Libraryweb mailing list

[Library Web <libweb AT ibiblio.org>]

Library Web (UK)

Library Culture on the Web

http://www.libraryweb.info

Wednesday 23 April 2008

7 days of library news:

Downloadable Media at the Library
"services such as Overdrive, Recorded Books, and TumbleBooks"
iLibrarian, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Encyclopaedia Britannica Free for Web Publishers
iLibrarian, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Sustainability and Libraries
iLibrarian, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Podcasting in Plain English
"a paperworks video"
iLibrarian, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Social Networking presentation
"I did a brief presentation last week for the CILIP East of England group..."
Phil Bradley's weblog, Tuesday 22 April 2008

donwloads, USB pens and MP3
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Libraries in Facebook
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 22 April 2008

The Applied Empathy Framework
"the empathic design concept"
Designing Better Libraries, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Quiet revolution
"By embracing the interactive, user-generated world of web 2.0, libraries can ensure they keep pace with bold new ways of learning" (Via Google News.)
EducationGuardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Get Those Kids Outta My Library!
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Fine lines: why book prizes are worth it
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Men - in general - are not ones for the books
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Come To the Library to Borrow...A Person
"London's Living Library"
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Cites and Insights 8:5 available
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Economic downturn could be uplifting for libraries
"Hope lives here, at the library."
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Quiet revolution
"They [libraries] are having to take a far more active, professional approach to marketing their services"
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Understanding SPARQL
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Why the Amazon Kindle is a tourist's best friend
LISNews, Tuesday 22 April 2008

Finding the world's favourite book
theBookseller, Tuesday 22 April 2008

A public librarian from California tells it like it is, for him anyway…
"Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian"
The Library of Digress, Monday 21 April 2008

Frustration for authors as students hog British Library reading rooms
"library’s directors received performance bonuses depending on the number of visits" (Via Google News.)
Times Online, Monday 21 April 2008

Can you direct me to a good book?
"GetLondonReading.co.uk"
LISNews, Monday 21 April 2008

Sporty Summer Reading Challenge
"annual library initiative to encourage children to read six books during their summer holidays"
theBookseller, Monday 21 April 2008

Twine - Organize, Share, Discover Information Around Your Interests
(Via Social Software in Libraries.)
Twine, Sunday 20 April 2008

StoryTubes
US focus, "National Contest". (Via Social Software in Libraries.)
StoryTubes, Sunday 20 April 2008

Library brew gives Darwen beer fans some cheer
"a new beer to mark the centenary of Darwen Library" (Via Google News.)
Blackburn Citizen, Sunday 20 April 2008

In some L.A. County libraries, video games -- and noise -- are welcome
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
The Los Angeles Times, Sunday 20 April 2008

The Quest for the Most Fascinating Ancient Books, Manuscripts and Incunabula in the World
Research request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Friday 18 April 2008

Finding Relationships in MARC Data
"RDF and Semantic Web techniques"
Panlibus, Friday 18 April 2008

Library management systems horizon scan
Report.
Tom Roper's Weblog, Friday 18 April 2008

Cornish libraries to go green
"withdrawing plastic bags" (Via Google News.)
Falmouth Packet, Friday 18 April 2008

How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It
LISNews, Friday 18 April 2008

The library tech skeptic at work
"Kindle advice"
LISNews, Friday 18 April 2008

Libraries far from dead
"aren't even wheezing"
ResourceShelf, Friday 18 April 2008

Previous winners line up for library prizes
"CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's writing and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrated children's books"
theBookseller, Friday 18 April 2008

PopMatters Interviews Librarian/Author, Scott Douglas
"Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian"
LISNews, Thursday 17 April 2008

Libraries get their due in two very different books
"two books about libraries"
LISNews, Thursday 17 April 2008

NYR’s Join a Library Day
"National Year of Reading"
theBookseller, Thursday 17 April 2008

State of America’s Libraries 2008
US focus.
iLibrarian, Wednesday 16 April 2008

No need for ID to borrow at libraries
"Blackpool Council" (Via Google News.)
Blackpool Today, Wednesday 16 April 2008

Amsterdam: World Book Capital — ‘The Book as a Cultural Vehicle for Freedom.’
"UNESCO" (Via Library Journal.)
Librarian, Wednesday 16 April 2008

Games in Libraries Podcast Launched
LISNews, Wednesday 16 April 2008