Have you been looking for an opportunity to present at a national conference? If so, the 2nd Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, a conference for EVERYONE, is seeking proposals. It’s not too late for you to submit a proposal, but time is running out! The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2011. This historic conference, which will be held
Karen Schneider of Free Range Librarian, has an excellent post, Why you didn’t get an interview. I started writing a comment and realized I was probably 2000 characters over the limit. đ I did leave a brief comment but I’m blogging my thoughts. Karen points to 5 main factors: TMJS (the job market sucks – definitely true), the Known Quantity
Nominate your favorite librarian!Contact: mhumphrey@ala.org Nominations are open for the 2011 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. The award invites library users nationwide to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, communitycollege and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community. Nominations are being acceptedonline at
I recently read,” Research Librarianship in Crisis: Mediate When, Where, and How?” by Bohyun Kim at the ACRL blog (http://acrlog.org/2011/08/01/research-librarianship-in-crisis-mediate-when-where-and-how/) “I think that librarians will still be needed for research in the digital era…. Users will no longer need nor desire human mediation in basic and simple tasks such as locating and accessing information. Most of them already have no
——————————————————————- Another library user wistfully mentions to you “how nice it must be to read books all day!”– You’ve just left another meeting about a meeting and no positive impact has been made on the community you serve, or– Hey, you’re just ready to try something new! Library and Information Science (LIS) has always been concerned with recruiting efforts, especially
This may also be of interest to those with semantic web interests: ——— âTransforming our Bibliographic Framework<http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-051311.html>,â a statement from the Library of Congress (LC). A web site has been established for the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative<http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.html> (http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition) and that will be the central place for plans, news, and progress.
Interesting article about archiving the digital life of those after they die.” When he died, his family were at a loss as to what to do with his digital archives, so they passed them to his friend and former student Jeremy Leighton John, curator of e-manuscripts (“eMSS”) at the British Library in London. Hamilton’s is one of about a dozen
http://dailybulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8544 “As works in these collections become digitized, the museums and libraries will make those images that are in the public domain freely accessible. In a departure from established convention, no license will be required for the transmission of the images and no limitations will be imposed on their use. The result is that scholars, artists, students, and citizens the
Today is the last day to share your thoughts on how ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom can best develop online learning opportunities. We would appreciate your input on how we can best meet the library community’s need for educational offerings on intellectual freedom topics. Please take a moment to complete this very brief survey, which will close today, June 7,
from a list——————-Your feedback is needed to help determine Georgia public librariesâ GALIEO resources for Fiscal Year 2013. Please fill out the survey (link below) to identify the resources your public library purchases locally, as well as the resources or topic areas your library would find most useful. Once top resources are identified, database trials will be set up and