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Wednesday 28 May 2008

7 days of library news:

Self wins Everyman prize
"Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction"
theBookseller, Tuesday 27 May 2008

Mind Map of Information Literacy Resources
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 27 May 2008

Librarian career choice made fun of in the Onion
LISNews, Tuesday 27 May 2008

One For the Books
"'On the Media' from NPR"
LISNews, Tuesday 27 May 2008

Geek Chic of the Week: Librarian glasses necklace
LISNews, Tuesday 27 May 2008

Iran establishes free postal library to promote book reading
LISNews, Tuesday 27 May 2008

Intellident unveils RFID-enabled smart shelf -UsingRFID.com (subscription)
"Originally trialled within the library sector, smartBlade removes the need for staff to perform manual or hand-held stock checks" (Via Google News.)
UsingRFID, Tuesday 27 May 2008

Virtual visits DO inspire physical visits to libraries…
"That's just 1 of 5 conclusions reached by a national study..."
The Library of Digress, Tuesday 27 May 2008

Booktagger - Your Online Book Collection
Phil Bradley's weblog, Tuesday 27 May 2008

Blogging Hay: the opening weekend
"Guardian Hay Festival"
theBookseller, Tuesday 27 May 2008

More on Microsoft's withdrawal from Academic Search, Book Search, and book scanning
(Via Library Journal's News From The Web.)
Open Access News, Monday 26 May 2008

Redundancy
"As information professionals, we have two primary - not to say, primal - goals..." (Via Library Link of the Day.)
Searcher's Voice, Monday 26 May 2008

American Library Association - Code of Ethics for Librarians - 1939
(Via Librarians World Weekly News Letter.)
Illinois Institute of Technology, Monday 26 May 2008

Progressive Librarians Guild
"providing a forum for the open exchange of radical views on library issues" (Via Librarians World Weekly News Letter.)
Progressive Librarians Guild, Monday 26 May 2008

A thriller in ten chapters
"The Observer's literary editor Robert McCrum stood down this month after more than 10 years in the job..." (Via Google News.)
guardian.co.uk Books, Sunday 25 May 2008

New Web Guide: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author
ResourceShelf, Sunday 25 May 2008

First Interplanetary Library Will Land on Mars
ResourceShelf, Sunday 25 May 2008

Benefits of Stock Circulation - Round up
lis-pub-libs, Saturday 24 May 2008

Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas
Review.
Times Online, Saturday 24 May 2008

CILIP | Internet Q &A
"This months column"
Phil Bradley's weblog, Saturday 24 May 2008

Special tour and program for librarians and educators wanting to set up a presence in Second Life
"May 29" (Via Library Journal.)
Second Life Library Project, Saturday 24 May 2008

Sensual pleasure of the library
Review, The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel. (Via Library Link of the Day.)
Telegraph, Saturday 24 May 2008

British Standards Online
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Friday 23 May 2008

MLA could vanish under Tories
theBookseller, Friday 23 May 2008

Photosharing - comparing Flickr, Photobucket and Zooomr
I want to, Friday 23 May 2008

The End of Microsoft's Digital Book Efforts
Library Journal, Friday 23 May 2008

Best of the Booker at 40-Shortlist.
(Via Library Journal.)
Librarian, Friday 23 May 2008

Robert Gray: How Important are Book Groups?
Shelf Awareness, Friday 23 May 2008

Has the iPod moment just arrived?
"the e-book"
theBookseller, Friday 23 May 2008

Liz Forgan to chair Cultural Olympiad's Stories of the World
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Friday 23 May 2008

The Library in the New Age
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
The New York Review of Books, Friday 23 May 2008

Design revamp for '$100 laptop'
"looks like an e-book"
BBC News, Thursday 22 May 2008

The iLiad moment?
"e-reader"
theBookseller, Thursday 22 May 2008

Multi-agency libraries
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Thursday 22 May 2008

Pricing for Local Studies photographs
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Thursday 22 May 2008

Community Information and Talis Engage
Information request.
lis-pub-libs, Thursday 22 May 2008

New ebook launched
"new version of the XO laptop"
theBookseller, Thursday 22 May 2008

Libraries fight economic woes with information
LISNews, Thursday 22 May 2008

Ebooks: book to the future
LISNews, Thursday 22 May 2008

Bullying at Work
(Via FreePint Newsletter 253.)
FreePint, Thursday 22 May 2008

Knowledge Management: Getting Started
(Via FreePint Newsletter 253.)
FUMSI, Thursday 22 May 2008

British Library Virtual Reference Library
(Via FreePint Newsletter 253.)
The British Library, Thursday 22 May 2008

Public Library Authorities Conference 2008
(Via CILIP News Bulletin.)
CILIP, Wednesday 21 May 2008

book quotes
PUBLIB, Wednesday 21 May 2008

BookRabbit takes on Amazon
"Social shopping website BookRabbit"
theBookseller, Wednesday 21 May 2008

Casual Conversation with Stephen Abram
(Via CILIP podcasts.)
OPAL Podcast, Wednesday 21 May 2008

Historical book about libraries
LISNews, Wednesday 21 May 2008

MLA Setting Course For The Next Five Years
Comment.
Panlibus, Wednesday 21 May 2008

Just Released by IFLA: Volume 7 of the IFLA/FAIFE World Report Series – Access to libraries and information: Towards a fairer world
ResourceShelf, Wednesday 21 May 2008

National Library of Sweden Adds English Language Pages
ResourceShelf, Wednesday 21 May 2008

The Google Generation: A Crisis of Information Literacy?
"University College London" (Via Library Journal.)
Library News for Arts, Wednesday 21 May 2008

Corporate plan sets out vision for the future
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Wednesday 21 May 2008