February 2012
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Penguin Group Terminating Its Contract with... →
From the article: “In a stunning development, Penguin Group has extricated itself from its contract with OverDrive, the primary supplier of ebooks to public libraries. Starting February 10, Penguin, which had recently instituted limitations on library lending for ebooks and audiobooks, will now no longer offer any ebooks or audiobooks through OverDrive.”
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“The bad news is that state funding for California libraries has been completely...”
– Goodbye, state funding for California libraries | KALW
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Librarians versus Libraries in Chicago « Annoyed... →
Despite being urged to “never read the bottom half of the internet” (thanks, Chuck) I found some of the comments here quite interesting, especially as a former public library employee.
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January 2012
14 posts
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“Libraries can make this happen by becoming more open than we’ve ever been...”
– The Time for Libraries is Now — an intermittent record
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““Did the librarians drink all your tequila?” I asked him.
He...”
– The Librarians of America Just About Destroyed Wild Salsa on Saturday Night - Dallas Restaurants and Dining - City of Ate (via @jessamyn)
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U.S. House Drafts SKILLS Act to Support School... →
From the article: “Several key provisions in the SKILLS Act strive to better define and strengthen the future role and federal funding for librarians who work in schools. One provision states that an “effective school library program,” is a program that’s staffed by a state-certified school librarian. The act also strengthens school librarians’ right to gain access to...
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With a Wonder and a Wild Desire: Thoughts after... →
This is an excellent post on the Harvard Library mess from withawonder:
Maybe the Twitterverse overreacted to the town hall meetings concerning the next step in the Harvard restructuring project. After all, “It is inaccurate to say that all library staff will need to reapply for their positions,” according to a statement made to Library Journal by Kira Poplowski,…
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20 heroic librarians who save the world →
And now, a little levity.
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What’s happening at Harvard? « Feral Librarian →
Chris took the time to sift through the morass of information coming from #hlth yesterday. Here is the result.
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“Harvard has the second largest endowment in the world, second only to the funds...”
– E Keathley - Google - The nature of academic and research librarianship changed…
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Tweets on #hlth (Harvard Library Town Hall) →
Massive reorganization and layoffs are imminent at Harvard Library. Follow #hlth (Harvard Library Town Hall) for more information as it comes.
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Penguin Further Narrows Library Access, Suspending... →
What is going on, Penguin?
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Librarians Turn Wikipedia Blackout Into a... →
That is what we do.
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“So what would happen if say on April 1, 2012 academic libraries around the...”
– WHAT IF? The Library Blackout Scenario - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Academic publishers have become the enemies of... →
ghardin:
This is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of scientists. Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication. The Research Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, amounts to a declaration of war by the...
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December 2011
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Library Visits at Historic High →
Total visits in the last ten years increased by nearly 40%. Who said the library was no longer relevant?
November 2011
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the Kindle lending experience from a patron’s... →
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Library of Congress Provides Details About... →
From the article: ‘The Bibliographic Framework Initiative General Plan, building upon an initial announcement in May, would slowly distance libraries from the 40-year-old MARC format as the “common exchange currency for bibliographic data” and implant libraries in an environment conditioned by the technologies of the Semantic Web and linked data principles. This would include the...
October 2011
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The Library on a Massive Scale →
infoneer-pulse:
What do you get when you combine the collections from 60 major research institutions into a single, digitized library? A comprehensive collection, of course, but also a major headache for the people who have to collect, organize, preserve, and publish the information in a user-friendly manner for students, professors, and the general public.
That’s the headache that John...
September 2011
11 posts
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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters
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What are the toughest questions tossed at... →
Try your hand at some of these before you peek at the answers.
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Men of the Stacks, a 2012 calendar →
Librarian hunks, one for every month of next year. And for a good cause!
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Amazon and OverDrive Roll Out Kindle Books to... →
Have you borrowed an ebook yet? What are your thoughts?
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What Are Employers Looking For These Days? |... →
More required reading for library school students.
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Is the United States Training Too Many Librarians... →
This should be required reading for all library school students.
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“Research Libraries UK, which includes the Russell Group university libraries, as...”
– News: British Libraries Push Back - Inside Higher Ed
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“This is one of the sobering truths these librarians, representing a group of...”
– News: What Students Don’t Know - Inside Higher Ed
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iLibrarian » A Quick Guide to Creating Library QR... →
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August 2011
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What Librarians Do →
What a tasty infographic! (via MLx)
July 2011
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Puberty @ the library. →
This and other darling stories are at the new blog, Tales from the Library. Share your stories!
A short one, but a sweet one, submitted by a public library staff member in the United States: A 4th Grade boy comes in and very matter of factly tells a co-worker and I “You’re going to be seeing me with some zits. I’m starting the puberty!” And I kept a straight face all the...
June 2011
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Library Ideas, LLC to Launch Innovative New e-book... →
From the article: “The new service, called Freading (free reading) will immediately increase the size and diversity of library e-book collections by allowing them access to a collection of over 20,000 titles without any upfront cost to the library. The innovative business model allows libraries to pay a per use fee instead of a purchasing an item of unknown desirability.”
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British Library, Google Strike Deal To Digitize... →
This is huge!
In a deal with the British Library, Google will digitize some 250,000 books that date between 1700 and 1800. The BBC reports the partnership will allow readers to “view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites.”
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May 2011
22 posts
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Scenes from Los Angeles's teacher-librarian... →
Bfarn sez, “I don’t know if you’ve been following the Los Angeles Unified School District’s witch hunt, but they’ve been trying to lay off their entire staff of librarians. They’ve been conducting McCarthy-esque trials, forcing teacher-librarians to defend both their personal worth and their district-defined credentials. One brave teacher has been blogging about...
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Funding cuts closing book on all 62 branches in... →
They haven’t bought any new books since December. To say that is sad is a ridiculous understatement.
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“At present, there is no room in our professional discourse for creative...”
– A Short Distance Correctly: 13 Ways of (Not) Writing (Contrarian) Librarianship | In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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Librarians, secretaries laid off by Windsor-Essex... →
From Windsor, ON: “The Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board is laying off most of its librarians and more than a dozen secretarial staff in the first wave of cuts that could also see about 50 teachers out of a job this fall.”
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Secret vote on libraries draws fire →
From Windsor, ON: “A decision that effectively closes all Catholic school libraries was made behind closed doors by four of the school board’s nine trustees, The Star has learned.”
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Librarians
Glad to be appreciated. Also, I am a huge geek like many of my colleagues. We embrace the heck out of technology! Via oliveryeh:
It’s been a pleasure discovering librarians on Tumblr. In the face of technological advancement and cuts in budgets, you still have the ability to find humor in it all. More power to you and thanks for making libraries a great place to chill with books. Let’s help find...
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“The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do...”
– Seth’s Blog: The future of the library