwell-gives-5-million-to-oxfords-bodleian-library/ Blackwell gives £5 million to Oxford’s Bodleian Library Julian Blackwell has donated £5 million from his personal Trust to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, “the largest single cash donation ever made to a university library in the UK” according to the University. The donation will help transform the housing of the Bodleian’s collections and will open up its treasures to the public. Source: UKFundraising (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:23:46 +0100 569051 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/12/new-york-public-library-unveils-1-billion-transformation-plan/ New York Public Library Unveils $1 Billion Transformation Plan + Re-envisioned Library System to Meet the Needs of a Growing, Changing New York Fifth Avenue Building Dramatically Renovated to Become Flagship Lending and Research Library, A Model for the Urban Library of the Future Large Hub Libraries Established in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island as Anchors to Neighborhood Branches Expanded Digital Resources Increase Access to Library Collections $100 Million Gift From Stephen A. Schwarzman is the Largest Outright, Unrestricted Donation to a New York City Cultural Institution See Also: NYPL Fact Sheet (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:13:46 +0100 568687 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/12/finn-returns-library-book-more-than-a-century-late/ Finn returns library book more than a century late A Finnish library-goer apparently thought ‘better late than never’ and quietly returned a book on loan for more than 100 years to a library in Vantaa, in southern Finland. The library had long since lost track of the loan but welcomed back to its collections the bound copy of a 1902 volume of Vartija, an active religious monthly periodical at the time. Source: Reuters Source: Reuters (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:05:37 +0100 568586 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/07/imls-announces-results-of-study-on-the-internets-impact-on-museums-and-libraries/ IMLS Announces Results of Study on the Internet’s Impact on Museums and Libraries Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Anne-Imelda Radice released results of InterConnections: A National Study of Users and Potential Users of Online Information March 6 at the 9th annual WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World in Miami. This new report offers insight into the ways people search for information in the online age, and how this impacts the ways they interact with public libraries and museums, both online and in person. “Museums and libraries are alive and well in the digital world!” Radice said. “The InterConnections report shows how people currently search for information and makes the case that the libraries and museums must provide service both online and in person.” The study found that: * Libraries and museums are the most trusted sources of online information among adults of all ages, education levels, races, and ethnicities. Libraries and museums rank higher in trustworthiness than all other information sources including government, commercial, and private Web sites. The study shows that the public trust of museums and libraries migrates to the online environment. * The explosive growth of information available in the “Information Age” actually whets Americans’ appetite for more information. People search for information in many places and since the use of one source leads to others, museums, public libraries, and the Internet complement each other in this information-rich environment. * The Internet is not replacing in-person visits to libraries and museums and may actually increase onsite use of libraries and museums. There is a positive relationship between Internet use and in-person visits to museums and public libraries. See Also: Access the Full Text of the Report Along with Related Documents (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:29:51 +0100 566381 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/04/uk-from-knowledge-to-health-in-the-21st-century-aligning-libraryknowledge-service-to-core-nhs-business/ New Report: UK: From knowledge to health in the 21st Century, Aligning library/knowledge service to core NHS business 2 pages; PDF. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has submitted two important documents to the Department of Health both of which underpin the improvement of NHS Library Services and ensures that high quality health knowledge informs patient care. They are the report of the National Review of NHS Health Library Services in England, sponsored by the Department of Health and authored by Professor Peter Hill (formerly the Postgraduate Dean for the North East) and the National Service Framework for Quality Improvement, which has been a key work stream of the National Library for Health within the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. + The Review Report and the Framework for Quality Improvement can be located at: http://www.library.nhs.uk/aboutnlh/review Direct to Individual Reports: ++ Report of a National Review of NHS Health Library Services in England: From knowledge to health in the 21st Century. +++ National Service Framework for Quality Improvement for NHS Funded Library Services in England. Source: NHS (via Tom Roper’s Weblog) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:01:20 +0100 564542 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/03/so-sad-so-long-and-farewell-at-least-for-know-free-remote-access-to-databases-from-new-jersey-knowledge-initiative/ Like we said last week, very sad news for both librarians, end users, and vendors. Let’s hope it’s not the start of a national trend. From the article: The rolling shutdown of the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative’s online resources by vendors was all but complete on Friday, a day after the state-funded database failed to meet its deadline to secure a $1 million bailout from legislators…The shutdown means the loss of access to more than 10,000 journals and millions of articles in the fields of science, medicine, technology and business, which many users, particularly small businesses and the state’s community colleges, will not otherwise be able to afford, Peiffer said. Source: Philadelphia Business Journal (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:19:08 +0100 564150 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/03/briefs-rss-quick-summary-disturbing-book-will-stay-in-school-library/ + Disturbing book will stay in school library (via Boston Globe) + RSS Quick Summary Compare and Contrast the Various Versions of RSS. + Improving innovation: Search Engines Could Be the Answer (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:05:05 +0100 564152 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/03/02/alas-top-honor-goes-to-three-big-names-in-childrens-services/ ALA’s Top Honor Goes to Three Big Names in Children’s Services Pat Mora, Effie Lee Morris, and Peggy Sullivan—three superstars in children’s services—were elected honorary members of the American Library Association for their outstanding contributions of lasting importance to libraries and librarianship. Source: SLJ (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:17:21 +0100 563842 http://granite.medlib.iupui.edu/rlmlnews/?p=150 Starting March 3, 2008 the Medical Library will be opened from: Monday-Friday 7:00 am to 9:00 pm Saturday 8:30 am to 9:00 pm Sunday 12 Noon to 9:00 pm Daily from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. any IUPUI or IU card will have access. After 5:00 pm Non-IU Patrons call - 274-7182 for entry. Guest Computers Stations Available: Daily until 5:00 pm (Source: IU Medical Library News) Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:08:50 +0100 563704 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/02/29/epa-library-closures-hampering-agency-work-arbitrator-finds/ EPA Library Closures Hampering Agency Work, Arbitrator Finds From the article: A federal arbitrator has found the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guilty of unfair labor practices and acting in bad faith in its national series of library closures, according to a ruling posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). EPA is ordered to bargain with affected public employee unions before making any further changes in its library network. During the past two years, EPA has closed or reduced access to much of its network of libraries which serve both its own specialists and the public. Altogether, access to EPA libraries in 23 states has been completely lost, and several specialized collections have been shuttered, including its headquarters library. Source: Common Dreams (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:57:30 +0100 562753