LIBRARIANSHIP HAS SAILED.Maine is one of the few areas where library patrons will offer to bring you venison in exchange for your hard work.
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What Reference Sources are LIS Students Learning These Days?
With one of the authors of this site just out of school and the other wrapping it up in 2011, this article is of particular interest.
5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading
The Google Book Settlement could easily be the twenty-first century’s most important shift in how we deal with copyright in the world of publishing. Here is an article that breaks down the legal nitty-gritty into a digestible format.
The Work Projects Administration (WPA) created a number of iconic images designed to promote the arts, public welfare, and patriotism. This particular one, promoting library use, was created in 1940. The Library of Congress has a great Flickr page of Library propaganda here.
Happy Freedom of Information Day!
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution
And a Happy 259th Birthday to Mr. James Madison!
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