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Wednesday 19 November 2008

7 days of library news:

SLA Rio Grande Chapter
"Reality 2.0 and ALWAYS more."
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 18 November 2008

About a Quarter of Exam-Takers Pass Philippines Library Test
LISNews, Tuesday 18 November 2008

Youth busses
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Tuesday 18 November 2008

Links to Amazon
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Tuesday 18 November 2008

Civica makes library access easy for Dundee Council citizens
"Spydus library management system" (Via Google News.)
Enterprise Applications, Tuesday 18 November 2008

"Do We" Really Know Dewey?
"Learn about the Dewey Decimal system" (Via Librariansworld.com newsletter.)
ThinkQuest, Tuesday 18 November 2008

This new American President believes in books
"long quotation"
The Good Library blog, Monday 17 November 2008

New pounds 1.1m library opens in town
"Falkirk"
BBC News, Monday 17 November 2008

Toshokan Senso - Library War Episode 9
TangognaT, Sunday 16 November 2008

Maelstrom Over Metadata
"OCLC"
ResourceShelf, Sunday 16 November 2008

15 Useful Project Management Tools
iLibrarian, Saturday 15 November 2008

Sierra Leone faces a fight for literacy
"Joan Smith calls for readers' support to build the biggest library in West Africa" (Via Google News.)
Times Online, Saturday 15 November 2008

Confused and Libraries and Google Books and AAP?
"Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Saturday 15 November 2008

Tip of the Week: Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book
LISNews, Saturday 15 November 2008

How many people can you fit in a library?
"the smallest [library] in Wiltshire but also, possibly, the smallest in the world" (Via Google News.)
The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, Saturday 15 November 2008

Bid to cut bad behaviour at library
"scrutiny report"
Evening News 24, Saturday 15 November 2008

Major library shuts on Saturdays
"Wales"
BBC News, Saturday 15 November 2008

OCLC Talk with Talis about the new Record Use Policy
"WorldCat"
Panlibus, Saturday 15 November 2008

Greenstone 2.81 Released
"Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM."
LISNews, Friday 14 November 2008

Paneling, bookshelves, lighting turn libraries into refuge
"A home library..."
LISNews, Friday 14 November 2008

Video games and libraries
LISNews, Friday 14 November 2008

Correction to LA Times editorial on Google
"digitized out-of-print books"
LISNews, Friday 14 November 2008

Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone)
LISNews, Friday 14 November 2008

Web2.0 partnerships
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Friday 14 November 2008

Carillion wins pounds 157m Birmingham library job
cnplus.co.uk, Friday 14 November 2008

National Anti-Bullying Week 17th-21st November 2008
LibeRaCe's Library Blog, Friday 14 November 2008

Non-Profit Org Claims Rights In Library Catalog Data
"OCLC"
Information Today, Inc., Friday 14 November 2008

Archivists' Toolkit Version 1.5 Released
"open source archival data management system"
DigitalKoans, Friday 14 November 2008

Reference librarians in the age of Google
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
Duke Magazine, Friday 14 November 2008

Palgrave Macmillan to Launch New Ebook Platform
"will offer libraries a flexible approach to building an ebook collection in the humanities, business, and social sciences"
Information Today, Inc., Friday 14 November 2008

Associates--November 2008 (vol. 15, no. 2)
"The Electronic Library Support Staff Journal"
Associates, Friday 14 November 2008

Google set to push deal outside US
theBookseller.com, Thursday 13 November 2008

Children's books win Funny Prize
"Roald Dahl Funny Prize"
theBookseller.com, Thursday 13 November 2008

David Baddiel on why books struggle to compete with today's in-flight entertainment
LISNews, Thursday 13 November 2008

SCOOP: Dewey's Life to Become a Film
"library cat"
LISNews, Thursday 13 November 2008

Harry Potter is Scotland's favourite library book.. to pinch
(Via Google News.)
The Daily Record, Thursday 13 November 2008

Kindle Controversy Revisited
"A while back I predicted that despite predictions to the contrary ... that the Kindle would go down in flames..."
Library Journal, Thursday 13 November 2008

'The Most Exciting Thing in the World . . . Just a Book'
"Quotation of the Day"
Shelf Awareness, Thursday 13 November 2008

Ohio Library Council on Trendspotting
"Voices of Innovation: Trendspotting Weak Signals from the Future"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Wednesday 12 November 2008

City asks local colleges to help fund public library
"Worcester"
LISNews, Wednesday 12 November 2008

New technology collection development resource launches
LISNews, Wednesday 12 November 2008

'The Hollywood Librarian' Shown on the Other Side of the Pond
"Napier University in Edinburgh"
LISNews, Wednesday 12 November 2008

oldest mobile library? plus...
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Wednesday 12 November 2008

mobile library services
"has anyone recently converted from a manual to a IT system?"
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Wednesday 12 November 2008

World class library for Liverpool
"50 million pounds PFI project"
CLICK Liverpool, Wednesday 12 November 2008

RefSeek - an academic search engine
Phil Bradley's weblog, Wednesday 12 November 2008

James Anderson- The Affair of the Mutilated Mink
Book review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 12 November 2008

Susan Hill - The Various Haunts of Men
Book review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 12 November 2008

Paul Johnstone - The Soul Collector
Book review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 12 November 2008

M.C.Beaton - Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison
Book review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 12 November 2008

Phil Rickman - To Dream of the Dead
Book review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 12 November 2008

Kate Ellis - Seeking the Dead
Book review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 12 November 2008

Dewey Decimal System Name Meme
Trivia.
Phil Bradley's weblog, Wednesday 12 November 2008

Sexy Librarians and embroidery
Phil Bradley's weblog, Wednesday 12 November 2008

ALSC announces exceptional Web sites for children
"The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association"
ResourceShelf, Wednesday 12 November 2008

One for All? As Google Deal Is Evaluated, Critics Question Single Library Terminal
Library Journal, Wednesday 12 November 2008

Join Us for "Creating Your Corporate eLibrary"
"one of our most popular webinars"
Information Today, Inc., Wednesday 12 November 2008