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Next-gen librarians in the news

The latest issue of Info Career Trends is out and is devoted entirely to Next Generation Librarianship. Lots of interesting articles and advice for those just entering the field and…

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Are we mainstream or invisible?

I know blogging is getting bigger. Blogs seem to have been featured in every magazine and newspaper lately. Everyone keeps saying 2004 was the "year of the blog" yadda, yadda.…

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Free reference websites

RUSA has come out with its 2004 list of Best Free Reference Websites. They cover a variety of subjects and come from academia, government, industry, non-profits, the media, libraries and…

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Questions about the Google Library Project

Barbara Quint has put together a list of questions and answers about the Google Library Project that have been pondered by various people in the library and search worlds. Some…

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An Introduction to Feeds

From Resource Shelf, I have found An Introduction to Feeds, which does an excellent job of describing what RSS is and how to use aggregators. I will definitely send this…

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Searching handwritten manuscripts and Google

Earlier this month, I had reported on a new way to search handwritten manuscripts that was developed by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Today, the New York Times has…

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Anyways…

On a much lighter note, you have to check out this funny Fox Trot comic strip about Google's digitization announcement. [From Bibliofuture at LISNews]

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Salinas

The New York Times today has a story about the closing of the Salinas Public Library. What a sad situation. In a community comprised of many migrant and blue collar…

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D-Lib has an article about a new grant-funded partnership between the library and information studies departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University at Bloomington to develop…

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A Net Nanny with an MLS

Wow! In an age of shrinking budgets and shrinking staffs, the Phoenix Public Libraries has secured $175,000 to hire one full time professional librarian and three paraprofessionals to police their…

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Google’s Herculean task

Here's an interesting article from the San Francisco Gate about how Google has so far undertaken their Herculean digitization task. According to the article, at the rate they're going at…

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Teens in the library

Since I was up for a teen librarian position (which I did not get, sigh…) I’ve been thinking a lot about what libraries do for teens. The library I was…

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Michael Gorman on Google

The ALA president-elect, Michael Gorman, has expressed his opinion on Google print and book digitization in an op-ed piece in today's Newsday. He essentially thinks that the Google deal is…

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Digital libraries: Full of promise or full of foreboding?

The New York Times has a quite interesting piece today about what we lose and what we gain with the growth of digital libraries. In Questions and Praise for Google…

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Lost in the shuffle

This is also huge digital library news, but, with the Google frenzy, they've really been the victim of bad timing. International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access…

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Google and the “great digitization”

I’ve been quietly reading about the Google deal with the libraries of Stanford, University of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, and New York City, and the resultant debates/rants on various blogs. I…

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Can’t see the trees for the forest

Chris Jowaisas of TechnoBiblio brought up an important point about implementing Wi-Fi in libraries (or anywhere for that matter): the need for power. Sure, it's great to have Wi-Fi, but…

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Denmark

When I looked at my page stats (which this time actually told me that someone other than my husband was reading my blog – woo hoo!) I found that people…

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Graduating today, but still have a lot to learn

Wow, so today is the day I graduate. Being that my whole library educational experience was virtual (except for my internship and a trip to the ALA conference in June)…

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Public library computers for me but not for thee?

I remember years ago, when I would travel and wanted to keep in touch with my friends and family, I would just pop into the local library and use the…

Next-gen librarians in the news

Are we mainstream or invisible?

Free reference websites

Questions about the Google Library Project

An Introduction to Feeds

Searching handwritten manuscripts and Google

Anyways…

Salinas

Digital library program

A Net Nanny with an MLS

Google’s Herculean task

Teens in the library

Michael Gorman on Google

Digital libraries: Full of promise or full of foreboding?

Lost in the shuffle

Google and the “great digitization”

Can’t see the trees for the forest

Denmark

Graduating today, but still have a lot to learn

Public library computers for me but not for thee?

The Crushing Mental Load of Disability

It’s not about information literacy: Why people’s risk calculus around COVID has changed

On 20 Years of Blogging at Information Wants to be Free

A review of Information Literacy and Social Media by Santamaría and Pfannenstiel