librarianship

Welcome to the 'librarianship' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'librarianship'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “librarianship”

• A Special Event in Cambridge, MA: The Library is Dead. Long Live the Library! The Rebirth of Libraries in the 21st Century

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  From time to time we’ll post info about a special event on ResourceShelf and this is one of those times. This sounds like one interesting day of presentations and discussion. We’re working to find out if the the event will be webcast live and/or available as an archived event online. On Tuesday, December 08, ...
  12 hours ago

• 12 Charged After Library Books Worth $87K Stolen

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  From the Article: Authorities threw the book at 12 people Tuesday, accusing them of checking out pricey textbooks from a public library system outside Washington to sell for quick cash. The Prince George’s County Memorial Library System in Maryland lost $87,000 worth of material from thefts between November ...
  19 hours ago

• Special Libraries Association (SLA): Alignment & Name Change Research: Who Was Surveyed and How

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  In a new post on the SLA Blog, SLA member and Alignment Ambassador , Jill Strand, provides a number of stats and facts about who was surveyed and by what method, during the alignment process. The blog post opens with this paragraph: Would you do your job without trying to understand the views of your ...
  19 hours ago

• A New Digital Collection: A Calm Voice in a Strident World: Senator J.W. Fulbright Speaks

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  This new digital collection comes from the University of Arkansas Libraries. From the About Page: For three decades following World War II, J.W. Fulbright represented Arkansas in the Congress of the United States. His single term in the House and four terms in the Senate saw Fulbright rise to become the ...
  20 hours ago

• UK: Making Research Easier to Find and Access

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  From the Announcement: A JISC funded study is making recommendations to help people find university research outputs through better integration of library catalogues, research repositories and other university systems. The JISC-funded ‘Online catalogue and repository interoperability study’ carried out by the ...
  1 day ago

• Princeton Theological Seminary Library Partnering with Internet Archive to Digitize Content

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  From the Web Site: The Princeton Seminary library is delighted to be working in partnership with the Internet Archive, a 501(c)3 organization in San Francisco, to digitize a selection of out-of-copyright books from its collections. Approximately 21,000 items have been scanned to date. These books include ...
  1 day ago

• Mobile Access: Brief Reviews: EBSCOhost Mobile and Summon Mobile from Serials Solutions

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  By Gary Price, Senior Editor As we mentioned last week, both EBSCOhost and Summon for Serial Solutions have officially been released. We’ve had only a short time to use both and for the most part were very impressed. Let’s review each news release and share a few comments. Btw, we used the Safari browser on an ...
  1 day ago

• Now Available: Space Shuttle Artifacts for Your Library

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  Looking for acquire something out of the ordinary for your library? How about a batch of artifacts from the Space Shuttle? NASA is hoping that libraries (and museums) use the artifacts in displays and exhibits. From the IMLS Announcement: Museums and libraries are invited to apply for free NASA space shuttle ...
  1 day ago

• Are You a Deadhead? The Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz is Looking for an Archivist

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  In a September post, we listed many of the projects that were going to receive National Leadership Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). One grant recipient that got a lot of attention was the University of California Santa Cruz who received funding ($615,000) to digitize material from its ...
  2 days ago

• Personalisation Allows Researchers to Create Online Bibliographies

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  From the Article: A new interface is now available for Copac, a freely-available, merged online library catalogue that allows you to easily search the UK’s national library catalogues as well as many major academic and specialist libraries at the same time. Users include researchers and librarians from the UK ...
  2 days ago

• musings on print and online information in law firm libraries

  
  explodedlibrary.info — Authority: 91
  In my blogging, I have always had a focus on online information, rather than libraries as physical repositories of physical objects. Even the name of this blog suggests this. But I’d like to think that I’m not a fundamentalist about this. Recently I’ve been thinking about the relationship between online and ...
  2 days ago

• Hayward, CA Public Library Will Launch “Fines Free” Borrowing Packages Beginning at $2.99/Month

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  Is this the future for public libraries? It will be interesting to see how this works for both the library and users. An article in the Oakland, Tribune says that the Hayward, CA Public Library is about to take a page from the Netflix playbook and introduce an optional program that allows users to borrow up to ...
  3 days ago

• The October, 2009 Issue of the IFLA Journal is Now Available

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  Access the Complete Issue (35.3) (PDF) This Issue includes: + Editorial: Reading, Information Literacy and Professional Development +Reading Sources and Reading Spaces in Honduras + Information Literacy and Scholarly Investigation: a British perspective + Our Space: professional development for new graduates ...
  4 days ago

• Final Resources for Not Just Another Brick in the Wall: Engaging 21st Century Learning Through Participatory School Librarianship, AASL 2009

  
  The Unquiet Librarian — Authority: 487
  The final resource page is housed at http://sites.google.com/site/aasl2009buffyjhamilton/home . The final slidedeck does not reflect this change, but in the actual presentation, I integrated three live polls from PollEverywhere into the presentation and PowerPoint—audience members could respond to the questions I ...
  4 days ago

• UK: Results of a Contest to Create Innovative Applications Using Library Data

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  From the Announcement: Figures showing everyday use of a university library are the unlikely stars of a JISC-funded competition showcasing innovative approaches to presenting library data. The winning entrant, an undergraduate computer scientist, created an imaginative ‘book galaxy’ showing books as stars in ...
  4 days ago

• 10 Surprising Former Librarians

  
  Random and Sundry Things — Authority: 117
  This list of 10 surprising former librarians includes some definite surprises to me. Except, of course, for Laura Bush . (How a librarian ever came to marry a guy like Dubya, I’ll never . . . oh, um, never mind.) Other than the former First Lady, other names on this list really came out of left field. Literally, ...
  5 days ago

• David Ferriero Confirmed by U.S. Senate as 10th Archivist of the United States

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  From the Announcement: Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Mr. Ferriero was the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and is a leader in the field of library science. Mr. Ferriero, who was nominated by President Obama on ...
  5 days ago

• On the Definition of the 21st Century Academic Library

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  From the Article: “Let’s face it: the library, as a place, is dead,” said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. “Kaput. Finito. And we need to move on to a new concept of what the academic library is.” Thorin prefaced her comments by saying that for the purposes of the debate she ...
  5 days ago

• Careers in Federal Libraries Resume Review Service Connecting Newbies and Professionals

  
  Government Info Pro — Authority: 123
  Thanks to Kim Lyall, Outreach Specialist, NASA Center for AeroSpace Informationoperated by Chugach Industries, Inc., for the this article: Careers in Federal Libraries Resume Review ServiceConnecting Newbies and Professionals .  This article was originally published in the 2009 Best Practices for Government ...
  5 days ago

• “New Librarianship”–Slides, Audio, and Screencast of R. David Lankes Keynote @ Charleston Conference

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  The always interesting and though provoking, R. David Lankes from Syracuse University, gave a keynote address at the Charleston Conference today. An abstract, his slides, audio and and a screencast (with audio) of his address are already available on his site. The title of the keynote is, “New Librarianship.” ...
  6 days ago

Comments about librarianship