About two months shy of its true 150th anniversary, the Rocky Mountain News published its last paper and prepares to completely close down. It had been seeking a buyer in the midst of troubles plaguing many newspapers these days.
My hat is off to our colleagues. I can’t help wondering what will happen to the archives [...]
The NELINET $234 discount for the 2009 Computers In Libraries ends today, February 23, 2009
Date: March 30 – April 1,2009
Location: Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA
Costs*: Computers in Libraries (March 30 – April 1, 2009) – $234.00
Internet@Schools East (March 30 – 31, 2009) – $109.00
Combo (Computers in Libraries and Internet@Schools East) – $234.00
*This [...]
The Vormelker-Thomas Student Award deadline is fast approaching Wednesday March 4, 2009
The News Division of the Special Libraries Association invites graduate students and December 2008 graduates interested in a career in news librarianship to apply for the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award.
The award, co-sponsored by the News Division and ProQuest, is a $1,500 stipend to assist students [...]
Blake Carver of LISHost is looking for an experienced Linux Systems Administrator:
“Business is good at LISHost and we could use some help from an
experienced systems administrator. The position involves all the usual
things a sysadmin would do, including server maintenance, security,
and support. The job is part time, requires no travel and has no set
regular hours.
The ideal [...]
Disclaimer: I am the Technical Services Librarian at the Winthrop Public Library and union shop steward.
The Winthrop(Mass) Public Library is facing a serious financial crisis since the Town of Winthrop received a $511,000 state aid cut a few weeks ago. The Town Council was going to close the Library, but after a massive [...]
Techdirt and Editor & Publisher posted two stories that the Wall Street Journal is laying off two news librarians:
Editor & Publisher:
“NEW YORK The librarian who operates The Wall Street Journal’s news research library — which is set to close with the elimination of her job and another staffer’s — said in a memo to other [...]
Garrett pointed me to the summary “On the Record: A Forum on Electronic Media and the Preservation of News” in the current issue of Focus on Global Resources.
“The recent and ongoing contraction in the newspaper industry and the emergence of the Internet as a venue for real-time news suggest that preserving newspapers will become [...]
The Digital Commonwealth is holding it’s 3rd annual Digital Library Conference and Vendor Fair on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Keynotes
* “Rebooting America,” David Liroff, formerly of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* “Digital Preservation: Prologue and Principles,” Nancy McGovern, University [...]
I don’t normally listen to the National Public Radio program On the Media, but I happened to catch two stories on this week’s episode definitely worth mentioning here.
1) Like many archival repositories, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the archives that handle many important United States government records, like those from the Office of [...]