November 2010
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Library Job Perks...
Maine is one of the few areas where library patrons will offer to bring you venison in exchange for your hard work.
October 2010
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What Reference Sources are LIS Students Learning... →
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.
April 2010
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National Library Week 2010: America's... →
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5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The... →
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.
March 2010
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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!
85 Reasons to Be Thankful for Librarians →
Books Should Be Free: Free Audio Books... →
(via fuckyeahhistory)
Jersey Shore Themed Library Instruction →
Oh my gosh. Just click it. Enjoy.
The Cornell University Library has digitized their... →
fuckyeahhistory:
These books, the originals of which are in the Cornell University Library, were digitized in 2008 with funding by Microsoft Corporation. Scanning was performed by Kirtas Technologies; OCR was performed by, and derivative formats created by, the Internet Archive.
The site also highlights the most downloaded items, and features reviews of texts.
February 2010
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PROTECTING PATRIMONY: The Digital Library of the... →
Honestly. you should probably donate money and money only to organizations like The Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders or Partners in Health before donating to any kind of preservation initiative (even library lovers like us know this) but here is some information regardless.
Teaching kids to read from the back of a... →
Since 1990, Luis Sorianohas used donkeys to bring mobile library to children in rural Colombia. Soriano, 38, is a primary school teacher who spends his free time operating a “biblioburro,” a mobile library on donkeys that offers reading education for hundreds of children living in what he describes as “abandoned regions” in the Colombian state of Magdalena.
The Shifted Librarian: Library 2.0, Not Just for... →
As much as I support, love, and advocate for user-centered planning and design, my big regret about the whole “movement” is that it hasn’t focused more on how L2 helps staff.
Shameless self/AACR2-promotion →
camiwillknow:
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This is AWESOME, Alex!!!
(You guys on Twitter should follow this, especially you library-types. UNC SILS represent!)
Oh my gosh this is soooo wonderful and nerdy. Love it.
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a...”
– Samuel Johnson (via libraryland) (via quote-book)
Banning Books: a visual guide →
The figures on these pie charts, showing what books get challenged and who challenges them, are pulled from the ALA Challenge Database, which currently has over 10,415 challenges on record.
Do School Libraries Need Books? →
Very interesting discussion on the Times’ Room for Debate blog.
“Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in...”
– Ray Bradbury (via novazembla)
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Seinfeld's 'Bookman' Would Be Disgusted: More... →
Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes →
…or an example of why we will always need librarians and archivists to organize and keep track of information and media.
Happy Library Lovers' Month →
January 2010
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School system in Va. won't teach version of Anne... →
Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, after a parent complained that the book includes sexually explicit material and homosexual themes.
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10 Ways to Re-use a Card Catalog →
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Apple's tablet and the future of literature →
Lending libraries will have to figure out a new mission; the time is not far off when the typical 10-year-old will have the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in her backpack.
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“If the library is, as Borges put it, a model of the universe, we must try to...”
– Umberto Eco, “De Bibliotheca” (via quiet-time) (via libraryland) (via librarianglasses)
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Pay Your Fines
sixbucks:
The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) will donate any fines collected for overdue books from Monday, January 25 through Sunday, February 7 to assist victims of the earthquake in Haiti through the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. To participate, patrons should pay for fines at any CALS circulation desk or online. Anyone, regardless of whether they have overdue books, may donate to the...
“All of your library coworkers resent you for owning a Kindle, and they secretly...”
– A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette
NYT Topics: Library of Congress →
Here are all of the NYT articles referencing the LC neatly gathered in one spot. I had no idea that there was a specific Times Topic page for these stats…so bear with me if you did.
Kathleen Hanna Helps Make The Library Cool Again →
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December 2009
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Librophiliac Love Letter: Beautiful Libraries →
librarynth:
Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it’s abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner. For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is...
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New Library Opens in Northwest Washington →
The library is still a place of books, but the D.C. library’s gone high tech to the point that at this branch, a third or more of the space no longer involves paper. It includes 25,000 CDs, DVDs, and books on disks. It also has something called a “playaway,” an mp3 player you check out that contains an entire book.
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It's time to close the book on Colton →
The city of Colton has taken the bold, innovative step of closing its libraries for the rest of the fiscal year in hopes of solving a $5 million budget deficit.
But let’s think outside the box here. Why settle for temporary measures? If closing libraries for a few months will save a little money, shutting them down for good will save tons, right?
A modest proposal for closing all the...
Library Stuff →
Steven M. Cohen’s blog focuses on resources for keeping current, and for professional development. Cohen posts numerous times per day, and has an impressive backlog of information available.
November 2009
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Google Books Settlement: Key Players Comment →
An interesting look at the two most recent changes in the agreement: all foreign language books will be excluded from the database and the amount of time a copyright holder has to show up to claim their out-of-print work has been extended from five to ten years.
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The Accessibility Paradox →
obsoletethebook:
An interesting discussion on the changing role of librarians and libraries. Remember libraries?
(via techdirt)
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Overdue library books returned half century later
hamandheroin:
A high school librarian in Phoenix says a former student at the school returned two overdue books checked out 51 years ago along with a $1,000 money order to cover the fines.
Camelback High School librarian Georgette Bordine says the two Audubon Society books checked out in 1959 and the money order were sent by someone who wanted to remain anonymous.
Bordine says the letter...
Graphics Atlas →
This is an excellent tool and an incredible resource to browse around on. Do take a moment and check it out.
(from the homepage description) Graphics Atlas is a new online resource that brings sophisticated print identification and characteristic exploration tools to archivists, curators, historians, collectors, conservators, educators, and the general public. The Image Permanence Institute at...
“I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now...”
– John Steinbeck
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Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. →
“When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,’’ said James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing and chief promoter of the bookless campus. “This isn’t ‘Fahrenheit 451’ [the 1953 Ray Bradbury novel in which books are banned]. We’re not discouraging students from reading. We see this as a natural way to shape emerging trends and optimize technology.’’
I have a few...
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The ALA has named November 14 National Gaming Day... →
“We have found that by adding board and video game formats to library collections we are providing users with tools to build strong literacy practices while sharpening technical and critical thinking skills,” said American Library Association (ALA) President Dr. Camila Alire.
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