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Wednesday 12 December 2007

7 days of library news:

Public library workers e-mail group
"Yahoo Group"
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Tuesday 11 December 2007

Queues gather to gaze at grubby Magna Carta
Guardiand Unlimited, Tuesday 11 December 2007

A Librarian's Worst Nightmare
"Yahoo! Answers"
Slate, Tuesday 11 December 2007

The Mancunian Way
"newly launched Manchester Library blog"
Manchester Evening News, Monday 10 December 2007

Two million people, only two libraries
"Yemen"
LISNews, Monday 10 December 2007

Spell wears off as children ditch books
LISNews, Monday 10 December 2007

New Indianapolis Library Deserves a 'Whoop of Joy'
LISNews, Monday 10 December 2007

Books go high-tech
"challenges to the humble paper book"
LISNews, Monday 10 December 2007

The Newbies’ Guide to Social Networking
iLibrarian, Monday 10 December 2007

A search engine like no other
Google books.
theBookseller.com, Monday 10 December 2007

EU looks to create digital library
theBookseller.com, Monday 10 December 2007

Dutch demand to spark e-book market
"the iLiad"
theBookseller.com, Monday 10 December 2007

Lessing: 'We Have a Treasure-house of Literature'
"Quotation of the Day"
Shelf Awareness, Monday 10 December 2007

In digital age, libraries turn a page on services they offer
"whether the digital trend will mean the eventual demise of brick-and-mortar libraries" (Via Library Link of the Day.)
The Dallas Morning News, Monday 10 December 2007

Librarians on Social Networking
"NextSpace (The OCLC Newsletter) asked nine experts to explore and comment on the trends and behaviors of users of the social Web"
ResourceShelf, Sunday 9 December 2007

Library welcomes you to Hell – if you’re over 16
"the Bibliotheque Nationale's special pornographic section"
sundayherald, Sunday 9 December 2007

France
"reading levels improve if public library opening hours are longer"
The Good Library Blog, Friday 7 December 2007

Parton launches UK literacy programme
theBookseller.com, Friday 7 December 2007

iPod plans book mode
theBookseller.com, Friday 7 December 2007

Is it all about e-books?
theBookseller.com, Friday 7 December 2007

Digitisation and all that
theBookseller.com, Friday 7 December 2007

The impact of technology on people’s everyday lives
US research.
iLibrarian, Thursday 6 December 2007

Facebook Fridays
iLibrarian, Thursday 6 December 2007

Facebook in business?
"Facebook Fridays!"
LISNews, Thursday 6 December 2007

Ebooks- BAH Humbug!
"underwhelmed by the Kindle ... the industry has misread what readers want"
LISNews, Thursday 6 December 2007

Tulsa Library Seeks Fans on Facebook
LISNews, Thursday 6 December 2007

Today's digital information landscape
"the what of library and information science has not changed so much as the how"
LISNews, Thursday 6 December 2007

Mobile phone authored books top sellers in Japan
iLibrarian, Thursday 6 December 2007

Meet David Sargsyan: Director of the National Library of Armenia
ResourceShelf, Thursday 6 December 2007

New European Library Home Page and First Online Web-Exhibitl, Better Access to Member Libraries Also Available
ResourceShelf, Thursday 6 December 2007

Will 2008 be the year of the e-book?
theBookseller.com, Thursday 6 December 2007

10 Semantic Apps to Watch
"Web 2.0"
LISNews, Wednesday 5 December 2007

Amazon Kindle - Will Your Library Buy it for Patrons?
LISNews, Wednesday 5 December 2007

The Genius of Library Cataloging and its Possible Future
LISNews, Wednesday 5 December 2007

Slow-Starting E-Books Find Niche Markets
LISNews, Wednesday 5 December 2007

Trying to figure out how to pronounce a word?
LISNews, Wednesday 5 December 2007

European Library Facebook Mini App
ResourceShelf, Wednesday 5 December 2007

VIEWS/CRITS/COMMENTS - SOLICITED
"rhymes/poems/stories etc."
British Librarian Bloggers, Wednesday 5 December 2007

WALTHAMSTOW: Something fishy down at the library
"new fish tank"
Your local Guardian, Wednesday 5 December 2007

BBC leads with McCall Smith
theBookseller.com, Wednesday 5 December 2007

Libraries 'must think big'
"New Museums, Libraries and Archives Council c.e.o. Roy Clare"
theBookseller.com, Wednesday 5 December 2007

Mengestu début wins Guardian prize
"Guardian First Book Award"
theBookseller.com, Wednesday 5 December 2007