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Wednesday 3 March 2010

7 days of library news:

Getting the Word Out
"...Justin Hoenke asked a couple of teens "How has Gaming changed the way you look at Libraries?" in this short video" (Via @LizDanforth.)
Library Journal, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Library cards for newborns
Gloucestershire.
MLA, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Libraries "most vulnerable" to public service cuts
theBookseller.com, Tuesday 2 March 2010

CWA launches Crime Fiction Week website
Crime Writers' Association (CWA), 14th June.
theBookseller.com, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Beyond the Bullet Point: Information Organization and Non-Linearity
"we should scrap catalogs and start fresh not with inventory systems, but with knowledge discovery and building systems"
Virtual Dave…Real Blog, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Shirley Burnham spells it out
Radio and TV.
The Good Library Blog, Tuesday 2 March 2010

The Case for Charitable Trusts for public libraries
The Good Library Blog, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Emerging standards and technologies to watch for the Social Web
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 2 March 2010

The first cut is the deepest
Library cuts, "you don't know what you got til it's gone".
shhhh!, Tuesday 2 March 2010

In Our Parents Bookshelves
Will we ever see our parent's bookshelves in an e-book age?
LISNews, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Shelf Check Library Comic Back And Better Than Ever
LISNews, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Fabulous New Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne Switzerland Opens
"A series of calm and silent connected spaces created to nurture collaboration, communication, and cooperation over competition."
LISNews, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Rainbow Book
"Rainbow In Your Hand flip book"
LISNews, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Share your thoughts on the Future of Museums and Libraries Wiki
LISNews, Tuesday 2 March 2010

UK Libraries protest against government wi-fi plans
LISNews, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Fw: Re: Fw: Evaluating use of Web 2.0 in Libraries
Information request reply.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Fw: Re: Fw: Evaluating use of Web 2.0 in Libraries
Information request reply.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Evaluating use of Web 2.0 in Libraries
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Open Source Integrated Library Systems
"slideshow covering the basics of Open Source ILS software"
Libology Blog, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Hope in sight for halting growth in digital black hole
"collection and preservation of free UK Online Publications"
cilip Information and Advice Blog, Tuesday 2 March 2010

CILIP responds to UNISON and LDAP
UNISON's People's Inquiry into the Public Library Service. Legal Deposit Advisory Panel.
cilip Information and Advice Blog, Tuesday 2 March 2010

MLA News Bulletin - Library cards for newborns
"new parents will be offered the chance to sign up their newborns for a library card, whilst registering their birth, in a Gloucestershire pilot scheme"
MLANEWS, Tuesday 2 March 2010

State of the Internet 2010
"where the Internet is at the moment"
Phil Bradley's weblog, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Ning Library 2.0 saved
Social network.
librarytwopointzero, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Pounds 40 book token or your library?
Northamptonshire County Council.
librarytwopointzero, Tuesday 2 March 2010

CLSIG Debate: Web 2.0 – the truth behind the hype
Presentation.
Karen Blakeman's Blog, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Library Web - Library Culture on the Web
Article by myself on Library Web, published by CILIP's Refer journal for reference librarians. There was not enough room in the print edition for the article however it is referenced and published on the journal's REFERplus website.
Refer, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Edinburgh Has The Edge (2010): Day One
"premier event for showing how libraries and information services are key to local authorities, e-government, learning, regeneration of cities and digital inclusion"
Walk You Home, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Coping with Continual Motion
"A focus on competencies can help librarians stick to values while absorbing future shock"
Library Journal, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Learning To Swim
"...it is the mission of the reference community to disseminate quality information. The new channels for that dissemination and the new scope of reference content are exciting."
Library Journal, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Reference Renaissance Twofer --- New Book & CFP for 2010 Conference
"current research in reference, including virtual services like IM and live chat, innovative service models, and philosophical approaches"
librarygarden, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Microsoft Does Identities
"a web page for every identity in the bibliographic universe"
Library Journal, Tuesday 2 March 2010

Libraries Lead the e-Book Revolution According to Australian Info Pro
"The ancient technology of the codex book succeeded because it was practical and pleasurable."
ResourceShelf, Monday 1 March 2010

Web 3.0, Change, and Libraries
"Some of the possible avenues for the future include the 3D web, the semantic web, and the real world web."
ResourceShelf, Monday 1 March 2010

Urban Library Journal 15.2 2009 - pecial Issue: Library Services for Special Populations
Mobile libraries to the less privileged, homelessness, the Library as community organizer, the information gap.
Urban Library Journal, Monday 1 March 2010

Community Libraries in Indonesia: a Survey of Government-Supported and Independent Reading Gardens
Library Philosophy and Practice, Monday 1 March 2010

Tamtus Magic VT320 portable book scanner
TeleRead, Sunday 28 February 2010

Quick Notes: Books as street art...
TeleRead, Sunday 28 February 2010

Sublime Stitching's Sexy Librarians embroidery patterns
LISNews, Sunday 28 February 2010

Cheltenham and Tewkesbury babies get library tickets
"Parents registering babies ... can also apply for their newborns to have their own library tickets."
BBC News, Sunday 28 February 2010

Libraries Embrace Digital Future with eBooks, Music, Video
US library's experience of e-books, problems and successes.
ResourceShelf, Sunday 28 February 2010

HOW TO: Do Almost Anything Online in 2010
Social media, wikis, how to write a novel using the web... (Via @leedslibraries.)
Mashable, Saturday 27 February 2010

Brighton cuts its Book Fund
The Good Library Blog, Saturday 27 February 2010

Free e-books in Apache, Ukrainian, Polish… by Rita Toews
Project Gutenberg.
TeleRead, Saturday 27 February 2010

Elizabeth Bear on the future of web publishing also describes its past
TeleRead, Saturday 27 February 2010

Jack Matthews: The Art (and Sport) of Book Collecting
Book collecting.
TeleRead, Saturday 27 February 2010

MOBILEMEET 2010
Saturday 8th May.
LIS-PROFESSION, Saturday 27 February 2010

Recycling Old Book Covers into Postcards
LISNews, Saturday 27 February 2010

Spring reading
"The demise of the venerable codex, or bound book..."
FT.com, Saturday 27 February 2010

Lucy Mangan: How to make reading cool
World Book Day.
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 27 February 2010

Code4Lib Rocks Asheville
"single-track conference for library software developers"
Library Journal, Saturday 27 February 2010

A quote by Alfred Mercier
"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."
Library Garden, Saturday 27 February 2010

Position Paper: E-Books and ISBNs
ResourceShelf, Saturday 27 February 2010

Teaching kids to read from the back of a burro
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
CNN, Saturday 27 February 2010

New Issue Published of Collaborative Librarianship - v.2, no.1 (2010)
"The uncertain times have provided us with cover for thinking the unthinkable, challenging some of our basic practices."
Collaborative Librarianship, Saturday 27 February 2010

MEPs call on member states to back European e-library
theBookseller, Friday 26 February 2010

How Millennial Are You?
"the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium" (Via Word of the Day.)
The Unquiet Library, Friday 26 February 2010

Podcasting, Godcasting and mp3 Players!
"I'm taking part in 23 Things and this weeks thing is podcasting..."
The Graduate Librarian, Friday 26 February 2010

Epub reader plugin for Firefox
"a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)"
TeleRead, Friday 26 February 2010

Singapore: ereader connects to national library for free
TeleRead, Friday 26 February 2010

Content and Libraries
"The content creation world is huge with many players. Using technology to make sense of that content and create discovery systems is critical to people’s success."
Stephen's Lighthouse, Friday 26 February 2010

Don't Do It Just Because You Can
"While resistance is ultimately futile, libraries should not rush to integrate e-books into their offerings."
LISNews, Friday 26 February 2010

A Librarian’s Dilemma: Three Articles in Consideration of DDC and its Utility in Public Libraries
LISNews, Friday 26 February 2010

Joyce Carol Oates--a Love Letter to Libraries in Longhand
LISNews, Friday 26 February 2010

OCLC and SwissBib Launch Next Generation Meta-catalog
Library Technology Guides, Friday 26 February 2010

Corrections and clarifications
"the largest book in the world" (Via Google News.)
guardian.co.uk, Friday 26 February 2010

People's Network printing and self-service
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Friday 26 February 2010

UK Web Archive now officially launched
British Library.
Library and Information Update, Friday 26 February 2010

The future of research and the research library
"recent report from DEFF, Denmark’s Electronic Research Library"
Panlibus, Friday 26 February 2010

Is CILIP Overpriced?
Random Letters, Friday 26 February 2010

CD and DVD Management in UK Libraries
RFID and CDs and DVDs.
RFID – Changing libraries for good, Friday 26 February 2010

walking the elephant through the mayor’s flowerbed
"the marketing side of things - libraries got away it for ages, but nowadays they need to be run like a business (even the ones which aren't businesses) and that entails aggressively marketing a product ... to ensure that the majority of the general public have the correct perceptions about what we can do."
thewikiman, Friday 26 February 2010

Access to Business Information
"It used to be the public libraries in our larger cities. Then Business Links were formed. The British Library Business and IP Centre was set up. Now universities are being encouraged to take on the role."
Sintoblog, Friday 26 February 2010

Digital afterlife for UK websites...
"British Library's officially launches the UK Web Archive..."
British Library, Thursday 25 February 2010

Three cheers for libraries
"The community feel libraries have up here just doesn't exist in some parts of the country because the councillors who hold the purse strings don’t have the vision to create it."
davidhewson.com, Thursday 25 February 2010

Three tips for making library patrons read signs at your library...
Humour. (Via @politelibrarian.)
A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette, Thursday 25 February 2010

Grogger: create a group weblog: Crowdsource your Content. Use a Grog...
Phil Bradley 's weblog, Thursday 25 February 2010

The electronic book: a transformational library technology?
Abstract. (Via ticTOCs.)
IngentaConnect, Thursday 25 February 2010

Building relevance amidst the content revolution
"Libraries need to implement a structure that will allow them to sell, deliver and communicate value. It is time to position the profession as a central player in the digitised information landscape." Abstract. (Via ticTOCs.)
IngentaConnect, Thursday 25 February 2010

Tips for Effective Webinars
Stephen's Lighthouse, Thursday 25 February 2010

The Semantic Web
"the semantic web trend and libraries"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Thursday 25 February 2010

Library Signals Hope for Tamil Minority in Sri Lanka
LISNews, Thursday 25 February 2010

A digital time capsule at the library
British Library, "web archive of British sites ... We'll still be here in 100 years, will Google?"
BBC blogs, Thursday 25 February 2010

Is copyright getting in the way of us preserving our history?
(Via Google News.)
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 February 2010

British Library launches UK internet archive
(Via Google News.)
Times Online, Thursday 25 February 2010

Blue ray
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Thursday 25 February 2010

10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site
iLibrarian, Thursday 25 February 2010

Internet Time-Machines
"how the British Library are trying to preserve defunct websites"
CILIP's Information and Advice Team highlight, Thursday 25 February 2010

British Library warns UK's web heritage 'could be lost'
"UK Web Archive could prove as useful to historians as ancient pamphlets and other ephemeral material in its archive"
BBC News, Thursday 25 February 2010

Fears Nottingham City Council to cut staff from payroll
"Children's centres, trading standards and libraries are affected and that's just looking at job titles..."
BBC News, Thursday 25 February 2010

Human moderated search engines
Phil Bradley 's weblog, Thursday 25 February 2010

Is Library 2.0 dead?
Comment.
librarytwopointzero, Thursday 25 February 2010

Focus on Metadata: Jennifer Bowen on the New Metadata Environment
Comment, "the 'Library Linked Data Movement'".
ALA TechSource, Thursday 25 February 2010

New Discussion Document: Thriving or Surviving: National Library of Scotland in 2030
ResourceShelf, Thursday 25 February 2010

EU Online Library Needs ‘More and Better’ Content
ResourceShelf, Thursday 25 February 2010

National Library of Portugal: Digital Library of Portuguese Culture (Material in English)
ResourceShelf, Thursday 25 February 2010

Anchorage, Alaska: The Story on the ‘Nude in the Library’ Show
ResourceShelf, Thursday 25 February 2010

Thorny Fairness Issues Delay Decision on Google Books Settlement
AL Direct, Thursday 25 February 2010

Oldest Overdue Notice?
(Via @ALALibrary.)
Library History Buff Blog , Wednesday 24 February 2010

Calling all Flookers
"Imagine you are standing by the British Library in Euston Road. You can use flook to find out what your fellow flookers have said about nearby attractions."
British Library, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Word of the day: bibliophagist, "one who reads books omnivorously."
Wordnik, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Library 2.0: Not Just for Users
(Via @ALALibrary.)
the shifted librarian, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Out of curiosity - a poll on how much you'd pay for ... cilip membership ... (Not serious or scientific though!)
twtpoll, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Tips from LibraryLand
"10 Tips from the First Year in Libraryland"
The Graduate Librarian, Wednesday 24 February 2010

The dangers of joining up library authorities
"creating 'regional or sub regional' library authorities"
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 24 February 2010

TOC Report: Keynote, 1,001 Arabian rights; digital publishing and its role in exposing non-English languages
"No viable OCR solution available in Arabic."
TeleRead, Wednesday 24 February 2010

The challenge of archiving digital media
"the preservation problems presented by digital media"
TeleRead, Wednesday 24 February 2010

The Foundation of Library Relationships
"the foundation of library relationships is communication"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Jason Epstein on the revolution in publishing
"The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked to retailers to digital files stored in cyberspace and delivered almost anywhere on earth as quickly and cheaply as e-mail is now underway and irreversible."
Stephen's Lighthouse, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Richard Stirling Talks about data.gov.uk [Nodalities blog]
"Making Public Data Public and data.gov.uk"
cilip podcasts, Wednesday 24 February 2010

In Defense of the (Graphic) Novel
Essay.
LISNews, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars
"book by William Patry"
LISNews, Wednesday 24 February 2010

ResourceShelf: My Library Seach Option To Return To Google Books
LISNews, Wednesday 24 February 2010

600 sign 'save our library' petition
Torfaen.
Free Press, Wednesday 24 February 2010

One to watch out for
"report about community libraries, presented by Shirley Burnham"
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 24 February 2010

The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch
"we're all clearly on a long journey together as the technologies themselves emerge from infancy"
iLibrarian, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Online archive of UK science launches
The British Library.
BBC News, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Council tax bills set for 'lowest rise' in April
"General secretary Dave Prentis said: "It means hitting front-line services hard ... making cuts to ... libraries'"
BBC News, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Leicestershire council goes ahead with pounds 66m cuts plan
"Areas facing cutbacks include ... libraries"
BBC News, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Public library websites...
"Darien Library in Connecticut-an example of a good public library website"
The Library of Digress, Wednesday 24 February 2010

On Michael Gorman
"president of the American Library Association"
Rob Westwood, Wednesday 24 February 2010

The Training Not Given...
"...the mentally ill, drug addicts, and the unwashed. No one it seems has any idea how to properly help and/or deal with these people."
Library Garden, Wednesday 24 February 2010

The Incomparable Pleasures of Literary 'Fossicking'
Quotation of the Day. "It satisfies my hunter-gatherer vanity."
Shelf Awareness, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Children's authors back Love your Libraries
UNISON, Wednesday 24 February 2010