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Wednesday 17 March 2010

7 days of library news:

WebJunction has an updated guide to marketing resources for libraries
(Via @coreycondello.)
WebJunction, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Newsnight item on public libraries on i-player ... Starts at 21.20
(Via @SINTOcarl.)
BBC iPlayer, Tuesday 16 March 2010

E-readers will survive the onslaught of tablets
(Via @ijclark.)
WIRED.CO.UK, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Corridors of leeds library are pretty spesh.
(Via @RobEdw.)
TweetPhoto, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Consultation-- what consultation?
Margaret Hodge.
The Good Library Blog, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit
" the relentless march of technology can mean that the older equipment and software that can make sense of all those 0's and 1's simply don’t exist anymore"
LISNews, Tuesday 16 March 2010

The Arrival of Enriched E-Books
David Baldacci.
LISNews, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Real Librarians Talk About Their Favorite Fictional Librarians
LISNews, Tuesday 16 March 2010

What the users of Bristol Central Library think about changes to the service
"job cuts and therefore, it is claimed, a much poorer service" (Via Google News.)
Bristol News, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Pounds 1.4m sustainable library set to open in Sutton
"London's greenest library" (Via Google News.)
Your Local Guardian, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Newsnight report - statistics inaccurate?
"Total UK Book Issues"
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Dagger in the Library 2010 ...
"there is still time for your libraries to nominate their favourite crime authors for the prestigious Dagger in the Library Award"
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Security for DVD collections- summary of responses
LIS-LINK, Tuesday 16 March 2010

QR Codes and the Mobile Web
"quick-response (QR) 2D barcodes"
iLibrarian, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Two futures
"Yesterday I studied two pieces on the future of libraries..."
Sintoblog, Tuesday 16 March 2010

The future of publishing
2010.
Phil Bradley's Weblog, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Five Tips for Successful Webinars
Library Garden, Tuesday 16 March 2010

More iBook details emerge
"defaulting to allowing text-to-speech functionality, the same thing that got the Amazon Kindle into trouble with the Author's Guild"
American Libraries Magazine, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Several Libraries in Germany Make Their Bibliographic Data Open Acces
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Library Journal Announces Movers and Shakers 2010 List
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 16 March 2010

The March/April 2010 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available
"digital library research and development, including new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues"
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 16 March 2010

12,000 More Images (For a Total of 34,000) Added to National Library of Ireland Digital Archive
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Elephant visits library
(Via @scotlibraries.)
Flickr, Monday 15 March 2010

Over 150,000 historic books catalogued online for the first time
National Trust.
The National Trust, Monday 15 March 2010

Toward a New Alexandria
The future of libraries (via @EstherArens).
The New Republic, Monday 15 March 2010

Amazon.co.uk launches author pages
theBookseller.com, Monday 15 March 2010

Libraries under spotlight in tonight's "Newsnight"
"challenges facing the public library service"
theBookseller.com, Monday 15 March 2010

The one with the furniture audit
Humour.
obnoxious librarian from hades, Monday 15 March 2010

Most beautiful bookstore
"Bueno Aires's Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid"
LISNews, Monday 15 March 2010

Bib records as perpetual betas
"we don’t get to benefit from the others that edit the record after us because it’s in their system – not accessible to us"
LISNews, Monday 15 March 2010

Deputy leader insists changes to Bristol's library service must go ahead
"investment on new technology would be repaid over seven years through savings made by reducing the number of library assistants..." (Via GoogleNews.)
Briston News, Monday 15 March 2010

One in ten books never borrowed
"New data released by Cardiff Council" (Via GoogleNews.)
guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 March 2010

Libraries and Cloud Computing
Conference.
iLibrarian, Monday 15 March 2010

Congrats Movers and Shakers
Library Journal.
iLibrarian, Monday 15 March 2010

TASH: the Academic Skills Hub
Study skills.
Information Literacy Weblog, Sunday 14 March 2010

The New York Times Reviews Marilyn Johnson's Book About Libraries and Librarians
"This Book is Overdue".
ResourceShelf, Sunday 14 March 2010

Newsnight will be talking libraries tomorrow night according to Alan Gibbons' Blog.
(Via @calire.)
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Sunday 14 March 2010

Money Can't Buy It
"Margaret Hodge announced this week that she wants to start staffing public libraries with volunteers."
shiny forager, Sunday 14 March 2010

Living and breathing
"...the quality of the library building itself is so important right now. The aesthetic of a place has - at least from my perspective - a huge part to play in making that place a destination of choice."
shiny forager, Sunday 14 March 2010

Dubai hopes to strengthen literacy with library initiative
(Via GoogleNews.)
The London Book Fair, Sunday 14 March 2010

GRAVESEND: Carnegie library to have £2.5m makeover
(Via GoogleNews.)
News Shopper, Sunday 14 March 2010

VILLAGERS PROTEST OVER PROPOSED CLOSURES OF LIBRARIES
(Via GoogleNews.)
Abroath Herald, Sunday 14 March 2010

First ever library facility to open in Pensnett
"first ever library facility as a new library link opens" (Via Google News.)
Dudley News, Sunday 14 March 2010

Self service, age bands and DVD / game classification.
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Sunday 14 March 2010

VIDEO: MLA's Natasha Innocent on digital inclusion plus 'Laptop doctors'
National Digital Inclusion Conference 2010.
Library & Information Update, Sunday 14 March 2010

4 Ways To Monitor Your Facebook Page Traffic
iLibrarian, Sunday 14 March 2010

Nine Tools for Collaboratively Creating Mind Maps
iLibrarian, Sunday 14 March 2010

Heroes / sheroes
"Guardian's illustrated list of 10 of the best children's book heroes"
Anabel's Children's Literature Blog, Sunday 14 March 2010

UK Library Blogs wiki – now open to all
Joeyanne Libraryanne, Sunday 14 March 2010

The Importance of Identifiers
"The universe of bibliographic numbers is fairly small: ISBN, ISSN, LCCN, and OCLC basically describe the universe."
Library Journal, Sunday 14 March 2010

More on QR Codes in Ellyssa Kroski's LTR
Volume 44, Number 5 / July 2008, On the Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies, Library Technology Reports, "publicly available for a limited time".
ALA TechSource, Sunday 14 March 2010

Memory, Literacy and Democracy: Remarks by Daniel J. Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada
ResourceShelf, Sunday 14 March 2010

National Libraries of Iran and South Korea Sign Agreement
International.
ResourceShelf, Sunday 14 March 2010

New Library and Information Gazette out now
CILIP, Friday 12 March 2010

Common Tag: using RDFa to allow you to ref 'unique, well-defined concepts ... w/ metadata & URLs
(Via @Copac.)
Common Tag, Friday 12 March 2010

librarians and bibliophiles everywhere, avert your eyes...
(Via @bethanar.)
There, I Fixed It, Friday 12 March 2010

Check out this neat presentation on Slideshare: Libraries & Mobile Tech...
(Via @libraryfuture.)
SlideShare, Friday 12 March 2010

Rework by Jason Fried and Jason H. Hansson
Cartoon, management wisdom!
Unshelved, Friday 12 March 2010

Publishing Expo: New business models made possible with the advent of ebooks. By Karen Holt
"whether advertisers would want to sponsor titles and why readers would put up with having commercial messages inserted into books"
Teleread, Friday 12 March 2010

Think Ereader Summit: Growth of the ereader market in next 10 years
Teleread, Friday 12 March 2010

Gizmodo explains the E-Babel problem
"the 'Tower of E-Babel' problem: different readers have their own different, restricted file format ecosystems"
Teleread, Friday 12 March 2010

Sargent compares libraries to Netflix: 'How is that a good model for us?'
"the future of e-book lending, and the potential for publishers to create a new revenue stream from libraries"
Teleread, Friday 12 March 2010

Four Good Webcasts
Including 'From Libraries to Lifebraries with Helene Blowers'.
Stephen's Lighthouse, Friday 12 March 2010

Library Blog Contest from Salem Press
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

Pondering Good Faith in Publishing
"Book publishers have long seen themselves as the gatekeepers of literary culture."
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

The Bliss of e-books
Essay, New York Times.
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

What Was the Mission of the Librarian in 2006?
"For Dan Chudnov... 'Help people build their own libraries.'"
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

Ting: collaboratively sourced library infrastructure
"shared systems and data infrastructure for Danish public libraries"
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

Debating Breaking Free Of OCLC: The Pros and Cons of the Largest Legacy System
"OCLC is looking to permanently lock up their central position with viral contracts and, as the MSU case makes clear, monopoly pricing and flat-out bullying"
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

Literary Monster Mashup
"Seth Grahame-Smith started it. He wrote a monster mash-up of Jane Austen and his own imagination called 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...'"
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

The Onion: Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text
Humour.
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

Having a Nose for Degraded Documents
"nondestructive technique, called 'material degradomics,' could aid museums and libraries in preserving their old works without damaging the actual documents"
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

Can't Quote This
"Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig argues an unintended consequence of the settlement could alter print culture as we know it."
LISNews, Friday 12 March 2010

UPDATED: Top-secret Wirral Council letter to library inquiry chairman Sue Charteris
Wirral Globe, Friday 12 March 2010

Read the full letter to Wirral library inquiry inspector Sue Charteris here
(Via Google News.)
Wirral Globe, Friday 12 March 2010

Chopin and Poland explored at British Library
"marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Chopin"
Culture24, Friday 12 March 2010

Assurance on self service library
Scarborough Library, "concerns that their introduction will lead to a reduction in service levels or even job losses." (Via Google News.)
Scarborough Evening News, Friday 12 March 2010

Poet Andrew Motion hails new Enfield Town library as 'fantastic'
"opened on Monday after an 18 month £5m redesign and renovation" (Via Google News.)
Enfield Independent, Friday 12 March 2010

Turning the pages on Bristol’'s library 'cuts'
(Via Google News.)
Bristol24-7, Friday 12 March 2010

Local History Collections
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Friday 12 March 2010

PictureIt Rare Book Reader
"similar to others that I have seen, but faster, smoother, and simply beautiful to see and use"
Libology Blog, Friday 12 March 2010

Will What Worked For Groucho Work for Libraries
"But now all information and those who provide it are the same to the average citizen, and there's no clear rationale for using the library."
Designing Better Libraries, Friday 12 March 2010

Google to digitise ancient Italian books
BBC News, Friday 12 March 2010

Information Professionals as Sherpas – Part I
"Yesterday' libraries were all about organizing information by a set of rules. Tomorrow’s libraries will be all about helping users organize information in ways that make sense to them"
thewikiman, Friday 12 March 2010

Report on Economics of Digital Preservation Says Act Now, with Interim Efforts Fine
"Task force formed by major digital funders, Library of Congress, UK's JISC"
Library Journal, Friday 12 March 2010

Annotating the real world
"StickyBits"! "For instance, a user could use StickyBits to tag a book with a video review."
ALA TechSource, Friday 12 March 2010

What’s the Oldest Cultural Organization in NYC? The New York Society Library (Established 1754)
ResourceShelf, Friday 12 March 2010

Libraries Lead the E-Book Revolution
"Have you read an e-book yet? Do you think it means the end of bookshops and libraries as we know them? Will book people have to turn into e-book people to meet the brave new world? It's all a bit early to say. by Philip Harvey"
ResourceShelf, Friday 12 March 2010

Buckinghamshire Libraries - Rumours of more closures after 8 a few years ago. Anyone know more?
The Library Campaign, Friday 12 March 2010

Print 'Brought a New Beauty into the World'
Quotation of the Day, Jonathan Jones in the Guardian's On Art blog.
Shelf Awareness, Friday 12 March 2010

When Is a Book a Bag?
"law librarian makes the gently used covers of these [legal] books whole again in the form of unique Bookbags"
AL Direct, Friday 12 March 2010

Quake Shatters Chile's Public Library Services
AL Direct, Friday 12 March 2010

Librarians Gone Wild [Podcast: Marilyn Johnson's new book]
(Via @ostephens.)
On The Media, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Can't Quote This [Podcast: Google book settlement]
(Via @ostephens.)
On The Media, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Dealing with negative feedback in libraries using Web 2 on Library Scribbles blog
(Via @mariekeguy.)
Library Scribbles, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Rate a book, CD or DVD - if you liked it, let others know! Leave a review on the library catalogue
Manchester Libraries.
@MancLibraries, Wednesday 10 March 2010

SIP 3.0, Web Services and the future of RFID in Libraries
A good overview of the past and present issues of RFID. (Via @mickfortune.)
RFID – Changing libraries for good, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Library Trends and Technologies 2010
SlideShare.
Stephen's Lighthouse, Wednesday 10 March 2010

eReaders & eBooks
"a few new good summaries if you’re following eBooks and trying to come to terms with ths rapidly changing segment of the content world"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Dilbert & Libraries
Information Outlook, Dec. 2009 Issue.
Stephen's Lighthouse, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Why public wifi could be a thing of the past in the UK thanks to draconian new law
The Daily Record, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Library of Birmingham plans up for consultation
"Brummies can discuss the details with library staff and have their say on the proposals for the internal design." (Via Google News.)
Birmingham Mail, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Book dispensers
Information request.
LIB-RFID-UK, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Gujarati and Polish language books
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Mashed Library Wiki Event
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Recommendation for binders
Information request.
LIS-LINK, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Diversity awards
"diversity with in the library and information sector"
LIS-LINK, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Surf Canyon Search
"Websearch's 2010 Reader's Choice award for best search engine" - search engine with a twist.
Phil Bradley's weblog, Wednesday 10 March 2010

What on Earth
"Upload a photo of anything you dont recognise to What on Earth and in return they'll try our best to identify it for you."
Phil Bradley's weblog, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Webcast: Beyond Subject Headings: Adding Appeal to the Art of Suggesting Books
"Looking to go beyond subject headings and plot to help readers looking for their next good book..."
Library Journal, Wednesday 10 March 2010

New: YALSA Releases Updated Competencies for Youth Librarians
US focus: Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).
Resource Shelf, Wednesday 10 March 2010

Is the internet making us stupid?
"Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future, commissioned by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee" (Via Library Link of the Day.)
TechRadar UK, Wednesday 10 March 2010