Library News Pages

Library Google News

• Will books survive as libraries turn the page in the digital age? - CBC.ca
• Librarians Aren't Babysitters: How to Keep your Kid Safe at the Public Library - MyNorthwest.com
• Smiley: Library tax necessary for services - Monroe News Star
• Valuing our treasured print history in the era of the 'bookless' library - The Conversation
• Wheaton author wins Illinois publishing contest - Chicago Tribune
• West Philly libraries, key to student success, struggle to exist - The Daily Pennsylvanian
• State librarian looks to future and past, urges libraries to aid 'digital detox' - Lancaster Newspapers
• Libraries are dying? Think again - CNN
• Thank Your Librarian: April Holidays That Show Libraries Appreciation - LongIsland.com
• Harvard librarian to speak on the future of libraries in a digital age March ... - Wicked Local Mattapoisett

Library News Firehose

• Will Libraries Exist in the Future? If So, They'll Be Very Different. - Slate Magazine
• Mobile Libraries Improve Access To Information - Milford LIVE
• Will books survive as libraries turn the page in the digital age?
• Gigs galore for Christchurch music fans
• Dunedin Public Libraries Don’t Miss a Beat - NZ Music Month
• Free live gigs for Music Month at Dunedin Public Libraries
• Smiley: Library tax necessary for services - Monroe News Star
• This Library Is Bringing Plant Seeds Into the Stacks
• Jolt Awards 2014: The Best Programmer Libraries - Dr. Dobb's
• Public libraries take part in ‘Let’s Read Together for 10 Minutes’

Library News Facebook

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• The fight back began in 2008, when an alliance of publishers, booksellers, educa...
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Library of Congress

• Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Awarded to E.L. Doctorow
• Authors Announced for 2014 National Book Festival
• 2013 National Recording Registry Reaches 400
• VHP Explores "Unknown Campaign" of WWII
• Library of Congress Literacy Awards Advisory Board Adds Three Members
• Magna Carta Exhibition Opens Nov. 6
• World Digital Library Reaches Milestone
• Poet Laureate Selects 2014 Witter Bynner Fellows
• Legislative Data Challenge Winners
• Gift to Expand Science Holdings of World Digital Library

Libraries in Crisis

• Barbara K. Stripling: Here's Why You Should Be Fighting To Save Libraries
• 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?

Public Library News

• 22nd April 2014
• The unstaffed fully self-service library
• Caught at least three ways: e-lending and librarians’ dilemma
• “Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding”
• Shadow Minister for Libraries speaks
• Library-affirming
• Stories from the Web
• Lincolnshire campaigning masterclass, children’s webpages and e-readers
• Leicestershire have 36 in danger; Ceredigion; and awards.
• Good luck to the Lincolnshire campaigners tomorrow

Info Docket

• Reference: CRS Report: “Shutdown of the Federal Government: Causes, Processes, and Effects”
• New Report from U.S. Copyright Office Looks “Challenges in Resolving Small Copyright Claims in Current Legal System”
• New Feature: Dropbox Can Now Automatically Save, Store, and Allow Quick Sharing of Your Screenshots
• Librarian Compiled! New York Public Library Releases Its List of Top 100 Great Children’s Books of the Last Century
• Federal Government Shutdown Would Cause All NARA Facilities to Close (With 2 Exceptions), All Activities Canceled
• Reference: USDA PLANTS Website & Database Reaches Milestone, Now Home to 50,000 Images
• Recently Updated: “Best Practices for Product Metadata: Guide for North American Data Senders and Receivers”
• Open Access: Oxford University Press Joins OAPEN-UK Project, 18 Full Text OUP Monographs Now Available Online
• Russia: “Moscow’s Libraries Get a Makeover, 1st Stop – Dostoyevsky”
• Profile: A Day in the Life of a University of Houston Librarian

LIS News

• Bookworm
• Chicago website makeover
• Interesting idea
• PBS Newshour story
• I should have been clear that
• Correct
• Librarians
• Problem
• Hmm?
• Tolerance

Vermont Libraries

• Library Media Specialist – Troy School (Troy, VT)
• Library Media Specialist – Newport Town School (Newport, VT)
• Library Media Specialist – Montgomery Elementary School (Montgomery, VT)
• Library Director – Rutland Free Library (Rutland, VT)
• Geek The Library!
• Library Media Specialist – Leicester Central School (Leicester, VT)
• Library Media Specialist – Green Mountain Union High School (Chester, VT)
• Library Media Specialist – Winooski School District (Winooski, VT)
• Library Director – Windsor Public Library (Windsor, VT)
• Library Director – South Burlington Community Library (So. Burlington, VT)

ICA News

• Padré Lydie Gnessougou Baroan-Dioumency honoured by the French Ministry of Culture
• ELECTIONS 2014: NEW PRESIDENT FOR ICA
• SPA News, March 2014
• The next SLA meeting will be in Girona, Spain, 12 October 2014
• 2014 FIDA call for projects - Convocatoria de proyectos
• Blue Shield Position Statement about Ukraine
• From Factory to FaceBook: new ways to engage with business archives, London, England, 14-15 April 2014
• Technical Guidance on Managing Archives with Restrictions
• Heritage for Peace
• Calling all linguists...........!

IFLA

• REMINDER: Call for submissions for the Brill/IFLA Open Access award
• UNIMARC Survey 2014
• Invitation to attend BSLA workshop: Lilongwe, Malawi. 26 – 27 July 2014
• 12th Annual IFLA International Marketing Award Winners Announced
• IFLA seeks new Editor for IFLA Journal
• 10th Session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals tackles ‘Peaceful, Non-violent Societies and Rule of Law’
• Third regional BSLA convening in Brazil finds common links between countries
• REMINDER: Call for applications: World Book Capital 2016
• Notice of IFLA 2014 General Assembly and Call for Agenda Items
• A Highly Successful Mid-term in Malmo

iso.org

• Are you in control of your records?
• ISO 14001 helps meet legal requirements and improve environmental performance but new version should take a broader perspective - users say
• Fit and fasten your products with the new OBP collection
• A place where women and men are equal
• Smart business is on trend in the latest ISOfocus magazine
• The future belongs to those who collaborate
• The water warrior
• The Pernod Ricard Way
• Big plans for big data
• ISO 9001 and the public sector: Two new documents, one big benefit and millions of happy citizens

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 Wife of the Vice President of Ghana,Mrs. Matilda Amissah Arthur Urges Librarians To Keep Up With New Trends in ICT
• 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

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

• Registration for The Innovative Library Classroom Conference is Now Full
• Invitation for “Library Talk & Tour” on Wednesday, April 16
• VLA Webinar: Building Influence: Getting Your Way When It Counts the Most, 4/28/14
• Registration for VLAPF 2014 is OPEN
• Webinar Opportunity – VLA Youth Services Forum – 3/19/14
• 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

KS LIB Assoc

• Lead the Change!
• Call for Proposals
• 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!

KPLA

• Facebook Profile Photos for Legislative Day
• 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

NCSLA

• Two Technology Librarian jobs open at NCSU Libraries
• John Lubans webinar – Freedom at Work: New & Old Concepts
• Data Management Specialist – US Coast Guard
• AHEC Knowledge Management Librarian
• TraCS Knowledge Management Librarian – UNC
• Corporate Ecosystems Seminar – Tues April 8th
• Corporate Ecosystems Seminar – Tues April 8
• Library Tour & Happy Hour – Thurs March 20
• Library Tour and Happy Hour – March 20th
• Document & Knowledge Management Expert – Syngenta

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

• National Legislative Day - We Need You!
• iTeach: Information Literacy Workshop
• Hotel Reservations Link Now Available for Annual Conference
• Join the SCLA Discussion Group!
• Upcoming NMRT Brunches
• New Director Starts at Florence County Library System
• South Carolina Libraries--Call for Papers
• SC Legislators Penalize Universities for LGBT Curriculum, ALA & SCLA Respond
• South Carolina Libraries Journal Seeks Book Reviewers
• Let’s Get Together! New Members Round Table Brunches

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