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 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:53:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6366 Assist students and faculty in locating, using and evaluating information. Instruct students in the use of the online catalog (C/W MARS), databases and the internet. Teach classes in the use of library resources. Promote information literacy. Design library handouts and displays. Contribute to web pages and the library blog. Assist in reference department projects. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:25:02 +0100 868585 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15582 Assistant Manager of Library Operations (Metropolitan Library System, Midwest City, Oklahoma) &nbsp; Salary &amp; Hours:&nbsp; $20.48 per hour ($42,598.40). Must be available all hours the library is open including evenings and weekends. This position is overtime exempt. Job Summary: Under supervision of the manager of branch services, assists with the planning, organizing and managing operations of a community library.&nbsp; Performs a variety of technical and professional librarian activities of moderate to complex difficulty including providing information and assistance to customers of all ages; providing information concerning content and location of collection; performing reference and reader advisory services. This position requires exceptional customer service and supervisor skills. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:20:02 +0100 868580 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60304 Yesterday we received an email from the University of Chicago Press alerting us that their free e-book of the month was a replica of the first edition of the Chicago Manual of Style from 1906. TeleRead reported the news. Paul Writes: Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:32:34 +0100 868687 http://lisnews.org/master039s_degree_misperception “I didn’t know you needed a master’s degree to be a librarian.” If you haven’t experienced this statement firsthand, you’ve certainly read about it. It is the notion that what we are doing as a career, a calling, and an occupation requires an advanced degree of study. It’s an image issue that pops up for the public librarian on a fairly regular basis. And, like it or not, it is here to stick with public librarians for a long time. Once upon a time, there was no degree requirement to become a librarian. Anyone with a degree could be a librarian; it was simply a matter of learning the collection, the classification system, and the established policies and procedures of the library. With the advent of the MLS and MLIS programs, this has created a new layer of requirements for budding librarians but has not been accompanied by a shift in duties and workload. On any given day, I can be standing at the circulation desk side-by-side with a support staff member doing the same thing that they are doing. So long as this arrangement exists, the perception that librarianship does not require an advanced degree will continue to taint the image of the profession. (Two things to note before I continue: first, that this is certainly not the full limit or extent of my job duties. If there is a line of people waiting to check out, I’ll step out and lend a hand. It’s good business, it’s a good show of support for my fellow staff member, and it’s a nice reminder about that aspect of the library experience. Budget tightening measures have also reduced our staffing numbers so that there isn’t another staff member around or on the desk to help out. Second, I don’t think there is anything wrong with a librarian doing these tasks. However, I’d like to imagine that I got an advanced degree so that checking out books would be a once in a while thing, not a regular gig. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:47:02 +0100 868648 http://www.lisnews.org/master039s_degree_misperception “I didn’t know you needed a master’s degree to be a librarian.” If you haven’t experienced this statement firsthand, you’ve certainly read about it. It is the notion that what we are doing as a career, a calling, and an occupation requires an advanced degree of study. It’s an image issue that pops up for the public librarian on a fairly regular basis. And, like it or not, it is here to stick with public librarians for a long time. Once upon a time, there was no degree requirement to become a librarian. Anyone with a degree could be a librarian; it was simply a matter of learning the collection, the classification system, and the established policies and procedures of the library. With the advent of the MLS and MLIS programs, this has created a new layer of requirements for budding librarians but has not been accompanied by a shift in duties and workload. On any given day, I can be standing at the circulation desk side-by-side with a support staff member doing the same thing that they are doing. So long as this arrangement exists, the perception that librarianship does not require an advanced degree will continue to taint the image of the profession. (Two things to note before I continue: first, that this is certainly not the full limit or extent of my job duties. If there is a line of people waiting to check out, I’ll step out and lend a hand. It’s good business, it’s a good show of support for my fellow staff member, and it’s a nice reminder about that aspect of the library experience. Budget tightening measures have also reduced our staffing numbers so that there isn’t another staff member around or on the desk to help out. Second, I don’t think there is anything wrong with a librarian doing these tasks. However, I’d like to imagine that I got an advanced degree so that checking out books would be a once in a while thing, not a regular gig. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:47:02 +0100 868589 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/oj7s4wRW9js/ As I mentioned below, we will be at the US release of the Tab, and now here is some great news for Kobo. From the Samsung press release: As a new category of device, the Samsung GALAXY Tab brings a wealth of mobile experiences. Its striking 7” TFT-LCD display delivers exciting mobile experience for watching films, viewing pictures, e-reading or sharing documents. In design, its light (380g) build provides perfect portability, with its svelte dimensions making it easy to grip and use. Supporting the latest Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the Samsung GALAXY Tab fully supports swift, seamless viewing of every single page of the web. The ‘Readers Hub,’ Samsung’s unique e-reading application, provides easy access to a vast digital library – from classical literature to the latest bestsellers and reference materials. At the same time, Samsung unveils ‘Media Hub,’ a gateway to a world of films and videos, and ‘Music Hub,’ an application giving access to a wide range of music tunes. The Samsung GALAXY Tab has made rich communication truly mobile; it presents a level of converged technology that moves beyond mobile or PC to an entirely new category. Users have new powers to consume, create and communicate from wherever they are. Powerful, always-on communication With 3G HSPA connectivity, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth® 3.0, the Samsung GALAXY Tab enhances users’ mobile communication on a whole new level. Video conferencing and push email on the large 7-inch display make communication more smooth and efficient. For voice telephony, the Samsung GALAXY Tab turns out to be a perfect speakerphone on the desk, or a mobile phone on the move via Bluetooth® headset. Powered by a Cortex A8 1.0GHz application processor, the Samsung GALAXY Tab is designed to deliver high performance whenever and wherever you are. At the same time, HD video contents are supported by a wide range of multimedia formats (DivX, XviD, MPEG4, H.263, H. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:38:05 +0100 868678 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/DxFY11ON8xo/ Ben Kunz at Bloomberg Businessweek has an interesting post on Apple’s pricing practices. Kunz posits that Apple uses psychological pricing tricks such as reference prices and price “decoys” to boost sales of more expensive items. I can’t say I agree with all of his points, but he brings up some interesting things to consider. Kunz first discusses price decoys, items that don’t really look like very good deals in order to make slightly better items look much better. He suggests that the rumored 7” iPad is such a price decoy, to make a 10”, more featureful version look like a bargain and defend against the impending tidal wave of lower-priced tablets from competitors. Decoys explain why Apple often sells each gadget in a pricing series, such as the new iPod Touch&#8217;s $229, $299, and $399 price points for different storage capacities. You may gladly spend $229 to get a hot media player, thinking it&#8217;s a deal vs. the highest-priced version … and not blink that you could instead buy an iPhone 4 at the lower price of $199 with more features. The $399 &quot;decoy&quot; has clouded your judgment. Apple wins the best of both worlds—stoking demand for products that look like bargains and for all the decoys it sells at much higher prices. Yes, some people will spend $399 for a music player with slightly better technology—and Apple makes even fatter margins. Here Kunz brings up a point he will hammer on a couple more times over the course of the article: that the iPod Touch is more expensive than the more-capable iPhone, therefore Apple must employ eeeevil pricing tricks to sell it. I’ll come back to that in a bit. A couple of Kunz’s other points have to do with setting a reference price—introducing something at a high price, then discounting it quickly so that it looks like a bargain compared to its original asking price (as Apple did with the originally $599 iPhone). ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:15:00 +0100 868465 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/09/speaking-of-obsessions-whats-wrong-with.html Wow. Libs are running scared. Who knew they'd get so spooked by a little preaching and hand holding and praying on the Mall last week. I read Kathleen Parker's piece on Glenn Beck.* I have no idea what her point was--something about it being an AA meeting--but it doesn't sound like she's ever been to an Al-Anon or AA meeting. Liberal twaddle--attack the messenger, ignore the words. Here's what other readers wrote (the link was broken when I tried to leave a comment, so these came from reader's page:bryan37, "I'm no fan of Beck, but this is nothing more than an ad hominem attack. It really borders on being a little sick. Does Parker ever have anything insightful to write? I just never see it" [I wondered the same thing.]Chippewa said, "I've lost count of how many articles and columns the WAPO has run over the past two weeks, almost unanimously bashing Beck. The onslaught continues today. It's become the WAPO's surge. If he's such an idiot, why pay so much attention to him? Could it be because he's viewed as a threat to the Chosen One? Can't have that now, can we???"Jack 83 wrote: The post missed the boat on this one. It was obviously a wonderful experience for the people who enjoy Glenn and his ideas about things. It seemed to me the event was a nice bit of America that people are longing for instead of all the hate. Nice Event/Clueless story.MomDuke5 said: Your mockery of the program and pointing your finger at a man who has succeeded indicates to me if you had to do it you would fail. So what if you can compare his success with a program that has brought many people out of the despair and darkness of alcohol. Three cheers for him and his desire to show America if I can do it so can you! Faith of all kinds is all around you and your faith can set you free. Your reference to Mother Superior as Sarah Palin strikes a mean, nasty, anti Catholic view. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868615 http://drakelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/09/meet-library-staff.html Your blogger thought it might be of interest to run an occasional post featuring one of our library staff as a way of helping you to get to know us, and feel more comfortable in asking us for help. Library staff fill&nbsp;a myriad of roles. This wide ranging focus calls for a&nbsp;variety of roles and postions. Many library staff are what we here call "library assistants" and are civil service staff. They carry out any number of vital tasks, from running our circulation desk to handling the ordering of books and much more. Some library staff are "librarians," meaning that, in addition to a bachelor's degree, they have a Masters in Library or Information Science. These folks work with you at the reference desk, teach classes about library resources, catalog, organize and administer the library. Nowadays we have several staff who are "professionals," and they do things like run our interlibrary loan service or engage in the IT side of library operations. Think of it as a diverse staff to serve our diverse public :-)Some of our staff are relatively new to the profession, some have been here for many years. All of us are committed in our various capacities to organizing and making accessible our information resources in&nbsp;the way most useful and contemporary&nbsp;to you, our patrons. This emphasis on service and committment to continually improving and upgrading our resources goes back many years. In the photo here are several Drake staff of the 1950s looking at a new microfilm machine, a high tech device in its day! Soon we will have an occasional post featuring one of our dedicated staff members. (Source: Drake Memorial Library) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868536 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6365 Under the supervision of the Co-Directors of the Lincoln Town Archives. S/he will be a historian of Lincoln, MA and will assist in the planning and management of the Town Archives. Develop relationships with donors, professional colleagues, partner organizations and the community. Responsible for the overall care of the Town Archives. Trains staff and volunteers about using the Town Archives. Responsible for the Town Archives Docent program. Writes articles about the Town Archives collections for publication. Answers reference and information questions about Lincoln history, genealogy, and Lincoln Town Archives. Conducts research and provides related answers or locates relevant sources and materials both within and outside the library. Performs a variety of outreach efforts including group and class presentations and bibliographies. Develop and facilitate programs to raise awareness of the town archives. Part time 3-hour per week position. 9-month temporary position ending on June 30, 2011. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:24:59 +0100 868215 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15579 Electronic Resources Librarian (St. Olaf College, Nortthfield, Minnesota) St. Olaf is seeking a library professional who recognizes St. Olaf&#39;s unique place in higher education as a college of the church, an exemplary national liberal arts college, and a leader in global education. The Electronic Resources Librarian provides leadership to the Libraries in the rapidly developing realm of electronic collections and manages the Libraries&#39; electronic resources including e-journals, research and reference databases, e-books, online sound and multimedia databases, and archival electronic document collections. The Electronic Resources Librarian also provides reference services to students and faculty. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:20:01 +0100 868211 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/09/01/jatropha-genome-sequenced/ Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. SG Biofuels Inc., a bioenergy crop developer, has partnered with Life Technologies Corp., a biotech tool provider, and the two have successfully sequenced the jatropha curcas genome. Using Life Technologies’ genome tracker, the Solid 4.0 system, the two were able to sequence the genome and the results will allow SG Biofuels to accelerate the identification of key traits including enhanced fruit yield, pest resistance, soil adaptation, improved flowering capabilities, uniformity, and improved harvesting. Already using more than 6,000 jatropha genotypes from its germplasm library, the San Diego-based company will use the new findings to generate a high quality reference genome, according to a statement by SG Biofuels. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:15:36 +0100 868393 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/1Ncy1KeD3dc/ Last week I sat in on the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar and it was a very interesting discussion.   Many libraries (especially academic) are investigating and collecting e-books in lieu of some printed text.  How much they are collecting and the nature by which they to the selection process seems to vary according each library, their type, size, consortia involvement, usage data, etc.  The reasons why and how much they bought all varied but the frustrations, questions, and concerns the faced were very similar and seemed on the minds of every librarian regardless of their library, type, size, consortia involvement, etc.  So what were these concerns? DRM- Digital rights restrictions.  It seems that every publisher has different rules and while some things can be put on electronic reserve others cannot.  While some things can be shared through ILL or on Blackboard others cannot.  This is not only a particular frustration among librarians but also patrons who aren&#8217;t as savvy with copyright issues.  The patrons get frustrated with DRM restrictions for library materials and they are even more frustrated with the restrictions for e-books they buy themselves.  Their view is, &#8220;I bought, don&#8217;t tell me how I am allowed to use it.&#8221;  I am not saying this is always the right or wrong thought process, but it is their thoughts and to a certain extent librarians. Access &#8211; How do people find your e-books was a common question among the librarians.  The e-books publishers don&#8217;t always have decent MARC records (if they have any) that can be easily added to the catalog.  So the cataloger must work to add them into the catalog, yet more and more patrons really don&#8217;t use the catalog these days.  They would rather randomly search the library&#8217;s website or Google. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:10:53 +0100 868390 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/wm4Aw0ZbXe8/jobs-systems-librarian-university-of-la.html #3041 &#8211; Systems Librarian, University of La Verne &nbsp;-- Wilson Library The University of La Verne invites applicants for a Systems Librarian (Assistant Professor), a non-tenure track 12-month faculty appointment. Reporting directly to the University Librarian, the Systems Librarian will use a high level of technical, instructional, and interpersonal skills. The responsibilities of this position include administering and providing technical support for all aspects of library technology including the Innovative Interfaces Millennium integrated library system, hardware and software installations and maintenance, library wireless, opac, proxy server, online resources and services such as LINK+, ILLIAD, ERM, OCLC, link resolver, research databases, e-journals, e-books, etc.; assisting the University Librarian with technology planning and project implementation; serving as primary liaison with the university&#8217;s Office of Information Technology to coordinate all library systems&#8217; installation, upgrade and maintenance; supervise one full-time staff member (Electronic Services Technician); serving as liaison to database and online service providers; providing technology training to library staff; providing research consultation services to library users in a multi-disciplinary environment using multiple formats (in-person, e-mail, phone, and chat); developing, promoting, and delivering effective library research skills/information literacy instructional sessions, seminars and workshops for both on-campus and off-campus programs; developing the library collection by selecting materials for acquisition in all formats; serving as liaison with selected academic departments; maintaining a program of professional development. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:44:00 +0100 868359 http://careercenter.sla.org/jobs/3533838/reference-librarian-for-the-sciences US - NY - Poughkeepise, NY, ALA-accredited MLS, or equivalent experience. Undergraduate degree in the sciences; experience teaching in an academic setting and demonstrated knowledge of traditional and electronic reference (gener (Source: SLA Career Center Search Results []) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:38:00 +0100 868217 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/september-2010/ Welcome to the Link. Each month the ipl2 brings you some of the best information sites on the Internet. If you have an Internet connection, you can connect with us! The September edition of the Link is filled with birthdays and celebrations throughout the world. So join the party and explore the world through these colorful and informative websites! Suggest a site for the ipl2. Know of a great site, but you cannot find it in the ipl2? Use the form located at http://www.ipl.org/div/contact/ to let us know about good resources to add to our collections. September 1 &#8211; Independence Day Uzbekistan Uzbekistan: A Country Study &#8220;An historical overview and information on the geography, economy, government, transportation and telecommunications, foreign relations, national security, languages, religions, and people and society of Uzbekistan. Includes a glossary, a bibliography, and statistical tables. Searchable. &#8220;Completed [in] March 1996.&#8221; A part of the Web site Country Studies, from the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.&#8221; Country Profile: Uzbekistan &#8220;Profile of this former Soviet country that is &#8220;positioned on the ancient Great Silk Road between Europe and Asia.&#8221; Includes demographic facts, historical overview, timeline of key events, and information about leaders and media. Site also includes links to related news stories, and audio of the national anthem. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).&#8221; September 2 &#8211; National Day Vietnam Country Profile: Vietnam &#8220;Profile of Vietnam, which &#8220;became a unified country in 1976.&#8221; Includes demographic facts, historical overview, timeline of key events, and brief listings of leaders and media outlets. Site also includes links to related news stories, audio of the national anthem, and video clips. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:22:29 +0100 868404 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/sep/01/classics-janeausten Widmerpool, Anthony Powell's ghastly creation in The Dance To The Music of Time, is a spectre to haunt the middle agedA treat turned up on my doorstep yesterday: a new book called The Midlife Manual, by John O'Connell and Jessica Cargill Thompson. I say treat: with my birthday coming next week, it's all a bit close to the bone. I particularly enjoyed their notion of the midlife literary anti-hero. O'Connell (who reviews thrillers for our Review) and Cargill Thompson picked out Widmerpool, the character from Anthony Powell's 12-novel sequence A Dance To The Music of Time. They describe him thus:A classic type: the cowardly and mediocre yet ambitious idiot whom no one liked at school but who has, thanks to a combination of luck and opportunism, eclipsed you and all your contemporaries to become unthinkably powerful in his chosen sphere – often politics or the media. Every group has a Widmerpool somewhere on its periphery. He's the person you bitch about with your oldest friends after a long, long night out when you're too exhausted to hide the anger and disappointment that's eating you up. Because your Widmerpool never goes away. Indeed,. the degrees of separation between you and him may decrease alarmingly: your paths may cross at a wedding or reunion. When they do, he will patronise you to death. And you will always hate him.I especially enjoyed the reference as I am slowly (with great enjoyment but many deflections) working my way through the Powell. I am now on volume eight, The Soldier's Art. Widmerpool, back in volume one a faintly laughable, essentially friendless schoolboy famous only for his funny overcoat, is now Major Widmerpool. It is the second world war, and our narrator Nick, a mere second lieutenant, has been attached to Widmerpool's office as an assistant, in order to be, as O'Connell and Cargill Thompson have it "patronised to death" by his old school-fellow. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:33:30 +0100 868204 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/haiti-earthquake-missing-persons/#comment-21156 I just can&#8217;t seem to fully understand your point of view. Are you sure we&#8217;re discussing about the same topic? (Source: Comments for MPLIC Reference Highway) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:34:15 +0100 868041 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60234 The complete package of articles including the list can be found here. Top NFL Team Valuations (Top 5, Sorted By Overall Ranking) 1. Dallas Cowboys, $1.8 Billion 2. Washington Redskins, $1.55 Billion 3. New England Patriots, $1,367 Billion 4. New York Giants, $1,182 Billion 5. Houston Texans, $1,171 Profiles for each team are available when you click on the name. Other [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:04:59 +0100 868321 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/08/31/august-31st-stream-2.html @sraslim sorry — I’ve been off #twitter for a while, but yes, go for it! send me a song [shifted] @dglibrary have you considered a booth at the farmers market? I think it would be great for you to be visible there. [shifted] Posted cfboeninger: writing documentation for our new text reference service. Google Voice + Trillian + U2 = our texting pilot project. Posted AboutwebOS: Update: Lots of cool ways to use neato! If I’m missing any, leave a comment: http://bit.ly/cfZQ5K #webOS @Palm @HP_PC. Posted griffey: This is maybe the most incredible technical example of HTML5 coding I’ve ever seen. Holy crap. http://thewildernessdowntown.com/. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:02 +0100 868720 http://csbsjulibrary.blogspot.com/2010/09/36-of-online-americans-consult.html More than one-third of American adult Internet users consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day, 8 percent of online Americans consult Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one place to start when understanding your research topic but another place would be Credo Reference. It is a huge collection of great reference books: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, measurement conversions and much more!We also subscribe to Oxford Reference Online and Gale Reference Online, both contain great collections of reference books! You can find these under "Articles & More" then "Encyclopedias & Dictionaries" on the library's homepage.-sg (Source: CSBSJU Library Blog) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868208 http://blog.njla.org/archives/2010/09/#000947 http;//www.pressofatlanticcity.com By CAITLIN DINEEN, Staff Writer | Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 The Upper Township Branch of the Cape May County Library system is open again after it was closed for seven months for renovations and improvements. The upgrades - which cost a total of $980,000 - may not be noticeable from the outside, but library patrons visiting the newly renovated site will notice all the big changes once they get inside. "It was really a gloomy, dark building," said Deborah Poillon, adding that new lighting was among several changes made to the interior of the library. The Upper Township branch of the library system has been in operation since 1985 and is located on Tuckahoe Road in Petersburg. It reopened in July. A ribbon-cutting event will be held 2 p.m. Sept. 8 at the library. Other changes at the library include a new teen center, glass around the reference room, and making the building more energy efficient. The building will convert to gas heat from electric when a gas line is brought down the street, Poillon said. New furniture also has been brought into the updated space, as well as new counters. System officials said the updates were necessary. Library staff said public response to the improvements has been positive. "They love it," said Deanna Petitt, who has worked at the library for 25 years, adding patrons have commented on the brightness of the library and the new counters. "They love the counters." Petitt said that although the library's upgrades mainly serve patrons, library staff also appreciate the result. "We love it, it's awesome," she said. "What's not to like about it? It's all brand new." Poillon said changes are necessary because local libraries are a central hub for residents. She said the Upper Township library's patronage has increased 18 percent from 2007 to 2009. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868152 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?tmpl=NoSidebarfile&db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=20712712&dopt=Abstract <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&amp;cmd=Display&amp;dopt=PubMed_PubMed&amp;from_uid=20712712">Related Articles</a></td></tr></table> <p><b>Sources of information on adverse effects: a systematic review.</b></p> <p>Health Info Libr J. 2010 Sep 1;27(3):176-90</p> <p>Authors: Golder S, Loke YK</p> <p>Background: Systematic reviews can provide accurate and timely information on adverse effects. An essential part of the systematic review process is a thorough search of the literature. This often requires searching many different sources. However, it is unclear which sources are most effective at providing information on adverse effects. Objective: To identify and summarise studies that have evaluated sources of information on adverse effects. Methods: Studies were located by searching in 10 databases as well as by reference checking, hand searching, citation searching and contacting experts. Results: A total of 6218 citations were retrieved yielding 19 studies which met the inclusion criteria. The included studies tended to focus on the adverse effects of drug interventions and compare the relative value of different sources using the number of relevant references retrieved from searches of each source. However, few studies were conducted recently with a large sample of references. Conclusions: This review suggests that embase, Derwent Drug File, medline and industry submissions may potentially provide the greatest number of relevant references for information on adverse effects of drugs. However, a systematic evaluation of the current value of different sources of information for adverse effects is urgently required. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867026 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60227 Click the image to enlarge Data Source: http://city-data.com/top1.html Source: Fixr Hat Tip: Visual Loop (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:32:34 +0100 868324 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15574 Instruction/Reference Librarian (Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana) Franklin College is seeking a full-time instruction/reference librarian to start January 2011. This is a faculty position with an administrative contract. The successful applicant will be energetic, self-motivated, and have a love of teaching. For a complete job description, see our online posting: www.franklincollege.edu/about-fc/employment-opportunities Review of applications will begin September 2010 and will continue until the position is filled. The anticipated start date is January 3, 2011. Franklin College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:20:01 +0100 867849 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15576 Information Literacy and Outreach Librarian (Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia) Job Description:&nbsp;Library faculty member to plan, implement, and assess library instruction, information literacy training, and educational programming. Duties: Develop and implement information literacy training and educational programming on campus and online. Oversee&nbsp;Information Research and Resources course. Reference and research assistance, along with other professional librarian duties, as assigned. For a complete job description see&nbsp;www.regent.edu/admin/hr/jobfaculty.cfm.&nbsp; Required: ALA-accredited degree. Experience and/or training in information literacy instruction in an academic setting. Proficiency with instructional technologies, social media, and library assessment tools related to instruction. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:20:01 +0100 867848 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Barco_2-0__Law_Library_Reference_THOMAS_Updated_now_mobile-friendly Building upon the enhancements made in January and June , the latest enhancements add a mobile friendly homepage, integrate features from the Library (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:29 +0100 867728 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Library_Director__Jobs_in_Libraries Significant experience in reference, library instruction, and supervision in an academic library, preferably including delivery of services to dista (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:26 +0100 867732 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6363 Fisher College seeks a Part-Time Library Assistant to work 15 hours per week (Saturdays from 12 noon to 8 p.m. and Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.) during the academic year. Fisher College is a private, coeducational institution in the Back Bay with a Day Division of approximately 650 full-time students and three Continuing Education locations. The Library is a member of the Metro-Boston Library Network, and it holds approximately 31,000 items, including books and films. Duties: * Provide general administrative support to Librarians * Undertake special projects assigned by Librarians * Supervise work-study students * Provide assistance to students, faculty and staff at the Circulation/Reference Desk (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:24:59 +0100 867661 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/bankruptcy-statistics-interactive-map/#comment-21154 [...] Bankruptcy Statistics &#8212; Interactive Map [...] (Source: Comments for MPLIC Reference Highway) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:22:10 +0100 868042 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/politelibrarian/~3/WoFBg8U4gDI/ratios-librarian-to-student.html A librarian should never teach a class of twenty-five students to do research.  It is much more rewarding to teach them individually, one hour each, twenty-five separate times at the reference desk. (Source: A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868546 http://cmrlslibrarynews.blogspot.com/2010/08/simply-crafts.html Be sure to join us on September 14, 6:00 P.M. Featured Craft: Safety Pin Jewelry! (Source: CMRLS News) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868258 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16776 Can people share what companies or services they participate in that expand their library's web presence to mobile devices? I am specifically looking at text interactions used in reference or other support transaction right now but other services would be interesting. Ideally for my reference staff, we would love to use an interface or system that supports and manages all our virtual transactions including chat widgets, IM, email, text messaging, etc. Thanks, Brian Brian Gray mindspiral-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org bcg8-oNH6vCZdlc4&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867787 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/yoV2LAmymQc/ Late last week you would remember how I put together a blog post where I started collecting a number of the Daily #iPad Apps that I keep sharing across over in Twitter, for those folks who may be potentially interested. Also as a good reference for myself, i.e. as part of my own personal knowledge sharing experience, so that I can keep going back and forth over time and see what I may have shared and what not, just in case I may need it for a future reference. Then, my good friend Barry Leiba mentioned, in the comments, how he would be &#8220;interested in reading more about specifically HOW the iPad fundamentally changes your online interactions and experience&#8220;. Thus I thought I would go ahead today and put together a blog entry where I could share with folks my top 10 reasons why the iPad has changed my computing habits and overall Internet experience for good with no looking back! It&#8217;s going to be a rather interesting experiment, where I am sure I&#8217;m going to fall short on words on what it actually means for me, specially when not paying much attention to the tools and applications themselves, but more how I interact with the device. I know that some of those reasons will also surprise a bunch of folks out there who may have a perceived different persona of me than who I actually am, but I think that overall, it will help set the stage as to why I have finally fallen for the iPad as perhaps one of my last mobile devices I will own for a good while. A long one, actually. Thus without much ado, here are My Top 10 Reasons Why I Bought a 3G 64GB iPad, back while I was in Boston, in June, attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference event (Yes, I couldn&#8217;t buy one over here in Spain after having visited 18 shops!). ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:29:36 +0100 867964 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3323/oed-no-longer-in-print/ The Third Edition is a mutation. It is weightless, taking its shape in the digital realm. To keyboard it, Oxford hired a team of 150 typists in Florida for 18 months. (That was before the verb keyboard had even found its way in, as Simpson points out; not to mention the verb outsource.) No one can say for sure whether OED3 will ever be published in paper and ink. By the point of decision, not before 20 years or so from now, it will have doubled in size yet again. In the meantime, it is materializing before the world’s eyes, bit by bit, on line. It is a thoroughgoing revision of the entire text, expected to cost around $55 million, involving a permanent staff of 70 plus hundreds of freelancers, consultants, and volunteers in Oxford and around the world. Whereas the Second Edition just added new words and new usages to the original entries, the current project is researching and revising from scratch-preserving the history, but aiming at a more coherent whole. The new Oxford English Dictionary, currently 28% completed, is expected to be done in approximately ten years. There&#8217;s been a bit of hubub in the news lately because when asked if they&#8217;re going to publish the newest version on paper, the response was &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221; which was clarified with a statement saying that the completion was still a decade off and &#8220;a decision on format will be taken at that point.&#8221; Makes sense right? I&#8217;d love an OED that was keyword searchable even though I will always have fond feelings for the 20 volume set that I rescued from a dumpster [discarded because it could not be sold, thank you my unnamed librarian accomplice!]. In the short-but-growing discussion on MetaFilter, someone mentions that what are really precious are the original plates used to print the first edition. Simon Winchester tells a story about those plates in an Author&#8217;s Note to his book The Professor and the Madman. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:44:25 +0100 867990 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/08/30/a-new-deal-legacy/ Via GovBookTalk. One of my uncles logged in some time at a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp during the Depression of the 1930&#8217;s, so The Bureau of Reclamation’s Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy: 1933-1942 caught my eye while I was looking over a list of new books at GPO. When the Roosevelt Administration established the CCC in 1933, America&#8217;s youth had been hit extra hard by America&#8217;s drastic economic decline. In addition to putting thousands of young men like my uncle to work, the CCC&#8217;s legacy includes a myriad of buildings, picnic shelters, and other structures still in use today across the country. This is a weighty tome, indeed. It was originally published in 2000 and revised to include updated research and more photos. In addition to an interesting essay on the history of the national CCC and another on the Bureau of Reclamation&#8217;s involvement, the bulk of the book is made up of brief forms describing the history and activities of each Reclamation camp. The real revelation to me was the involvement of the Bureau – I&#8217;ve always thought that the Forest Service and the National Park Service were the major Government players regarding the CCC. The book is nicely designed and includes many period photos of the CCC at work, and of the structures they built as they look today. Note: Although a great resource for students of the CCC, this is mainly a reference work rather than a narrative history. As such, it would be a good addition to library collections. You can look through it here, buy a copy here, or find it in a library. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:32:46 +0100 867776 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/UE6WdyGvjbM/jobs-technical-services-librarian-full.html Technical Services Librarian (Full Time) http://www.albrightknox.org/employment/Technical_Services_Librarian.html Technical Services Librarian (Full Time) The Technical Services Librarian will report directly to the Head of Research Resources. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Responsible for the development and implementation of the Gallery Librarys technical services program to include cataloging, classification, authority file maintenance, serials management, library systems and database administration, interlibrary loan and document delivery services, and basic preservation activities. Provides leadership in ensuring integrated access to scholarly resources in all formats according to professional standards and in a service-oriented manner in support of the research needs of the museum community. * Establishes and assesses technical services goals, priorities, policies, and procedures. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0100 867725 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/2WrlOs2SKgY/jobs-posting-systems-emerging.html SYSTEMS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES LIBRARIAN Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is seeking a dynamic, student-centered librarian to work in a team- oriented library environment. Responsibilities include: provide leadership, vision, and expertise related to library systems and technologies that increase and enhance access to academic resources at UW - La Crosse; identify, evaluate, implement, and teach the use of new technologies that facilitate information access and that contribute to the development of library-related learning materials; participate in reference, information literacy instruction, collection development, collegial governance, and library committees as well as campus and professional activities. The library recognizes and values diversity in its faculty, staff, and students. We seek a colleague who shares the library's commitment to diversity and who will be a dedicated librarian and mentor for students with diverse backgrounds, preparation, and career goals. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS ALA accredited MLS; experience with integrated library systems and web development applications; ability to manage EZProxy and server technology and to develop and manage tools for extracting evaluative statistics; demonstrated knowledge of desktop, laptop, and handheld computing devices and their related technologies; demonstrated ability to work collegially and communicate effectively. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Professional academic library experience. ENVIRONMENT UW-La Crosse is known for its highly ranked academic programs. La Crosse is famous for its exceptional natural beauty. The city (metropolitan population 100,000) is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River below towering bluffs. Abundant water and woodlands provide year-round recreation sites for skiing, hunting, camping, and other outdoor activities. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:45:00 +0100 867726 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/barker-library-closes/3705/ Barker Library will close at 4pm on Wednesday, September 1 due to previously-scheduled special event. Reference services will be available in the Hayden Library (14S-100) or online through AskUs!. Barker will re-open for normal business hours on Thursday, September 2nd. (Source: MIT Libraries News) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:52:31 +0100 867647 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/infographic-is-print-dead/ Brian Young from Sketchee has created an infographic (at the bottom of this post) loaded with stats about the current situation in the print world. While we&#8217;re not so sure print it&#8217;s time to bury print (we meet a lot of people who still like and want paper) but it&#8217;s a great looking infographic loaded with useful statistics. Young also includes a list of direct links (awesome) to the sources he used at the bottom of this post We really appreciate when infographic artists make note of them. The direct links go above and beyond what many do. Thanks Brian! Of course, the reference help increase the reference value of their graphic 100%. Speaking of print vs electronic, this story that we posted over the weekend might be of interest. See Also: E-Books: Not all MU (U. of Missouri) Students Eager to Switch to Digital Textbooks Hat Tip and Thanks: Visual Loop References at the Bottom of this Post (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:46:37 +0100 867560 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6362 Immediate Supervisors: Assistant Patron Services Librarians A Patron Services Assistant performs a variety of tasks associated with stack maintenance, document delivery, circulation and event management. Job Duties and Responsibilities (Includes approximate percentage of time spent on each): 1. Perform Collection Maintenance tasks (30%) including, but not limited to: a. Shelving Library materials. i. Scanning collection barcodes to document usage. ii. Sorting materials on book trucks by location and call number. iii. Shelving materials in assigned locations. iv. Identifying and communicating book repair and collection shift needs to the Collection Maintenance Supervisor. b. Shelf reading: Maintain assigned location(s) in call number order. c. Assisting with collection shifts as needed. d. Assisting with collection and stack labeling and installation of book supports. 2. Fill copy orders. (30%) a. Receiving copy orders by telephone, in person, by fax and e-mail; recording and tracking orders online. b. Retrieving materials to be copied; using photocopier and/or microfiche reader/printer. c. Preparing orders for pick-up or delivery; communicating with customer. d. Counting materials used for photocopying by scanning barcodes. 3. Staff circulation desk. (30%) a. Retrieve materials to fill patron requests received via phone and email. b. Check in, check out, renew and place holds for patrons. c. Utilize the Librarys online catalog, circulation module and membership database in the performance of circulation-related tasks. d. Answer general questions about the collection and Library services and membership guidelines. e. Direct inquiries to reference staff or others as appropriate. f. Assist Library patrons with use of photocopiers. g. Help patrons locate, view and print from microforms. h. Perform tasks related to opening and closing the Library. Patron Services Assistant Job Description (continued) 4. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:25:02 +0100 867440 http://www.lisnews.org/reference_librarians_they039re_out_there Freed from their desks, reference librarians at the Orland Park IL Public Library have taken to the aisles to help patrons find the answers they need. "We're out there looking for them," said Diane Srebro, assistant head of adult services. She asks a patron if he needs help as she makes the rounds with a HP Tablet as part of the new 'Ask Me' campaign. The program began in the spring to enhance customer service for library patrons. Armed with laptop computers and sporting "Ask Me" buttons, the librarians are fielding about 200 questions a month from the floor, Srebro said. All told, the reference desk averages about 3,000 reference questions a month. "Technology has freed us from the reference desk," Srebro said. "It's part of our strategic plan for the adult services area." Southtown Star. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:40:18 +0100 868609 http://lisnews.org/reference_librarians_they039re_out_there Freed from their desks, reference librarians at the Orland Park IL Public Library have taken to the aisles to help patrons find the answers they need. "We're out there looking for them," said Diane Srebro, assistant head of adult services. She asks a patron if he needs help as she makes the rounds with a HP Tablet as part of the new 'Ask Me' campaign. The program began in the spring to enhance customer service for library patrons. Armed with laptop computers and sporting "Ask Me" buttons, the librarians are fielding about 200 questions a month from the floor, Srebro said. All told, the reference desk averages about 3,000 reference questions a month. "Technology has freed us from the reference desk," Srebro said. "It's part of our strategic plan for the adult services area." Southtown Star. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:40:18 +0100 867498 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7684 State: New Jersey library.princeton.edu/hr/positions/JobRefLibrnSpColl2008.html Position Summary: The Special Collections Reference Librarian is responsible for reference services in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department in Firestone Library and works closely with the Assistant University Archivist for Public Services at the Mudd Manuscript Library to coordinate public services for all of Special Collections. This person supervises the work of three support staff and coordinates the delivery of public services with many professionals and support staff who play part-time public service roles in the Department. The position reports to the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. We seek a generalist with the ability and talent to provide reference services for the myriad subject areas the Department covers. The main reading room in Firestone serves more than 2,500 patrons annually from within and without the University community. Our patrons consult more than 12,000 books, manuscripts, graphic materials, maps, and other items that span many languages and five millennia of recorded history. The Department's public services staff at Firestone also handle approximately 2,500 reference inquiries annually from around the world, provide paper, microfilm, digital, and photographic copies for approximately 16,000 items annually, and gather materials for and host more than 100 classes for approximately 1,500 students during the academic year. The successful candidate must be committed to and be an advocate for public services in the Department, as well as in the wider library system. The ideal candidate will enjoy working with researchers, take up the challenge of problem solving, have a welcoming personality and qualities that will help patrons researching primary sources. The position may work occasional evening or weekend hours. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867353 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7689 State: International The University of Texas at Arlington Job Title Librarian Posting number 10-07-21-01-0100 Job status Open Information: http://utdirect.utexas.edu/pnjobs/index.WBX?comp=1 Check "Professional/Non-faculty" ___ Basic Information Date available 09/01/2010 Position duration Funding expected to continue Position open to all applicants Monthly salary $3333 negotiable depending on qualifications. Hours per week 40.00 Standard from 900AM to 600PM Location Arlington, TX Hiring department Library http://library.uta.edu General notes This is an entry level Science and Engineering Librarian position. Reference desk duty includes one week night, Sunday rotations and occasional holidays. Some instruction includes nights and weekends. Instructions about additional materials to be submitted by all applicants will be provided once you apply. Finalist(s) will be required to give a formal presentation on a library-related topic. Required Application Materials A Resume is required in order to apply. A Letter of Interest is required in order to apply. A List of 3 References is required in order to apply. Additional Information Purpose of position The Science/Engineering Librarian serves as liaison to assigned departments within the Colleges of Science and Engineering; contribute to and supports the Library's mission to foster and promote quality learning, teaching, and research. Essential functions Serves as subject liaison to assigned academic units for promotion and outreach of library services and resources for Science and Engineering disciplines, cultivates partnerships and relationships with faculty, staff and students. Provides general reference while maintaining a service desk area, also provides complex and/or consultative reference and research assistance in assigned subject areas including virtual reference. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867350 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7709 State: Indiana August 5, 2010 POSITION AVAILABLE Jeffrey R. Krull Gallery Librarian II Art, Music and Media Allen County Public Library Librarian Responsibilities: Provide reference assistance to patrons in locating materials and information. Instruct patrons on the usage of computers, copiers and audio-visual equipment. Represent the library and community in a leadership role for the arts. Participate in collection development of materials specific to the department. Supervise the department during scheduled evening or weekend hours when the manager and assistant manager are absent. Gallery Coordinator Responsibilities: • Plan Exhibits: Coordinate gallery schedule and maintain ongoing working relationships with art organizations, universities and individual artists throughout the scheduling phase. Refine the exhibit scope, gallery layout and selection of artwork. Prepare gallery programming in conjunction with exhibition; these include workshops, artist visits, lectures and opening receptions. Complete paperwork including contracts, shipping documents, supply forms and purchase requests. • Direct Installation: Direct the activity of properties, security and housekeeping during installation and exhibition. Prepare and patch walls, pedestals and fixtures. Coordinate art drop-off and retrieval of artwork. Arrange artwork and lighting. Inventory items on display daily. Coordinate Receptions with the events coordinator, housekeeping and security staff. Schedule caterers or prepare refreshments. Staff the event and oversee volunteers. • Create Publicity: Update staff, patrons and artists on gallery events through emails, newsletters and posters. Maintain the gallery blog. Maintain ongoing contact with other art organizations. • Minimum Qualifications: ALA/MLS degree. Undergraduate degree with major in art preferred. Gallery experience preferred. Ability to network with the art community; plan and install gallery exhibits. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867347 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7721 State: Indiana Join the team of our nationally recognized Top Ten HAPLR and Library Journal 5-Star library! The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, an essential provider of shared information and a core community service, promotes reading, lifelong learning, and economic vitality through its resources, services, and programs to the residents of Vanderburgh County. The Assistant Branch Manager performs professional librarian duties, which include public service, collection development, program development, training, and direction to patrons, staff, and volunteers; performs related duties as required. The assistant assumes management responsibility in the absence of the Branch Manager. The assistant’s responsibilities include but are not limited to the youth services area of the branch. Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Assists with implementation of Library policies, procedures, rules, and directives. 2. Participates in creative planning, budgeting, coordinating, and implementing all functions of the branch. 3. Establishes and enforces a standard of appropriate customer conduct on Library premises consistent with Library rules and policies. 4. Leads, supervises, and coaches employees through scheduling, coordinating, delegating, selecting, counseling, directing, training, evaluating, disciplining, and discharging. 5. Plans, arranges for and/or prepares for and presents programs and library tours for all ages. 6. Evaluates customer needs and preferences for Library resources; responds to customer requests and complaints. 7. Engages in planning, coordinating, recommending and deselecting of materials in all formats. 8. Provides some reference and reader’s advisory services. 9. Coordinates services, resources, and training based on Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library. 10. Perform functions in youth services department including creative programming activities for children birth to age 18. 11. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867344 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7724 State: Colorado Job/Research Summary: The position supports the NREL Library’s document delivery, research and reference, and outreach services to NREL staff and visitors. The position has a significant public service aspect, including communication with clients to: identify information required to support Laboratory programs; provide information on the status of document delivery and research requests; and provide general and subject-specific instruction and information on Library resources and services to remote and walk-in clients. Apply to this positions via: https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=25104&siteid=5189&AReq=1463BR&Codes=JMcMillin Submitted on 2010-08-16 (Source: SLIS Careers Feed) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867343 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7733 State: Illinois The Librarian, Career Resource Centers (CRC) responds to thousands of requests for information from students and alumni. This position is responsible for research, development, and delivery of career research materials and instruction for 3,200 students enrolled in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth) full-time and part-time MBA programs in Chicago, London, and Singapore and more than 40,000 alumni worldwide. The Librarian plays a key role in the transfer of knowledge and ideas by providing students and alumni with access to a wide range of information to facilitate their career advancement efforts including frequent instructional programs on the relevant research tools. This individual manages all aspects of both the Harper and Fisher CRC’s, supervises CRC staff, and works with departmental colleagues to develop complementary and collaborative programming to enhance the overall success of Career Services. The Librarian determines the overall vision and strategy for the CRC’s, including physical space, staff, new resources, and new programs. This person develops and continually monitors best practices. In addition, the Librarian is expected to acquire, maintain, and apply expert knowledge of resources and disseminate that knowledge to relevent constituencies via one-on-one consultations, presentations, and the web (or other forms of media). Lastly, this individual coordinates resources and relationships amongst the Harper CRC, Fisher CRC, Regenstein Library, Computing Services, Faculty, other Booth departments/centers, and Career Services team. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. As the librarian, determine overall vision and strategy for the CRC’s including physical space, staff, new resources and new programs. Develop and continually monitor best practices. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867339 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/resource-of-the-week-bbc-british-novelists-archive-collection/ Resource of the Week: BBC British Novelists Archive Collection By Adrian Janes, DocuTicker UK Contributing Editor The BBC is increasingly finding ways to exploit and make more freely available its vast collection of visual and aural content. The latest example of this is its British Novelists Archive Collection. This is a complement to a BBC TV series, In Their Own Words: British Novelists. But whereas the series of necessity relies on short clips of interviews with leading authors as it charts the history of the 20th century British novel, this website is an archive of complete interviews and talks. These vary in length from five minutes up to an hour, and in year of broadcast from 1937 (Virginia Woolf) to 2009 (Zadie Smith). Care has been taken to present a mixture of writers, which implicitly charts the gradual shift during the century from a literary field dominated by white males to one in which women and minorities are clearly visible and audible, through examples like Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi. Each programme is accompanied by a synopsis and a few astutely chosen links which complement the archive and might well merit separate bookmarking. These include: Modern radio interviews from the programmes Book Club and Open Book, the latter being strikingly international in scope, with authors from the Americas, Africa and Asia as well as the UK An extensive database of contemporary UK writers provided by the British Council, which includes a biography, bibliography and short critical essay A database of UK reading groups The history and current news of the Man Booker prize, the most prestigious literary award in Britain. (The BBC archive collection also includes a percipient interview from 1995 with the 2009 winner Hilary Mantel, which calls her &#8220;the novelist of her generation who will last. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:43:55 +0100 867563 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/08/additions-to-source-codes-for.html News from LC.The source codes listed below have been recently approved. The codes will be added to applicable Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes lists. See the specific source code list for current usage in MARC fields and MODS/MADS elements.The codes should not be used in exchange records until 60 days after the date of this notice to provide implementers time to include newly-defined codes in any validation tables.Description Convention Source CodesThe following source code has been added to the Description Convention Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.Addition:ncrNippon cataloging rules (Tokyo: National Diet Library)Cartographic Data Source CodesThe following source code has been added to the Cartographic Data Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.Addition:erpnScott, Andrew. The encyclopedia of raincoast place names: a complete reference to coastal British Columbia (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing) (Source: Catalogablog) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867724 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogs/distlib/~3/l5MvZEP9wyY/a-couple-of-screencasting-links.html Michael Steeleworthy posts his opinions on Camtasia vs. Captivate vs. the Organization.  I'm not sure where the Organization part comes in, but he makes some interesting points about why he gives Captivate a nod over Camtasia.  Personally, I don't care about the file size, which seems to be his biggest concern with Camtasia, 'cause I recommend hosting the output on YouTube, which offloads that issue to their servers. Over on Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Olivia Bautista Sparks has an article called Five Minute Screencasts -- The Super Tool for Science and Engineering Librarians, which of course is useful to all librarians.  In addition to providing links and tips, she has several short examples of screencasts she's built for orientations, reference consultations, class instruction, and full instruction loads.  Also check out her LibGuide on screencasting at http://libguides.asu.edu/screencast. All of the tools she examines are freebies. I believe I owe thanks to Stephen Francoeur's shared Google News items for both of these links. (Source: The Distant Librarian) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867711 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/29/oed-third-edition-unlikely-print Publishers confirm that print dictionary market is disappearing so third edition is unlikelyPublishers of the Oxford English Dictionary have confirmed that the third edition may never appear in print. A team of 80 lexicographers began working on it following the publication of the second edition in 1989. It is 28% finished. In comments to a Sunday newspaper, Nigel Portwood, chief executive of Oxford University Press, which owns the dictionary, said: "The print dictionary market is just disappearing. It is falling away by tens of percent a year." Asked if he thought the third edition would appear in printed format, he said: "I don't think so." However, an OUP spokeswoman said no decision had been made."It is likely to be more than a decade before the full edition is published and a decision on format will be taken at that point," she said."Demand for online resources is growing but large numbers of people continue to purchase dictionaries in printed form and we have no plans to stop publishing print dictionaries."The Oxford English Dictionary already publishes revised and new entries online every three months, with a new version of its OED Online website due to be launched in December.The publisher produces approximately 500 dictionaries, thesauruses and language reference titles in more than 40 languages in a variety of formats."PublishingNewspapers & magazinesguardian.co.uk &copy; Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:14:11 +0100 867263 http://www.ohionet.org/jobs2.php?jid=1705 Hamilton County Law Library (Source: OHIONET - Job Announcements) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:00:02 +0100 866936 http://outofthejungle.blogspot.com/2010/08/another-sign-of-times.html It is likely that the next edition of the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (OED), will not be published in print. No date is scheduled for the release of the third edition, which is only about one quarter finished, but it will probably take a decade or more. The future of the OED is discussed in this article, and is also the subject of an article in The Sunday Times, which is a fee-based site and available only to subscribers. I was interested to learn that the OED "now gets 2 million hits a month from subscribers." It is a bargain compared to many other online reference works--only $295 per year. Reference works seem uniquely well suited to online publication. Few people read them all the way through, and even more important is the ability to update them quickly and easily. Waiting a decade or more for a new edition of any dictionary, even the OED, just seems unacceptable today. Currently, the online second edition of the OED is updated every three months, but there is no reason updates could not be made more regularly than that. Nigel Portwood, chief executive of Oxford University Press, feels that the market for print dictionaries is "just disappearing. It is falling away by tens of percent a year." (Source: Out of the Jungle) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867537 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16750 We have acquired 2 Flip video cameras and I'm looking for an easy to use, FREE (if possible), software to edit our movies. They are MP4 format and we used both cameras to record an event and I would like to use the best of each movie. This is not my area at all so as idiot proof as possible. If you have something you really like that isn't as easy to use, I'm willing to learn. Thanks for any advice/suggestions. Christa Van Herreweghe IT/Reference Librarian University City Public Library 6701 Delmar Blvd. University City, MO 63130 314.727.3150 www.ucpl.lib.mo.us (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867235 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/bankruptcy-statistics-interactive-map/#comment-21152 [...] Bankruptcy Statistics &#8212; Interactive Map [...] (Source: Comments for MPLIC Reference Highway) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:22:25 +0100 868043 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/08/28/reference-question-of-the-week-82210 This was sort of a frustrating question, but in the end was fun - mainly because I get to tag this post &#8220;gonzo reference.&#8221; A patron came rushing up to the desk (literally) and said he quickly needed to know John Philip Sousa&#8217;s religion. Since time was important, I gave the patron Encyclopedia Britannica and showed him how to find the John Philip Sousa article, while I searched Wikipedia. Neither identified his religion, so the next step was to grab the one Sousa biography we had on the shelf, and the patron looked through the index under &#8220;faith,&#8221; &#8220;religion,&#8221; etc., while I kept searching our databases and the internet. Again, neither of us located anything quickly, except for a quote online attributed to Sousa: My religion lies in my composition. That didn&#8217;t exactly answer the patron&#8217;s question, but he felt Sousa must have meant that, regardless of what religion he was officially, he wasn&#8217;t himself a very religious person, and that was good enough for the patron. He thanked me and rushed out. But I was still surprised that such an simple fact wouldn&#8217;t have been more readily available. I decided to keep searching until I found it, and then add the fact to Wikipedia - mainly because I can. I was already in the library&#8217;s catalog, so I requested a Sousa biography from another library (John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon) that seemed likely to have the information. When it arrived, I started flipping through it, then wondered if this had been scanned into Google Books - turns out, it had. I searched the content of the book for &#8220;religion&#8221; and found the answer I was looking for at the bottom of page 102. I then composed a little paragraph and added it to Wikipedia: Although Freemasonry is an organization influenced by religious beliefs, John Philip Sousa himself was not. ... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:39:57 +0100 866694 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6361 Part-Time Library Assistant Shady Hill School For close to ten decades, Shady Hill, a school of 515 students (PS-8) and seventy-five full- and part-time teachers, has been a leader in progressive elementary education. The year-long central subject study, which emphasizes strong content, the use of primary sources, acquisition of essential skills, and self-discovery, forms the core of our curriculum. The school’s program allows children to explore their worlds and test their powers; we seek to develop independent, joyful and curious learners who respect their own accomplishments and those of others. We strive to be a community whose values are strong and which is unafraid to engage students in important questions. As a diverse school, we believe that a varied and inclusive community is an educational and moral imperative that empowers us all. Therefore, we especially welcome applications from candidates who will contribute to the diversity of the community. The Shady Hill Library is an essential resource for our students, faculty, and apprentice teachers. Librarians provide weekly instruction, as well as reference, readers’ advisory and curricular support for the entire school community. Our fully automated facilities include a collection of 25,000 books and audio-visual materials, and a lab containing seventeen Mac computers. Specific Responsibilities: • Oversee all circulation desk duties • Manage volunteers • Assist with general collection maintenance and processing of new books • Assist librarian with some Lower School classes Position open September 1, 2010. Please send a cover letter and resume to: Jennifer Polshek, Library Director, Shady Hill School, 178 Coolidge Hill, Cambridge, MA 02138. Fax: 617-520-9387. No phone calls, please. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:19:59 +0100 866318 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15566 Latin American Studies Librarian (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana) The Latin American Studies faculty and courses are increasing at a rapid pace.&nbsp; The Subject Librarian will have responsibility for building basic reference collections in the area as well as crafting special collection strengths in nontraditional areas of Latin American Studies that are particularly focused on local faculty and student interests.&nbsp; The Latin American collections at Notre Dame are extensive and include a growing collection of manuscript materials.&nbsp; Familiarity with special collections procedures and practices is highly desirable as is a strong academic background in Latin American Studies. Salary and Benefits: Minimum beginning salary $44,000. ... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:15:01 +0100 866310 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/article-note-on-when-eric-is-useful.html Citation for the article:Corby, Kate, "When is ERIC Useful? A Background and Current Overview of the Education Resources Information Center." The Reference Librarian 50.2 (2009): 137-149. &nbsp; Read via Interlibrary Loan. This article updates and supplements the previous article I read on the topic, which discussed alternatives to ERIC. I still teach EBSCO's Education Research Complete as the primary database for education research, but I do mention ERIC mostly as a supplement and for its thesaurus. Let me mention another small update note after I wrote the note for the other article: We finally acquired Web of Science for the library. It's amazing what the threat of losing or not getting accreditation (or reaffirmation, which is the new term) does for money to suddenly appear for library development and enhancement. I am being perfectly honest and blunt in this case: were it not for that, we would not have been able to purchase WoS. Now my job is promoting more use of WoS for the education faculty as well and discovering all it can do for us in terms of education research. I like having options, but I digress. In the other article, I do discuss some tips for teaching research in education that are very applicable and relevant, so those of you who do instruction may want to go and look at the other link.Getting back to Corby's article, we get an overview of ERIC and its current condition. The article starts by providing an overview of ERIC's development history and design. ERIC was created to bring education research, which was being done all over the nation, under one roof. This is where the clearinghouses structure came in at first. ERIC also developed the Document Reproduction Service (EDRS), which served to provide those microfiche sets that some libraries still have (we still have our set, but I am not sure for how long since there is some pressure to weed it out. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:11:00 +0100 866510 http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2010/08/librarians-in-the-village-2/ In an effort to provide research assistance outside the library, a reference librarian is now stationed in the computer lab (Room 136) located on the First Floor of Aubie Hall in the Village section of campus.  Please stop by Monday through Wednesday, 6 – 9 p.m. to take advantage of this service. (Source: What's New at the Auburn Libraries) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:03:39 +0100 868539 http://kairosnews.org/job-announcement-tenure-track-asst-prof Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Position Description. Reporting to the Chair of the Department of Writing and Linguistics, the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing position requires teaching, service, and research responsibilities and a terminal degree. The successful candidate will teach 3 courses per semester with primary assignment in multi-genre and single-genre Creative Writing courses. The position is a 9-month, tenure-track appointment, and the salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. &nbsp; Required Qualifications: •&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; M.F.A. or Ph.D. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:17:08 +0100 866461 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15562 Public Services / Reference Librarian (Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia) The Inter-American Development Bank, the largest and leading source of financing for regional development in Latin America and the Caribbean, seeks an energetic and service oriented&nbsp;Librarian with a strong background in the socioeconomic development, history and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean, to lead the Felipe Herrera Library Reference and Public Services Program. The successful candidate will provide reference services for the Bank&#39;s clients based on continuous research of user behavior and service programming committed to results. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:15:01 +0100 866059 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/fIh1Ex8Avlc/friday-brain-teaser-from-credo_27.html The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Rock and Pop Groups. "This brainteaser is about rock and pop groups in popular music" Answers here. 1. Which Swedish pop group won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with "Waterloo"? 2. "Wannabe" was the chart-topping debut single in 1996 by which pop group? 3. Paul Hewson is the lead singer of which Irish rock group formed in the 1970s? 4. "Behind the Front" was the 1998 debut album by which US hip-hop group? 5. In 1965, which pop group sang a song including the lyric "Hope I die before I get old"? 6. Which member of the Rolling Stones died in 1969? 7. Caleb Followill is the lead vocalist of which American group? 8. Fleetwood Mac got its name from the names of two of the group's members. Who were they? 9. Which pop manager created Boyzone, the Irish boy band? 10. What was the real name of Sly Stone, who led Sly & the Family Stone? (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:57:16 +0100 866072 http://www.lisjobs.com/jobs/item.asp?ID=43254 Reference Assistant (Source: Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:01:00 +0100 866811 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/politelibrarian/~3/E2mb5JILExA/calls-returning.html If a patron calls five minutes after the library closes and leaves a long, rambling, desperate voicemail message on your reference desk phone, it is perfectly acceptable to wake the patron with a return call five minutes before the library opens at 7:00 AM. (Source: A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867770 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/qEV7O6pVvg0/ The Manhattanville College Library is recruiting a Digital Services Librarian. Here&#39;s an excerpt from the ad: The Library seeks a dynamic, student oriented, Digital Services Librarian to provide leadership, vision, and expertise related to systems and technologies that increase and enhance access to digital resources. This position will focus on ensuring consistent and integrated access to electronic resources in a technologically intensive learning environment. S/he will have responsibility for the Library&#39;s website including helping to develop a new mobile website. S/he will participate in the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of the Library&#39;s core digital initiatives, and will identify, evaluate, implement, and teach the use of new technologies that facilitate information access and that contribute to the development of library-related learning materials; participate in reference, information literacy instruction, collection development, and library committees as well as campus and professional activities. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:02:30 +0100 867326 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/26/digital-services-librarian-at-manhattanville-college/ The Manhattanville College Library is recruiting a Digital Services Librarian. Here&#39;s an excerpt from the ad: The Library seeks a dynamic, student oriented, Digital Services Librarian to provide leadership, vision, and expertise related to systems and technologies that increase and enhance access to digital resources. This position will focus on ensuring consistent and integrated access to electronic resources in a technologically intensive learning environment. S/he will have responsibility for the Library&#39;s website including helping to develop a new mobile website. S/he will participate in the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of the Library&#39;s core digital initiatives, and will identify, evaluate, implement, and teach the use of new technologies that facilitate information access and that contribute to the development of library-related learning materials; participate in reference, information literacy instruction, collection development, and library committees as well as campus and professional activities. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:02:19 +0100 866045 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/26/reference-resource-new-proquest-discovery-guide-free-deep-sea-oil-spill-cleanup-techniques-applicability-trade-offs-and-advantages/ Note: The guides have to names. CSA Discovery Guides (a ProQuest property) and ProQuest Discovery Guides. It depends of the web page your looking at. by: Pam Graham This new discovery guide includes: + A Brief Review of the Gulf Oil Spill + Key Citations with Abstracts + Visuals: Images and Charts; Links to Academic Experts + News (Snippets Only, Full Text Requires and E-Library) Of course, you might also be able to access the articles using a database from your local library. + Glossary of Terms The document can be printed/downloaded as a PDF. This page lists all Discovery Guides and it&#8217;s searchable. However, when we tested the search tool (which apparently uses a limited search of Google) does not work properly. The most recent guides are linked on the right side of the page. You can also browse guides by topic: + Arts &#038; Humanities + Natural Sciences + Social Sciences + Technology Source: ProQuest, CSA (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:10:31 +0100 866124 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6358 Performs a variety of routine and complex professional library and administrative work in the operation of the library system. Exercises supervision over library assistants, pages and other support staff and volunteers. As a generalist, this position may be assigned anywhere in the library. Most frequently, the selected candidate will work in Adult Reference and Young Adult service areas. The ideal candidate will be customer service oriented, familiar with both online and print reference sources, able to troubleshoot and assist patrons with technology, enjoy working with young adults and be creative in developing and implementing programming for teens and adults within available resources. Will be required to work one evening per week and Saturdays. EOE/AA (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:20:05 +0100 865556 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6354 To provide reference services and to supervise work-study student staff in performing circulation/reserves functions. Multiple positions and schedules of 10-20 hours weekly available. Hours available: Sunday 12:00pm - 5:00pm Monday 4:00pm - 10:00pm Tuesday 4:00pm - 10:00pm Wednesday 4:00pm - 10:00pm Thursday 4:00pm - 10:00pm Saturday 12:00pm - 5:00pm (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:20:02 +0100 865560 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6356 Worcester Polytechnic Institute invites applications for the position of Research and Instruction Librarian, who will report to the Associate Director for Research and Instruction Services. Founded in Worcester, Mass., in 1865, WPI was one of the nation's earliest technological universities. From our founding days, we've taken a unique approach to science and technology education which makes working at the Gordon Library a rewarding experience. Librarians support our research-intensive project-based curriculum with a growing highly regarded instruction program. The George C. Gordon Library offers a vibrant atmosphere with newly renovated spaces where students, faculty, alumni and staff come together on campus. BASIC FUNCTIONS: Collaborates with WPI faculty staff and the Research and Instruction team to advance technology-enhanced instruction by design, development, and delivery of electronic learning and online tutorials to meet information literacy and related outcomes. Provides research and instruction services to the WPI community, incorporates appropriate technologies, skills, innovations, and collaborations as needed into instructional program; supports academic library departments as a library liaison, provides research education services and current information on library resources and services both in-person and online. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Designs, develops, and delivers e-learning and online tutorials for the library's research education program. - Supports judicious and appropriate use of the library's subscribed information resources and assists in providing access to course-specific instructional materials in online environments. - Designs, develops and provides research consultations and orientations; including virtual research orientations and consultations for distance learners. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:20:02 +0100 865558 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15540 Undergraduate Services Librarian (University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa) Reporting to the Head, Reference and Library Instruction Department (RLI), the Undergraduate Services Librarian is responsible for the design and implementation of innovative library services and instruction programs aimed at undergraduate students and for coordinating all aspects of first-year experience and general undergraduate education/library outreach. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:01 +0100 865554 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15562 Public Services / Reference Librarian (Inter-American Bank, Washington, District of Columbia) The Inter-American Development Bank, the largest and leading source of financing for regional development in Latin America and the Caribbean, seeks an energetic and service oriented&nbsp;Librarian with a strong background in the socioeconomic development, history and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean, to lead the Felipe Herrera Library Reference and Public Services Program. The successful candidate will provide reference services for the Bank&#39;s clients based on continuous research of user behavior and service programming committed to results. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:01 +0100 865552 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15557 Library Assistant (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio) The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the world&rsquo;s first museum dedicated to the living heritage of rock and roll music, is currently seeking candidates for the position of Library Assistant.&nbsp; Reporting to the Catalog and Metadata Librarian, the Library Assistant is responsible for processing incoming library materials, performing basic copy cataloging of library materials, assisting with acquisitions duties, and providing basic reference service to Library and Archives users. A bachelor&rsquo;s degree in a related field is preferred. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:01 +0100 865549 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15552 Information Literacy Librarian (Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, Connecticut) Academic Year 2010-2011 Appointment (Temporary, Full-Time &ndash; 35 hours per week) ANTICIPATED STARTING DATE: October 2010 MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: ALA-accredited Masters Degree in Library Science (or MLIS), with one to four years of related experience including up to two years of experience in leading or supervising others, or a combination of education, training, and experience which would lead to the competencies required. Demonstrated strong competencies in information literacy instruction and reference service. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:01 +0100 865547 http://careercenter.sla.org/jobs/3525383/public-services-reference-librarian US - DC - Washington, • Education: Masters degree in Library Science (preferred) or Licenciatura en Bibliotecología y Documentación from an accredited institution. • Experience: Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience (Source: SLA Career Center Search Results []) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:14:00 +0100 865564 http://www.wislisjobs.com/public.htm#browndeer Title: Reference Librarian (part-time) (Source: Wislisjobs) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:40:01 +0100 865320 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/08/response_to_rec.php The Public Library Foundation, also known as the "PLF" became law in 1982 with the passage of SB 358 by then-Senator Jim Nielsen, who is now currently a member of the State Assembly. The legislation, which was sponsored by CLA, established a requirement that the state provide assistance to local libraries on the basis of a 10 percent state/ 90 percent local match. The funding for the PLF is distributed on a per capita basis, meaning that every library benefits equally from even the slightest increase in the program, and conversely each public library's state share is reduced proportionally in years where reductions occur at the hands of the legislature or Governor. The PLF has a so-called "maintenance of effort" (MOE) requirement, meaning that a city or county or special district library, which reduces its total local appropriation below its previous year level, is ineligible for any PLF funds. The exception to this MOE rule is the ability of libraries to request a limited waiver from the State Library for a particular fiscal year. Back in 2008, at the direction of the CLA Executive Board and Legislative Committee, we first lobbied to secure a special ten percent reduction to the MOE for the fiscal year 2008-09. The logic behind the 10 percent reduction was that if the PLF was facing a ten percent reduction (as it was that particular Budget year) it would be beneficial to all libraries to similarly be able to reduce their maintenance of effort proportionally. Some libraries argued that a complete suspension of the MOE would be preferable, but others argued that the MOE requirement is critical as it asks city councils and county boards of supervisors to make a continued financial commitment to public libraries, and without it, they may not have the incentive to continue that local share of funding. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:52:26 +0100 867932 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/08/rebooting_the_l.php Earlier this week, I attended the opening of "Santa Mammon", the new massive outdoor shopping center that has been constructed at the end of the Santa Monica Promenade. You have to admire the powers-that-be for their bravery, if nothing else, for their brazen foolhardiness in opening a ginormous three story mall during an era of recession. The place is, frankly, so top heavy with upscale businesses, it's a bit like taking Rodeo Drive, folding it in on itself like a lasagna pasta sheet, and then putting another Rodeo Drive on top of it. I loved wandering around the place, and I did just about what everyone else was doing: I stepped into the fancy stores, happily fondled the glittery crystals at the Bagnace outlet, gaped at the incredibly gorgeous shirts at the Feodor of Italy shop, and stared out to sea from the food court patio. And then I ran to buy my socks and underwear at the Sears across the street. For, really, we have to face it: I didn't see anyone actually buying anything at any of the stores. Instead, the place was being treated like a very good museum. Folks wandered to and fro in the open air under Santa Monica's beautiful blue sun, a stone's throw from the glittering Pacific Ocean, peering at the exhibits, gaping at the gawgaws, and then going right home. They were doing this by the thousands, it seems. You see, it's clear that, first and foremost, this isn't meant to be a shopping mall for today: This is a shopping mall that was conceived several years ago, when the economy was still flush, and it is being maintained for the patron of tomorrow -- he who lives in that foggy era when the economy has recovered. For the businesses and patrons of today, the place is essentially a game of Pass the Parcel (to paraphrase the play "The History Boys"), as we try to get from the ostentatious times of Yesteryear, to the consumptive time of Futureyear. But what has all this to do with libraries, you may well ask. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:05:21 +0100 867933 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalReference/~3/Rou7DCXPkIc/ Today is the first day of the fall semester here at Baruch College. From 9-10 this morning, I was scheduled to work as a greeter by the turnstiles at the entrance to the library. As students and faculty filed in, I greeted each one with, &#8220;Good morning! Welcome to the library.&#8221; I got lots of returned greetings, many smiles and nods of recognition, and nearly three dozen reference questions. I&#8217;m eager to hear from my colleagues who are doing the same thing throughout the day to see if they had the same good experience that I did. When first asked to participate in this little project, I imagined it would mostly be an exercise in relationship building. I never imagined that I&#8217;d be helping the reference desk out by fielding so many questions. (Source: Digital Reference) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:53:09 +0100 867662 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/26/listen-to-text-article-text-to-speech-now-available-free-direct-from-ebsco-for-ebscohost-public-and-school-library-databases/ From the Announcement: EBSCO Publishing has added text-to-speech (read aloud) support to EBSCOhost databases, including its major school and public library databases, by embedding Texthelp Systems’ SpeechStream toolbar—a valuable benefit provided at no additional cost to the user. Users will be able to take advantage of this new feature with any full-text articles available in HTML. Text-to-speech support, already featured in EBSCO’s English Language Learner Reference Center, allows users to read along while a human-sounding voice speaks the text on the screen. The support toolbar provides significant assistance to those for whom text-to-speech capabilities are highly valued such as English Language Learners, users with low vision, slight physical and/or learning disabilities, as well as eBook and PDA users. [Clip] Utilizing the text-to-speech feature via the EBSCOhost platform provides many advantages. Users have the ability to read-aloud by selected text, sentence, paragraph, or continuous reading with dual color synchronous highlighting (highlighting of the passage being read with a second color highlighting the specific word being read aloud at that moment). User control of read-aloud personalizes the learning experience for each user. Users can control reading speed as well as select between three different high-quality voices—American, British, or Australian. These options also enable teachers and professionals to incorporate the features as a tool for teaching English and reading. Source: EBSCO Publishing (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:44:34 +0100 865870 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/08/pornography_sol.php Public Access Computers One evening in 2010 in a small family-oriented library where I work as a part-time Reference Librarian, I found myself questioning what I should do. A parent came to me for assistance. She quietly stepped up to the reference desk, and so as not to be overheard, she whispered to me that a man using one of the public access computers was seated next to her 9-year-old child, and he was browsing what looked like child pornography on the next cubicle. Yes, it happened. I was stunned. I wondered could this man possibly be so bold (or desperate enough) to be viewing child pornography in a public library filled with juveniles and their parents researching CA Missions? I was the only librarian on duty. I had to think, assess the situation, confirm the information, act quickly, discreetly, and ethically to solve this dilemma. What should I do? What would you do? What library principles should librarians and library professionals obey in a similar situation? What resources and tools does the American Library Association (ALA) provide to help us? I am certain that I am not the first, and sadly, I am nor the last librarian that will encounter a similar situation. First of all, without corroborating the alleged claim, I must admit that my reaction was not only judgmental; it was also wrong, and unprofessional. Thus, I am writing about my predicament because, in retrospect, I know that I did not act as professionally as I could have, and as a life-long learner and graduate student in the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University, I must remember to apply what I have learned. Librarianship has multiple resources that provide librarians and library professionals the guidelines and tools we need to deal with and resolve any problem. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:40:56 +0100 867935 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalReference/~3/wgkEfgfEIKQ/ Yesterday, I got a chance to meet informally with the students who will be in my 3-credit course I&#8217;m teaching here in the library at Baruch College  (&#8220;Information Research for the Social Sciences and the Humanities&#8221;). When I was asking the students to tell me about kinds of research they have done that takes place outside of the classroom, a couple of the students mentioned using Yahoo! Answers to get advice about what cell phone or laptop to buy. Although they also mentioned using things like reviews on CNET, they preferred the personal commentary from question answerers to the more polished articles on tech and gadget sites. When my class starts next Monday, I hope to probe more deeply into this issue and find out more about how they assess the credibility of those providing answers in Q&amp;A sites. Not only will it be interesting to me as a reference librarian but also as an instructor trying to teach a semester-long course on how to find, evaluate, and use information to answer questions. (Source: Digital Reference) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:48:55 +0100 867663 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/26/update-on-ongoing-collaborative-family-law-agreement-frauds/ The following is the text of the August 26 e-blast sent to Ontario lawyers reminding them of the ongoing collaborative family law cheque scam. Almost every day LAWPRO® hears from lawyers who find themselves the targets of various kinds of frauds. While this message is not a full fraud alert, we felt we should advise lawyers to be on guard, as there has been a significant increase in the number of collaborative family law agreement frauds reported to LAWPRO over the last week. Almost 20 firms have been targeted in the last four business days. We also urge lawyers to be extra cautious as we approach Labour Day weekend, as we have seen an increase in fraud attempts around long weekends and holidays in the past. These recent frauds have some new twists but are very similar to the collaborative family law agreement frauds we have previously warned lawyers about. See the previous fraud alert here. These frauds have been reported to the police. The first new twist on these frauds is that the initial contact is a letter (not an email) delivered by Canada Post. That letter is from someone claiming to be Karen L. Clark. (Click here to enlarge) The contents of the letter are virtually identical to the contents of the initial contact email used previously (i.e., Clark and ex-husband David M. Baker have signed a collaborative family law agreement that requires a payment of spousal support by Baker). The second new twist is that each of these letters include a very real looking but counterfeit cheque or cashier’s cheque in the amount of $145,000. (Click here to enlarge) The counterfeit cheques appear to come from St. Christopher House and are drawn on an account at a CIBC branch on Ossington Ave. in Toronto. (Click here to enlarge) The counterfeit cashier cheques appear to come from the Chase Bank. In the letter Clark indicates there is some urgency to cash the payment from Baker in case he changes his mind and urges the lawyer to take a retainer from the payment. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:13:00 +0100 867049 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/08/26/ahmadinejad-classification-system I recently noticed in our Reference collection one of the quirks of the Dewey Decimal System that people often refer to as &#8220;serendipitous&#8221; - but look at the picture below to see if you also see a problem: The books that caught my eye are these (biggify the photo to see the Dewey numbers): Ref/809.927/Prin - Imaginary people: a who&#8217;s who of modern fictional characters Ref/809.933/Ency/2002 - Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature Ref/809.933/Mang/Pb - The dictionary of imaginary places And here&#8217;s the Dewey breakdown: 809 - History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures 809.91-.92 - Literature displaying specific qualities and elements 809.933 - Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects I didn&#8217;t see .927 described in either DDC21 or DDC22, but it was the call number specified in that book&#8217;s CIP data (&copy;1987), so it must have been phased out long ago. And so, I get that these books are each about specific kinds of literature. But come on - a book about the Holocaust shelved between two books about imaginary things? It really is like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other fool Holocaust deniers got into OCLC and caused this to happen - a cataloger sleeper cell. I&#8217;m going to talk with my Head of Technical Services to see how we can fix this. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:48:19 +0100 865044 http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/news/default.asp?postid=1337 We&apos;ve just discovered a fascinating and useful site for helping us decipher old handwriting. Brigham Young University&apos;s website has paleography tutorials that help you read old English, German, Italian, and Spanish scripts. Tutorials for Dutch, French, and Portuguese are under development and will be added soon. Each tutorial contains a section on alphabet and handwriting, genealogical glossaries, and a description of the most common types of records. Check it out at: http://script.byu.edu If that&apos;s not enough, how about a site that will help you learn to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800? Try "Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800." There are plenty of reference materials, tips and samples on this site. You can even play the "Ducking Stool Game" and see if your translations are good enough to save a life!http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/ (Source: Newberry Library Genealogy News) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0100 867712 http://csbsjulibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/text-reference-questions.html (Source: CSBSJU Library Blog) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865881 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/u_oJHkg-C_o/following-blog-stats.html I have successfully weaned myself from looking at our blog statistics (StatCounter, Feedburner, and Hot Stuff 2.0) on a daily basis; because I am interested in how readers find us, where readers are located, and what interests them, I do still review them weekly if for no other reasons than to reset blocking cookies so my personal posts do not add to the count and satisfy my curiosity. This evening I noticed several returning links from Cairo, Egypt that appeared to originate from my personal author page on a web site I am unfamiliar with, uFollow. With curiosity engaged, I followed the link."uFollow is a free service that helps you keep track of your favorite bloggers and columnists. Once you create an account you can add authors, sources, and channels to the stream of articles that you receive. uFollow currently tracks more than 10,000 bloggers and columnists from over 1,000 of the world’s leading blogs, magazines, and newspapers." -- About uFollowIt was odd to see a personal author page complete with a vaguely familiar biography. A quick review of the 2010 Computers in Libraries site revealed the biographical information was from my speaker page (and not a reference citation in sight, tsk). Also on the about page was a blurb stating uFollow is a division of Hindawi Publishing; "Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines" and in 2007 entered into a partnership with Sage Publications (Hindawi, about us). They also have offices in New York city and Cairo, Egypt.After spending time this afternoon discussing proliferation of online personal information and importance of knowing what's "out there" as it applies to individuals, it was wonderfully ironic this information came to my attention today. I signed up for an account, which may be the desired response, and added myself to my author shelf. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:26:00 +0100 866421 http://www.alia.org.au/employment/vacancies/listing.html?ID=1768 Employer: Darwin City Council [closing date: 13 September 2010] (Source: ALIAnet: LIS jobs) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:42:03 +0100 865271 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/jcaTXeNjvOM/ Thanks to reader Don Lloyd for pointing this out in a comment. For ease of reference here are direct links to Kindle 3 documentation at the Amazon site: Kindle User&#8217;s Guide (PDF) Kindle User&#8217;s Guide (AZW) Kindle Quick Start Guide (PDF) Kindle Documentation in Other Languages Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:58:24 +0100 864765 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/trans-union-class-action-lawsuit/#comment-21149 I would for this Law suit. Please send me infor on filing for this suit. thank yOU gAY jOHNSON-meredith at 3956 Connecticut St , Gary In 46409 (Source: Comments for MPLIC Reference Highway) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:12:19 +0100 868044 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/uMFGd78705o/new-library-technology-report-on-measuring-electronic-resource-use.html In the August/September issue of Library Technology Reports (vol. 46; no. 6), Rachel Fleming-May and Jill Grogg cover state of the art of electronic resources use measurement, offering guidance on presenting clear and meaningful measurement in research, assessment, and standards creation. Topics Covered Include: Assessing Use and Usage Standards, Tools, and Other Products Improving Understanding of Electronic Resources Usage Practitioner Responses on the Collection and Use of Usage Statistics An excerpt follows. With the explosion of digital resources over the past two decades, standards, tools, and other products have emerged to normalize statistics and improve protocols for transfer and management of such data. Some of these initiatives and products emerged as librarians and content providers alike worked together to paint a more accurate picture of use and usage, even if only at the most basic level. It was not so long ago that reasonably common definitions for actions such as a “session” or a “download” did not exist. Inconsistencies such as these made comparing the usage statistics available from one vendor against the statistics available from another akin to comparing apples and oranges—meaningful cross-comparison was not possible. Item elements, such as session, search, and download, were inconsistent from vendor to vendor and delivered to the librarian in any number of ways in any number of formats. In addition to the inconsistencies in definition, delivery method, and format, at issue is the amount of time it takes for librarians to collect, collate, and archive usage statistics, particularly for libraries with large digital collections. Initially, some libraries chose to create homegrown solutions to address this issue, and later, commercial vendors emerged with products such as Scholarly Stats, Serials Solutions' 360 Counter, and modules within integrated library systems (ILS). ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:02:40 +0100 867914 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/aug/25/orombi-rowan-uganda-religion-anglicanism Rowan Williams speaks to the African Anglican bishops: not exactly truth to powerThe Archbishop of Canterbury's presence in Kampala is an occasion for diplomacy. His host, Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda, has gone further than almost any other senior Anglican in formally denouncing him as a heretic. The Ugandan church is deeply implicated in a bill that would introduce the death penalty for homosexuals. Homophobia is here a recognised tool in church intrigues: Pastor Robert Kayanja, one of the most successful prosperity gospel preachers in Kampala was last year accused of being gay by rivals who kidnapped and may have tortured one of his assistants to prove this. Yet the links between Ugandan and English churches are close and in some cases personal. The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, was born there, and only came here as a refugee from Idi Amin's tyranny. In fact Robert Kayanja, the accused pentecostal preacher, is his half brother. Sandy Millar, the founder of the Alpha Course, and the epitome of an upper-class Anglicised Scot, was consecrated as a missionary bishop in the Church of Uganda when he retired as rector of Holy Trinity Brompton. That gesture looked at the time like a parking of tanks on Rowan's lawn, but Orombi's view is that liberals have no lawns. "[The] Time is now for 'African Anglicanism' to rise up and begin to bring fresh life in 'the ailing global Anglicanism'" He said: "The potentials represented today in this conference must be free to go to Europe and America with 'fresh wine' from 'new wine skins' to the mother church desperate for the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. I say 'the Church in Africa' must rise up. Shake off your fears, shame and superficial dependency. Take hold of this God-given opportunity and use it to his glory. Preach the gospel, evangelise and extend the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:30:00 +0100 865472 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/aug/25/short-story-vladimir-nabokov There's no doubting that he's a master writer – but not of short storiesIn Paris in the late 1930s, Vladimir Nabokov duped a hostile critic, Ales Adamovich, by publishing a poem under the pseudonym Vasiliy Shishkov. Adamovich proclaimed it a masterpiece, then said when the truth came out that Nabokov was "a sufficiently skilful parodist to mimic genius". This judgment, quoted with relish by its subject in a note to a 1975 collection, is both amusing and troubling: Nabokov's stories are built from language that frequently deserves, in my opinion, to be called genius. The stories themselves, however, self-reflexive games which cycle through styles with the restless energy of a child tearing through a dressing-up box, often feel like experiments that, while interesting, are not always successful.This is partly a problem of the thoroughness with which Nabokov's son Dmitri has swept out the archive, jamming bagatelles written for unexacting émigré journals into the gaps between more substantial works. Another reason is that Nabokov perhaps felt little real affinity for the short story, which he called "a small Alpine form" of the novel. This seems an odd claim to make of a writer whose collected stories runs to nearly 800 pages. But the fact remains that he abandoned the form in 1951, even before Lolita's success freed him of the need to write for his rent. He returned to it later only to (as he put it) "English" untranslated stories, and to retranslate ones he thought poorly rendered.During the inter-war years, which he spent in Cambridge, Berlin and finally Paris, Nabokov's short fiction was dominated by meditations on grief (his father was shot in Berlin in 1922), the loss of homeland, and the rise of totalitarianism. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:05:54 +0100 865474 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=e3_Information_Overload_AND_Are_You_2-0_Yet_Library_Fines Brian C. Gray, MLIS Head of Reference Librarian - Engineering, Mathematics, &amp; Statistics Case Western Reserve University · Kelvin Smith Library Emai (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:00:26 +0100 865013 http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/LIB/DHLRefWeblog.nsf/dx/25082010050654PMMVASRV.htm The 65th session of the General Assembly will be opening next month on the 14 September. The Secretary-General has been issuing reports on the various agenda items that will be discussed during the session. Some of the latest reports issued include: Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism (A/... (Source: UN Pulse | A Service/Blog of the United Nations Library) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866753 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/7fU3a5CCDzc/sixth-annual-summer-of-code-flexes-some.html Our sixth annual Google Summer of Code program has wrapped up and we want to highlight some of this year’s amazing participants and projects. Summer of Code offers students developers all over the world the chance to get paid to write code for open source projects as an alternative to a summer job.Kicked off in 2005, the Summer of Code has brought together more than 3,400 students with more than 200 open source projects from all over the world to create millions of lines of code. We work with several open source, free software and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects through three months of coding.There was some really awesome work done by more than 1,000 students from 69 countries in this year’s Summer of Code. Of those students, 6.5 percent were women representing 23 countries—six times higher than the estimated proportion of women in the open source community. Here are just a few of the women:25 reference manuals in her purse Ann Marie Horcher, an information systems security Ph.D. candidate at Nova Southeastern University was mentored by Docbook.org. Ann Marie worked over the summer to create an application that transformed a docbook file to epub format used in ebook readers such as the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes and Noble Nook and the iPad. As a result of Ann Marie’s project, it’s now easier to move technical documentation to a portable format so she “can carry my 25 reference manuals for my project with me in my purse.” And now, so can everyone else.Check out Ann Marie’s YouTube video illustrating her work and its results here.Geophylogenies now displayed on Google EarthKathryn Iverson, a University of Michigan bioinformatics graduate student was mentored by National Evolutionary Biology Synthesis Center and wrote a library implemented in Java with KML to build geophylogenies—geographical evolutionary histories of organisms. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866216 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/_OP_-vsw6uI/why-cant-johnny-research-or-academic-law-libraries-are-taking-the-first-steps-to-address-this-proble.html Ah, no this isn't a reference to "Johnny Westlaw" though I would like to see him perform legal research in the real world and write a check for his credit card charges for the online search costs to do so... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865419