Library News Pages

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• Northland offers free music download program - Tribune-Review
• Kane County law librarian readies herself for retirement - Elgin Courier News
• Great Barrington hires Amanda Martinson DeGiorgis as new library director - Berkshire Eagle
• A project for the books: Philly photographer shoots librarians - Philly.com (blog)
• University libraries hosts lectures on intersection of science, pop culture - Daily Nebraskan
• Still Relevant? A Talk With a Librarian - Huffington Post
• Librarian Lack Limits Libraries in LAUSD - MyFox Los Angeles
• Mayor to Miami-Dade libraries: get more efficient to receive more money - MiamiHerald.com
• Penn Libraries' Research and Knowledge Management Liaison Librarian ... - UPENN Almanac
• This Is What a Librarian Looks Like - Slate Magazine (blog)

Library News Firehose

• Funding boost sought for libraries' online research - The Advocate
• Libraries prepare for circulation changes - Jacksoncountychronicle
• Watch hockey, support library - Oak Ridge Today
• State, Ontario County funding cuts pinch libraries - MPNnow.com
• Letters: Closed libraries are a civic disgrace - Los Angeles Times
• In Branch Libraries, Fewer Books But High Demand - City Limits
• Great Barrington hires Amanda Martinson DeGiorgis as new library director - Berkshire Eagle
• Santa Clara County Libraries Tout E-Book Resources With 46K Options for Patrons - Patch.com
• Make some noise over libraries - Los Angeles Daily News
• Many LA Unified school libraries, lacking staff, are forced to shut - Los Angeles Times

News From Library Cloud

• National digital library gains traction
• New director, young guns guiding Chattanooga’s library system
• Libraries vary in availability of materials to minors - chicagotribune.com
• A rational framework for library ebook lending
• University libraries look to reduce licensing costs | Inside Higher Ed
• Network of Kenyan local libraries as community resource
• Abandoned Walmart is Now America’s Largest Library via reddit.com
• Wormholes in old books preserve a history of insects
• Libraries and Information Science Q&A - a new Stack Exchange site
• Libcatcode: Cataloging and coding under one Q&A site

Library of Congress

• Legislative Data Challenge Winners
• Gift to Expand Science Holdings of World Digital Library
• Library Accepting Appplications for 2014 Literacy Awards
• Library Launches €œSongs of America€ Presentation
• Library of Congress Announces Enhanced Access to Cataloging Services and Applications
• Library Acquires Max Roach Collection
• Library by the Numbers, 2013
• New Online Game "Readers to the Rescue"
• New Cataloging Guidelines for Pictures Now Available in Online Publication
• DiCamillo Named Ambassador for Young People's Lit

Libraries in Crisis

• Sarah Convissar: I Don't Want Your E-Books, Thanks Very Much
• Norway Is Digitizing All Its Books
• Librarian Saves $1 Million To Donate Back To Library
• Scott DiMarco: The New Reality Is Disrupted
• Destroyed Library Gets Help
• WATCH: Mayor Makes OUTRAGEOUS Claim About Libraries
• Christian Zabriskie: 24-Hour Read In To Support Libraries
• Rita Meade: In Defense Of Libraries
• Michael Rosenblum: What's a Library?
• Christian Zabriskie: Why Everyone Should Care About Libraries

Public Library News

• A valuable public space that doesn’t make a profit
• Arts funding, refurbishment and imperilment
• Reading spas, non-crises and fines exchanges
• Have even less of a say in the organisation you pay for
• Two new libraries for Cambridgeshire
• It’s a barbaric world … so let’s learn to speak Barbarian
• We offer amazing things
• Goodbye Advisory Council on Libraries
• Adventures in Libraryland
• £1.5m cut in one authority, £56k for new works of art in another.

Info Docket

• New York Public Library’s Renovation Plan Awaits Word From NYC’s New Mayor
• Research From Germany: Software Maps Ambiguous Names in Texts to the Right Person
• “Mobile Libraries: Librarians’ and Students’ Perspectives” (Research Article)
• New Report from CLIR: “Participatory Design in Academic Libraries: New Reports and Findings”
• Oy! An Example of Why Basic Info and Digital Literacy Skills are Important and Useful
• Interesting Idea! Anti-URL Shortener Promotes Books Through Web Links
• Two Public Libraries in Paris and London Partner, Share Best Practices and Resources
• OverDrive: Macmillan Expands its eBook Catalog to U.S. and Canadian K-12 Schools (12,000 Titles)
• Library of Congress Announces Legislative Data Challenge Winners
• RFP Published For ALA’s Reference and User Service Division (RUSA) Rebranding Project

LIS News

• Book
• Surely one of the sweetest ideas for a children’s book...
• Great Guy
• Can librarians get over the
• I think this is definitely
• better than nothing. and maybe better than better than nothing.
• Really?
• because Facebook can’t buy our children, and it can’t sell them
• Wow
• The new librarian stereotype

Vermont Libraries

• Digital Access and Systems Librarian – Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
• VLA Award Nomination Deadline Coming Up
• Head Librarian – Wells Village Library (Wells, VT)
• 5th Annual ACRL-NEC Vermont Virtual Conference
• Green Mountain Library Constortium Seeks Volunteer Listen Up! Vermont Coordinator
• Archival Intern – Green Mountain Club (Waterbury Ctr., VT)
• Vermont Library Tech Unconference
• Librarian/Media Specialist (Long Term Substitute [Maternity Leave]) – Harwood Union Middle/High School (So. Duxbury, VT)
• Free Library Continuing Education Events for February
• UPDATED: Medical Librarian – VA Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs (White River Jct, VT)

ICA News

• From Factory to FaceBook: new ways to engage with business archives, London, England, 14-15 April 2014
• Elections 2014: Call for candidates
• Technical Guidance on Managing Archives with Restrictions
• 2014 Elections - Posts description
• Heritage for Peace
• Calling all linguists...........!
• Decembre 2013 HRWG Newsletter
• Comma on Government Recordkeeping in Sub-Saharan Africa is now available online!
• Press report: Conference Stone, paper, intervention. Archives and intervention in the historical heritage
• About the Conference: “Paper, Stone, Intervention. Archives and Intervention on Cultural Heritage” Ponferrada

IFLA

• *REMINDER* Call for Nominations: IFLA 2014 Honours and Awards
• Strategy, partnerships in focus at BSLA regional convening for associations in Africa
• Register now: IFLA MLAS / FESABID Access to information advocacy workshop
• REMINDER: Call for bids to host the 14th IFLA Interlending and Document Supply Conference (ILDS) 2015
• NOW OPEN: ARL Attendance Grant applications for IFLA Congress Lyon 2014
• Governance, Access to Information on the Agenda at Open Working Group 8
• New FAIFE videos explore the emerging Internet surveillance environment
• IFLA joins civil society in demanding a UN post-2015 framework that makes governments more accountable
• 2015 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Fellowship deadline approaching!
• December 2013 issue of International Preservation News just released

iso.org

• Smooth and safe freight transport thanks to new ISO online collection
• How to recognize quality saffron ?
• Caring robots get the green light
• How to measure and evaluate smart community infrastructures
• Sochi Winter Olympic Games puts ISO standards on the podium
• Protein measurement standard expanded for greater consumer protection and harmonized trade
• Online collection of ISO country codes now available
• Asset management system standards published
• Figuring out our financial flops
• ISO 22301 to save your business

IAALD

• Maldonado, Esther Maldonado
• lee, boby
• Hardy, Sophie Hardy
• jersey, dan
• Hall, Tyrone
• Behera, Bibhu Santosh
• babysister, babysister
• sdgfdg, dfgd
• waldo, espinar
• Singh, Gyaneshwar

ISC

• New revelations on the failures of marketized Academy schools in the UK
• Information for Social Change number 33 – Recent Developments in Public Services for Young People
• Book publication – LGBT People and the UK Cultural Sector
• A Discussion with Martyn Lowe on Local and International Green issues
• Class and Librarianship: Essays at the Intersection of Information, Labor and Capital
• Developing community-led public libraries … a review by John Vincent
• UK Conservative-LibDem Government anti-immigration campaign
• Living Wage Commission launched in UK
• For-profit nature of the privatised academies schools project in England again in the spotlight
• Third of library staff to go at Bury Libraries

NLA blog

• The Future of Library Systems
• GHANA WORKSHOP: LIBRARIANSHIP AND THE DEMANDS FOR NEW LEADERSHIP SKILLS:
• AU Launches Africa's Online Library on Law and Governance
• 2013 IFLA WLIC papers available from IFLA Library
• Typhoon Haiyan: National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Activates Emergency Access Initiative (EAI)
• LITT 2013: IT Section Chairman Speech
• Daily Report of LITT 2013 National Workshop – 3rd Day
• LITT 2013: Day 2 -LIIT Section National Workshop @ Port-Harcout
• LITT 2013: Day 1: NATIONAL WORKSHOP OPENING DAY
• LITT 2013 commenced Today 7th October, 2013!

Hong Kong Library Assco

• HKLA Objectives

bokis.is

• Ancient education…
• The choice of higher education
• The job hunt starts at school…

Georgia Library Media Association

• Ashes or Sayso
• Georgia Library Association Scholarship Announcement
• AABIG Conference Proposals Extended Deadline
• Continuing Education Opportunity: Personal Branding
• GA Peach Book Award for Teen Readers….correction!
• Nominees for the 2013-14 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers are…
• GALILEO Resources for Women’s History Month
• Common Core – GALILEO Training Archives Available
• Announcing the 2013 Annual GALILEO Staff Awards for Best Use of GALILEO Resources in a Georgia Student Media Festival Project
• GALILEO Resources for Black History Month

VLA

• VLA Scholarship Deadline Fast Approaching
• Nominations for VLA Paraprofessional Forum Awards due May 1, 2014
• Call for Papers: Special Issue on Exploring Openness in Libraries
• Virginia Library Leadership Academy: Deadline Approaching
• 2014 VLA Conference: Agents of Change
• 2014 VLA Council Roster
• VLA Presents: Personal Digital Archiving, or Saving Your Stuff Webinar 2/6/14
• Registration for VLACRL Spring Program opens February 3
• Call for applications: Virginia Library Leadership Academy (VALLA) 2014
• 2014 VLA Awards Call for Nominations

KS LIB Assoc

• KLA Legislative Resources
• ComicPop Library at KLA
• 2013 Conference Evaluation
• KLA Presidential Award Winners 2013
• Kinsley Library wins 2013 Best Small Library in Kansas Award
• KLA Election Results
• Kansas Best Small Public Library Award
• Kansas Library Association Nominations Open!
• Kansas Library Conference Update
• Ruth Harries receives KLAEF spring 2013 scholarship

KPLA

• Learn about the Kentucky Sister Library Project
• Swap & Shop
• Social Networks Presentation
• Using Puppets Presentation
• Kentucky Laws Presentations
• Delivery Presentation
• Art Presentation
• READ Posters
• Newpapers and magazines at Kentucky’s public libraries
• Children get a head start at public libraries

NCSLA

• NCSLA February 2014 Networking Lunches & Dinners
• NCSLA 2013 Annual Banquet
• Assistant Librarian for Circulation – National Humanities Center
• Students: Apply for Sara Aull Award
• Join us for Tech Services 101!
• Event: RDA 101
• Basic Marketing Strategies Workshop
• May 2013 Happy Hour
• Job Hunters’ Discussion Group
• Librarian for Chemistry and Environmental Sciences – Duke University

ALAO

• 2013 ALAO Elections: Congratulations to our new board members
• Call for proposals: ALAO annual conference
• We’d like to hear from you!
• Register now for two ACRL webcasts
• Special Collections and Archives Interest Group Spring Workshop
• TEDSIG Spring Workshop
• ALAO Research Grant Awarded
• CMIG Workshop – March 22nd — still room left!
• ALAO Election begins tomorrow
• TEDSIG Spring workshp

SCLA

• South Carolina Libraries Journal Seeks Book Reviewers
• Let’s Get Together! New Members Round Table Brunches
• South Carolina Libraries Journal Seeks Volunteer Peer-Reviewers
• Library Meetup at Mac's in Greenville on February 21
• SCLA 2014 Annual Conference set for October 22-24
• New SCLA 2014 Meeting Dates Announced
• Picture This! All Conference Reception Photobooth Pictures Available
• Richland Library Leadership Graduates Celebrated
• Poster Session Winners Announced!
• Conference Evaluation Available Online

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