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Wednesday 21 May 2008

7 days of library news:

Daleks
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Tuesday 20 May 2008

BBC teams with NYR
"National Year of Reading's Mind and Body Month"
theBookseller, Tuesday 20 May 2008

Doing Away With Visual Real Estate
Microsoft.
LISNews, Tuesday 20 May 2008

6 Free Web Conferencing Tools Librarians Will Love
iLibrarian, Tuesday 20 May 2008

Libraries to become extinct by 2020...really?
"Futurist Richard Watson"
The Library of Digress, Tuesday 20 May 2008

OCLC and Google to exchange data, link digitized books to WorldCat
(Via Library Journal.)
OCLC, Tuesday 20 May 2008

Old Maids, Policeman, and Social Rejects: Mass Media Representations and Public Perceptions of Librarians
"This paper investigates the relationships between mass media representations of librarians and users’ perceptions and consequent use of librarians and libraries..." (Via Library Link of the Day.)
Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, Tuesday 20 May 2008

FW: [PUBSIG] Junot Diaz on libraries
"interview with Pulitzer prize winner Junot Diaz"
lis-pub-libs, Monday 19 May 2008

My novel way to find a romance
"singles night" (Via Google News.)
The Sun, Monday 19 May 2008

City's most overdue library book
"Manchester"
Manchester Evening News, Monday 19 May 2008

Naughty Librarians' Convention 2008
"San Francisco"
Phil Bradley's weblog, Monday 19 May 2008

Multi-platform OPAC Widget from Bremen via Netvibes
Panlibus, Monday 19 May 2008

In the Shadow of Lady Jane - Edward Charles
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Monday 19 May 2008

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Monday 19 May 2008

IMLS Releases, Nine to Nineteen: Youth in Museums and Libraries; A Practitioner’s Guide
"America's Youth"
ResourceShelf, Monday 19 May 2008

Book News: Paul Verhaeghen Wins 2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Library Journal, Monday 19 May 2008

Preserving world's books is a real page turner
"Google" (Via Library Link of the Day.)
MSNBC, Monday 19 May 2008

The Free Library
(Via Librarians World Weekly News Letter.)
The Free Library, Monday 19 May 2008

Services to young adults 16-25
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Sunday 18 May 2008

Tropicalia kids: Wii program lets libraries appeal to a younger crowd
"video games"
The News-Press, Sunday 18 May 2008

Perkins puts her paw on it:
"the MLA and its new action plan" - comment.
The Good Library Blog, Saturday 17 May 2008

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
Review.
Times Online, Saturday 17 May 2008

Gould Library: Trading Card Gallery
Phil Bradley's weblog, Saturday 17 May 2008

DVD Security
Information request results summary.
lis-pub-libs, Friday 16 May 2008

Cites & Insights 8:6 available
"journal of libraries, policy, technology, and media"
PUBLIB, Friday 16 May 2008

Clare hoists the flag for libraries
MLA.
theBookseller, Friday 16 May 2008

Maps: Views from above.
"Microsoft Maps"
LISNews, Friday 16 May 2008

Public libraries build social capital in Chicago…
The Library of Digress, Friday 16 May 2008

Library Structure and Culture
"Management theory..."
Clip Art Must Die!, Friday 16 May 2008

Skills - new and old.
"At the Library and Information Show, Roy Clare and John Dolan of MLA both made the point that public libraries needed to be fully engaged with the digital environment and Web 2.0."
Sintoblog, Friday 16 May 2008

How Amazon Could Change Publishing
ResourceShelf, Friday 16 May 2008

Libraries must avoid the post office trap
Wales.
icWales, Friday 16 May 2008

The May/June 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available
"digital library research and development"
D-Lib Magazine, Friday 16 May 2008

Mobile libraries & other agencies
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Thursday 15 May 2008

Karen Cunningham
"Glasgow"
The Good Library Blog, Thursday 15 May 2008

Information With A Twist
"vendors who are incorporating 2.0 features to enhance their products and services"
iLibrarian, Thursday 15 May 2008

LCSH as Linked Data
"Library of Congress Subject Headings"
Panlibus, Thursday 15 May 2008

Iris and Ruby - Rosie Thomas
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Thursday 15 May 2008

NextGen: Finding Your Inner Moxie
"the room to play and act inexpertly"
Library Journal, Thursday 15 May 2008

The Transparent Library: Embracing Service to Teens
Library Journal, Thursday 15 May 2008

Five year plan aims to make every library a great library
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Thursday 15 May 2008

'21st Century' library strategy
"three-year strategy to modernise libraries across Wales"
BBC News, Thursday 15 May 2008

Sony turns the page with new eReader
"The best e-book reader yet, but it has a way to go before it can match real books." (Via Library Link of the Day.)
The Globe and Mail, Thursday 15 May 2008

Fw: Library Edition/6 Week Mainstream rental DVD's
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Wednesday 14 May 2008

Internet line capacity growth
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Wednesday 14 May 2008

Remove public libraries from the control of national and local government
Comment.
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 14 May 2008

Libraries starting to reverse declines
"BA conference"
theBookseller, Wednesday 14 May 2008

Errant Borrowers Fail to Return Books in Malaysia
LISNews, Wednesday 14 May 2008

Library and Information Research: Issue 100 now published
LIR, Wednesday 14 May 2008