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Wednesday 10 September 2008

7 days of library news:

Roald Dahl shortlist revealed
"Roald Dahl Funny Prize"
theBookseller.com, Tuesday 9 September 2008

Library Innovation Requires Regularizing the Irregular
"a move innovative organization"
LISNews, Tuesday 9 September 2008

Selling flash drives in libraries
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Tuesday 9 September 2008

Lifeline for Pounds 50m Central Library
"Liverpool" (Via Google News.)
Liverpool Echo.co.uk, Tuesday 9 September 2008

Video games lure teens into the city's libraries
Canada (via Library Journal's Library News from the Web).
Library Stuff, Tuesday 9 September 2008

Guardian reveals children's prize shortlist
"Guardian children's fiction prize"
theBookseller.com, Monday 8 September 2008

Mills and Boon launches raunchier imprint
theBookseller.com, Monday 8 September 2008

Following the Reader
"Sony Reader"
theBookseller.com, Monday 8 September 2008

Kids and Reading
US report.
Stephen's Lighthouse, Monday 8 September 2008

Competitive Advantage of Libraries
Stephen's Lighthouse, Monday 8 September 2008

Council faces pounds 50m gap in bill for library revamp
"Liverpool"
icLiverpool, Monday 8 September 2008

Presentation Tips
"preparation and planning for a talk and tips for delivering it effectively"
iLibrarian, Monday 8 September 2008

Fewer Banned Books and Increased Sales in the Muslim World
"Abu Dhabi"
LISNews, Sunday 7 September 2008

The best in bookshelves
"bookcases" (Via Google News.)
Times Online, Sunday 7 September 2008

Diagram victory for Greek Postmen
"oddest book title of the past 30 years"
theBookseller.com, Saturday 6 September 2008

More on Pirated Textbooks
iLibrarian, Saturday 6 September 2008

25 Banned Books That You Should Read Today
iLibrarian, Saturday 6 September 2008

Library Web Quest wiki
"tutorial ... to train library staff in the use of Web 2.0 tools"
Andrew Eynon's Library Blog, Saturday 6 September 2008

Librarians 'inflate issues'
"issuing numbers"
theBookseller.com, Friday 5 September 2008

Distinctively odd
"the oddest book title"
BBC - Today, Friday 5 September 2008

The mystery of Enid Blyton's revival
"19 more 'in the style of' Blyton books"
BBC News, Friday 5 September 2008

Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award
US focus.
LISWire, Friday 5 September 2008

We could save pounds 100m each year of taxpayers money.
"review of Public Libraries"
The Good Library blog, Friday 5 September 2008

Free Webinar: Public Computers and 2.0 Tools (Sponsored by MaintainIT and WebJunction)
LISNews, Friday 5 September 2008

Online Catalogs Replacing Printed Book Catalogs is a Good Thing, or Why I don't Go Shopping with My Wife
LISNews, Friday 5 September 2008

Read At Work
"New Zealand"
LISNews, Friday 5 September 2008

New Electronic Journal: The Journal of Library Innovation
LISNews, Friday 5 September 2008

PRS music licence to cover Peoples Network?
"Performing Rights Society"
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Friday 5 September 2008

Weird Cases: banning books
"Legal attempts to suppress literature have rarely been successful and often have the opposite effect"
Times Online, Friday 5 September 2008

New library will have a living roof!
"King Cross, Halifax"
Halifax Today, Friday 5 September 2008

Campaigning for the Book
"Alan Gibbons"
theBookseller.com, Friday 5 September 2008

Putting the Library in Wikipedia
"Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia..."
Information Today, Inc., Friday 5 September 2008

Publishers rally for Sony launch
theBookseller.com, Thursday 4 September 2008

Author launches libraries campaign
"Alan Gibbons"
theBookseller.com, Thursday 4 September 2008

Waterstone's e-books open for business
theBookseller.com, Thursday 4 September 2008

The success of Hillingdon
The Good Library blog, Thursday 4 September 2008

Downloading textbooks on the sly
"online black market"
LISNews, Thursday 4 September 2008

Librarian probes unsolved case, finds danger
"novel"
LISNews, Thursday 4 September 2008

Library Management Systems - Manchester
Demonstration.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Thursday 4 September 2008

Sony Reader: A library at your fingertips
(Via Google News.)
Times Online, Thursday 4 September 2008

Library volunteers are awarded
"St John Ambulance"
BBC News, Thursday 4 September 2008

International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society
Information Literacy Weblog, Thursday 4 September 2008

UK: Museums, Libraries And Archives Begin Journey To 2012
"Cultural Olympiad"
ResourceShelf, Thursday 4 September 2008

Searcher Magazine Article
"Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Wednesday 3 September 2008

The most popular books to be left behind in Travelodges
LISNews, Wednesday 3 September 2008

Rapid Reads etc
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Wednesday 3 September 2008

Pounds 7.5m library should be open by February
"Cambridgeshire" (Via Google News.)
Cambridge News, Wednesday 3 September 2008

THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOOKS INCA FOR BUDGETING SUCCESS
(Via Google News.)
accounting web, Wednesday 3 September 2008

How to Find Statistics on Social Media
"the ROI of social media"
iLibrarian, Wednesday 3 September 2008

Plans for pounds 10.5m library unveiled
"Mansfield"
BBC News, Wednesday 3 September 2008

The one dimensional Reader
"the Sony Reader"
theBookseller.com, Wednesday 3 September 2008