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Wednesday 7 May 2008

7 days of library news:

Your favorite (fictional) librarians
PUBLIB, Tuesday 6 May 2008

Televisions in Nottingham libraries
The Good Library Blog, Tuesday 6 May 2008

Archive forgeries deserve an inquiry
"the National Archive records"
IWR Blog, Tuesday 6 May 2008

Viral Marketing in your Library
Clip Art Must Die!, Tuesday 6 May 2008

Book News: Webcast Tackles Large Print Issues
Library Journal, Tuesday 6 May 2008

Working from Afar: A New Trend for Librarianship
"Telecommuting"
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 6 May 2008

UK: TESCO Supermarket launches store with its own public library
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 6 May 2008

Report: WI Public libraries boost economy
"Wisconsin"
LISNews, Monday 5 May 2008

'The sound and the fury of e-book naysayers'
LISNews, Monday 5 May 2008

Shakespeare and Co. Paris: Living 'Inside a Book'
"Quotation of the Day"
Shelf Awareness, Monday 5 May 2008

Truth: Can You Handle It?
"Librarians for Truth" (Via Library Link of the Day.)
The Washington Post, Monday 5 May 2008

Reading to be judged by book cover
"sociable and intelligent"
LISNews, Sunday 4 May 2008

Social Media Report
"the growth and use of social media tools across the globe" (Via Library Journal.)
LibraryBytes, Sunday 4 May 2008

LibraryBookSales.org
"generate much needed funds" (Via PUBLIB.)
LibraryBookSales.org, Saturday 3 May 2008

Setting the Pace
"the Cultural Olympiad"
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Saturday 3 May 2008

Library Juice Concentrate
Book. (Via lib-info-society.)
Library Juice Press, Friday 2 May 2008

Library Daylight: Tracings of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922
Book. (Via lib-info-society.)
Library Juice Press, Friday 2 May 2008

Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good
Book. (Via lib-info-society.)
Library Juice Press, Friday 2 May 2008

Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian
Book. (Via lib-info-society.)
Library Juice Press, Friday 2 May 2008

MV Doulos Arrives in Fiji , Offering Books to the Third World
"floating book shop"
LISWire, Friday 2 May 2008

The rise of Literature?
"contemporary mainstream fiction is very different from the storytelling of the deep past..."
LISNews, Friday 2 May 2008

Anti-terror Threat to Librarian Role Now Seen in UK
"Police forces are requesting information on the library borrowing records of individuals under police surveillance"
LISNews, Friday 2 May 2008

Work Starts on State-Of-The-Art Storage and Retrieval System for British Library
(Via Google News.)
Material Handling Magazine, Friday 2 May 2008

Hollywood Librarian in London
Tom Roper's Weblog, Friday 2 May 2008

Hollywood Librarian comes to Sheffield
Sintoblog, Friday 2 May 2008

Blog A Penguin Classic
Phil Bradley's weblog, Friday 2 May 2008

The Real and the Virtual: Intersecting Communities at the Library
"VIRTUAL LIBRARY COMMUNITIES—YEA OR NAY" (Via ITI NewsLink.)
MMISchools.com, Friday 2 May 2008

How to market to teens
"School Library journal"
theBookseller, Thursday 1 May 2008

Post Office eyes space in local libraries
theBookseller, Thursday 1 May 2008

Waterstone's to stock Sony ebook
theBookseller, Thursday 1 May 2008

Do Pakistanis Read? (And the Missing Libraries of Pakistan)
LISNews, Thursday 1 May 2008

Ontario Public Service Presentation
"technology forecasts to the imformation sector"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Thursday 1 May 2008

Big Bang: Creating the new library universe
"Although this report is focused on Australia, there's a lot of good ideas and thinking here."
Stephen's Lighthouse, Thursday 1 May 2008

The Book Was Better
"book to movie adaptations"
LISNews, Thursday 1 May 2008

In Prague, A Fantastic New Library that Might Never Get Built
LISNews, Thursday 1 May 2008

50 Awesome Open Source Resources
"...for Online Writers"
iLibrarian, Thursday 1 May 2008

dress up the librarian
Game. (Via Library Journal.)
librarian.net, Thursday 1 May 2008

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #19
"technology and how it might impact libraries" (Via Library Link of the Day.)
LISNews, Thursday 1 May 2008

ebrary Honors National Library Week, Offers Complimentary Access to Library Science E-books
"more than 85 full-text e-books"
LISWire, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Definition of digital preservation announced
LISWire, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Press Release: What's the Alternative? New Book Offers a Wealth of Advice on Career Options for Librarians and Information Professionals
LISWire, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Web 2.0 and the Parallel Information Universe
"The Parallel Information Universe: What’s out there and what it means for libraries"
iLibrarian, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Singles nights offered at library
"Swansea Central Library"
BBC News, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Sharing more of ourselves online…
"the impact of social media"
The Library of Digress, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Truth, Information and Knowledge: u r boring me
"librarians as the last defenders of truth in a decadent culture consumed with trivia and superficialities" (Via Library Journal.)
ACRLog, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Just Released: (1st Version) Programme and Proceedings: World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council
Resource Shelf, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Coming Soon: Witnessing history first-hand: a new online edition of 19th century newspapers and periodicals
"British Library"
Resource Shelf", Wednesday 30 April 2008