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Wednesday 24 June 2009

7 days of library news:

Anger at library's Saltire 'slur'
National Library of Scotland.
BBC News, Tuesday 23 June 2009

A Never-ending Challenge: Marketing Your Library
Marketing Your Library, Monday 22 June 2009

EU libraries cost pounds 570 to read a book
Metro.co.uk, Monday 22 June 2009

Library Cards
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Monday 22 June 2009

Key participation statistics released giving district level data for first time.
"museum and library services in all 353 English local authority areas"
MLA, Monday 22 June 2009

Digital Natives and Virtual Libraries: What Does the Future Hold for Libraries?
Paper.
ResourceShelf, Monday 22 June 2009

Just Released: 2008 IFLA Annual Report
IFLA, Monday 22 June 2009

Swindon and the MLA
"Freedom of Information question"
The Good Library blog, Sunday 21 June 2009

Digital CILIP Gazette is now live
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Sunday 21 June 2009

Librarians Fighting Google's Book Deal
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
Time, Sunday 21 June 2009

12 States Sign World's First Treaty on Access to Information - What about the other 35 Council of Europe Member States?
(Via plgnet-l.)
Access Info, Sunday 21 June 2009

Iranian Libraries
PUBLIB, Sunday 21 June 2009

British Library harvests archive of novelist John Berger
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 20 June 2009

The one where we take a look behind the scenes
Humour.
Obnoxious Librarian from Hades, Friday 19 June 2009

Librarian as Anti-Hero
"black comedy set in the world of a horror movie"
LISNews, Friday 19 June 2009

In pictures: The Descent of an Angel
National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
BBC News, Friday 19 June 2009

Libraries in Town Halls/Civic Centres
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Friday 19 June 2009

Manics' 'humble' library opening
Cardiff.
BBC News, Friday 19 June 2009

UK's busiest library gets bigger
Norwich.
BBC News, Friday 19 June 2009

Armadillo - Summer 2009 Issue
"News, reviews and interviews form the world of children's and young people's books"
LibeRaCe's Library Blog, Friday 19 June 2009

Cassandra Clare - City of Bones
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Friday 19 June 2009

American Libraries (Volume 40, Issues 6 and 7, June/July 2009)
American Libraries, Friday 19 June 2009

British Library's century of news
"two million digitised pages from 19th century newspapers"
BBC Audio and Video, Friday 19 June 2009

Playground games part of research
"new research project by the British Library"
BBC Audio and Video, Friday 19 June 2009

Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century 2nd edn
New publication.
Facet Publishing, Friday 19 June 2009

Community Archives The shaping of memory
New publication.
Facet Publishing, Friday 19 June 2009

British Library's 19th century newspapers are free with a Plymouth library card
@plymlibraries, Thursday 18 June 2009

Row between Coates and MLA deepens
theBookseller.com, Thursday 18 June 2009

Libraries populate the Twitterverse
theBookseller.com, Thursday 18 June 2009

Where is the National Concern about the Literacy Gender Gap?
US study.
Getting Boys To Read, Thursday 18 June 2009

Short films saved for posterity
National Library of Wales.
BBC News, Thursday 18 June 2009

Just click for a century of news
The British Library.
BBC News, Thursday 18 June 2009

Victorian newspapers offered online
The British Library.
BBC Audio and Video, Thursday 18 June 2009

New Full Text E-Resources Management Handbook Now Available (Free)
ResourceShelf, Thursday 18 June 2009

WorldCat Identities Now Directly a Part of WorldCat.org Records
"WorldCat Identities is one of those fun things we like to play around with..."
ResourceShelf, Thursday 18 June 2009

Creating Your Library's Business Plans
Latest publications from Facet.
Facet Publishing, Thursday 18 June 2009

Opening Library Doors: Homeless People Welcomed in London Libraries Under Pilot Project
ePolitix.com, Wednesday 17 June 2009

Teen Librarian Monthly June is available
@youthlibraries, Wednesday 17 June 2009

A quick guided tour and 'sneak peak' of the new Newcastle City Library
@librarydesign, Wednesday 17 June 2009

In conversation with Ayub Khan [Facet Publishing podcast]
"Better by Design: an introduction to planning and designing a new library building"
cilip podcasts, Wednesday 17 June 2009

New Mill Library to close
Kirklees. (Via Google News.)
Huddersfield Examiner, Wednesday 17 June 2009

Lightning strike forces library closure
(Via Google News.)
Wigan Today, Wednesday 17 June 2009

Launching A New Library
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Wednesday 17 June 2009

Film/Documentary Screenings in Libraries
Information request.
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries, Wednesday 17 June 2009

The Library Show 2009
Joeyanne Libraryanne, Wednesday 17 June 2009

Marion McGilvary - A Lost Wife's Tale
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 17 June 2009

[EBLIP] New Issue Published
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.
EBLIP, Wednesday 17 June 2009

Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter, June 2009
IFLA, Wednesday 17 June 2009