I’ve now served on four librarian search committees, and in my prelibrarian life participated in the hiring of a new research associate in the consulting field. There, someone once promised to leverage his “three ears of professional experience.” This alone might not have disqualified him. Many other missteps in his résumé and cover letter certainly did. When writing a cover letter, you want to stand out but for the right reasons. Here are five things, based on my experience, to bear in mind when applying for that job.
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in politics and film.
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is thanking his fans by offering a free download of his forthcoming film Slacker Uprising. University and school libraries can get a free DVD, too. Moore’s camp asserts that this will be the first major feature-length film by a noted director to debut for free via the Internet. While Slacker Uprising traces Moore’s 62-city tour of the swing states during the 2004 Presidential election “and records the thrilling—and frightening—response he received across the country,” his overriding goal is to bring out new and young voters. “This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans,” said Moore. “The only return any of us are hoping for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the polls in November. I think Slacker Uprising will inspire millions to get off the couch and give voting a chance.”
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Semantic search engine hakia today announced an open call to librarians and information professionals to participate in a new program to unlock credible and free Web resources to Web searchers. Currently, hakia is generating credibility-stamped results for health and medical searches to guide users towards credible Web content. These results come from credible Web sites vetted by the Medical Library Association. Now, hakia is aiming to further its coverage to all topics, with the participation of librarians and information professionals. A popular Web source may not always be credible, and a credible Web source may not always be popular. hakia is the first search engine to channel the collective knowledge of librarians and information professionals to generate credibility-stamped results using semantic technology. This is in contrast to leading general search engines like Google, which rely mostly on the popularity of keywords and Webpages. For an example of what a credibility-stamped search looks like on hakia today, try a search for: What causes heart disease?
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in innovation and technology.
A USB drive can be used for much more than just porting data — it can carry entire bootable apps, lock down a PC, encrypt data, run Windows, and even call for help when lost.
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in web 2.0 and innovation.
On most days, I put my hands on two to five new Web 2.0 products. I write up some of them, but pretty much forget about all of them by the time I wake up the next day. A few things do stick with me, though. Here’s a list of products I am actually still using, weeks or months after the initial review.
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in libraries, censorship and library 2.0.
Margaret Brown-Sica and Jeffrey Beall write: “It’s possible for library users to abuse library 2.0 applications by uploading words, pictures, or other content that constitute hate speech. Universities and colleges today view hate speech as outside the realm of protected speech because it violates the terms of most codes of conduct and merits decisive action. Also, many libraries are big players in the overall college mission to value and promote diversity. Perhaps nothing can poison this more than a library website filled with racist, homophobic, or other defamatory speech.”
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in libraries and cataloging.
In the sober, settled atmosphere of a library there is a radical movement afoot that is knocking books off their long-established shelves and throwing Dewey out the window. At 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning, two bold and daring librarians are stirring at the Frankfort (Ill.) Public Library, shuffling books and tearing off those time-honored Dewey Decimal Classification numbers. Frankfort is one of the first libraries in the U.S. to retrofit its collection and go Dewey-free, eliminating the numbers and categorizing nonfiction books by topic.
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in web sites.
This presentation about cupcakes covers the history of cupcakes, cupcakes today (including cupcake culture and the cupcake “internet craze”), and cupcake designs and recipes. Includes links to related sources. Part of a project for the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Florida.
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in education and e-books.
Initial observations from the UK’s national e-book observatory are already challenging assumptions about how students use e-books. According to Lorraine Estelle CEO of JISC Collections, in the first user survey, which received over 22,000 responses, 62 per cent of students reported that they read online whilst only 6 per cent said that they print to read. The survey also indicated that interactivity may not be as important to students as anticipated. ‘Students say that the main attraction is that e-books within an academic setting, are more accessible than print books, meaning that users can get at them wherever they are and at whatever time they like,’ explained Estelle
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in books and publishing.
Mary Ellen Quinn writes: “As the new school year gets under way, our annual Best Bets list features new titles we reviewed in the past 12 months that are targeted specifically for students from the elementary through high-school levels. Also here are the latest editions of some library standards. For more good bets, check out the Encyclopedia Update coming up in the September 15 issue of Booklist.”
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They looked like they had walked off a film set, the two men standing at the door of the Library Connection in Windsor, Connecticut, as they flashed FBI badges and asked to speak to the boss. Director George Christian courteously shepherded them into the office. By the hum of the Xerox machine, one agent explained to Christian that the bureau was demanding “any and all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person or entity” that had used computers between 4 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. on February 15, 2005, in any of the 27 libraries whose computer systems were managed by the Library Connection, a nonprofit co-op of library databases. He handed Christian a document called a national security letter (NSL); it said the information was being sought “to protect against international terrorism.”
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in books.
A panel of 11 critics writes: “Compiling a list of the 50 Greatest Villains in Literature, without too much recourse to comics and children’s books, proved trickier than we’d imagined—but gosh it was fun. It’s perhaps the nature of grown-up literature that it doesn’t all that often have villains, in the sense of coal-black embodiments of the principle of evil. Yet even writers as subtle as Vladimir Nabokov have spiced their work with a fiend or two. And here they are.”
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in libraries and film.
Dewey Readmore Books, the cat who lived at the Spencer (Iowa) Public Library from 1988 until his death in 2006, is getting more media attention than ever. Written by former Spencer Library Director Vicki Myron with Bret Witter, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Grand Central) was published this week and already there is talk of a movie deal. “Helen Hunt. Meryl Streep. I don’t care,” says Myron of who might play her. But who will star as Dewey?
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As Americans deal with a slumping economy, libraries in the United States are experiencing a dramatic increase in library card registration. According to a Harris poll released September 22 during Library Card Sign-up Month, 68% of Americans have a library card, the largest number since ALA started to measure library card usage in 1990.
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A potential citywide budget deficit of as much as $28 million has led the Trenton (N.J.) Public Library to develop plans to close all four of its neighborhood branches. Library Director Kimberly Bray announced the library board’s decision, which followed an across-the-board 10% cut in funding to all city departments, in an email to staff September 10. Some 60 residents attended a September 23 city council meeting devoted to the closings—the third such meeting held over eight days—at which Bray described three options, all requiring staff layoffs.
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in books, publishing and e-books.
Bloomsbury Publishing this week announced that is launching an academic imprint with a radical new open access model: all titles will be made available free of charge online, “with free downloads, for non-commercial purposes immediately upon publication.
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in libraries and library services.
With so much budget money spent on DVDs, CDs, and now games, are public libraries helping foster a nation of nonreaders? Librarian James Grosso offers a solution.
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As the buzz around social networking continues, consider that author Kevin Kelly has called the emerging web “One Machine” and predicts that “total personalization in this new world will require total transparency.” So, where do we fit in? Where do we position ourselves as professionals? We two don’t completely agree, so we thought we’d try to tease out the relationship between personal/social transparency and library transparency.
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in YouTube, books and Google.
Out of the blue, Google announced a new feature or rather a new tool for its Book Search Index, which would allow book retailers, publishers and practically anyone with a web site or blog to embed non-copyrighted books from the said index. Yup, you read it right folks, just like YouTube videos, we can now feature the full electronic format of books on our websites, for readers/visitors to flip through the pages of them books. For books which are still under copyright, Google has partnered with some booksellers to have a preview functionality enabled in some of their book inventory. By clicking on the “Google Preview” link next to a particular book title, we can browse through that particular books to check whether it looks promising and a worth our reading time.
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in libraries and environment.
After Hurricane Ike slammed Galveston, TX, September 13, there was little immediate word regarding the Rosenberg Library (web site inoperative), the 75,000 square foot complex downtown that houses a library, archives, and museum and serves as the headquarters for the Galveston County Library System. Now, John Augelli, the library’s executive director, tells Library Journalt that he and two other staffers stayed behind “thinking it would be good to be there, to see what I could do.” Initially, that wasn’t much. Instead, they listened, and watched, as a storm surge wiped out the first floor with over six feet of water. “It was a sound that you’d never forget.” Now, the library is at the beginning of a long recovery that began with pumping out the water, emptying the first floor of what used to be the children’s collection, and drying out the space to ensure that humidity does not damage valuable archival material.
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in archives and censorship.
While researching my book on the history of presidential libraries, I discovered a shocking but perhaps not surprising situation: the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is improperly withholding its own records. Theoretically a non-partisan as well as non-political agency, NARA is at the center of some of the most controversial issues of our time, including government secrecy, executive privilege, and timely access to presidential records. Rather than abide by legislative requirements and professional standards, NARA has chosen to avoid accessioning and processing many (if not most) of its own records dating back more than forty years. Worse, officials have blocked access to the records, perhaps due to concerns over possible criticism of the agency.
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in environment, wiki and green.
Wikia Green asks users to sign up and be a part of creating a green wiki guide. Created by Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikipedia, the goal is to offer more lifestyle tips, product options, and how-to’s. The content differs from that on Wikipedia in three main ways: Content is written from a green point of view, is focused on things you can do, and is more accessible and relevant to an average reader.
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in libraries, environment and green.
From the minivan-driving mom carrying a chic cloth tote to the grocery store to the celebrity cruising around town in a hybrid vehicle, it can seem like everyone is going green. Add libraries to the list. Libraries across the country are actively participating in a process called “green weeding,” which weeds out and discards outdated, unpopular, irrelevant and often abused books so library collections stay well-maintained, according to an article in the Library Journal. Libraries are also striving to reduce their footprints by making conscious and collective efforts to pursue only environmentally friendly discard options.
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in libraries, environment and green.
Gone are the days oftiptoeing to the dumpsters with boxes of weeded books in tow. Lots of libraries are now taking advantage of the many low-cost services and solutions that promise to help extend the lives of collection discards. Some of these options can be very profitable. Some create goodwill within the local community. Some may seem more labor-intensive, while others require only a computer, a printer, and a few free shipping labels. Thanks to the ever-growing number of possibilities, libraries can select the solutions that best match their own staffing levels and space issues. Above all, every single library—no matter the size, budget, type, or location—can actively participate in “green weeding,” another form of library resource sharing.
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in books and publishing.
Who says dead men tell no tales? HoughtonMifflin November 17 is releasing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Tales from the Perilous Realm,“the definitive collection of Tolkien’s classic ‘fairie’ tales” illustrated by top Tolkien artist Alan Lee. Prepare to buy.
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in libraries and music.
It’s a forgotten melody, sketched in black ink in a swift but sure hand. The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, has been verified as the work of Mozart, the apparent underpinnings for a Mass he never composed.The previously undocumented music fragment gives insight into Mozart’s evolving composition style and provides a clue about the role religion may have played for the composer as his life neared its turbulent end, one prominent Mozart expert says. A library in Nantes, western France, has had the fragment in its collection since the 19th century, but it had never been authenticated until now, partly because it does not bear Mozart’s signature.
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in education.
A new University of Wisconsin study suggests a “clear preference” among undergraduates for “lecture capture,” the technology that records, streams, and stores what happens in the classroom for concurrent or later viewing. When provided with the option to view lectures online, rather than just in person, a full 82 percent of undergraduates kindly offered that they’d be willing to entertain an alternative to showing up to class and paying attention in real time.
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in publishing.
Maghound is Time Inc.’s new service that lets the consumer choose which magazines to receive each month—with no hassles, at three prices (three titles for $5 a month, five for $8, seven for $10). This may not save the magazine industry, but it’s a good product for anyone who likes magazines. Assuming Maghound takes off, it will offer a pure look at what consumers want to read….
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in tagging and OCLC.
You and your users can now keep track of your favorite items in WorldCat through tags—keywords that help you classify or describe an item. Tags are displayed in search results lists and may help you find similar items or organize items in a way that makes sense to you. You can add as many tags as you would like to an unlimited set of items. You can view and maintain all of your personalized tags from your WorldCat profile page. Plus, you can also browse items using the tags other people have contributed. To tag an item, you must log in to your WorldCat account or register to create an account. Tags are tied to individual WorldCat account profiles, and not the main WorldCat.org index—so these new tags will not interfere with “official” library cataloging of an item. Log in to WorldCat.org and start tagging!
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in museums and experiential.
How can you design museum spaces so that exhibits and artifacts become social objects–things that people want to share with each other? This summer, I wrote about situations that bring strangers together in conversation by focusing their attention on a third party (the dog, the stuck elevator, the surprising event). While that post focused on conditions for talking to strangers, this one looks at the object of attention itself around which triangulation and social behavior happens.
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in education, trends and career.
Dual-career issues are increasingly important in higher education today. We discovered that over 70 percent of faculty are in dual-career relationships; more than a third are partnered with another academic. This trend is particularly strong among women scientists and people in assistant professor positions. As the number of women receiving Ph.D.s continues to rise, U.S. universities will see an increasing number of high quality candidates for faculty positions partnered with another academic. This presents universities with a challenge, but also a great opportunity to access new candidates and diversify their faculty.
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in education and web sites.
The U.S. Department of Education recently unveiled College.gov, a new website that aims to motivate students with inspirational stories and information about planning, preparing and paying for college. Designed with students’ input and participation, College.gov was created by the U.S. Department of Education to be a go-to online resource for credible information about college that also provides real life experiences of peers who are already attending college. U.S. Under Secretary of Education Sara Martinez Tucker unveiled the website during a discussion with students at The David A. Stein Riverdale/ Kingsbridge Academy MS/HS 141 in Bronx, N.Y.
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Information might want to be free, but that doesn’t mean the editors at Encyclopedia Britannica plan to let it run roughshod. While acknowledging its need to step into modern times, Britannica also is holding fast to the idea that experts make it better. You may not know this, but Albert Einstein wore an editor’s hat at Encyclopedia Britannica, as did George Bernard Shaw and more than 80 Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. But it’s that other encyclopedia, the online one, where vandals and anonymous editors allegedly run rampant, that’s been getting all the attention lately. As hyped as Wikipedia may be, it’s hard to deny that an open source information repository that gets updated several thousand times a second is well suited to present times. I’m talking about an era defined by two phrases: instant gratification and user-generated. So where does a 240-year-old encyclopedia like Britannica fit in today? How does it face up to the criticism that it is expensive to access, closed and outdated? For starters, by being accessible, collaborative and continuously updated.
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in education and social networking.
A warning for college applicants: you’re Facebook page is showing. Facebook or MySpace pages could count against you in college admissions. High school seniors already have a lot to worry about when applying for colleges like good grades and high test scores. And now a new survey of 500 top colleges found that 10 percent of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social-networking sites to evaluate applicants.
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in online resources, technology and e-books.
Freebookcentre.net contains links to thousands of free online technical books. These Include core computer science, networking, programming languages, Systems Programming books, Linux books and many more.
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in online resources, internet and reference.
The September 2008 V6N9 issue is available. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features World Wide Web Reference. These resources and sites bring you the latest information and happenings in the area of reference resources that are about the World Wide Web. This extensive report lists hundreds of reference resources that deal with the world wide web on a daily basis that can be used for research as well as for the creation of new world wide web entities using the latest technology available.
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in Google and mapping.
Google has added the nation’s biggest public transportation system to its popular mapping service, showing travelers how to navigate New York City’s mass transit system. As of Tuesday, people looking up locations in the city get public transit options alongside driving directions. The feature includes information about subways, buses and commuter railroads. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and some other organizations already provide transit trip planners, but Google executives note that their version is integrated with other search features, such as street views and restaurant reviews.
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in Microsoft and Windows.
Doug Aamoth writes: “Here’s a little info to prepare you for the arrival of the post-Vista Windows 7. Sure, it’s still well over a year away and sure, all this stuff could change at the drop of a hat, but let’s just run with it. An early build of Windows 7 may contain the following: a fancier calculator (right); the Office 2007 Ribbon thing may cross over into WordPad and MS Paint; a lightweight version of Windows Media Player; and My Documents will be called Libraries. Come on Microsoft, there’s no need to rename that stuff all the time.”
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in mobile/cell phones, Google and Android.
See how the first Android-powered handset stacks up against the competition and whether its features could make it a hit in the enterprise and viable alternative to the BlackBerry or iPhone.
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in mobile/cell phones, Google and Android.
At a press conference in New York, Google and T-Mobile showed off the long-anticipated G1, a powerful smartphone that runs Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices. The handset, priced at $179, will be available from T-Mobile on October 22. It boasts features to rank it at the top end of the smartphone market, and its software offers some neat surprises and tricks. At the same time, the G1 undoubtedly lacks the sparkle of the iPhone, probably its closest competitor. Furthermore, some experts question whether Google’s scheme for delivering new applications for the phone–an online store called Android Market–could run into problems that slow down mass adoption.
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in education and technology.
Looking to produce their next generation of employees (and customers), technology giants such as Cisco Systems, Intel, and Microsoft are setting their sights beyond just the United States and are investing heavily in global education reform initiatives. Developing nations such as India, Jordan, and Kenya are among the beneficiaries of these efforts, which underscore the need for U.S. schools to prepare their students for an increasingly global, information-based workforce.
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in corporations and business intelligence.
Thanks to the misbehavior of a few individuals at Enron, MCI, and Tyco, many firms and individuals have become increasingly sensitive to ethical issues in the workplace. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other financial accountability regulations have made us all more aware of the need to address ethics as an important factor in organizational behavior and operations. Paying attention to ethics is good business. Most of us have read articles in the news about a business’ unethical behavior, and my guess is that we look poorly upon firms that exhibit it. What most people don’t realize is that ethical practices affect the very nature of an organization’s processes, products, and services. That is, how a firm behaves, the quality of its decision making, how it performs and delivers services, and the very essence of the products it produces all depend upon the intellectual capital of the organization and how it is manifested. Hence, if employees engage in unethical behavior, to think that the firm will somehow be unaffected is naïve.
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The greatest value of online communities is increasing word of mouth (35 percent), increasing brand awareness (28 percent), bringing new ideas into the organization faster (24 percent) and increasing customer loyalty (24 percent), according to a survey of organizations using online communities conducted by Beeline Labs, Deloitte and the Society for New Communications Research. The 2008 Tribalization of Business study found that the greatest obstacles to making a community work are not technology-related or getting funding, but getting people involved in the community (51 percent), finding enough time to manage the community (45 percent) and attracting people to the community (34 percent).
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in knowledge management.
The tendency when dealing with many knowledge management issues is often to jump right into the solution phase, when really it makes more sense to determine the strengths and weaknesses of what you’re currently doing, and how your current practices could be improved. Similarly, most knowledge management can be broken down into several sub-issues. Depending on the specific problem at hand, most issues can be broken down into the following sub-issues.
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in cloud computing.
As more IT pros investigate their companies’ cloud computing options, they run into a crowd of new, relatively unknown vendors. Appirio, Coghead, Kaavo, Mosso, ParaScale, and dozens of other startups are taking their places alongside Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems in delivering IT resources as services rather than packaged products. Why consider a startup when established players offer cloud services at seemingly lower risk? The cloud computing market is so broad–comprising software, server capacity, storage, middleware, virtualization, security, and management tools delivered as services–that even the biggest vendors can’t excel at everything. Startups drive innovation and fill niches, often while pushing costs down and performance up.
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Published by rwatstein September 21st, 2008
in Firefox and Mozilla.
Benson Varghese writes: “The popularity of Firefox continues to grow primarily because of its speed, ease of use, and the availability of free add-ons. As the amount of scholarly material available on the web increases, so to does the need to an efficient means to find, sort, organize, and cite the material. Here are 20 of the best tools available on Firefox that researchers can choose from to build a customized, highly efficient research tool.”
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in books.
An upcoming exhibition at the Morgan Library in New York of Jean de Brunhoff’s working drafts and watercolors for Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant (1931) has reignited a controversy over the meaning of the Babar books, said by some critics to represent European colonialism. Writer Adam Gopnik analyzes the series and concludes: “Far more than an allegory of colonialism, the Babar books are a fable of the difficulties of a bourgeois life.”
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in Library of Congress and cataloging.
Carla writes: “LC’s Cataloging and Acquisitions homepage contains a myriad of cataloging resources. One great resource that was just posted last week is an FAQ about form/genre headings (PDF file). Who hasn’t struggled occasionally to keep the distinction between subject headings and form/genre headings clear, or to figure out whether an authority record represents a form/genre heading or not?”
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in libraries and reading.
Libraries in Laramie County, Wyoming, are the best of an excellent lot. The collection is skewed towards local interests; there is a lot of Christian fiction, as well as volumes on truck repair. The central library runs book clubs for home-schooled children and teenagers, which are well-attended. In southern Wyoming, at least, an excellent library system was not built in the face of resistance to public spending. The interesting truth is that it is excellent precisely because of it.
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in libraries and demographics.
More Latinos than previously assumed use public libraries in the United States, according to a new study, Latinos and Public Library Perceptions, sponsored by WebJunction in partnership with 40 state libraries and conducted by the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI). It also recommends how to draw more Latinos to libraries. [The report defines the terms “Latino” and “Hispanic” as interchangeable and use both to “denote individuals who can trace their heritage back to Spanish-speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere.” Latinos are now the country’s largest ethnic minority. A previous study by the American Library Association estimated Latino library use at 49 percent; the new study, based on a more representative sample of 2,860 Latino adults, reports 54 percent. Specifically, 1 percent reported daily visits, 11.2 percent reported weekly visits, and 17.8 percent reported monthly visits. Also, 9.7 percent reported visits every other month and 14.1 percent said they went to the library once or twice a year. However, 23.6 percent said they last went to a library more than a year ago and 22.5 percent said they’d never been to a library.
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