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Wednesday 3 February 2010

7 days of library news:

Reading an article about library layout as retail spaces...
(Via @joeyanne.)
Information Today, Inc., Tuesday 2 February 2010

Toward an understanding of library patron wayfinding: Observing patrons' entry routes in a public library
Abstract. (Via ticTOCs.)
ScienceDirect, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Bondi beach bookshelves
IKEA.
LISNews, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Available February 2
'This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All'
LISNews, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Tauranga NZ mulls user-pays libraries
LISNews, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Wall Of iPads Could Be Used In Libraries To Display iBooks
LISNews, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Redbox for books
Book kiosks.
LISNews, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Revamped pounds 2.5million Wisbech Library reopens to public
The Wisbech Standard, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Overdue notifications
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Be a Reading Role Model for Boys
Getting Boys To Read, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Leicester City Council unveils plan to merge libraries
BBC News, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Perceptions 2009: An international survey of library automation
(For those who missed this yesterday.)
Panlibus, Tuesday 2 February 2010

New Books on my Amazon radar
Including: 'This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All.'
librarytwopointzero, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Technology Essentials 2010: WebJunction Online Conference
"...free two-day online conference. The theme for this inaugural event is Technology Essentials, with a focus on practical and timely strategies for leveraging technology to help you in a wide range of library services and operations"
ALA TechSource, Tuesday 2 February 2010

National Libraries: The National Library of Wales Has Just Started Tweeting
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 2 February 2010

Slainte guide to Web 2 in libraries ... includes case studies from Scottish libraries
slainte, Monday 1 February 2010

New virtual book added today. Turn the pages of Capt. Scott's diary
British Library, Monday 1 February 2010

New Book ... How Green Is My Library?
The Green Library, Monday 1 February 2010

Lack of leadership costs money
"the national E4 libraries project"
The Good Library Blog, Monday 1 February 2010

Revised Google Books settlement pleases few
TeleRead, Monday 1 February 2010

LISNews Librarian Essay Contest Starts Today!
LISNews, Monday 1 February 2010

Library resources could be slashed
"Subscriptions to newspapers, magazines and books", West Sussex. (Via Google News.)
The Argus, Monday 1 February 2010

Wirral launches library book 'amnesty'
(Via Google News.)
Wirral Globe, Monday 1 February 2010

Library book auction in Cheltenham
(Via Google News.)
SoGlos.com, Monday 1 February 2010

Southampton City Council's pounds 8.1m cuts threaten library and 120 jobs
(Via Google News.)
Daily Echo, Monday 1 February 2010

RFID and diversity
Information request.
LIB-RFID-UK, Monday 1 February 2010

E-books - Bloomsbury Online
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Monday 1 February 2010

Town gets new-look £2.5m library
Cambridgeshire.
BBC News, Monday 1 February 2010

Big Conversation: some future predictions
Web 2.0 expert Phil Bradley.
Phil Bradley's weblog, Monday 1 February 2010

International Twittering Libraries
(Via ResourceShelf.)
Circulation, Monday 1 February 2010

iPad and libraries – some thoughts
ResourceShelf, Monday 1 February 2010

Perceptions 2009: An International Survey of Library Automation
Library Technology Guides, Monday 1 February 2010

Librarians Doing the "Thriller" Dance
"In her new book This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, Marilyn Johnson explores the relevance of librarians in the technological age." (Via @ALALibrary.)
mental_floss, Friday 29 January 2010

Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Simplified for Nonprofits
(Via @ALALibrary.)
Nonprofit Tech 2.0, Friday 29 January 2010

The Big Necessity by Rose George
Cartoon strip.
Unshelved, Friday 29 January 2010

Behind the Copac record
"National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue"
Copac, Friday 29 January 2010

Where is Robin Hood?
"palpable reductions in the public library service in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Nottinghamshire, Dorset, Somerset and West Sussex"
The Good Library Blog, Friday 29 January 2010

Library work wins consent
"Plans to restore Liverpool Central Library have been approved by the city council."
PlanningResource, Friday 29 January 2010

Million books stored for Manchester library revamp
BBC News, Friday 29 January 2010

Council plans library hours cut back across West Sussex
(Via Google News.)
The Argus, Friday 29 January 2010

vizLib pioneers data visualisation of library users
Leicestershire.
Library & Information Update, Friday 29 January 2010

Social Media Toolkit
iLibrarian, Friday 29 January 2010

The rise of the web's digital elites
"Twenty years ago, the web was colonised by a group of early adopters who believed that the ideal society was equal - every person had a right to get involved, there should be no hierarchy, and rules would be mutually determined for the common good."
BBC News, Friday 29 January 2010

Gangland murder weapons recovered
"found behind a public library in North Lanarkshire"
BBC News, Friday 29 January 2010

Survey Results – First Pass
"this year's RFID usage survey"
RFID - Changing libraries for good, Friday 29 January 2010

Cornwall Council (AND the BBC) doesn't get it!
"it's not the resource that's the problem - it's the attitude of the users" (abuse of Twitter).
Phil Bradley's weblog, Friday 29 January 2010

about dismantling the echo-chamber...
"any situation in which information, ideas or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission inside an enclosed space"
thewikiman, Friday 29 January 2010

A Kilometre Worth of Books: 30,000 Books Attacked by Fungus in the National Library (of Luxembourg)
ResourceShelf, Friday 29 January 2010

UK: Public Libraries Playing Crucial Role In Bridging The Digital Divide
"report, prepared by CFE on behalf of the MLA"
ResourceShelf, Friday 29 January 2010

Signs of the Times
"...would Reference be re-labeled Curiosity? Would Circulation be re-labeled Ready to Check Out?" (Via @ALALibrary.)
Viral Optimism, Thursday 28 January 2010

How to publish your own book online - and make money
(Via @mediaguardian.)
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 January 2010

Balanced Life -- Twelve Tips For Reading More
(Via @gretchenrubin.)
The Huffington Post, Thursday 28 January 2010

YA fiction sales top pounds 50m in 2009
"buoyed largely by Stephenie Meyer's series... has extended upwards to female readers in their late twenties"
theBookseller, Thursday 28 January 2010

Incentives and honours
"libraries fail to sort out their problems, because there is no incentive for them to do so. Comment, "That's true, in modern parlance, but in old fashioned speak, public service was an honour and a privilege; there was no more need for incentive than the pride and the responsibility it carried."
The Good Library Blog, Thursday 28 January 2010

From e-books to coin-operated libraries: David Wilk interviews me
David Rothman of TeleRead.
TeleRead, Thursday 28 January 2010

Library explores ways to release open source software
Library of Congress.
Library Technology Guides, Thursday 28 January 2010

British Library Launches New Virtual History Timeline
(Via Google News.)
British Library, Thursday 28 January 2010

Plan to cut West Sussex library opening times
"would save council bosses pounds 200,000 a year" (Via Google News.)
The Argus, Thursday 28 January 2010

More women than men use social networking
"Internet 2009 in numbers"
LIS-WEB2, Thursday 28 January 2010

New 'Update' out plus free content
CILIP.
Library & Information Update, Thursday 28 January 2010

User Experience Is More Than A Trend
'UX'
Designing Better Libraries, Thursday 28 January 2010

Deadline looms for Google Books deal
"Amazon has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow Google to build a vast digital library."
BBC News, Thursday 28 January 2010

Mental health patients get novel prescription
"1 in 4 people experiencing mental health problems in Lanarkshire"
BBC News, Thursday 28 January 2010

Reid's "masterwork" wins Costa 2009
theBookseller, Wednesday 27 January 2010

I desperately want to go on a reading weekend; it sounds blissful and fun!
(Via @paperbk_reader.)
The Reading Weekend, Wednesday 27 January 2010

New book: Library & info science research in 21st century: a guide for practicing lib'ns & students
(Via @LISResearch.)
Research and Markets, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Video: eBooks in Action on iPad
(Via @ebookvine.)
e-bookvine, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Known unknowns
"Digital Book World conference in New York"
theBookseller, Wednesday 27 January 2010

World Book Day targets adult readers
4-7 March.
theBookseller, Wednesday 27 January 2010

TV Book Club audience grows, but 'best read' sales dip
"'The TV Book Club' on More 4 and Channel 4"
theBookseller, Wednesday 27 January 2010

UK government declines to act on Google Settlement
theBookseller, Wednesday 27 January 2010

London Libraries Change Programme has been a waste of money. It is time to stop now.
Comment.
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Explorers find rare ancient books
LISNews, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Google, copyright, and our future.
"The deal constructs a world in which control can be exercised at the level of a page, and maybe even a quote. It is a world in which every bit, every published word, could be licensed."
LISNews, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Council consultation labelled "a joke"
"reference in the budget to a 'libraries modernisation programme' which is actually about the potential closure of two libraries"
this is nottingham.co.uk, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Bristol library jobs at risk as row rages over self-service bid
Bristol News, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Will you ditch print and read books on an Apple 'tablet'?
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Authors threaten to boycott Google Books
Times Online, Wednesday 27 January 2010

How to Better Engage Facebook Fans
iLibrarian, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Web2.0 in UK public libraries wiki
"I just thought I'd remind people that there's a Web2.0 & libraries wiki, which is open to anyone to edit."
LIS-WEB2, Wednesday 27 January 2010

For info: Trailmeme
"a site that enables you to link bookmarked sites together, therefore creating a route along related online materials"
LIS-WEB2, Wednesday 27 January 2010

How to Get Boys Writing with "How-to's"
"How-to topics appeal to boys' desire for practical, concrete and hands-on information."
Getting Boys To Read, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Advocating Libraries and Information - into 2010
"CILIP's response to the DCMS consultation"
cilip Information and Advice Blog, Wednesday 27 January 2010

The job centre at 100 - "A Jobcentre 'library'
"A Jobcentre 'library' - the idea was to make the centres less intimidating"
BBC News, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Residents fight library axe plan
Nottingham.
BBC News, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Will the iPad Kill the Kindle?
Today's announced multi-purpose e-book reader from Apple.
Thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Chum.ly - a potential challenger to Twitter.
Phil Bradley's weblog, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Save Chatsworth Library!
Shameless, E4 TV.
From the Chief Executive's Desk, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Kindle Killer
"Apple's new iPad, announced today"
Library Journal, Wednesday 27 January 2010

America's Star Libraries Focus on How To Reach Patrons
US focus.
Library Journal, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Issue no. 14 (January, 2010) of OCLC's NextSpace Newsletter is Now Available
ResourceShelf, Wednesday 27 January 2010

Announcements: First Ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest
ResourceShelf, Wednesday 27 January 2010