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Wednesday 15 December 2010

7 days of library news:

Why Wikileaks Matters to Libraryland
"This is the biggest free speech battle of our lifetimes"
LISNews, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Forgery, Theft in the Heartland
"former library director ... accused of stealing city funds"
LISNews, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Libraries welcome homeless to 'community living rooms'
US library. (Via Information Today, Inc.)
USATODAY.com, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Mystery of the library plans that 'vanished' overnight
'CONCERNS have been raised that plans for a multi-million pound library complex for Exeter are being "wiped from history".' (Via Google News.)
this is Exeter, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Job Seekers Help
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Axed libraries "disproportionate" as council cuts capped
"In a number of councils including Leeds and Oxfordshire up to 40[percent] or 50[percent] of libraries are being closed."
theBookseller.com, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Gracious space: Library programming strategies towards immigrants as tools in the creation of social capital
Abstract (via JournalTOCs). "In this paper, public library programs directed towards immigrants are explored as one possible mechanism for generating social capital."
Science Direct, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Google Book Search and Metadata
Abstract (via JournalTOCs). "This article summarizes published documents on metadata provided by Google for books scanned..."
informaworld, Tuesday 14 December 2010

TWIL [hash]28: Roberta Stevens (president ALA) & Bas Savenije (National Dutch Library)
'"de Bibliotheek tweedaagse", the 2-day national library conference in the Netherlands'
This Week in Libraries, Tuesday 14 December 2010

TWIL [hash]30: Fransico van Jole (journalist) and Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm (copyright lawyer)
Podcast, "Discussing some great opportunities for libraries...".
This Week in Libraries, Tuesday 14 December 2010

There is no need to close a library
"We could achieve all the budget reductions that are needed in the library service and not close one library."
The Good Library blog, Tuesday 14 December 2010

The end of a terrrible empire
MLA report, What the public wants from libraries – turning research into action.
The Good Library blog, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Marketers ponder advertising in e-books
"It's unclear whether advertising in e-books will ever be able to overcome the annoyance factor"
TeleRead, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Microsoft's predictions for ebooks in 2010 -- made in the year 2000
"The prediction for 2010 was: Popular eBook devices weigh eight ounces..."
TeleRead, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Underwhelmed by Google’s ebookstore
[Ed. For anyone including myself who hasn't had a chance to look at Google's ebookstore yet - not as many features as the Kindle store.]
TeleRead, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Understanding Influencers
"Libraries are a very misunderstood 'brand'. In some respects we are that 'book, books and nothing but books' image and positioning. How do we make the library brand broader in our users' consciousness?"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Information Overload -- Print
"From the time of the Greeks and Romans through Gutenberg and today, people have always whined about too much information!"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Understanding Cloud Computing
"3 Infographics About Cloud Computing"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st Century Libraries
"The latest ALA Library Technology Report ... the beachfront of major issues with filtering and intellectual freedom in libraries."
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 14 December 2010

E-Book Privacy Buyer’s Guide
"One of the tenets of librarianship is that we try to maintain the confidentiality of patron records and their reading habits. We have enshrined this principle in many ways..."
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 14 December 2010

TV versus Web Cage Match a Draw
"A new survey by Forrester tracking U.S. consumer activity has revealed that the Net has caught up with TV as a pastime"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Survey of Library and Museum Digitization Projects
"facets of digitization projects from nearly 100 libraries and museums in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, and Australia"
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 14 December 2010

New Journal Now Available from IOS Press: Semantic Web (ISSN 1570-0844); Full Text of First Issue Available for Free
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Conference Slides and Video: "What Place for Libraries in a Linked Data World?"
Online Information in London on Wednesday 1st December.
ResourceShelf, Tuesday 14 December 2010

The one where we leverage outsourcing
Humour, "Outsourcing ... Yes. The word that librarians fear a little less than Google, but more than publishers"
obnoxious librarian from hades, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Computers and Libraries
Library history - 1971.
Stephen's Lighthouse, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Kick Ass Librarian: The Funniest Video About Librarians You'll See Today
Humour, "If knowledge is power then I am in charge of an arsenal."
LISNews, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Respecting the Reader - Bob Usherwood (guest blog)
Emeritus Professor, The University of Sheffield.
Voices for the Library, Tuesday 14 December 2010

'A free source for our future generation' - Julie’s story
Children's author Julie Day.
Voices for the Library, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Free Event on Linked Data January 2011
"includes free accommodation"
UKOLN, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Croydon to close half of libraries, Staffordshire close none.
Current list of cuts by authority with reports on each.
Public Libraries News, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Google adds reading level
"choose from different reading levels for your results"
Phil Bradley's weblog, Tuesday 14 December 2010

My 5 favourite apps of the year
Flipboard, iPad Dracula, Kindle app...
Phil Bradley's weblog, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Technology and the librarian skillset - from the journals
'...rather than usurping the role of the librarian, technology "exponentially increased the librarian's ability to provide library services" including technical, circulation and reference services.'
mmit blog, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Alan Gibbons' Blog
Library authorities linked to in articles related to library cuts, Alan Gibbons blog between Sat. 12th Dec. and Tue. 14th Dec.: Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire (3 articles), Lewisham (2 articles), Doncaster, Staffordshire, Henley, Wigan, Worcestershire, Croydon, Somerset, Leicestershire, North Yorkshire, Hounslow, Yorkshire councils (Leeds being the largest), Wandsworth, Northampton, Dundee, Conwy, Oxford.
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Tuesday 14 December 2010

ConDem's Localism Bill raises pitfalls of DIY Government
"in poorer areas people struggle to run their own lives together, let alone local services" (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog .)
mirror.co.uk, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Locals to get new rights to save their pub and post office from closure
(Via http://alangibbons.net/?p=2745.)
Mail Online, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Minister wants residents to bid to takeover shop, pubs and libraries
"The bill, which will be presented in the House of Commons on Monday, will give residents the right to nominate shops, pubs, libraries and leisure centres to be registered on a most wanted list ... If a listed asset was due to go on the market, the sale would be delayed triggering a ‘community countdown’ giving people time to prepare a business plan and raise funds to bid." (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog .)
Huddersfield Examiner , Tuesday 14 December 2010

Council jobs under threat rises to 70,000
"The number of council jobs cut or threatened with the axe in recent weeks has now topped 70,000, with unions fearing the pace of redundancies will quicken in the New Year". (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog .)
The Independent, Tuesday 14 December 2010

'Apocalypse now' for Libraries, Social Care and Bin Collections
Times.
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Tuesday 14 December 2010

"Libraries will still be run by librarians"
Former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp [Ed. I think.]. (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog .)
Public Service, Tuesday 14 December 2010

New York: restoration of library funding expected
"It was clear to us they (libraries) couldn't get much done with one or two million dollars" (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog ).
WNED, Tuesday 14 December 2010

The pledge
"According to one blog, Staffordshire, Wirral and Hillingdon have pledged not to close any libraries. Any decent council should make the same pledge."
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Communities take charge under 'people power' bill
(Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
Mail Online, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Libraries and arts at risk as council cuts listed
[Ed. I think about the only item of information that this article does not include is the total number of people employed in local government, currently standing at just under 3 million.] (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
REUTERS, Tuesday 14 December 2010

What the public wants from libraries – turning research into action
"A guide to help council leaders and library practitioners act on the latest research..."
Musemus Libraries and Archives, Tuesday 14 December 2010

NextSpace: The OCLC Newsletter - The future of publishing
OCLC, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Social Networking Literacy Competencies For Librarians
ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) 14th National Conference, 2009. (Via @librarianchat.)
slideshare, Friday 10 December 2010

Wirral South MP launches bid to broaden role of libraries
Alison McGovern, "a duty on them to provide extra facilities, such as music rooms and acting workshops" (Via @neiljohnford.)
Wirral News, Friday 10 December 2010

"Looks like cat is out of the bag, as people start to hack FRBR predicates"
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. (Via @predicatewatch.)
OpenVocab, Friday 10 December 2010

"more creative and unusual bookcases..."
(Via @Discovermore.)
TOXEL.COM, Friday 10 December 2010

"Dear Father Christmas, please can I have a book sculpture for Christmas : ) ... ( the forest one) thank you x"
(Via @Discovermore.)
TOXEL.COM, Friday 10 December 2010

"20 heroic librarians (characters) who save the world"
"If information is power, then there's no hero mightier than a librarian." (Via @ALALibrary.)
io9.com, Friday 10 December 2010

'Voices from Glos:Video with Marion, 86 "they didn't even close libraries in the war" ... "if it closed I'd shed a few tears"'
(Via @FOGLibraries.)
Friends of Gloucestershire Libraries, Friday 10 December 2010

Romance ebooks are top ebook sellers
TeleRead, Friday 10 December 2010

OverDrive apps for iPhone and Android now support ebooks
TeleRead, Friday 10 December 2010

Kobo makes ereading social with Reading Life
"Readers can now track their personal reading history, check-in with characters and places inside books and earn achievements and awards for simply reading. Readers can also choose to share books, favorite passages, awards and more with their friends on Facebook."
TeleRead, Friday 10 December 2010

A defense of pagination
"why we should bother to maintain some form of pagination even in the digital era"
TeleRead, Friday 10 December 2010

Haptic Braille device could let blind read print books in braille
TeleRead, Friday 10 December 2010

Keith Richards Turns NYPL Into Smoking Den, Kills Orchid
(Includes photo.)
LISNews, Friday 10 December 2010

Amazon Selling Kindle Version of Wikileaks
"You can also have a look at the customer comments."
LISNews, Friday 10 December 2010

Happy (159th) Birthday Melvil Dewey!
"Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born on December 10, 1851 to a poor family..."
LISNews, Friday 10 December 2010

Better World Books launches UK site
"US online bookseller and literacy fundraiser"
theBookseller.com, Friday 10 December 2010

Determinism and the Semantic Web
"Web pages and data on the web will be marked up with standard uniform resource identifiers that will work like metadata records in a library catalog." (Via HotStuff 2.0.)
Metadata - How a Cataloger Views and Interprets the World, Friday 10 December 2010

New BookReader!
"We're pleased to announce the release of our freshly re-designed BookReader on the Internet Archive."
What’s New at the Internet Archive, Friday 10 December 2010

One Last 511 Video
"Information Power"
Virtual Dave…Real Blog, Friday 10 December 2010

CIPFA
(Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) "A glaring example of the difficulties caused by the failure to make CIPFA stats freely available..."
The Good Library Blog, Friday 10 December 2010

Flintshire faces library closures, parking charges and extra transport costs as cuts start to hit hard
(Via Google News.)
Flintshire Chronicle, Friday 10 December 2010

Council services could merge to create library 'hubs'
Hampshire, "The merger means that services not traditionally on offer at libraries such as trading standards could soon become available." (Via Google News.)
gethampshire, Friday 10 December 2010

Birmingham Library scheme will be flooded by light
"These images offer the first glimpse of [Ed. the interior of, there's a grand piano in there] Birmingham's new [pounds]188 million library." (Via Google News.)
Express and Star, Friday 10 December 2010

Phone box starts new life as library
Warrington, "Book shelves will be placed in the unit, which is based near to the Hatton Arms pub." (Via Google News.)
Warrington Guardian, Friday 10 December 2010

Twitter and Flickr
Question.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Friday 10 December 2010

Japanese Children's Books Offer
Information request, "Could anyone find a home for them...".
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Friday 10 December 2010

Are you using Mailchimp?
Information request, "It looks ideal for what we want to do - send out an e-newsletter to our members".
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Friday 10 December 2010

18 Popular Library Stories of 2010
"16. 13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology"
iLibrarian, Friday 10 December 2010

“Helping Libraries Thrive: Keeping Our Eyes on the Strategic Objectives"
"Let's start with the hard realities. The prospects for library budget growth are minimal even as user expectations, information production and information prices all are on the rise. To boot, the increasingly rapid expansion and rate of technology changes require an almost constant retooling of library technology. And, contrary to popular belief, the quality information that library users need was not free in print and other hard formats, and it is not and will not be free in electronic formats--at least not the most current information."
Collaborative Librarianship News, Friday 10 December 2010

Celebrating ‘Your Stories’: British Library’s new web pages are launched (guest blog)
"...a chance for researchers to submit their own success story electronically, including videos and pictures. It’s a great opportunity for people to show how the British Library has helped them reach their goal."
Voices for the Library, Friday 10 December 2010

Dismantling of library system continues - Doncaster/Dorset/Cambs etc
"311 libraries plus 20 mobiles currently under threat or recently closed."
Public Libraries News, Friday 10 December 2010

Roma Tearne - The Swimmer
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Friday 10 December 2010

'Keith Richards killed my orchid'
"The orchid, a Phalaenopsis amabilis, resided at the main branch of the New York Public Library, where Richards spoke on 29 October..." (Further coverage: Keith Richards's smoking habits and the death of a rare orchid.)
guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 December 2010

Alan Gibbons' Blog - library cuts related articles, 9 - 10 Dec. 2010
I won't repost links to stories from around the UK relating to library cuts, here though is a quick list of authorities that have featured in the press: Oxford (3 articles), Leicestershire (2 articles), Highland, Dorset (3 articles), Birmingham, West Sussex, Doncaster (2 articles), Hampshire, Sefton, Cambridgeshire, Torbay, Scarborough, Bournmouth (2 articles), Loughborough, Redbridge, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leeds, North Somerset.
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Friday 10 December 2010

Libraries: for whom the bell tolls
"The latest estimates is that between 800 and 1,000 libraries could close..." (Post links also to Public Library News.)
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Friday 10 December 2010

Keep up the pressure
"This is a suggestion in my inbox regarding the lobbying of people who have libraries’ future in their hands..."
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Friday 10 December 2010

Young people speak out on volunteering and libraries
"The Reading Agency has published new results showing how library and reading-based volunteering has massive potential as a springboard for involving young people in the community. And that it can help improve the skills, confidence and job opportunities of the next generation. The Reading Agency and 20 library partners launched a volunteering pilot this summer."
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Friday 10 December 2010

Major cuts - residents must step in to help
North Somerset, "If people are prepared to jump up and down about a library then they should be prepared to help run this service too." (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
Weston Murcury, Friday 10 December 2010

500 jobs could go and the vulnerable may be hit hardest in council cuts
Bournmouth. (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
Bournmouth Echo, Friday 10 December 2010

Wirral libraries are community hubs, except on Wednesdays
Letter, "It is not just a matter of borrowing books or reading newspapers. Many people use the libraries for internet access and a need for this can arise irrespective of day or time." (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
Wirral Globe, Friday 10 December 2010

Libraries and museums face privatisation
Leicestershire. (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
Harborough Mail, Friday 10 December 2010

Elderly and children to be suffer hardest as council faces [pounds]9million cuts
TORBAY. (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
this is South Devon, Friday 10 December 2010

What not to cut, by Ray Jones
"This is not a soft or easy option. It means not caving in to the middle class lobbyists for libraries, theatres and arts centres." (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
Public Finance Opinion, Friday 10 December 2010

"The perils of volunteering in Haringey"
Alan Gibbons links to Haringey's web page for (potential) volunteers.
Haringey, Friday 10 December 2010

How will the cuts affect our libraries?
"Tell us your experience of how government policy is threatening the future of libraries across the country"
guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 December 2010

Buying Games
"where do we get them?”
Library Journal, Friday 10 December 2010

Continuing the Conversation: Social Software and the Library, Session 2
"ALA TechSource Workshop Facebook, Twitter and More: Using Social Software in the Library"
ALA TechSource, Friday 10 December 2010

Translation as Literary Ambassador
'the traditional American aversion to literature in translation is known as "the 3 percent problem."'
The New York Times, Friday 10 December 2010

Arts Council takes over libraries, with budgets slashed
guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 December 2010

Library matters
Kate Mosse, "Libraries matter, pure and simple."
theBookseller.com, Friday 10 December 2010

Ethics of Innovation Symposium Identifies Points of Tension for Libraries
"Librarianship is a profession steeped in ethics. But now more than ever some of those staunch ethical positions put libraries at odds with evolving user expectations when it comes to privacy and the use of commercial tools and services."
Library Journal, Friday 10 December 2010

Arts Council England assumes museums and libraries functions
"a more coherent cultural offer that benefits the cultural sector and the audiences it serves"
Museums Libraries and Archives, Friday 10 December 2010

LEWISHAM JOINS THE LONDON LIBRARIES CONSORTIUM
"Starting from March 2011 Lewisham’s 250,000 residents will be able to access the consortium’s shared library management system (LMS) from any internet-enabled computer, iPhone or via a library computer"
Information World Review, Friday 10 December 2010

Open letter to the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP from Australian Library workers
"For without libraries Britain cannot continue to claim to be a truly civilised or developed nation." (Via @publiclibnews.)
New Technologies Interest Group's Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Residents say they will rally together to help save Longlevens library
"plan to hand over 11 of Gloucestershire's libraries to volunteers ... Longlevens library could be forced to open three and a half days a week, compared to the present six" (Via @Jo_Bo_Anderson.)
this is Gloucestershire, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"Its this assumption that if you are a non-reader you are somehow less of a person that keeps a lot of non-readers from approaching the hobby"
@BookElfLeeds, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"Lottery funding to focus on voluntary and community sector"
(Via @DCMS.)
dcms, Wednesday 8 December 2010

10 Spelling Bee Game Websites That Help Your Children Spell Words Right
(Via @BookishMagpie.)
makeuseof.com, Wednesday 8 December 2010

10 Of The Best Free Audiobooks From BooksShouldBeFree That You Should Listen To
(Via @BookishMagpie.)
makeuseof.com, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"A sharmbrarian is an IT savvy non-librarian who's worked in/near a library long enough to gain an insight into the weird ways of librarians"
@daveyp, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Boys and books don’t mix - NZ study
"reading books is for girls, but that reading for information, such as a TV guide, is a useful, masculine activity" (Via @ALALibrary.)
Marketing Matters for Librarians, Wednesday 8 December 2010

ULC Report: Libraries Are Sustainability Partners
'the "triple bottom line" of sustainable development: economic vitality, environmental quality, and social equity', US report (Urban Libraries Council, available for free download). (Via @librarianchat.)
American Libraries Magazine, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"The next [hash]mashlib event [hash]haggisandmash will run back to back with 1-day event on OSS in libraries"
(Via @ostephens.)
Mashedlibrary, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Contain yourself
"He sees the ultimate aim of a library interaction as the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge ... A library and librarians are about change, while a book, bookshops, and booksellers are about the past."
libraryinfonews , Wednesday 8 December 2010

LIBRARY RFID: A MATURING MARKETPLACE?
"the new ISO 28560 standard for tag structure and content in library RFID" (Via @mickfortune.)
Book Industry Communication, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"Love this idea, social media surgeries in libraries"
(Via @Kursteekins, RT @UKpling.)
Scottsman.com News, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"Video: Sneak preview of Zahmoo - the world's first story bank in the cloud"
(Via @DavidGurteen.)
anecdote, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"the Amy Winehouse of occupations"
"Yes, we are librarians. We are a fun, hard working, hard drinking, and defiantly curious and quirky bunch. But that’s the way we like it." (Via walkyouhome.)
Agnostic, Maybe, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"I hear you're the information gatekeeper."
Humour, Unshelved Tuesday, December 07, 2010.
Unshelved, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Unshelved 'Library Schooled' shirts
(A picture of Library Schooled shirts can be found here.)
Unshelved, Wednesday 8 December 2010

What the lawyers might say.
"It looks increasingly likely that a council - one can't tell which - will be taken to court by their local residents under the simple accusation that they have failed to meet their obligations under the 1964 Libraries and Museums Act."
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Localism and the Libraries Alliance
"Libraries Alliance is now a CIC (Community Interest Company). We have identified that we need about [pounds]50,000 to achieve the first stage of our work and we have pledges which amount to about half of that. We need the rest as soon as possible."
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

An X Factor nation
"But I also believe in the values ... that come from reading."
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

If these libraries were any good councils wouldn't be closing them
(This post has received quite a response from the web.)
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

The 'Library Profession'
Guest post, "However the council cannot continue with the sort of double amateur([equals] front line)/professional ([equals] back office) organisation".
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

To councillors everywhere -please don't close the library service down, just change the management.
"The management has been so bad that it puts people off ... People would love a wonderful public library service."
The Good Library Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Biblio-Social Objects: Copia, Mendeley, LibraryThing and Mongoliad by Eric Hellman
"The long awaited Copia e-reading platform finally launched..."
TeleRead, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Free webinar on children's reading trends in the digital age
Tuesday, December 14, 2010.
TeleRead, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"Through knowledge we prosper" – Dr. Nagao, National Diet Library
IFLA organised joint conference, topics inlcuded "how the national library [Japan] is undertaking a massive digitisation programme ([dollars]127 million’s worth of massive) that he hopes will eventually result in a digital interlibrary loan service that can be used by Japan's public libraries"
Stuart's blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

New Presentation: "Libraries and Broadband: Becoming Radical Change Agents in Our Communities"
"a grand conversation on the future"
ResourceShelf, Wednesday 8 December 2010

A Lesser View of Public Libraries
"Are libraries really needed anymore?"
LISNews, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Netflix and Movies a Good Metaphor for Book Business
"parallels between digital distribution of books and digital distribution of movies"
LISNews, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Your Baby Can Read? That's Nice, But It's Not What Toddler Story Time Should Be About
"Reading to children isn't about pressuring your kid into becoming some sort of prodigy who can wow your friends at parties by reading index cards at six months. Many experts also believe it's mostly about fun, bonding time, and improving their language (not reading) skills." (Via LISNews.)
LISNews, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Pirate Central
"A forum and clearing house for news and opinion about every aspect of book and e-book piracy"
LISNews, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Getting Over the Horror of the Crossbow Slaying
Toronto's Main Street Branch Library.
LISNews, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Non-Book Items (That Don't Exist) But Would Make Great Gifts!
Humour, "how to get your dog to read more", and more.
LISNews, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Leeds library closure plans set to be debated
"following watchdog's concerns over plans which could lead to closure of 20 Leeds libraries"
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Virtual Reading Groups
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Piper Media
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Library provision of audio downloads and e-books (summary of responses)
Information request responses.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Now hear this ...
HG Wells, "mass book burnings to remove low-quality and out-of-date publications from local libraries".
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Can you share your experience?
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Request for info on Community Information Databases
Information request.
LIS-PUB-LIBS, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Social Media in the Workplace in Plain English
Common Craft video.
iLibrarian, Wednesday 8 December 2010

8 Social Media Trends Impacting Businesses
"eight prevalent trends that give insight into the social media behaviors, beliefs and challenges of the majority of businesses [ed. including libraries] today"
iLibrarian, Wednesday 8 December 2010

How to: Define a Social Media Strategy for Enterprise
[Ed. This includes libraries.]
iLibrarian, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Voices for the Library
"how Voices for the Library came into existence"
Information and Advice Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Birds of America sets [pounds]7m sales record at Sotheby's
"the world's most expensive book"
BBC News, Wednesday 8 December 2010

'A gateway to everything' - authors fighting for libraries
"some of the things that authors are saying in defence of public libraries"
Voices for the Library, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Reinvigorating the public library mission – David McMenemy (guest blog)
Course Director for Infomation Studies at the University of Strathclyde.
Voices for the Library, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Replyz – a useful advocacy tool
(Twitter tool.)
thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian..., Wednesday 8 December 2010

Cost of closures will be to the community
"The true cost will be to Yorkshire's communities; to job-seekers, to the disabled, to the house-bound..."
Save Doncaster Libraries, Wednesday 8 December 2010

SCL Responds to Debate about Library Closure
Society of Chief Librarians.
Save Doncaster Libraries, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Shropshire closing ref library? Figure now 279 libraries under threat
Latest from Ian Anstice.
Public Libraries News, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Walt Crawford to release Liblog Landscape 2007-2010 next week
"for those interested in library blogs"
librarytwopointzero, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Cornwall library cuts agreed
"It seems that libraries will have a 23[percent] cuts."
librarytwopointzero, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Good Library blog.....missing the point.....as usual
(Time Coates' controversial blog post 'If these libraries were any good councils wouldn't be closing them'.)
librarytwopointzero, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Step away from TGLB step away!
(Tim Coates' controversial blog post 'If these libraries were any good councils wouldn't be closing them'.)
librarytwopointzero, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Finding Packrati Popular Library Links
(Gary Green experimenting with data mining on the web.)
Information Twist, Wednesday 8 December 2010

The Blog Post Formerly Known as "Right to Reply"
(Tim Coates' recent blog post 'If these libraries were any good councils wouldn't be closing them'.)
Johanna Bo Anderson's Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Social web: solving problems for your organisation
"...case study discussed some of the ways Birmingham public libraries are using social web tools, such as Facebook pages, Twitter (@bhambusiness for example), YouTube, and Issuu."
Joeyanne Libraryanne, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Everything you need to know about technology to work in libraries
"New Professionals Information Day"
thewikiman, Wednesday 8 December 2010

research funding and libraries
"Part of the Comprehensive Spending Review earlier in the autumn was that funding for Science research would be frozen."
Clari's Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Fighting cuts in your own library
(Issues surrounding fighting library cuts as a library employee.)
Sintoblog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Elizabeth Peters - A River in the Sky
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Eva Hornung - Dog Boy
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Louise Penny - Bury Your Dead
Review.
Book Talk Bournemouth, Wednesday 8 December 2010

World Book Night to give away 1m free books
5 March 2011.
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Wirral MP's grandpa 'stole library books'
"...the situation my own grandfather faced when he was growing up in the inter-war years, when he used to go in to Liverpool Central Library and, I confess, he used to steal books because you couldn’t borrow library books for free at that time. / WIRRAL South MP Alison McGovern has launched a backbench bill to broaden the role of libraries. She wants to introduce a duty on them to provide extra facilities, such as music rooms and acting workshops." (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog.)
Wirral News, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Writers protest at 'vandalism' to library services
"...roster of leading authors including Carol Ann Duffy, Philip Pullman, Sarah Waters, Michael Holroyd, Malorie Blackman, Kate Mosse and Jackie Kay are among 1,000 people who have signed an open letter..." (Alan Gibbons' letter.)
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"Keren David's poem on libraries"
Who uses libraries? (Via Alan Gibbons' Blog .)
Almost True, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Kathy Lette on libraries
Author, "Closing our libraries will make us a nation of numbskulls...".
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Open letter against library closures
"THE FOLLOWING OPEN LETTER IS BEING SENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT AND TO THE PRESS TODAY." (Alan Gibbons.)
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

House of Lords discussion on libraries
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Closures, 2 Dec. 2010 - 8 Dec. 2010, Alan Gibbons' Blog
[Ed. I'm playing catchup having being forced to for the past week deal with a computer hacker who had 'taken up residence' in computer. There were 89 posts between the above two dates from Alan Gibbons. I don't propose to link to them all, however the authorities in the news on account of library service cuts are listed as follows.] Gloucestershire (6 articles), Northumberland (2 articles), Lewisham (2 articles), Wrexham & Flintshire, Hartlepool (2 articles), Exeter, Suffolk, Wandsworth, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire (11 articles), Hampshire, Kent, Norfolk, Stony Stratford, North Tyneside, Wigan 2 articles), Cornwall and Somerset, Hertfordshire, Milton Keynes, Porsmouth, Renfrewshire (2 articles), Scarborough, Argyll and Bute, Wakefield, Buckinghamshire, Angus.
Alan Gibbons' Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Mapping the British Bloodbath
(Ian Anstice' Google map.)
Library Journal, Wednesday 8 December 2010

BackTalk: We Need Big Tent Librarianship
"In politics, there is a term known as the 'big tent.' It is used to represent a diversity of groups that are united under one political party."
Library Journal, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Saving Our Data from Digital Decay
"a variation on the barcode to convert microfilm data into an analog format that could provide an additional safeguard to current digitization efforts" (Via OCLC Above the Fold.)
ScienceDaily, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Why You Should Focus on "Worst Practices"
"find your industry's worst practices and take tiny steps -- or better yet, giant leaps -- towards bettering them" (Via OCLC Above the Fold.)
Harvard Business Review, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Embedding Semantic Markup in Web Pages
Library Philosophy and Practice, Wednesday 8 December 2010

A Comparison of Term Clusters for Tokenized Words Collected from Controlled Vocabularies, User Keyword Searches, and Online Documents
Library Philosophy and Practice, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Digital Divide: Bridging the Gap through ICT in Nigerian Libraries
"how Nigerian libraries can ensure their continuous derivation of the benefits from new opportunities afforded by ICT"
Library Philosophy and Practice, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Quality of Life among Rural Nigerian Women: The Role of Information
"It appears that the concept of quality of life is fast becoming a popular concept worldwide including Nigeria."
Library Philosophy and Practice, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Incorporating Information Technology in Library and Information Science Curriculum in Nigeria: A Strategy for Survival in the 21st Century
"we now live in a changing society where information technology has taken the centre stage and is accompanied by massive increase in knowledge which leads to a new paradigm in the LIS field"
Library Philosophy and Practice, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Survey of Author Name Disambiguation: 2004 to 2010
Library Philosophy and Practice, Wednesday 8 December 2010

An Essay on Cataloging
"The imminent arrival of Resource Description and Access (RDA), the proposed successor to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR), makes now an opportune time to clarify a profound misunderstanding regarding the objective of cataloging..."
Library Philosophy and Practice, Wednesday 8 December 2010

November News from The Reading Agency
The Reading Agency, Wednesday 8 December 2010

December News from The Reading Agency
The Reading Agency, Wednesday 8 December 2010

December 2010 Crossroads - Focus on Customer Service
Serving the 21st-Century Patron / Training Materials / Customer Service for Libraries / Expand Your Career Opportunities / Free Webinars.
WebJunction, Wednesday 8 December 2010

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook, 3rd Edition A Guide for the Serious Searcher By Randolph Hock
Review.
Information Today, Inc., Wednesday 8 December 2010

It's not too late to register for Booklist's crafts and gardening [free] webinar
"what's new in crafts and gardening books and how those books are used in the public library"
Booklist , Wednesday 8 December 2010

Film Format Pandemonium
"are DVDs going to remain relevant much longer?" (Via Library Link of the Day.)
Library Journal, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Librarians Forever!
"The rumored death of librarianship caused by the advent of technology has not, and will not, come to pass. In fact, technology has exponentially increased the librarian's ability to provide library service." (Via Library Link of the Day.)
Information Today, Inc., Wednesday 8 December 2010

Why the Library of Congress Is Blocking Wikileaks
"applicable law obligates federal agencies to protect classified information" (Via PLGNet-L.)
Library of Congress Blog, Wednesday 8 December 2010

On Wikileaks and the Library of Congress: A Statement by the Progressive Librarians Guild
"a violation of American librarianship's historic commitments to the public’s right to know, to freedom of the press and to the very essence of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States."
Librarian, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Over 3000 village libraries closed for want of funds
India, "The Planning Commission guidelines suggest that there should be at least one village library for a population of 1,000."
The Times of India, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Google Launches Online Bookstore, Challenging Amazon
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
Wired, Wednesday 8 December 2010

"On behalf of the Serials and Other Continuing Resources (SOCRS) Section, we are pleased to announce that our December issue is now available on the IFLA site"
"...all issues which make serial publications unique in both the print and electronic environments. These include: bibliographic standards and control; holdings information; national and international library cooperation; access and availability; conservation and archiving; collection management and development; pricing issues; copyright; and, relationships with serial publishers, serial suppliers and other serials related organizations."
IFLA, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Out now: December 2010 issue of IFLA Journal
Articles and reports.
IFLA, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Booking to the Future
"Paper or electronic? Futurists have been pushing one option for years—but do we have to choose?"
American Libraries Magazine, Wednesday 8 December 2010

When Small Is All
US article, "The successful small public library director wears many hats smartly".
American Libraries Magazine, Wednesday 8 December 2010

Everyone profits from a link up between business and cultural organisations
"the new report is a collection of essays and experiences from the Knowledge Transfer Programme in London's museums, libraries and archives"
Museums, Libraries and Archives , Wednesday 8 December 2010

Font Matters: A Dreary E-World 'Where Every Book Is Identical'
Quotation of the Day, "reading devices and programs homogenize all the tangible aspects of a book".
Shelf Awareness, Wednesday 8 December 2010

'Reading Changed Dreams into Life and Life into Dreams'
Quotation of the Day.
Shelf Awareness, Wednesday 8 December 2010