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Blatant Berry: The Impossible Job

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries and librarians/information professionals. 0 Comments

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Seven Ways Your Library Can Help During a Bad Economy

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries, library services and economics. 0 Comments

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The Reed Memorial Library Cake Pan Collection

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries and collections. 0 Comments

The Reed Memorial Library in Ravenna, Ohio, has a collection of oddly shaped cake pans that it loans out to its members. Not only that, it also provides OPAC access to them. Sophie Brookover writes: “Obviously, I had to know more about this collection, so I emailed the library and was granted this interview with Esther Cross, head of children’s services, and the creator/maintainer of the cake pan collections.” They were featured last year in a nearby newspaper.

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The 25 Most Modern Libraries in the World

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries. 0 Comments

Christina Laun writes: “The modern library is often home to sleek architecture and the latest technology. These 25 libraries, in no particular order, demonstrate how libraries have become part of the cutting edge of information management, design, and web technology, and all of them can help you get some ideas on how to bring your own library into the future.”

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The Transparent Library: Check Your Ego at the Door

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries and library services. 0 Comments

“Egos complicate procedures and keep good people down. Egos squash good ideas and can take the best of an organization and turn it on itself,” say the Michaels (Casey and Stephens), who advise losing yours if you want to successfully lead a project, department, or other staff, and give tips on fostering other workers’ talents that will benefit you and the library in the long run while keeping everyone happy and feeling connected.

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The Disconnected

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries and library services. 0 Comments

There are roughly 3.8 million men and women nationwide between the ages of 18 and 24 who are neither in school nor employed but regularly use libraries for the Internet, email, and related activities. Queens Library’s Kathy Degyansky (also appearing in a web-exclusive video) says PLs are positioned to “touch the lives of these adults” and that “librarians have a role to play in providing services that can help the disconnected” with securing jobs, furthering education, and even emotional support. Find advice on how to spot dropouts and those with low literacy skills, as well.

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A Google Map for Your Library

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries and archives. 0 Comments

I envy young academics embarking on their careers in 2008. Only older generations, enshrouded in what will look to posterity like the second dark age of Western Civilization, can appreciate the luminosity of the new dawn into which those young scholars are sailing. What we are witnessing this year is the beginning of the greatest act of recovered memory in the history of our species. The next decade will be the age of the unimaginably vast archive. More particularly, the dynamic and usable archive. The archive, that is, which hurls its contents at you, rather than requiring laborious spadework.

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Welsh Dialect Recordings Given to the British Library

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries and collections. 0 Comments

It contains farm laborers’ Shakespeare-inspired expressions and the reasons why Pembrokeshire is called “Little England”. It took more than 40 years to compile and will form an epic record of Anglo-Welsh dialects for generations to come. Because now the new audio encyclopedia – a fascinating series of recorded interviews studying the English spoken by people in Wales – has been presented to the British Library’s vast sound archive in London. Featuring conversations with individuals across the spectrum of Welsh life, including cockle pickers, school children, farm hands and Tiger Bay residents, the collection was started in 1968 by dialect specialist David Parry. It was completed by fellow expert, Dr Robert Penhallurick of Swansea University.

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Canadian Libraries Thrive in the Internet Age

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries, library services and Canada. 0 Comments

Business is booming at Canada’s major public libraries, which credit everything from the high price of buying books to social networking, vampires, and a new social acceptance for frothy bestsellers. In Edmonton, Alberta, 385 people are on the waiting list for Fearless Fourteen, the newest offering from romance-turned-crime writer Janet Evanovich. In Surrey, B.C., Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn (right), a vampire novel written for young adults that is still on order, has 220 members on its waiting list.

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Gannett Releases Searchable Public Library Trends Database

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in libraries and databases. 0 Comments

Gannett News Service released a searchable database July 17 that compares trends affecting public library systems between 2002 and 2006. The analysis used data from the National Center for Education Statistics as well as statistics collected from state library data coordinators, compared figures for the some 9,200 library systems, and found that library visits increased by roughly 10% during that five-year period and circulation of materials rose by 9%. The database also offers lists of public libraries with the highest circulation per capita, the most internet-capable computers per capita, and the highest operating expenses per capita (all 2006 data).

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From Awareness to Funding: A Study of Library Support in America

Published by rwatstein July 19th, 2008 in libraries, library services and OCLC. 0 Comments

OCLC was awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to explore attitudes and perceptions about library funding and to evaluate the potential of a large-scale marketing and advocacy campaign to increase public library funding in the U.S. The findings of this research are now available in the latest OCLC report, From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America. Among the findings from the report: Library funding support is only marginally related to library visitation; Perceptions of librarians are an important predictor of library funding support; Voters who see the library as a “transformational” force as opposed to an “information” source are more likely to increase taxes in its support.

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