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 Reference interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:51:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/whats-the-oldest-cultural-organization-in-nyc-the-new-york-society-library-established-1754/ Christopher Gray Writes: Even as a taxi-driving college dropout I was attracted to the library’s creaky, old-shoe character. I went in to join in the early 1970s wearing a ponytail and army pants. Behind the desk was Helen Ruskell, to me a bit scary, kind of a battle ax. She looked at me doubtfully, and with good reason: Since 1920 she had been a gatekeeper of an institution that predated the public library system by more than a century. The library was first quartered in City Hall, at Wall and Broad Streets, and it often claims to have been the first library of Congress, as congressmen borrowed its books when New York was the nation’s capital, from 1789 to 1790. Although Columbia College was also founded in 1754, I have discovered no other library, museum or similar organization predating this peculiar institution. By the mid-19th century the library flowered into a full-fledged literary organization, with lectures by Poe, Emerson and others, and in 1856 put up a new home on University Place, then a smart residential address. [Snip] Members began moving uptown and having their books delivered, and the library’s literary aspirations faded. In 1937 it relocated to its present 1917 town house on East 79th Street, after shelves were installed in the gutted shell of the back half. That was the institution guarded by Miss Ruskell when I arrived, a wonderful but musty book-lending operation for polite private school families, although anyone could come to the first-floor reference room and consult any book. The NY Society Library is located on E. 79th St. They have a Facebook page and Twitter feed. You can also learn more on their web page. Access the Complete Article Source: NY Times Hat Tip: ALA (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:57:41 +0100 825327 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6077 The Electronic Resources Librarian, under the general supervision of the Assistant Director for Technical Services, is responsible for budgeting, licensing or otherwise acquiring, compiling and loading bibliographic records for, and maintaining online access to, all the electronic resources acquired by the library. This position is also responsible for evaluating and renewing as appropriate continuing accessibility to the library's electronic resources. This position will also, under the guidance of the Assistant Director for Reference Services and the reference department, initiate new electronic resource acquisitions. This position also catalogs (both original and copy cataloging) electronic resources including unique digital objects such as maps. And, as needed, will also provide support and maintenance for computer equipment and communications, in conjunction with other library staff and the University ITS Department. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:55:02 +0100 825252 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14592 Rare Map Curator (Stanford University, California) Stanford University Libraries is seeking an innovative, creative and inventive individual to develop a cutting-edge program combining rare and historic cartographic materials with up-to-date geospatial technologies in support of teaching and research across the campus. You will work with faculty, graduate students and library colleagues to manage, curate, collect and provide high level research support for the cartographic and geospatial materials in an historical Map Room. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:50:02 +0100 825250 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14594 Information Literacy Librarian (with Music focus) (Davidson College, North Carolina) New librarians: start your career at a top-ranked liberal arts college! Do you have a passion for teaching? Do you enjoy working with students and faculty? Help us expand our information literacy program and teach our outstanding students in class and one-on-one. We want your newbie enthusiasm and fresh ideas, and we’ll mentor you in your growth. The Davidson College Library is looking for an enthusiastic, creative, service-oriented librarian to join our team. The successful candidate will participate fully in the library’s information literacy initiatives and work closely with students, faculty, and staff. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:50:02 +0100 825249 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14593 Head Librarian and Bibliographer, Branner Earth Sciences Library (Stanford University, California) Stanford University’s School of Earth Sciences aspires to be a world leader in its field and the Branner Earth Sciences Library exists primarily to support the school’s teaching and research. If you are a subject specialist in an earth sciences discipline, consider joining a stellar team of science librarians at our top-ranked research university. We seek a Librarian to develop and manage collections in support of the four departments in the School of Earth Sciences: Geological & Environmental Sciences, Geophysics, Energy Resources Engineering and Environmental Earth System Science. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:50:02 +0100 825248 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14591 Education Librarian (Auburn University Library, Alabama) Auburn University, a land-grant institution with an enrollment of more than 24,000 students, invites applications for a twelve-month tenure-track position as Education Librarian. The Auburn University Libraries belong to the Association of Research Libraries, house a collection of more than three million volumes, and operate with a current materials budget of $5.8 million. Auburn is a small, friendly university town located on the beautiful plains of eastern Alabama, about 50 miles east of Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, and 115 miles southwest of Atlanta, Georgia. Other nearby cities are Birmingham, Alabama (110 miles northwest) and Columbus, Georgia (35 miles east). ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:50:02 +0100 825247 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/03/10/reference-books-to-go-the-liberation-of-our-reference-books/ Rick Librarian – “One thing that you could always count on was that the reference books were here on the shelves. As good as that was in the past, the problem now is that the reference books are here on the shelves, but no one is here using them. They are just sitting. So we are liberating them. We’re going to let them out to anyone with a card, just like other books, magazines, CDs, and DVDs.” (Source: Library Stuff) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:30:18 +0100 825306 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/google-announces-digitization-project-in-italy-updates-maps-with-biking-info-u-s/ First, Mountain View has announced that they’ve made an agreement with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and will work with the Rome and Florence National Libraries to digitize up to a million out-of-copyright works. The librarians at each library will decide what will be digitized. The Google news release also contains a comment about Europeana, a European Commission project to digitize cultural materials from around Europe. For those interested, this page lists the organizations participating in the Europeana program. According to their web site, they have six million items (images, texts, books, sounds, videos) digitized so far. In addition to Europeana there is also the European Library Material in this database comes from National Libraries throughout Europe. On the topic of other digitization in Europe, the Google Blog notes: Digitization of books is a tremendous undertaking, requiring the joint effort of a great number of public and private stakeholders. For this reason, we’re supportive of many other efforts at digitization, such as the European Commission’s Europeana. We want to see these books have the broadest reach possible — the books we scan are available for inclusion in Europeana, of which the Florence Library is a contributing member, and other digital libraries. The more of the world’s historical, cultural treasures we can bring online, the more we can unlock our shared heritage. Stay tuned. It will also be interesting to see what other digital library projects ask for access to the scanned content. See Also: Medieval Tomes Slated for Digitization (via AP) This article reports that works by Galileo will be included in the digitization. 2) The other news from Google is about Google Maps. Beginning today, biking directions are available. The company says this has been a very frequent request of users. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:37:52 +0100 825331 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/three-ala-award-winners-announced/ 1) Jennifer Boettcher from Georgetown University has been awarded the Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship. Administered by: Business Reference & Services Section (BRASS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). In choosing Boettcher for this honor, the committee cited her numerous contributions to the field of business librarianship. She has published extensively in the field, including the widely used reference book,“Industry Research Using the Economic Census: How to Find It, How to Use It.” In addition, she has presented at numerous professional meetings and published on topics concerning NAICS, government sources, and scholarly communications. She is very active in the business librarian profession—including past service as chair of RUSA’s Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)—and she has taught business reference for a number of years at Catholic University’s library school. 2) 2010 Haycock Award awarded to Michael Gorman, University Librarian Emeritus, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. He’s also a past president of ALA. The Haycock Award is an annual award honoring an individual for contributing significantly to the public recognition and appreciation of librarianship through professional performance, teaching and/or writing. “This award is a fitting acknowledgment of his lifetime contribution toward promoting the profession with dedication, intelligence and passion through many written works and hundreds of spoken presentation,” noted one individual who nominated Gorman. 3) The Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) awards to 2010 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology to Dr. John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and founder of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.sfu. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:22:27 +0100 825332 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/cwQOWKLlLsk/judaica-reference-and-bibliography.html The Judaica Reference and Bibliography Awards for 2010, given yearly by the Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Division of the Association of Jewish Libraries, have been announced (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:57:37 +0100 825266 http://lisnews.org/library_blog_contest_salem_press Hey, LISNews has company...Salem Press (they publish literary and history reference libraries in a variety of formats) is looking for the coolest library/librarian blogs around. Here's their contest announcement: As you are probably aware, blogs about libraries have spread across the web. There are (literally) hundreds of people writing about books, libraries, librarians and related subjects. If you count the blogs that come from specific institutions, spreading local news, there are thousands of the things. Some are funny. Some are brilliant. Others, aren't. Salem Press' staff includes many fans of library blogs. We're entertained and enlightened by them. So, we've decided to recognize the best efforts in the field. Not only to praise the praise-worthy but also to publicize the good stuff. To that end, we're hosting something we call the Library Blog Awards. We think there should be a well-organized directory of library blogs and a "peoples' awards" program of some kind to let folks know what blogs are best-liked and most widely read. Go for it bloggers!! Thanks to the Effing Librarian for the tip! (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:23:32 +0100 825207 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/reference-resource-new-from-the-wall-street-journal-career-how-to-guides/ You can review the titles of these new guides (free) on this page. There are 30 guides currently available and organized into the following categories: + Your Career in a Tough Economy Example Guide: How to Indentify Industries that are Hiring + How to Start a Job Search Example: How to Write a Cover Letter + How to Succeed in a Job Interview Example: How to Negotiate Salary + Managing Your Career Example: How to Change Careers + How to Overcome Career Obstacles Example: How to Handle Office Politics + How to Identify Job Opportunities Example: How to Work a Career Fair + How to Work With Executive Recruiters Example: How to Find Recruiters in Your Niche Review these new guides page. Source: Wall Street Journal (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:40:42 +0100 825336 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14578 Director of Planning and Assessment (James Madison University - Libraries and Educational Technologies Division, Virginia) The Libraries and Educational Technologies (L&ET) division of James Madison University seeks a chief planning and assessment officer for library programs, services and collections; instructional technology programs, services and infrastructure, and faculty development programs. James Madison University is a public, comprehensive university of approximately 18,000 students located in the scenic Shenandoah Valley, two hours southwest of Washington, DC. The university has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the top-rated public regional Master’s level university for sixteen consecutive years and is consistently named one of the nation’s most wired universities. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:50:02 +0100 825067 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14587 Access Services Librarian (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) Access Services Librarian Institution: University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point Deadline: Screening begins April 2, 2010 and continues until position is filled. The University Library seeks a creative, public service oriented Access Services Librarian to manage all aspects, including policy and planning, of access services: main circulation, print and electronic reserve, interlibrary loan, and library outreach. This librarian takes an active role in the library’s instruction program, reference services, and collection development, and participates fully in scholarship and service as a tenure track library faculty member. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:50:02 +0100 825065 http://drakelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/03/o-with-horn-and-grave.html "O with horn and grave?" That would be the symbol pictured here, a Latin letter adapted for use in Vietnamese. Our new Typographic Desk Reference has this and lots of other curious information sure to delight those interested in such things! (Source: Drake Memorial Library) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825350 http://ricklibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/reference-books-to-go-liberation-of-our.html We are breaking with our past at Thomas Ford. One thing that you could always count on was that the reference books were here on the shelves. As good as that was in the past, the problem now is that the reference books are here on the shelves, but no one is here using them. They are just sitting. So we are liberating them. We're going to let them out to anyone with a card, just like other books, magazines, CDs, and DVDs.The one precedent here is the liberating of the magazines a couple of decades ago. We used to keep the magazines close for all the students doing reports and term papers. We now have online databases with full texts, and those days are long gone. Finally, it is time to free the reference books as well.Our Adult Services librarians have spent several weeks preparing to let reference books circulate. With Sandy Frank's assistance (she's the head of the circulation department), we have inventoried the collection, weeded out-of-date and worn-out materials, and changed the circulation system status for each record. The work is done and we are starting a quiet launch while we prepare marketing.Here are reasons for this new service:Use of reference books in the library has fallen off significantly in the past several years. Librarians with access to online resources are using the print reference items less frequently. Fewer clients are spotted using reference books. We reshelve reference books less often. The reference shelves rarely need straightening.Clients occasionally ask to borrow the reference books so they can use them at home or work.Much of the information in the reference books is available to us though our databases. Reference librarians will still have resources to answer questions.With less money to buy nonfiction books this year, it provides more items to loan students and other clients interested in nonfiction topics.Other libraries have begun to loan their reference books. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825184 http://outofthejungle.blogspot.com/2010/03/boston-public-library-branch-closings.html The Boston Globe's Andrew Ryan reports on a passionate and raucous meeting at the central Boston Public Library. Nearly 400 people packed a lecture hall in the beautiful Copley branch. When City Council President Michael Ross stepped to the microphone at one point, the crowd roared, and people shouted: "The public goes first!" and "Let the people speak!" And speak they did! The city council, Mayor Menino and the Trustees of the Public Library got quite an earful from the people of Boston. Sell a page from the 556-year-old Gutenberg Bible, one woman suggested. Charge a modest fee for library cards, said another, waving a $10 bill.One man said that he was a prison librarian while serving time in Walpole and that closing any library branches would be far worse than any of his crimes.“I may have robbed a bank, but I have never burned a book,’’ said the man, John McGrath. “And that’s what you do when you close a library branch, because they are never going to reopen.’’ (snip)“It’s outrageous that it has come to this,’’ said Yann Poisson of Dorchester. “Only a fifth-term mayor could dismiss libraries as a 21st-century anachronism, something that can be replaced by Yahoo or Google.’’The library’s president, Amy E. Ryan, outlined a broad range of criteria that will be used to target branches for potential closing, including computer usage, handicapped accessibility, proximity to other branches, and the story behind each location. No decisions have been made.The library lacks a sufficient number of computers, Ryan said, and it cannot adequately staff some of its most basic programs, such as story hours.“We have to ensure that if it says Boston Public Library over the door that we have to commit resources for families, kids, and adults,’’ Ryan said.Some at the meeting, though, accused Mayor Thomas M. Menino of trying to divide the city and pit neighborhood against neighborhood. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825179 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/nnoJyJ9PRwc/pirates-notes-and-queries Arrrr all film pirates really from Bristol? The secret of a good review; Can scratched glasses be repaired or must they be replaced?What was the regional accent of the stereotypical 17th- and 18th-century pirate? I think you mean, in films, why are all pirates from Bristol? Simply, because they arrrrr!Steven Edgar, BristolFor many people, myself included, the archetypal pirates' accent was that popularised by Robert Newton, who appeared in more than 50 films, most notably as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, a role he reprised on TV in the mid-1950s.Newton was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, and spoke with a distinctive West Country accent. Aboard most English/British ships, there were significant numbers of Scots (William "Captain" Kidd), Irish (Walter Kennedy), and Welsh (Admiral Sir Henry Morgan) sailors. It seems, however, that the largest group of sailors came from the south-west of England (Edward Teach, AKA "Blackbeard" was a native of Bristol and Francis Drake was from Tavistock in Devon) than anywhere else, which is unsurprising, given the pre-eminence of Bristol as the main trading port with the West Indies. So Newton's accent may well have been historically accurate.Nader Fekri, Hebden BridgeThe accents must have been diverse. Reference to Black Bart Roberts and The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers, both by Terry Breverton, shows the birth places of captured pirates in the early 18th century to include Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Greece, Ghent, Liverpool, Antigua, Bristol, Canterbury, Whitby, York, Devon, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Berwick, Jersey, the Isle of Man and London.Additionally, substantial numbers of crew members were escaped slaves of African descent from Antigua, and seamen from Sierra Leone. All crew members were treated equally, regardless of race, and shared the spoils. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:05:00 +0100 825060 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/09/new-from-nlm-global-directory-of-history-of-medicine-collections-database/ From the National Library of Medicine Announcement: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the creation of the Directory of History of Medicine Collections database. This unique resource is available at: http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hmddirectory/index.html. The Directory of History of Medicine Collections aims to serve as a resource to provide information about history of health sciences collections worldwide. The collections described in the Directory database provide research, reference and interlibrary loan services to scholars interested in the history of the health sciences. The database is keyword searchable, with the ability to refine your search results by categories: organization type, state/province, country, collection subject strengths and organization name. To view the table of contents, which is arranged alphabetically by US state, and city, followed by other countries listed alphabetically, go to: http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hmddirectory/directory/locations.cfm. Source: National Library of Medicine (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:02:43 +0100 824988 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/09/released-today-annual-usa-today-football-salaries-nfl-database/ Access the Football (NFL) Salaries Database It is now current through 2009. Search or browse for player by name, search by team or position. Salary Databases are Also Available For: + Baseball (MLB) Salaries through 2009 Season. + Basketball (NBA) Salaries through 2008-2009 Season. + Hockey (NHL) Salaries through 2008-2009 Season. Source: USA Today (via Twitter) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:38:16 +0100 824993 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14583 Reference Librarian (York University, Ontario) Reference Librarian, Leslie Frost Library, York University York University Libraries invite applications for the position of a fluently bilingual (French and English) reference librarian in the Leslie Frost Library, a tenure-stream appointment. Details are available at: http://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/viewposition.jsp?positionnumber=1102 York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative Action Program can be found on York’s website at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or a copy can be obtained by calling the Affirmative Action Office at 416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority. (Source: Latest ALA Job Listings) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:50:02 +0100 824870 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14578 Director of Planning and Assessment (James Madison University, Virginia) The Libraries and Educational Technologies (L&ET) division of James Madison University seeks a chief planning and assessment officer for library programs, services and collections; instructional technology programs, services and infrastructure, and faculty development programs. James Madison University is a public, comprehensive university of approximately 18,000 students located in the scenic Shenandoah Valley, two hours southwest of Washington, DC. The university has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the top-rated public regional Master’s level university for sixteen consecutive years and is consistently named one of the nation’s most wired universities. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:50:02 +0100 824869 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14582 Assistant Librarian (The Art Institute of Fort Worth, Texas) Job Summary This position is responsible for supporting the technical, circulation, and reference functions of the library. The position is responsible for overseeing the library facility, materials, service and operations in the absence of the Director of Library Services and the Reference Librarians. Incumbent must assure that the EDMC philosophy: quality services to clients; development, growth, involvement, and recognition of employees; sound economic principles; and environment which is conducive to innovation, positive thinking and expansion - is considered in carrying out the duties and responsibilities of this position. Key Job Elements -Process library materials used by patron. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:50:02 +0100 824867 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6076 27 hours/week, includes evenings and Saturdays. YA/Teen Services * Directs, plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates services to teens, including duties essential to the daily operation of the Teen Room. * Delivers reference, reader's advisory, and library orientation services to children, young adults, parents, teachers, and others. Instructs individuals and groups in the use of the library and resources such as the Internet, electronic databases, and emerging technologies. Uses technology to communicate with teens virtually. * Selects, evaluates, purchases, and weeds young adult materials in accordance with the allocated departmental budget, community needs, and professional standards. Analyzes collection use patterns. * Works with Library Director to plan and provide programs that best use the resources of the library, meet the needs and interests of the teen community, and promote library use. * Involves teens in planning and implementing services and selecting materials for their age group through active Teen Advisory Board. Maintains knowledge about the diversity of the teen community. Develops programs and acquires materials appropriate to their needs. * Initiates outreach to schools, youth centers, and other community groups. Establishes contacts and collaborates with these groups, particularly relevant to programming ideas. * Trains library staff in issues related to teens. * Promotes, publicizes, and represents teen services and the library to the community in cooperation with other library departments. * Sets short and long term goals and objectives for teen services as part of the overall library service plan. Analyzes current trends and issues affecting teens and incorporates these findings into overall services to this age group. * Advocates for teens in library discussions of policy, services and budget. May identify and work with the Director in pursuing grant and/or other funding possibilities. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:43:35 +0100 824871 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PegasusLibrarian/~3/-XzXDNpEtQk/close-reading-data-visualizations.html As is often the case with such TED talks, I watched Gary Flake’s demonstration of Pivot with a mixture of awe and jealousy. I want that kind of thing for the deep web as well as the free web! Go watch it, then come back. … No, really. I’m about to reference a specific visualization, so you should see it first. If you get bored, just watch the first sequence (until the flying people-graphs are done). … Ok. Wasn’t that cool? The instructor in me, though, noticed an implicit message in the visualizations that I think would reinforce incorrect assumptions that my students make all the time. My students are constantly looking at census data, for example, and hoping that they can make talk about how many of these people from this chart in their hands that describe educational levels — how many of these people died in that other chart on accidental deaths. They’re wanting to track individuals rather than talk about probabilities and percentages. And the initial example that Flake uses to talk about mortality and age absolutely reinforces that faulty understanding of the data. Icon-people fly from one column to the next as he filters for different characteristics, making it seem like if you just concentrated enough, you’d know everything there was to know about that one blue guy who started off 3rd from the right of the 4th row. I really wish the visualizations had figured out a way to make each one appear to be exactly what it was: a snapshot of a sample. Right now it looks like they’re drawing on incredibly detailed longitudinal data. Like Unlike (Source: Pegasus Librarian) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:30 +0100 825000 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=33153 “Gang of Four” Congressional Intelligence Notifications (PDF; 173 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS) “Gang of Four” intelligence notifications generally are oral briefings of certain particularly sensitive non-covert action intelligence activities, including principally, but not exclusively, intelligence collection programs, that the Intelligence Community typically limits to the chairmen and ranking members of the two congressional intelligence committees, and at times, but not always, to their respective staff directors. Gang of Four notifications are not based in statute but have constituted a practice generally accepted by the leadership of the intelligence committees and that is employed when the Intelligence Community believes a particular intelligence activity to be of such sensitivity that a restricted notification is warranted in order to reduce the risk of disclosure, inadvertent or otherwise. Intelligence activities viewed as being less sensitive typically are briefed to the full membership of each committee. In either case–whether a given briefing about non-covert action intelligence activities is limited to the Gang of Four, or provided to the full membership of the intelligence committees–the current statute conditions the provision of any such information on the need to protect from unauthorized disclosure classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive matters. Congress has said that its intent in this regard is that in extremely rare circumstances a need to preserve essential secrecy may result in a decision not to impart certain sensitive aspects of operations or collection programs to the intelligence oversight committees in order to protect extremely sensitive intelligence sources and methods. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:22:39 +0100 824941 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/09/death-risk-rankings/ Death Risk Rankings DeathRiskRankings.org calculates your risk of dying in the next year and allows you to compare that risk to others in the world. Compare death risks across Causes of death Age Race (US only) Gender US States European countries Source: Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation, Carnegie Mellon University (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:36:39 +0100 824999 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/GVeCWxl6kJg/ipl2-institute-march-15-and-march-16.html "In 1995, it took 35 students 70 days to develop what would become the world’s largest and most recognized free, online collection and reference service in the world: the Internet Public Library. This month, 91,982 reference questions and 40,000 vetted, searchable electronic resource items later, the Internet Public Library celebrates its 15th anniversary" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:39:29 +0100 824884 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/03/09/coverguess-from-librarything CoverGuess was released last week, and the LibraryThing blog post explains the what and why better than I can: What is CoverGuess? CoverGuess is a sort of game. We give you covers, and you describe them in words. If you guess the same things as other players, you get points. Why are you doing this? The goal is to have fun, but also to build up a database of cover descriptions, to answer questions like “Do you have that book with bride on the bicycle?” You have to have a LibraryThing account to play, but it’s worth a free account to get in on the action. CoverGuess was inspired by one of my favorite internet timesinks, Google’s Image Labeler. Both of these make the internet a better place, but CoverGuess could actually help in answering reference questions. I’ll be keeping watch for when the search component is released, but for now, racking up tagging points is fun. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:29:06 +0100 825032 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6969 State: Nebraska The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries seeks a highly energetic, creative, and knowledgeable, science librarian. This 12-month, tenure-track position follows the scholar-practitioner model providing instruction and reference for the sciences. Both entry-level and experienced librarians are encouraged to apply. The Science Librarian reports to the Chair of Research and Instructional Services and liaises with the department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Food Science and Technology and Entomology. Responsibilities: -Provides reference and instructional services in-person and via electronic means. -Evaluates, selects, and reviews materials and information resources for inclusion in the collection; manage the collection budget in assigned areas. -Participates in departmental, library-wide, and university faculty committees. -Develops strong liaison relationships with faculty and students in the Nutrition and Health Sciences, Food Science and Technology and Entomology departments and other assigned subject areas. -Actively engages in ongoing professional development, scholarship, and service to the profession. -Provides leadership for e-science initiatives on campus. Qualifications: Required: -ALA accredited master's degree in library or information science, or an equivalent combination of a relevant advanced degree and experience. -Academic training or BA/S degree in an agricultural, physical or life science area or equivalent experience. -Ability to work effectively and creatively in a rapidly changing environment. -Demonstrated analytical, organizational, communication, and time-management skills. -Excellent oral and written communication skills, interpersonal skills, and the ability to work effectively with a diverse population of faculty, staff, students and community members. -Knowledge of the scholarly communication and research processes in the Sciences. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:30:02 +0100 824777 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6978 State: California This is a senior management position in a private academic library. The overall duties include, but are not limited to, overseeing daily operations, programming and administration of reference, instruction, circulation, course reserves; and, researching and evaluating new services. Supervision of 5 FTEs. Requires • MLS/MLIS from an ALA Accredited institution or equivalent • Five plus years of progressively responsible librarian administrative experience in an academic library • Vision and capability to refine and develop the library of the future • Proven library management, budgetary and strategic planning and analytical skills • Reference experience using databases and other print and online sources • Teaching or training experience • Supervisory/management skills for 5 FTE positions • Clear understanding of the evolving role of the academic library in a time of complex transition in the technologies of scholarly knowledge • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Ability to exhibit strong customer service orientation for all levels of college constituencies and members of the public For more information, visit the Mills College website job description at http://tinyurl.com/yb5vu78 AIM Representative, Deb Hunt, is handling the recruitment and all inquiries. For more information, contact Deb at dhunt@aimusa.com or call 510-347-5505. Submitted on 2010-03-05 (Source: SLIS Careers Feed) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:30:02 +0100 824774 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/03/09/arbeitsgruppe-open-bibliographic-data/ Erst hat das CERN seine bibliographische Daten befreit, nun folgt die Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent in Belgien. Auf einer speziellen Webseite sind verschiedene bibliographische Datensets zum Download und zur freien Verwendung veröffentlicht. Diese Bibliothek wird sicherlich nicht die letzte sein, die ihre Katalogdaten in nächster Zeit veröffentlichen wird. Passend zu dieser Entwicklung hat sich eine Arbeitsgruppe zum Thema “Open Bibliographic Data” gegründet. Ziele: Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open bibliographic data Identify relevant projects and practices. Promote best practices as well as legal and technical standards for making data open (such as the Open Knowledge Definition). Act as a hub for the development and maintenance of low cost, community driven projects related to open bibliographic data. Weitere Informationen gibt es im Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki. [via OKFN] (Source: Infobib) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:58:32 +0100 825220 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/federal-bureau-of-investigation-internet-fraud/#comment-20914 this is not good. i was opening my emails one by one, ant this similar email came to me. hope cos i open it i wont get in trouble. but at least came to the fderal bureau of investigations website with the purpose of gettng the telephone nomber to make a complain via phone call but i can see clearly its already in theyr hands. hope they cach the responsile for all this. (Source: Comments for MPLIC Reference Highway) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:07:24 +0100 824812 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=ACRLNY_Events_and_Jobs_Full-Time_Tenure-Track_Faculty_--- The candidate will also be responsible for providing traditional and electronic reference service and information instruction. Dedication to outstand (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:37 +0100 824788 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=NH_Library_Jobline_Reference_Librarian_Part-time_Rivier_--- Hours for the academic year are Mondays, 4:00 - 8:30 pm and alternating Saturdays, 10:00 - 6:00 PM. Summer hours: Mondays 4:00 - 9:00 PM and alternat (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:35 +0100 824789 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14568 Senior Collection Development Librarian (North Dakota State University Libraries) The Senior Collection Development Librarian assigns and supervises the collection development activities of other subject librarians, coordinates the negotiation of licenses and contracts for electronic information resources, performs collection development and acts as liaison to academic departments in assigned subject areas. This position provides general and specialized reference and instruction/information literacy services to the NDSU community. The Senior Collection Development Librarian also engages in professional development and other scholarly activities, and completes other projects and duties as assigned. This position requires: an accredited M.A., M.S., M.L.S, or M.L.I. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:50:02 +0100 824706 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14577 Educational Services Librarian (North Dakota State University Libraries) The Educational Services Librarian provides general and specialized reference and research services for the NDSU Libraries; provides instruction and information literacy services; is responsible for collection development in assigned subject areas; acts as liaison to assigned academic departments; actively engages in professional development and other scholarly activities; and completes other projects and duties as assigned. This position requires: an accredited M.A., M.S, M.L.S., or M.L.I.S; knowledge of computers and information/learning technologies; internet, word processing, database and spreadsheet skills; strong communications skills; teaching skills. To apply for this position, go to https://jobs.ndsu.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:50:02 +0100 824705 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/KbWLo_lHmrA/ode-to-adwords.html [From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very pleased to have Allison Schwam, Senior Search Analyst at Backcountry, join us here. -Ed.]When you don’t have to sacrifice your love of the outdoors for your career or vice versa, it’s something special. In fact, my love of both skiing and marketing has grown dramatically since I took my job at Backcountry. Getting to work with Google, specifically managing our AdWords account, is an online marketing geek’s dream come true. Combine that with every skier’s dream of Utah powder, and life is good.Day traders wake up every morning to check their portfolio — I get up and check my AdWords accounts. Backcountry sells gear and equipment for the outdoor enthusiast from ski boots to tents, and we sell all of it online. My job is to drive valuable, qualified traffic 365 days a year to Backcountry using AdWords. The AdWords platform lets me manage hundreds of campaigns and hundreds of thousands of keywords with relative ease. I have access to huge amounts of data that are revealed as daily ebbs and flows in impressions, clicks and bids. If you do a Google search for [telemark ski gear], you’ll see our ad:Backcountry was founded in 1996 by two self-proclaimed ski bums, John Bresee and Jim Holland. Since then, the company has grown to hundreds of employees. I’ve been working here for over two years. Ultimately, our goal is to “crush it,” as some ski town folk say: work hard, play hard.A typical powder day for me is like this one last Friday when Park City got 12 inches of new snow overnight. Here’s how AdWords helps me manage both work and fun.7 – 7:45amRoll out of bed.Get the coffee going.Fry eggs and bacon.Check snow totals.If it looks like a good ski morning, I first check my email and glance over our AdWords campaigns. All I need to do is my daily reporting to see that I’m on target for my revenue and cost goals. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825240 http://santafelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/03/be-creative.html I've been aware that Santa Fe is one of UNESCO's Creative Cities, but a recent trip to Santa Fe Literary News highlighted the different activities and organizations that are available in this program. The Santa Fe Creative Tourism site lists dozens of workshops, classes, and meetings for a large range of experiences, such as photography, pottery, agritourism, and of course, literary arts.Not all the programs are free or low-cost, so keep that in mind as you browse the offerings. Also, the website isn't always up-to-date, so you might want to check with the hosting organization to confirm. However, there is a blog that has new postings regularly. If you're a hosting organization, be sure to get listed.For locals and tourists alike, this is a fantastic resource for ongoing programs to explore a new aspect of your creative side. In fact, I'm browsing the Theater/Dance/Music page right now, and they list some great dance classes. Let's just hope I don't scare our tourists away when I practice my mambo at the reference desk. (Source: ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824762 http://bb.lori.ri.gov//viewtopic.php?t=8101&sid=d6d7d55f680989cf708425e503c18654 (Source: LORI Discussions Groups :: View Forum - Jobline -- to post, send email to webmaster@lori.ri.gov) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824716 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/the-ipl2-institute-march-15-and-march-16/ Join the ipl2 (Internet Public Library) in Celebration of 15 Years of Innovation, Service, and Research In 1995, it took 35 students 70 days to develop what would become the world’s largest and most recognized free, online collection and reference service in the world: the Internet Public Library. This month, 91,982 reference questions and 40,000 vetted, searchable electronic resource items later, the Internet Public Library celebrates its 15th anniversary. In conjunction with this event, The iSchool at Drexel will be hosting the Institute on the Future of Reference and its Impact on Library and Information Science Education March 15 -16, 2010. The institute is part of the IMLS grant Transforming the IPL into a Virtual Learning Laboratory. Faculty, students and staff from Drexel University , Florida State University, The University of Washington, The University of Illinois, The University of North Carolina, Syracuse University, and the Free Library of Philadelphia are among those participating in the institute. Additionally, two special open presentations have been planned in honor of this moment in the ipl2’s history. You can join the celebration as we reflect on the future of reference and its impact on the future of library and information science education. These presentations will be streamed live on video, with information also reported live on the ipl2 blog, Second Life, and Twitter. [Instructions below the agenda for accessing the conversation on our social networks.] ipl2 – Celebrating 15 years! Monday, March 15, 2010 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. EST Speakers: Mick Khoo: ipl2 Merger Surprises Joyce Valenza: Web 2.0 Reference on the Ground K-12 Special Guest Speaker and IPL Founder Joe Janes: IPL to ipl2: The Past, Present and Future Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:42:54 +0100 824644 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PegasusLibrarian/~3/gInQ7NBlEB0/how-big-is-my-library.html Image by the CCAC North Library: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccacnorthlib/3554627894/ I’ve been mulling over Steve’s latest post about some of the ways in which knowing the number of books in your library is either impossible or not very meaningful. And I imagine that for most of the parents on these college tours this number really isn’t very meaningful at all. For it to be meaningful you need to know how that number compares to other libraries, and what the collection’s strengths are. I freely admit that I really haven’t a clue how many “books” we have in our library. I think of it as a medium-sized college library. I know that we have one of the strongest collections of “big name” critical editions of renaissance scores in the state. I know we have almost nothing in our collection about topics that aren’t actively taught on campus. “Number of volumes” is one of those standard measures that libraries use to describe themselves, and I started wondering what was useful and what wasn’t about that measure. Like Carol in Steve’s comments (and actually like Steve says in his last non-bulleted paragraph), I think that there’s more to having more books than simply having more books. It makes lots of kinds of things possible that simply aren’t possible with smaller collections. On the other hand, when that’s the number that we give to people who are, in effect, asking “how good is your library,” I think we’re missing the boat. And when the parents of prospective students ask “how many books do you have” they are actually asking you “how good is your library.” It’s a classic compromised question (for those of you familiar with the reference interview). ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:46:34 +0100 824778 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/special-edition-2010-census-by-the-numbers/ Special Edition – 2010 Census by the Numbers This year, America conducts its 23rd census. The nation’s largest domestic mobilization began in a remote corner of Alaska and will continue throughout the rest of the country — and in Puerto Rico and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the Virgin Islands) — with the goal of counting every resident once, and only once, and in the right place. Although the 2010 Census questionnaire is simple and easy to fill out, the census is a massive, complex operation involving millions of forms and hundreds of thousands of census workers. To mark this milestone in the nation’s history, the Census Bureau presents some of the amazing numbers involved in counting the nation’s estimated 309 million residents. Periodically, throughout the duration of the census, we will update and reissue this Facts for Features. Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:55:57 +0100 824596 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/new-from-google-labs-an-experimental-data-visualization-tool-for-public-data/ First, a few paragraphs of background. You likely remember when Google began offering a few data of government data (population, unemployment, etc.) on certain results pages if the search query called for it. This feature began last April. The service remains available but we haven’t heard of many other U.S. Government data sets being added aside from selected data from the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Census. What we did learn was that a large amount of information (some of the 800 World Development Indicators from the World Bank) became available November, 2009. Btw, this help page lists what data sets are available from U.S. Government sources and the World Bank. Of course, while Google was doing this Wolfram Alpha was developing and providing some of the same and similar data in different ways. For example, here’s the query “Unemployment Rate California” and the result from Google and Wolfram Alpha. With World Bank data is much the same. One example we found interesting was one hyperlinked directly from Google’s help page: “the world’s life expectancy.” As you’ll notice, at least at this time (things can change quickly at Google), no result with World Bank data is shown. Wolfram Alpha has an answer and a bunch of nuggets surrounding it. So, that’s the background. Today, Google Labs is releasing an experimental data visualization service called Google Public Data Explorer. Using query logs and other tools Google came up 80 most popular, “data and statistics search topics.” They include: + School comparisons + Population + Gross Domestic Product (GDP) + Last names + Consumer price index, inflation + Accidents, traffic violations The list users is based on one week of searches using only U.S. data. You can obtain a complete list of all 80 search topics in this PDF (10 pages). ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:36:20 +0100 824600 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14570 Reference Librarian (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Comprehensive research university library in exciting, affordable city, seeks candidates with energy, creativity, flexibility, and strong commitment to public service. • Provide reference service and instruction, including one-on-one and classroom teaching, preparation of instructional tools, and liaison to academic faculty. Includes some evenings and weekends. • Participate on team of librarians developing designated subject collections and public services plans, policies, procedures to support the Libraries’ service mission. • Pursue library-supported professional development. Library highlights include an up-to-date multimedia library instruction classroom and an award winning Information Commons/Reference area. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:40:02 +0100 824517 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14572 Reference and Instruction Librarian (Charleston Southern University Library, South Carolina) The L. Mendel Rivers Library at Charleston Southern University invites applications for the position of Reference and Instruction Librarian, with heavy emphasis on instruction. A description of the position and qualifications, along with application procedures, can be found at http://www.csuniv.edu/HR/jobs_faculty.asp. (Source: Latest ALA Job Listings) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:40:02 +0100 824516 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SellersLibraryTeens/~3/tprq3gfqZLM/i-have-excellent-idea.html Let's change the subject! Lol reference to Disney's Alice in Wonderland.Seriously though, I noticed that at the Get Your Game On! club, people tend to be waiting for turns (sometimes for a long time) on Brawl, or gravitate towards Melee on the GameCube when Brawl isn't playing. I wonder if this idea would be overdoing it, or just adding to the fun: since the Wii plays GameCube games as well, perhaps I could (occasionally) bring in my Wii to a) Make the current Wii dedicated to non-Brawl, b) Offer multiple stations for Brawl simultaneously, or c) Expand the choices for people not playing on the current Wii (whether it be Brawl, Rock Band, or Guitar Hero).In case this idea is accepted... well, I have all data on Brawl unlocked, and I obviously have the game disk. For other games that my Wii does not have data for, anyone with an SD card can transfer it over (I have over 8GB of free memory across my SD and MicroSD cards). Additionally I can offer 2 Wii Remotes and Nunchucks for use, as well as 3 wireless and 2 wired GameCube controllers.Well, what does everyone think? Post your feedback! (Source: Sellers Library Teens) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:31:31 +0100 824736 http://lisnews.org/upper_norwood_library_was_hotbed_blackmail_and_treachery_records_reveal Upper Norwood (UK) library was a hotbed of blackmail and treachery, records reveal Jerry Savage, the library’s reference and local history specialist, told the Norwood Society how the first chief librarian, William A Stobie, was challenged for control by his senior assistant George Churchill and two juniors George Stevens and George Allard. The trio told Mr Stobie he was overly strict, his behaviour was being monitored and written records kept. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:36:53 +0100 824553 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/transcripts-academy-awards-speeches-backstage-interviews/ One more Academy Awards item today. The following resources might be useful at the reference desk not only today but throughout the year. Particularly, the final item, a searchable database. On this page you can find complete transcripts of the speeches award winners gave onstage as they received their Oscar AND also access the transcripts of the press conferences that take place backstage with each winner or winners, minutes after an award is presented. These transcripts are for the awards presented last night. Transcripts of hundreds of onstage speeches from many years of award shows can be found in this searchable database (free) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Some entries also include video clips. Source: AMPAS (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:05:52 +0100 824611 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/resource-of-the-week-catalog-of-nonprofit-literature/ Resource of the Week: Catalog of Nonprofit Literature By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor We are big supporters of nonprofits in general both here on ResourceShelf and over on DocuTicker, our sister site. Thus, we are huge fans of the Foundation Center. This is a venerable institution; in operation since 1956, it’s currently supported by roughly 550 foundations and is widely recognized as a pre-eminent authority on “organized philanthropy.” There is an avalanche of useful information on the Foundation Center’s website, and most of it is free. We thought we’d give a little love to the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature — formerly known as Literature of the Nonprofit Sector (LNPS) — this week. The Catalog of Nonprofit Literature is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It incorporates the unique contents of the Foundation Center’s five libraries and contains approximately 28,000 full bibliographic citations, of which nearly 20,000 have descriptive abstracts. It is updated daily. The basic search form offers a standard keyword search that allows for the use of standard boolean operators. Use the radio buttons to either search everything or restrict your search to full-text resources only. To the right are links to more information and/or help, including a guided tour, a bibliography of periodicals, and a quick look at recently added items. The “standard search” is actually an advanced search form offerings several more options that facilitate a more precise query. If you click on the buttons labeled “Index,” a window pops up with a directory of relevant subject terms. Nicely done! Though there are full-text resources in this database, many other items are not available online. They can be viewed at the Foundation Center’s headquarters in New York City, its national collection in Washington, D.C. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:11:11 +0100 824613 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Master_Plans_Webinars_-_Open_Solutions_Webinars_Series Steve Frye is a Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He manages both campus-wide reference services and information serv (Source: pligg - all) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:00:21 +0100 824435 http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/libnews/spring_issue_of_library_and_media_services_news_is_online/ The spring issue of Library and Media Services News is online at http://library.iusb.edu/newsletter/spring2010.pdf. Read more about Dean Russo's retirement, the upcoming Schurz Library Speaker Series, One Book, One Michiana, and incoming Dean Vicki Bloom. Beginning in the spring of 2008, the Library, in an effort to be more environmentally responsible, began to more heavily promote the online version of our newsletter instead of sending print copies to faculty and staff through campus mail. A new feature to our online newsletter are invisible e-mail and web links. When reading an article with e-mail contact information or a reference to to an interesting web site, simply click on the e-mail address or title of the web site and it will open. No need for copying and pasting! (Source: Schurz Library News) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825355 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arlisnap/~3/oXV0t-ZmQU4/ via LISjobs.com: Job Title: Reference Librarian Organization: The Art Institute of Washington Location: Arlington, Virginia, Description: The Art Institute of Washington Library is seeking a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: [ArLiSNAP]) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:57:05 +0100 825208 http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/toews.mp3 Several sources including TeleRead remind us that Read an E-Book Week 2007 begins today. Canada’s Rita Toews is the organizer of this special week long event. Steve Jordan Writes: Rita Toews has been working her butt off, interviewing for periodicals and blogs, contacting and drawing in new participants and promoters and twittering until her fingers are hoarse! As the list of partners and promoters of e-books has grown, the number of participating authors and publishers has increased enormously. On Smashwords, over 3,000 authors will participate in the promotional event. Blio, QBook, Diesel E-Books and Sylvan Dell Publishing have joined most recently. The event has been mentioned as far away as Poland and England and as close to home as the Huffington Post. And the exposure to e-books being created by the soon-to-be-released iPad is drawing even more interested parties in. Links e-book Book Store (Access Content to Download) A Librarian Speaks: Interview with Head of Reference, Wright State University Libraries, Sue Polanka Writer and Photographer, Sara Rosso, Shares Her Views on the Advantages of E-books. Much More Content on the Web Site Keep Current with the E-book Week Twitter Feed (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:00:56 +0100 824290 http://monitorlinks.typepad.com/newbooks/2010/03/avionics-weapons.html Test and Evaluation of Aircraft Avionics and Weapons Systems This unique book serves as both text and practical reference for all personnel involved in avionics and weapons system evaluation and testing, in the air and on the ground. Whether you... (Source: Monitor Links) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:44:28 +0100 824412 http://vivabibliotecaviva.blogspot.com/2010/03/estudos-sobre-mulher-na-ciencia-da.html Adjabeng, A.,  "Las bibliotecas como recurso para Acrecentar y Apoyar el Desarrollo Económico para la Mujer".  IFLA Council and General Conference, No. 70, 2004. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/037s_trans-Adjabeng.pdfDescriptores: Mujeres/Bibliotecas/Aspecto económico/Aspecto social/Discriminaión socialResumen: Los asuntos que se centran en la mujer han asumido una dimensión más profunda. Muchas actividades se han llevado a cabo para alarmar a los gobiernos, a organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales, instituciones políticas, sociales y económicas sobre los problemas de la mujer en general. Una de dichas actividades la Década para la Mujer de las Naciones Unidas 1975-1985, un periodo creado por las Naciones Unidas para crear una amplia conciencia en todo el mundo sobre los asuntos centrados en la mujer. Adjabeng, A.,  "Libraries as a source of relevant information to support and enhance economic development for women".  IFLA Council and General Conference, No. 70, 2004. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/037e-Adjabeng.pdfDescriptores: Mujeres/Bibliotecas/Aspecto económico/Aspecto social/Discriminaión socialResumen: Issues concerning women have assumed a wider dimension. Many activities have been carried out to alert governments, governmental and non-governmental organizations, political, social and economic and academic institutions about the problems of women in general. One of such activities was The United Nations Decade for Women 1975-1985, a period set aside by the United Nations to create a widespread awareness in the whole world on issues concerning women. Alfaya Lamas, E., Fernández Mariño, P., and Villaverde Solar, D.,  "Análisis de datos mediante observación documental en las noticias de prensa sobre misoginia".  Jornadas Españolas de Documentación, No. 11, 2009, pp. 298-301 . http://www.fesabid. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825058 http://outofthejungle.blogspot.com/2010/03/sixth-grader-organizes-reading-marathon.html The Boston Globe has a story today about Calliope Pina Parker, an eleven year old student in Hull, Massachusetts who is a heavy library user. She was appalled when the local library funding was slashed so deeply that it cost the town its state certification last month. That means that her Hull library card can no longer get her interlibrary loan or library privileges at other area libraries. (if you go to the whole Globe article, you can also watch a video featuring Calliope herself). “Now people from Hull can’t go to any other library,’’ said Calliope, whose card is no longer welcome at many other certified libraries.Wanting to do something about it, the 11-year-old organized an all-day reading of the J.K. Rowling book that started it all, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.’’Yesterday’s readathon and bake sale, with wizardly cupcakes and “magic wand’’ frosted pretzel rods, raised awareness about the library’s circumstances and collected money for the nonprofit Friends of the Hull Public Library.While keeping up with schoolwork at the South Shore Charter Public School in Norwell, Calliope found a location, publicized the event with fliers, phone calls, and e-mails, and organized a network of readers that extended well beyond her circle of friends.The schedule of participants filled a grid that stretched across three poster sheets at the Weir River Estuary Center. It included the names of two selectmen, provided flexibility for drop-ins, and allowed readers to go at their own pace - some took a page, some half a chapter.“It’s a great idea. Calliope really handled it herself. We were there to help her when she asked for it, but she really has put it together herself,’’ said Lindsay Clinton, a friend of Calliope’s mother, Jenn Pina, and a board member of Hull Performing Arts, which helps manage scheduling at the Weir River center. Reading marathons are something of a New England tradition. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824371 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BPLDNews/~3/zvYFS2EaueA/buena-park-library-district-offers-free.html The Buena Park Library District will be offering a bilingual beginning computer class (computación para principiantes) on Saturday, March 13, 2010, from 9 am to 10:30 am in the Library’s Boardroom. The class will be repeated on March 27 and April 3, 2010. This class is designed for those who have little or no experience with computers. Attendees will learn basic mouse and keyboard skills. Participants are asked to call the Information/Reference Desk at 714.826.4100 x125 to sign up since space is limited. (Source: Buena Park Library District News) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:13:22 +0100 824759 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/question-books-by-character-name/#comment-20909 Yt9sKO Excellent article, I will take note. Many thanks for the story! (Source: Comments for MPLIC Reference Highway) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:44:17 +0100 824813 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/popular-science-magazine-137-year-archive-free-browsing/ http://www.popsci.com/archives The entire 137 year archive of Popular Science magazine is here free for browsing.  Each issue can be viewed just as it first appeared at its original time of publication. (Source: MPLIC Reference Highway) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:01:14 +0100 824324 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/7-things-you-should-know-about-mobile-it/ http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EST1002.pdf Educause offers another entry here on Mobile It technolgy as part of it 7 Things You Should Know About … series. (Source: MPLIC Reference Highway) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:23:31 +0100 824325 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/academy-awards-acceptance-speech-database/ http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/ This database is a work in progress, so not all acceptance speeches are available, but speeches are being added as they become available. (Source: MPLIC Reference Highway) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:58:10 +0100 824326 http://www.comarmsblog.com/2010/03/archives-closed-where-do-i-find.html The archive will continue to be closed until 2011. What does this mean for your research project now?  The library will work with you to find alternate sources for completing research projects until the archive reopens.  Here are a few sample resources available on the CARL home page:  The online archive for the Combined Arms Research Library is an online collection of documents that exist inside the archive. While it is not entirely comprehensive, it does contain a wide variety of historical resources, papers and documents. There are currently 12 collections hosted.  The Links tab contains frequently used links  to military and community resources.  A list of library resources puts CARL resources close at hand, including periodicals, finding aids and other bibliographic resources.  There is also a list of databases that CARL currently subscribes to. These databases contain  a wealth of free information. Be aware that these resources may require you to authenticate through Blackboard or with your library card before you can use them.  Looking for something that isn't available on CARL's home page? Talk to a reference librarian. Librarians can work with you to find alternate resources that belong to other libraries, or in databases not directly available from CARL's home page.  Reference contact information:  Telephone: (913) 758-3053 or leav-carlref@conus.army.mil (Source: CARL Book Beacon) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:42:00 +0100 823238 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/03/06/reference-question-of-the-week-22810 I only got involved with this towards the end, but in plenty of time for the punch line. A woman called in to reserve a meeting room for later that day, and during the process, apparently she asked: Can the ceilings of any of your meeting rooms be raised? I didn’t hear about this until the next day, but it should have been a tip-off that trouble lay ahead. However, she was told there was an available room, and she would need to fill out our online reservation form to reserve it. That night the woman came in with her group, which is when I got involved. It turns out she never did actually reserve a room, but just showed up expecting one. All our rooms were in use by then, so after much scrambling around trying to find an available space, I ended up dividing our large meeting room with the movable wall - then I went back downstairs to the Reference Desk feeling satisfied about accommodating a patron’s request. About ten minutes later, the Children’s Librarian came down to see me. Our Children’s Room is right next to the meeting room, so she can often hear what’s going on in there, even at moderate noise levels. I thought she was going to commiserate about our online room booking system or not having enough meeting space to meet community demand, but instead she asked: Did you tell that group they could use a catapult? Ha. Apparently, this group was a school group, and for a science project they built and are experimenting with a catapult. It wasn’t quiet as large as the one in the picture, but still it was too big, too loud, and too dangerous for us to let them use it in the library. I’m actually a little bit in awe of them for apparently thinking it would be perfectly okay. Now, you know I like medieval siege weapons, but perhaps this is a good rule of thumb: if the library’s ceiling is too low to do something, then that is something you cannot do in the library. ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:25:47 +0100 824095 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/free-clip-art/#comment-20907 Hi, I liked the posts. Keep them coming. (Source: Comments for MPLIC Reference Highway) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:09:20 +0100 824814 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Library_Open_Solutions_Webinars_We39ve_finalized_the_line_up_and_--- Steve Frye is a Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He manages both campus-wide reference services and information serv (Source: pligg - all) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:00:34 +0100 824076 http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/news/default.asp?postid=1128 by Grace Dumelle, Genealogy and Local History Assistant Tucked away on a side street in Cicero, Illinois is a treasure trove of materials relating to Eastern European heritage and the impact of its peoples' immigration to Chicago, the Midwest, and beyond. It's the library of the Czech and Slovak American Genealogical Society of Illinois (CSAGSI). You'll find church anniversary books, biographical compilations, pamphlets, maps, journals, high school yearbooks and so much more. Of course there are reference copies of the essential publications of CSAGSI, also held at the Newberry, such as the Denni Hlastel Obituary Index and Index to the 1872-1899 Death Records of St. Procopius Church, Chicago, Illinois. See the Newberry's pathfinder for Bohemian research here (www.newberry.org/genealogy/bohemian.html). [-more-] Flipping through the pages of the 1933 World's Fair Memorial of the Czechoslovak Group, I found a full-page story with photos about Leader Department Store, a place where I spent my allowance growing up in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Though the text was in Czech, I learned there were three locations, begun by a gentleman named Eduard Oplatka. The photo of the 18th xamp; Paulina location I frequented showed awnings on the ground floor and a vertical sign almost three stories tall - details that were long gone by the time I knew the place. Materials like these enrich the history of many city neighborhoods and suburbs such as Cicero and Riverside. Judith Mason, Volunteer Coordinator, told me she's uncovered many Irish names while indexing a Czech newspaper. The Irish worked as foremen and pressmen for the newspaper and sometimes joined Czech organizations. There are probably similarly interesting discoveries to be made in the library resources for Czech and Slovak areas in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and other parts of the world. To see what the library holds, go to the CSAGSI web site www.csagsi. ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0100 824496 http://morriscty.blogspot.com/2010/03/morningstar-says.html Note from Morningstar (Investment Research Library)--which is available to you in the library or from home-- today:.. writing to let you know about our newest personal finance guide, “How To Find Your Money Baseline.” I have attached the PDF to this email and hope you and your patrons will find it useful. The booklet includes content and worksheets taken from Morningstar’s newest book, 30-Minute Money Solutions, written by Director of Personal Finance, Christine Benz. Topics covered include how to determine your net worth, see where your money goes, set financial goals, and create a budget.[...] We will soon be adding more market commentary, comparison tools, and calculators to our database. We hope to roll these out in the next few weeks. Lastly, we have two virtual training sessions scheduled in April. Regular monthly training is on Thursday, April 1st at 11am Central Time and a later session is scheduled for Thursday, April 29th at 6pm Central Time. Patrons, staff, and students are welcome to both sessions. To register send an email to librarytraining@morningstar.comDrop a note to our Reference desk if you'd like a copy of the money baseline guide. (Source: @MCL) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824807 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/Wz8hc9Ympjs/ The North Carolina State University Libraries are recruiting a Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning. Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 03603): The Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning provides research and instructional support and reference service for the NCSU Libraries' clientele. He or she collaborates with faculty members, other librarians, and instructional technologists to explore, develop, promote, and assess innovative online tools and services, including those targeting off-campus learners. With the Instructional Services Librarian and others, this position supports the creation of course- and curriculum-integrated web resources and identifies new and creative ways to enhance student learning and research skills. He or she participates in departmental and library planning; and serves on library-wide committees, task forces, and teams. NCSU Librarians are expected to be active professionally and to contribute to developments in the field. Reports to the Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning. Related Posts Digital Projects Librarian at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Repository Librarian at UNC-CH Program Coordinator for the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center at University of North Carolina Digital Library Jobs: Digital Technologies Development Librarian at NCSU (Source: DigitalKoans) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:04:26 +0100 824227 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/05/librarian-for-digital-technologies-and-learning-at-ncsu/ The North Carolina State University Libraries are recruiting a Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning. Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 03603): The Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning provides research and instructional support and reference service for the NCSU Libraries' clientele. He or she collaborates with faculty members, other librarians, and instructional technologists to explore, develop, promote, and assess innovative online tools and services, including those targeting off-campus learners. With the Instructional Services Librarian and others, this position supports the creation of course- and curriculum-integrated web resources and identifies new and creative ways to enhance student learning and research skills. He or she participates in departmental and library planning; and serves on library-wide committees, task forces, and teams. NCSU Librarians are expected to be active professionally and to contribute to developments in the field. Reports to the Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning. Related Posts Digital Projects Librarian at Plymouth State University Scholarly Communication Librarian at NYU Digital Repository Services Librarian at George Mason University Digital Projects Librarian at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Digital Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago (Source: DigitalKoans) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:04:07 +0100 823992 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/RlQrz4Mb_XY/ The Lebanon Valley College Bishop Library is recruiting a Systems and Electronic Services Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Under direction of the Director of the Library, the Systems and Electronic Services Librarian provides oversight and leadership in the planning, implementation, integration, and maintenance of a broad range of library electronic services including the integrated library system (SirsiDynix Symphony), the Serials Solutions Knowledge base and 360 Suite, EZProxy, access to electronic databases, serials subscriptions and packages, and other third-party applications. The Systems and Electronic Services Librarian participates in the design and maintenance of the library web presence and also assists students, faculty, staff, and other library users with electronic systems and services and participates in reference service and library instruction. Related Posts Interim Head Librarian of Systems and Technical Services at St. Olaf College Library IT Jobs: Systems & Electronic Services Librarian at Genesee Community College Library IT Jobs: Digital Services Librarian at Rollins College Library IT Jobs: Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian at Columbus State University Library IT Jobs: Systems/Metadata Librarian at Whitman College (Source: DigitalKoans) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:02:54 +0100 824229 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/05/systems-and-electronic-services-librarian-at-lebanon-valley-college/ The Lebanon Valley College Bishop Library is recruiting a Systems and Electronic Services Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Under direction of the Director of the Library, the Systems and Electronic Services Librarian provides oversight and leadership in the planning, implementation, integration, and maintenance of a broad range of library electronic services including the integrated library system (SirsiDynix Symphony), the Serials Solutions Knowledge base and 360 Suite, EZProxy, access to electronic databases, serials subscriptions and packages, and other third-party applications. The Systems and Electronic Services Librarian participates in the design and maintenance of the library web presence and also assists students, faculty, staff, and other library users with electronic systems and services and participates in reference service and library instruction. Related Posts Systems Librarian at Florida Institute of Technology Web Services Librarian at SUNY Potsdam Academic Librarian, Automation Librarian at University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac Web Services Librarian at Dominican University Systems Librarian at George Washington University Law School (Source: DigitalKoans) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:02:22 +0100 823994 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14546 Science Librarian (Furman University, South Carolina) Furman University is seeking applicants for the position of Science Librarian. The Science Librarian manages the operations of the Science Library and provides reference assistance, library instruction, and oversees circulation and collection development. Candidates are required to have a Master of Library Science from an ALA accredited library school and have at least an undergraduate degree in a natural science. Knowledge of science resources, familiarity with library information technology and enthusiasm for teaching are required qualifications. ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:40:02 +0100 823811 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14559 Reference & Instruction Librarian (California State University Monterey Bay) This entry-level, tenure-track position offers creative opportunities for a forward-looking, pragmatic, motivated individual who seeks experience across a variety of professional responsibilities while developing areas of focus with the potential to take on a leadership role. The successful candidate is able to communicate effectively with colleagues, students, and faculty in collaboratively designing and delivering general education, course-integrated information literacy instruction for lower-division CSUMB students. CSUMB advances its learner-centered information literacy program in a team-oriented, teaching library environment. ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:40:02 +0100 823810 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14551 Librarian - Children's Services (Sno-Isle Libraries, Washington) Librarian – Children’s Services Job 7454 Closes: 3/24/2010 Full Salary Range $4092 - $5624/month, 40 hours/week, plus benefits Oak Harbor Library, WA Sno-Isle Libraries is offering an excellent career opportunity for a Librarian in Children’s Services who will plan, develop, and create programs and materials for presentation of children’s programs. Communicate with other agencies, institutions and organizations serving children in the community. Provide general readers’ advisory and reference services. Sno-Isle Libraries value diversity in its workforce. We are committed to seeking bi-lingual applicants. Go to www.sno-isle.org/employment for complete job information and required application process. ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:40:02 +0100 823809 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14552 Librarian (Sno-Isle Libraries, Washington) Librarian Job 7455 Closes: 3/24/2010 Full Salary Range: $4092 - $5624/month, 40 hours/week, plus benefits Sno-Isle Libraries is offering an excellent opportunity for a Librarian who will provide general reader’s advisory and reference services to various age groups. Assess the needs for adults and seniors in the local community and develop services that respond to those needs. Sno-Isle Libraries value diversity in its workforce. We are committed to seeking bi-lingual applicants. Go to www.sno-isle.org/employment for complete job information and required application process. Applications must be received by Mail to HR, 7312 35th Ave. NE, Marysville, WA 98271, or FAX 360-651-7151 on the closing date. ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:40:02 +0100 823808 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/03/05/the-mind-of-the-researcher-daniel-russell-akla10.html Daniel Russell, Google Search Quality & User Happiness 2010 Alaska Library Association Conference, opening keynote speaker Lewis & Clark left without a decent map it’s a complicated world out there and you don’t want to end up like the Donner Party (hey, go that way; it looks good) what does the current information map look like? let’s be adventurers but keep our eyes and minds open did a demo of Google Earth cost to put the flyover together = $0 and four minutes of time Google will crawl it within 48 hours when Lewis & Clark published about their trip, it took 10 years we see the world differently, and the library isn’t what it used to be stacks are no longer a core competence — the information landscape has radically changed 1200 exabytes of new content are generated each year (1.2 yottabytes if that helps or 1.2 billion terrabytes) 3.6 zetabytes per person per year (mostly music and video) libraries don’t have to curate and manage that — it stream to you text words per pseron per year = .1% of that total the good news is that the amount of reading per person per year has gone up by 3X since 1980 (primarily due to internet access); happening online, not print so need to develop new skills and new literacies showed Google Books can click on the places in a book and travel to all of them can actually recapitulate Huck Finn’s journey down the river LoC has 10 terabytes of text data or .01 petabytes he has 2 LoCs at home an exabyte = 50,000 years of DVD or 10 billion copies of The Economist (there aren’t enough trees in Alaska to print them all) we’re supporting this renaissance of access to print culture at the same time we’re expanding online content 1. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:23:16 +0100 823913 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/05/academy-awards-online-searchable-databases-from-ampas-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-sciences/ The 82nd Annual Academy Awards take place on Sunday, so we thought it’s a good time to share several searchable databases worth knowing about. Actually, they’re not only worth knowing about for ready reference but these databases might be valuable to a variety of researchers. Access to all of these resources is free. First, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the organization that puts on the Oscars) has its own Academy Awards Database. The Academy Awards Database contains the record of past Academy Award winners and nominees, including Scientific and Technical Award winners. Basic and advanced search options are available as well as an option to browse statistics. Second, is the Motion Picture Credits Database Every year the Academy gathers credits from films hoping to qualify for the Academy Awards. Compiled and verified by the film’s producer or distributor, these credits also include production and releasing companies, MPAA ratings, running times, Los Angeles release dates, color, language, song titles, source authors and source material. Third, the Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database This database contains the full text of the speech the award winner made on stage as they accepted their Oscar. Do you remember Joe Pesci’s six word speech after he won the 1990 Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Goodfellas? Finally, two databases that will be of greatest interest to researchers in the Los Angele-area. The Motion Picture Scripts Database This database is an inventory of the motion picture script holdings of six Los Angeles-area libraries. It is limited almost exclusively to the screenplays of produced films; that is, films which were actually made. The only exception is the inclusion of a few published scripts of unproduced films. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:34:06 +0100 823890 http://www.olis.ri.gov/rhodarian/?p=649 NLS has been informed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Alternative Media Center that it will not provide IRS tax documents in braille for automatic distribution to libraries. A current list of accessible tax products is available by download. Individuals may also order hard-copy braille and large print documents by calling the IRS toll-free number 1-800-829-3676. For more information contact: Dawn Stitzel Head, Reference Section, National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.  Email : dsti@loc.gov (Source: Rhodarian) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:17:11 +0100 823917 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/gQJQtMoY07w/friday-brain-teaser-from-credo.html The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Biographies. "A biography is a description of someone's life. If it is written by the person himself or herself, it is called an autobiography. See if you can answer these questions about people's life stories" Answers here.1. James Boswell is best known for his "Life" of which person?2. "The Greatest" was the 1975 autobiography of which world-champion boxer?3. Virginia Woolf's "Flush" was a biography of what sort of animal owned by Elizabeth Barrett Browning?4. Complete this verse by Edmund Clerihew Bentley:The Art of BiographyIs different from Geography.Geography is about MapsBut Biography is about...5. Who wrote biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten, as well as books called "The Inklings" and "Geniuses Together"?6. "Brother Ray" is the autobiography of which American singer, written with David Ritz?7. How did Lytton Strachey describe four Victorians in the title of his 1918 book of short biographies of them?8. Who wrote the autobiographical novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", extracted from a work called "Stephen Hero"?9. Charles Laughton starred in a 1933 film about "The Private Life" of which English king?10. Anne Stevenson's "Bitter Fame" is a notoriously controversial biography of which of her close contemporaries? (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:46:02 +0100 823594 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14528 Academic Services Librarian (University of South Florida Libraries) Librarian: The University of South Florida’s Academic Services Department seeks an energetic, creative, and resourceful Librarian to deliver reference, research, and instruction services to faculty and students. The position collaborates with library and teaching faculty. A strong commitment to applying customer service techniques and practices in delivering instruction and reference services is necessary, as well as participation in scholarly research and professional activities. This position reports to the Director of Academic Services. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:40:01 +0100 823583 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/sMjeg51qVDk/refolution-reference-service-in.html REFolution: Reference Service in a Constantly Changing World - April 13-14, 2010 - Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:32:15 +0100 823603 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/_moUTni26A8/everything-is-illluminated-jonathan-safran-foer The critics praised its 'startling originality', but Everything Is Illuminated is nowhere near equal to the sum of its borrowed partsFew debuts have been so fulsomely praised as Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated. My Penguin edition comes with page after page of orgasmic appreciation: a tidal wave of "impressive", "smart", "wildly exuberant", "wonderful", "extraordinarily brilliant", "extraordinarily moving", "achingly heartbreaking", "shocking", "linguistically brilliant", "rambunctious tour de force of inventive intelligent storytelling". This flood of adjectives reaches its spate in the reviewers' attempts to convey just how fresh and new the book is. It isn't just original, it's "of startling originality" (that from both Jay McInerey and Nicci Gerard writing separately in the Observer). It's "dazzlingly imaginative", "marvellously inventive", "intensely inventive". This hymn-sheet-singing is – as just about every broadsheet critic of the book would express it – "extraordinary". Time after time the same sentiments and words and adjectives crop up – and time after time, as far as I can see, they bear little relation to the poor book. The question of originality is the most striking. Safran Foer (who is clearly a well-read, intelligent and sensitive writer) must have wondered what the hell was going on. Here he is, diligently weaving a tapestry of other people's stories, styles, ideas and imagery. And there is the critical mass claiming never to have read anything like it. It's weird. Foer has taken from everyone from Lawrence Sterne to (oh mercy) Dave Eggers: there's Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realism; there's a plotline plundered from William Styron; there are repeated borrowings from the Tin Drum (right down to having a character hide under someone's skirts). ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:30:02 +0100 823576 http://drakelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/03/whose-quote-is-this.html "I have always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking." Why, it's from one of Dorothy Sayers popular Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, Have His Carcase (1932). So if you'd like to save on original thinking, lol, or otherwise want a quote to use in a speech, talk, paper etc., try something like the following resource, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. We have it both online and in print, in our reference section (REF PN6080 .O95), where we also have many other books of quotations. (Source: Drake Memorial Library) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825353 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/03/mash-up-is-old-term151-years-to-be.html (Found via here) Disruptive Library Technology Jester pointed out that the term mash-up is 151 years old. He/she writes:-Ron Murray, a colleague at the Library of Congress (and no known relation to me), sent me a note about the history of the term “mash-up” in the Oxford English DictionaryL1 (subscription required). The definition of the first sense is “A mixture or fusion of disparate elements” with the notation that usage is rare before the late 20th century, and the OED includes this quotation:1859D. BOUCICAULT Octoroon I. 13 He don’t understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican.The reference to “Octoroon” appears to be for a playL2 called The OctoroonL3 that was first performed in 1859, making the mashup term about 151 years old. Wow. I always thought it was only about 60 years old and came from reggae mash up. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825159 http://wheelockcollegelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/03/spring-break-hours-march-6-14.html The Library will operate on the following schedule for spring break this year:Friday, March 5: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Saturday, March 6, and Sunday, March 7: ClosedMonday, March 8, to Friday, March 12: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Saturday, March 13: ClosedSunday, March 14: Noon to 11 p.m. These are the regular Sunday hours.All our usual services will be available when we are open, so if you are staying in the area, stop by to use Reserve materials, get research assistance from our Reference staff for that paper you have to write, or take advantage of our museum passes. Going home? Electronic reference books, databases and thousands of full-text journals are available online from anywhere you can access the Internet through links on the Library's home page.Enjoy your break! (Source: Wheelock College Library) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824665 http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/05032010102426AMCEML2V.htm ReliefWeb, produced by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has created a resource page for information related to the Chile earthquake. The page provides updates, background information, and maps from international organizations, NGOs, governments, and news... (Source: UN Pulse | A Service/Blog of the United Nations Library) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823905 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/oh7_uytFCXg/005142.php Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. It was an attempt to explain a one-off reference in an earlier post - but not much earlier, as the "DBoI" post, as I call it, was just the sixty-third post of my then-early blogging career. (This is the 5,142nd, by comparison...) I had, in fact, been ruminating on this concept for over a year, driven by an Holy Sh*t moment in late 2001 when Google introduced its first ever Zeitgeist round up of trending search terms. Scanning the lists of rising and declining terms, I realized that Google - not to mention every other search engine, ISP, and most likely every government - had in their grasp a datastream that, were they to just pay attention, could quite possibly be the most potent signal of human intentions in the history of the world. Zeitgeist, it struck me, was proof that Google was indeed paying attention. I went on to write The Search, and Google went on to become, well, Google. My study of Google also led me to start Web 2, with Tim O'Reilly, and Federated Media, which I positioned as a media company that leveraged the impact of The Database of Intentions. But over the past few years, as I've labored in the fields of digital media and marketing - mostly through my work at FM - I've come to revise my concept of what The Database of Intentions truly is. In my initial description, I limited the concept to web search and web search alone: The Database of Intentions is simply this: The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result. At the time, that certainly seemed like a big enough idea. No such artifact had ever existed, and its implications were massive. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823815 http://santafelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/03/fantastic-fiction.html One of the most frequently asked question I hear at the Reference Desk is: “what comes next in this series?” Often you can open to the front and see a listing of the books, and very often you will be able to search by the series title in our catalog, but another option is a great site about books and authors called Fantastic Fiction.This site, which comes out of England, is a great way to see what series a particular author has written—and in what order you should read the books—get some information about the author (including a picture), as well as some suggestions on who else you might like if you enjoyed this author’s books. It also has lists of upcoming books, most popular books and specific genres. I find it very user-friendly.by KS @ LF (Source: ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823647 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14539 Government Information Reference Librarian and Bibliographer (Georgetown University, District of Columbia) Georgetown University Library seeks an adept and adaptable Government Information Reference Librarian and Bibliographer with a background in government documents and an interest in their migration to the electronic environment; experience in or willingness to engage the statistical information aspects of government documents and other sources of statistical information; and a strong subject background in another area. This position, in collaboration with subject bibliographers, serves as principal liaison regarding government information to relevant University departments and programs; collaborates across all subjects represented on campus; and coordinates, as needed, statistical sources across disciplines. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:40:02 +0100 823404 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/04/dr-peter-jacso-reviews-wolfram-alpha-in-his-final-gale-com-review/ We’re sorry to see Peter Jacso, reference reviewer supreme, Professor, and Chair of the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawaii and Manoa, end his column for Gale.com with this month’s review. We’ve learned A LOT from Dr. Jacso and his reviews (he’s done more than 220 during the past 10 years) and sincerely appreciate the many kind words he’s given to ResourceShelf over the years. His final review is an in-depth look (to put it mildly) of WolframAlpha. From the Review: This unique “computational knowledge engine”, the brainchild of one of the most talented contemporary mathematicians, Stephen Wolfram, is said to be based on more than 10 trillion data (which number is comparable to the number of people who ever lived, and more than three times the number of stars in our galaxy. I would have not known this, but I quickly learned it by looking up the term trillion in Wolfram|Alpha. If this were not enough, it can serve much more data than that because it also calculates new data from many of the raw data that appeared in economic time series, factbooks, yearbooks, encyclopedias, almanacs, directories and a large variety of statistical compendia. It is meant for questions that can be answered mostly through numbers. It has great potential to become a widely used important resource for situations when numeric data is needed rather than deep thoughts and verbalization, but it is not there yet, it is not a finished work that would only need updates with fresh, current data. [Snip] There is a reason that the author (or I might as well say composer), calls it a computational knowledge engine. He wants to set it apart from the dozens of search engines. Still, many reviewers compared it to Google, which is like comparing apples and oranges. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:49:54 +0100 823508 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FlaJobline/~3/6-ILX7E5S_c/assistant-dean-client-services.html Tenure - Track PositionThe University Library at the University of Saskatchewan provides tremendous opportunities for professional growth and development in a dynamic and flexible work environment. We operate within a supportive campus community focused on innovation, collaboration and engagement. The library is strategically aligned with the University’s vision, focusing on: the teacher-learner experience; researcher, scholar and practitioner interaction; and building broad relationship and engagement opportunities. The library continually seeks to improve operational effectiveness with a strong focus on employee engagement.OverviewReporting to the Associate Dean, the Assistant Dean (Client Services) leads the planning, co-ordination and development of services to library clients delivered through the seven branch libraries. This is a new position, resulting from organizational restructuring at the University Library. The Assistant Dean will collaborate with diverse groups within and external to the Library. The ideal candidate will bring a successful record as a leader, manager and mentor, and will have a strong commitment to quality client services and relationship building with diverse client and stakeholder groups.The Assistant Dean is supported by a team of branch heads who are responsible for the day-to-day operations of services delivered through branch libraries. Working in close collaboration with branch heads, the Assistant Dean ensures the soundness of library educational programs, the quality of library services to clients, and the effective management of human and physical resources assigned to the client services portfolio.The Assistant Dean functions in a highly demanding environment that requires constant scanning for issues, challenges, and opportunities against multiple priorities and demands on limited resources. The work is of high volume and is complex. Decisions ranging from the mundane to critical are required on a routine basis. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:13:46 +0100 823924 http://dltj.org/article/mash-up/ Ron Murray, a colleague at the Library of Congress (and no known relation to me), sent me a note about the history of the term “mash-up” in the Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required). The definition of the first sense is “A mixture or fusion of disparate elements” with the notation that usage is rare before the late 20th century, and the OED includes this quotation:1859D. BOUCICAULT Octoroon I. 13 He don’t understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican. The reference to “Octoroon” appears to be for a play called The Octoroon that was first performed in 1859, making the mashup term about 151 years old. Post from: Disruptive Library Technology Jester“Mash-Up” Term is Over 150 Years Old! (Source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:39:06 +0100 825054 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/FKmiLxE3lZ8/facts-on-file-announces-launch-of.html "Facts On File has announced the launch of Writer's Reference Center, a convenient one-stop resource that provides users with all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this indispensable online source thoroughly covers the fundamentals of quality writing and provides a wealth of vocabulary-building reference dictionaries (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:39:30 +0100 823279 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14534 Science Librarian (University of Nebraska) The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries seeks a highly energetic, creative, and knowledgeable, science librarian. This 12-month, tenure-track position follows the scholar-practitioner model providing instruction and reference for the sciences. Both entry-level and experienced librarians are encouraged to apply. The Science Librarian reports to the Chair of Research and Instructional Services and liaises with the department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Food Science and Technology and Entomology. Responsibilities: -Provides reference and instructional services in-person and via electronic means. -Evaluates, selects, and reviews materials and information resources for inclusion in the collection; manage the collection budget in assigned areas. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:30:03 +0100 823260 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14536 Reference & Instruction Librarian (Univeristy of Wisconsin-Green Bay) University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is seeking an energetic, tech-savvy librarian to coordinate reference services and provide library instruction. A complete position description, as well as required qualifications and application information, can be found at https://www.uwgb.edu/hr/jobs/position505.html. Apply by April 5, 2010 for priority consideration. UW-Green Bay is an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity employer. (Source: Latest ALA Job Listings) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:30:03 +0100 823259 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=The_Gypsy_Librarian_Article_Note_On_assessing_promotion_of_--- Citation for the article: Sobel, Karen, "Promoting Library Reference Services to First-Year Undergraduate Students: What Works?" Reference and User (Source: pligg - all) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:00:28 +0100 823326 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Fanny_pack_The_ready_reference (Source: pligg - all) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:00:18 +0100 823337 http://www.lisjobs.com/jobs/item.asp?ID=42400 Assistant Professor/Reference Librarian (Source: Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:01:00 +0100 823948 http://www.lisjobs.com/jobs/item.asp?ID=42403 Reference Librarian (Source: Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:01:00 +0100 823943