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Wednesday 10 December 2008

7 days of library news:

Respect for people who use libraries, people who campaign for their survival and improvement and normal people who believe they are important.
Comment.
The Good Library blog, Tuesday 9 December 2008

The London Libraries Consortium
"back room and supply chain problems"
The Good Library blog, Tuesday 9 December 2008

The Newspaper Industry Is Saved! (Or Not)
"New technology"
LISNews, Tuesday 9 December 2008

Women Librarians Who Settled the Wild West
LISNews, Tuesday 9 December 2008

Why the Kindle is off my Christmas list
LISNews, Tuesday 9 December 2008

Essential new titles from Facet Publishing
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Tuesday 9 December 2008

Book-burning, legal style
"copyright" (Via Google News.)
FT.com, Tuesday 9 December 2008

100-book library held on console
"Nintendo" (Via Google News.)
The Sun, Tuesday 9 December 2008

How to Use Google Reader Like A Rockstar
RSS.
iLibrarian, Tuesday 9 December 2008

BookBump, Simply Books
"book-management solutions"
I want to, Tuesday 9 December 2008

Booktagger
"online bookshelf"
I want to, Tuesday 9 December 2008

"A bit of a crush now, actually"
"Dr Saad Eksander, Director-General of the Iraq National Library and Archive"
First Person Narrative, Tuesday 9 December 2008

IFLA Journal December 2008; Vol. 34, No. 4
IFLA, Tuesday 9 December 2008

Fought Over Any Good Books Lately?
"book groups" (Via Library Link of the Day.)
The New York Times, Tuesday 9 December 2008

Toshokan Senso - Library War 12
Graphic novel.
TangognaT, Monday 8 December 2008

E-Books Have a Future in iTunes
LISNews, Monday 8 December 2008

Hiding My Candy: Give Me The Option To Share My Reading
"gather this data to use it in ways that improve my experiences"
LISNews, Monday 8 December 2008

The Neglected Books page: Where Forgotten Books Are Remembered
"neglected, overlooked, forgotten, or stranded by changing tides in critical or popular taste"
LISNews, Monday 8 December 2008

Books Make The Very Best Gifts
"but now the question is...what are you going to buy?"
LISNews, Monday 8 December 2008

ScotlandsPeople discount in libraries
"family history information"
Scottish Libraries, Monday 8 December 2008

Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress
Book review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Monday 8 December 2008

Barbara Ewing - Rosetta
Book review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Monday 8 December 2008

A NEW cookbook has arrived, thanks to all of YOU!
"current ideas and best practices for planning, building, and managing your library's computer technology" (Via Librariansworld.com newsletter.)
The MaintainIT Project, Monday 8 December 2008

Survey on technology skills in libraries
Research request.
PUBLIB, Monday 8 December 2008

Public libraries are....
"March 2005-- The Culture Select Committee of the House of Commons"
The Good Library blog, Sunday 7 December 2008

Warrior Librarian Weekly: December 2008 issue now online
Warrior Librarian, Sunday 7 December 2008

Pirates of the Amazon Abandon Ship
"Pirate Bay"
LISNews, Saturday 6 December 2008

Google has 7 million books scanned
LISNews, Saturday 6 December 2008

Councillor jumps to town library's defence after budget cuts announced
"Warwickshire libraries" (Via Google News.)
Kenilworth Today, Saturday 6 December 2008

Q: How many new public libraries have been opened? A: Some, we think
"new libraries minister, Barbara Follet"
Tom Roper's Weblog, Saturday 6 December 2008

Christmas Study and E-Book Readers
Comment.
Thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian, Saturday 6 December 2008

The Obsolescence Conundrum
"Blu-Ray"
Library Journal, Saturday 6 December 2008

IFLA Professional Report 112 : Gifts for the Collections: Guidelines for Libraries
ResourceShelf, Saturday 6 December 2008

Google and the libraries
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
International Herald Tribune, Saturday 6 December 2008

Intervene in Lambeth
Comment.
The Good Library blog, Friday 5 December 2008

...and the winner of the 'Russian Booker' is...
"'The Librarian' by Mikhail Yelizarov"
LISNews, Friday 5 December 2008

Bill's life : A Year of Living Humorously
"Unshelved"
LISNews, Friday 5 December 2008

Have Libraries Lost the Search War?
LISNews, Friday 5 December 2008

List of Library Contact Details
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Friday 5 December 2008

Library's artist in residence ready to unveil her work
"National Library of Wales" (Via Google News.)
County Times, Friday 5 December 2008

Read all about it as high flats get a library
"Glasgow" (Via Google News.)
Evening Times, Friday 5 December 2008

Council's 'ghost' library claim
"Lambeth"
BBC News, Friday 5 December 2008

NextSpace, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 10
"OCLC Newsletter"
OCLC, Friday 5 December 2008

Librarian Lays Down the Law
Humour. (Via Library Link of the Day.)
YouTube, Friday 5 December 2008

Another Leadership Skill - Setting The Stage For Creativity
"manage the creativity generated in the organization"
Designing Better Libraries, Thursday 4 December 2008

Bibliophobia; or 'what's filthy cannot be literature'
"book-burning"
Tom Roper's Weblog, Thursday 4 December 2008

The Transparent Library: Six Signposts on the Way
"Internet Librarian International"
Library Journal, Thursday 4 December 2008

EU launches new lit prize
theBookseller.com, Wednesday 3 December 2008

No way forward
UK libraries.
The Good Library blog, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Canned Libraries Open New Vistas To Readers (Aug, 1936)
"Library of Congress to fit 'in a few small filing cabinets'"
LISNews, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Amazon Kindle 2 Slated For "Early Q1?
LISNews, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Who Stands To Lose In Google vs. Libraries
"book deal"
LISNews, Wednesday 3 December 2008

One Teens' Opinion on Libraries
"from LA Youth"
LISNews, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Sunday Opening
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Unsolicited deliveries
Thread.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Living Library
"Bournemouth"
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Librarygate: Lambeth Council opened "ghost libraries" to fool Government inspectors
(Via Google News.)
This Is Local London, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Pageflakes as a Public Library Portal
"the positives and the pitfalls of the project"
iLibrarian, Wednesday 3 December 2008

The Insulting Librarian
Humour.
Thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Catching the next wave
"the semantic web"
Panlibus, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Living books
"article in today's Guardian"
Andrew Eynon's Library Blog, Wednesday 3 December 2008

National Library of New Zealand Joins the Flickr Commons
Library Journal, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Nine-to-five job for Dad the hawk
"Dad the Hawk has a new job looking after Cardiff Library's sedum grass roof."
BBC Audio and Video, Wednesday 3 December 2008

White Paper on Social Knowledge Networks
Information Today, Inc., Wednesday 3 December 2008