Archive for February, 2008
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. An annual conference that brings together the most prominent and intelligent thinkers, inventors, philosophers, and artists of our time. Past presentations have included Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, as well as presentations by Jane Goodall, Bill Clinton, and Richard Dawkins.
TED’s mission? To spread ideas. (sound familiar in [...]
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Tags: al gore, an Inconvenient truth, News, TED
the quiet library… not so much
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-to.cowherd25feb25,0,3908228.column?page=1
Filed under: A Day in the Life, By: The Librarienne, libraries | 1 Comment
Tags: babies, Baltimore, libraries, quiet
Calling all savvy librarians
I would like to invite you all to a new social network, Savvy Librarians.
This network was created with the hopes “to provide effective and efficient library resources to librarians, or those in similar fields. With the help of it’s members, Savvy will strive to meet the personal and professional needs of the library community, by [...]
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Tags: savvy librarians, social networking
Library and county administrators are patting themselves on the back, while library patrons are indignant. How is that meeting the different requirements of the public?
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802230473
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The Wausau Daily Harald, Wausau, WI is reporting that the Marathon County Public Library board of trustees is eliminating 4 Librarian 1 positions (one of which was already vacant), and demoting the people who held the positions to a new “customer service librarian” position, which pays $10,000 less annually. The three librarians in this new position [...]
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Tags: complex library work, liars, Wausau Daily Herald
Oprah’s Live Bookclub
In March, Oprah’s bookclub starts its first real-time, interactive meetings. As long as you have internet access, readers can join in on this live webcast. Each week a different chapter from the book A New Earth will be discussed. Participants will have the oppurtunity to contribute to the book discussion via Oprah.com. For those who [...]
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Tags: a new earth, bookclub, libraries, oprah
Weeding the reference collection is tricky when you have a large space with plenty of spare shelving. If space isn’t an issue, you need to establish alternative criteria to defend your decision to discard the 1963 edition of Wilson’s Musicians since 1900. The argument of the “Internet machine” comes to mind. More importantly, if you [...]
Filed under: A Day in the Life, By: Librarian About Town | 4 Comments
Tags: love, reference, weeding
No more papers, no more books
From the devious mind of “the librarian that hates books.”*
Recent reporting in the NYT revealed that in the world’s wealthiest countries, paper consumption was down 6% between 2000 and 2005.
Faculty at Harvard voted to publish its scholarship online through an open-access repository (maintained by the library) available for FREE on the Web. Will the articles continue to go through a peer review process? I sure [...]
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Tags: periodicals, technology, text books, text messaging
Books are dead
The digital reader is “It”. We’ve been talking about these things for months, whether it be angrily shaking fists at advertising tactics, to debating the terms of sale and lendability by public libraries. I’m living and breathing digital readers, and I’ve never even seen one in real life.
Now, Britain’s Business Times is reporting [...]
Filed under: By: The Librarienne, change or die | 7 Comments
Tags: books, Business Times, digital readers, kindle
Recently, a 6-year-old boy in New Bedford, MA, was molested in a public library by a level-3 sex offender, while his mother was in earshot, using a computer. We can all agree this is something that should never happen. Now, the city, and the entire community of public libraries is faced with “what [...]
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Tags: marijuana, New Bedford, sex-offenders
