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Wednesday 12 May 2010

7 days of library news:

"If you haven't already signed up to support the Cultural Learning Alliance, do it now"
(Via @CultureLearning, retweeted by @readingagency.)
Cultural Learning Alliance, Tuesday 11 May 2010

"New Report, Just Released from Pew Internet: The Fate of the Semantic Web"
(Via @LISResearch.)
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 11 May 2010

"New Report: OCLC Researchers Analyze, Synthesize Studies of the Digital Information Seeker"
(Via @LISResearch.)
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 11 May 2010

"Gr8 This Week in Libraries video interviews ... Jane Dysart and Stephen Abram"
Library TV channel. (Via @libraryfuture.)
twil, Tuesday 11 May 2010

The Record: Libraries matte
(Via @ALALibrary.)
Northjersey.com, Tuesday 11 May 2010

"Spreading the word about my new favourite library - the DOK in Delft"
(Via @maggiem_chinook.)
Flickr, Tuesday 11 May 2010

"Interesting comments from Nick Clegg in Bookseller article re public libraries. How many local auths. would adopt this?"
"The Conservatives have promised that if elected they will set up a new national library development agency..." (Via @GrahamDash.)
theBookseller.com, Tuesday 11 May 2010

"It's the Welsh libraries, museums and archives conference this Thurs. Looking forward to meeting followers there"
(Via LISResearch.)
CILIP, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Paradigms, methodologies, and methods
(Via ticTOCs.)
ScienceDirect, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Trashy tags: problematic tags in LibraryThing
"The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative analysis of the "messiness" of the social tags in folksonomies to see how useful they might be for general search and retrieval in library catalogs." Abstract. (Via ticTOCs.)
IngentaConnect, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Readers' advisory interactions with immigrant readers
Abstract. (Via ticTOCs.)
IngentaConnect, Tuesday 11 May 2010

New library service to launch
"A new service is hoping to fill the gap left by supplier selection by promoting titles directly to librarians."
theBookseller.com, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Charlie Stross writes about e-books again
"Stross makes the prediction that e-books are going to kill not the paper book as a whole, but the mass-market paperback distribution channel, in which unsold books have the covers ripped off and returned in exchange for a refund while the book itself is destroyed. Since e-books don’t need to be stripped or returned because they aren’t “printed” until they’re ordered, they can save a lot of money (and trees)."
Teleread, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Social Media is Changing Libraries - Where do you FIT IN?
"presentation from the South Carolina State Library"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Mobile Strategies for Libraries
"how libraries can adopt mobile strategies"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 11 May 2010

"Mobile Will Be Bigger Than Desktop Internet in 5 Years"
"Mary Meeker, a major analyst at Morgan Stanley"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Openness and the Library Experience
"embedded librarians"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 11 May 2010

A New Decade of Change: Are we ready yet?
"things to watch in this new decade"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Books and eBooks: as Different as Night and Day
"thoughts on the emerging e-book marketplace and how e-books differ from traditional books in so many ways"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Are catalogues more than an inventory?
LISNews, Tuesday 11 May 2010

The power of parametadata
"Thanks to technological advances, there is now a huge amount of processing that can be done with metadata, indeed that needs to be done if we are to have any idea what assets we have available."
LISNews, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Quiet! Here comes Conan the Librarian
"Is there any more compelling evidence of so-called broken Britain than the news that a library in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, has had to employ a bouncer." (Via Google News.)
Times Online, Tuesday 11 May 2010

LILAC 2010 presentations
Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference.
LIS-LINK, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Open Leadership plus Enterprise 2.0: the practices that can make them real
"...organisational awareness and reframing that can undo the cycles of defensive behaviour that even smart and well-meaning people create in their workplaces"
Library and Information Update, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Oh, brave new world
"Whatever the outcome of the current horse trading, deficit reduction is the phrase of the moment. Quite simply, that means cuts."
Alan Gibbon's Blog, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Patrons Are Consumers, and Consumers Are Patrons; or, How Publishers Can Learn To Stop Worrying and Love Libraries Again
Tools of Change for Publishing, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Bookstores Exist for 'Tolerance of Perspectives'
Quotation of the Day.
Shelf Awareness, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Millbrook, Hants Industrial Action ballot Library staff
"UNISON has today informed Southampton City Council that it will ballot all its library members about strike action over its objection to the Tory Groups plans to replace full time staff with volunteers."
UNISON, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Avid Reader: 25 reads that left us fuming
"For better or worse, here are 25 reads that left us fuming."
AbeBooks.co.uk, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Secret Origins
Unshelved comic strip, graphic novels!
Unshelved, Friday 7 May 2010

Open Library redesign is live!
"One web page for every book."
Internet Archive, Friday 7 May 2010

Bring in the bouncers! Library forced to hire doormen to stop staff being threatened
King's Lynn library, Norfolk.
Mail Online, Friday 7 May 2010

Trading cards
"Collect the full set of series 1 (academic librarians) and series 2 (public librarians) and stick them in the special albums available from SINTO."
Sintoblog, Thursday 6 May 2010

Latest issue of CILIP Gazette
CILIP, Thursday 6 May 2010

To Be Read: Romance book app now available
"latest reviews, content and free romance reads"
Teleread, Thursday 6 May 2010

Internet Archive Launches Library for the Visually Impaired With 1M Books
LISNews, Thursday 6 May 2010

Europeana On-Line Library: Needs Content From Member States And More Funds From EU Say MEPs
(Via Google News.)
eGov, Thursday 6 May 2010

Library Or Bookstore: New Netherlands Branch Blurs The Line
"The shops provided inspiration for ways to organize the new library into zones, new ideas for displaying books to make them more browsing friendly, and the creation of displays targeted towards their frequent visitors." (Via Google News.)
PSFK, Thursday 6 May 2010

2010 Library automation marketplace survey
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Thursday 6 May 2010

Retail space - income generation
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Thursday 6 May 2010

Online Book Doctor
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Thursday 6 May 2010

Identification required for visitor use of public access internet
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Thursday 6 May 2010

Devon babies get library card at birth registration
BBC News, Thursday 6 May 2010

York Explore – opening soon....
"the date for the grand opening of York’s public library in its new incarnation as Explore York has been set for the 24th May"
schammond, Thursday 6 May 2010

Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
The New York Review of Books , Thursday 6 May 2010

Book Planters
"books turned into pots"
BOOK PATROL, Thursday 6 May 2010

Helping to Research Points of View You Disagree With
(Via AL Direct May 5, 2010.)
Digital Reference, Thursday 6 May 2010

MLA2010: Black Belt Librarians: Dealing with Difficult Patrons
Swiss Army Librarian, Thursday 6 May 2010

Index Librorum Prohibitorum and The Private Library
"For a little over 400 years--from 1559 to 1966--the Roman Catholic Church proscribed what could and could not be read by the Catholic faithful in a series of lists of prohibited books..." (Via AL Direct May 5, 2010.)
The Private Library, Thursday 6 May 2010

Libraries and Enlightened Views
(Via AL Direct May 5, 2010.)
Academic Librarian, Thursday 6 May 2010

iPad Accessibility features: White on Black
"lesser-known features of the iPad that are important for libraries and librarians"
American Libraries Magazine, Thursday 6 May 2010

ARTICLE 19 Welcomes UNESCO Declaration on Right to Information
(Via PLGnet−L.) − The Progressive Librarians Guild E-mail List
Article 19, Thursday 6 May 2010