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New York Times – With a New Classification System, the New York Public Library Makes a Change for the Clearer: “Librarians have begun a yearlong project to reorganize, reclassify and update the roughly 25,000 reference works on the rooms open shelves. When they are done, officials promise, readers will have a much easier time locating …
LC Country Profile of China, August 8, 2006 (43 pages, PDF)
Press release: The University of California libraries today (August 9, 2006) announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. UC becomes the latest partner in the Google Books Library Project, which was launched in December 2004 to digitize books drawn from the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford …
H.R.5319 – To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms. CDT: “The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would force schools and libraries to block chat and social networking sites as a …
Collaborative Reference Work in the Blogosphere, by Jeffrey Pomerantz (16 pages, PDF): “This paper explores the use of blogs as a platform for providing reference service, and discusses Lycemum, and open source software project from ibiblio.org, for this purpose.”
Pioneer Minority Law Librarians PowerPoint, compiled by Lauren M. Collins of Wayne State University Law Library Diversity in Law Librarianship Bibliography, compiled by Tina S. Ching of the Arizona State University Law Library [via Andrew Evans, Washburn University Law Library]
Where the Jobs Are: Locating Law Librarian Jobs Made Easy presented by the Placement Committee at the 2006 Annual Meeting.
And you thought gadgets were only for the kitchen: The Return, by Brian Neale, Roger Skalbeck, Susan Skyzinski and Barbara Fullerton And you thought gadgets were only for the kitchen: The Future, by Brian Neale, Roger Skalbeck, Susan Skyzinski and Barbara Fullerton Writing Justice Blackmun, by Linda Greenhouse Statement of Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, The …
From Paula J. Hane: “In a move designed to reach users outside library environments, OCLC is planning to launch a new destination site and downloadable search box for searching the content of libraries participating in WorldCat. Scheduled for a beta release sometime in August 2006, the new WorldCat.org site will continue OCLC’s efforts begun with …
Appropriations Committee press release, July 13, 2006: “The Senate Appropriations Committee today gave approval to the fiscal year 2007 District of Columbia spending bill. The bill totals $597 million in federal funds, which is $200,000 below the fiscal year 2006 enacted level and the same as the President’s budget request…$15 million for a new Central …
Law Librarians Look Beyond Books – “Once endangered, librarians have expanded their role to include such duties as market research and competitive intelligence.” The Librarian’s Expanding Role Electronic Research Staffing Resources Finances
Putting the White Back in Strunk and White, by Christina Wodtke. “Style and appropriateness may seem like an odd duo, but they are not. Style is the natural result of the over-abundance of energy and unique perspective a designercreative personis gifted and cursed with. Appropriateness is what helps them guide it in its application.”
