May 2012
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Christian Zabriskie: Confronting The Biggest... →
Urban Librarians Unite and the Save NYC Libraries Campaign are seeding more than 1600 books all over the city in response to massive cuts proposed to the budgets of New York City Libraries.
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Building a Digital Map of Scholarly Archival... →
A great idea with an impressive scope. I’ll be watching this closely. (h/t @FunkyPlaid)
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“A reader can trace a foot-noted lead with lightning-fast speed and determine...”
– Daryl Green, rare books librarian at the University of St Andrews, quoted in Future U: Library 3.0 has more resources, greater challenges | Ars Technica
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Digital archivists: technological custodians of... →
Digital archivists should read this Ars Technica article, via infoneer-pulse:
Game creator Jordan Mechner wanted to teach the next generation. So the man behind the groundbreaking 1989 Apple II game Prince of Persia recently posted his original 6052 assembly source code to Github. But getting the code from decades-old floppy disks “covered with dust” was no simple task. Mechner employed the...
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Library Lovers' LiveJournal →
Shameless plug time: I started the Library Lovers’ LiveJournal community in early 2001 and it’s still going strong! You don’t have to have a library degree or job to participate, just a love of libraries. Join us!
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That's Not Online! →
My new favourite blog is dedicated to library resources that aren’t online and how to find them.
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ebooks for libraries - A petition to keep ebooks... →
The premise behind this petition is very simple: libraries are the best way for people to learn about new books. So why are publishers preventing libraries from providing these new books in whichever format the patron desires? Please sign and share.
April 2012
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“Right now, libraries are part of the solution when a community is struggling...”
– My View: Why libraries matter more than ever – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs
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March 2012
6 posts
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Does the library have a role to play in the... →
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Hiring Librarians | An inside look at library... →
This site contains surveys and interviews of current hiring managers. It is an excellent resource for job-hunting librarians. (via library school listserv)
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Zotero →
I am working on two very different research projects for professors right now, and Zotero is saving my life.
Do you use Zotero to organise your research bibliographies and notes?
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February 2012
8 posts
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“We’re dying. I’m currently on the side of “no” that we can pull out...”
– California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter
Read the rest of this comment. It is astounding.
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“I think the hackathon model could provide a very positive way to remake our...”
– Let’s Remake Libraries as Hacker Spaces and Community Innovation Centers @ API Evangelist
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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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