Archive for the 'Librarianship' Category

Vote for Jessamyn West’s SXSW 2010 Conference Library Presentation Proposals

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Jessamyn West of the librarian.net blog has two library related presentation proposals for the SXSW 2010 Conference in Austin, Texas:
“I have proposed two presentations for the SXSW conference in Austin Texas next March. There is a complicated series of steps to determining which of the proposals will actually get picked. Part of this determination (30%) is [...]

Code4Lib Journal Issue 7 Out

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Issue 7 of the Code4Lib Journal is out:
How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source
Extracting User Interaction Information from the Transaction Logs of a Faceted Navigation OPAC
Using a Web Services Architecture with Me, Myself and I
Deciphering Journal Abbreviations with JAbbr
Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting ETDs into an Institutional Repository
Bibliographic Metadata Extraction from [...]

NISO Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities October 8-9, 2009 Metro Meeting Center Boston MA

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

NISO is holding a 2 day forum called Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities on October 8-9, 2009 at the Metro Meeting Center in Boston, Massachusetts:
“Libraries have a dizzying array of options for acquiring, implementing, and modifying library resource management systems. The ballooning number of choices reflects the changing character of this marketplace. [...]

Libraries, Cut Backs, Budget Hearings, Fundraising

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

The day after I attended a public hearing for a local library’s budget and the cuts it’s facing, Eric sent me this New York Times article about Ray Bradbury’s support of libraries. A library enthusiast, Bradbury, famous for science fiction works like The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and, of course, Fahrenheit 451, [...]

NELA ITS Content Management Day June 12 Portsmouth NH

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

The NELA Information Technology Section is holding CMS Day: building a better website with Content Management Systems: Drupal, Joomla, Plone & WordPress on Friday, June 12, 2009 10 am -3:30 pm at the Portsmouth Public Library in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Jessamyn West will be the keynote speaker.
Drupal Darien(CT) Public Library & Paige Eaton [...]

UW Library Students Blog about Internships in Botswana

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

The latest issue of Jottings, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies newsletter, announced Sarah and David, who hope to graduate this year, are spending a few months in Botswana to intern at two new public libraries. Wow! What great opportunities!
They’re blogging about it, of course:
Sarah Elsewhere
dave 2.0
(Had I been able to [...]

NETSL 2009 Spring Conference: Working the Cataloging Landscape: Fishing, Mining, and Harvesting April 17 Worcester Mass

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

The New England Technical Services Librarians are holding their 2009 Spring Conference called
Working the Cataloging Landscape: Fishing, Mining, and Harvesting on Friday, April 17, 2009 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass:
NETSL Annual Spring Conference Program 2009:
Working the Cataloging Landscape: Fishing, Mining, and Harvesting
Friday, April 17, 2009
9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Sign-in begins [...]

In the Foothills: A Not-Quite-Summit on the Future of Libraries March 26 Darien Library

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

The Darien(CT) Library is holding the following talk on Thursday, March 26, 2009:
Join us on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. at Darien Library in Darien, Connecticut, for:
In the Foothills: A Not-Quite-Summit on the Future of Libraries
At many Library conferences these days, we focus on technology so intensely that often we forget to consider [...]

Winthrop, Mass., Public Library In Peril

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

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 [...]

2 from On the Media: US Gov’t Electronic Records and the Supposed Death of the Newspaper Industry

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

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 [...]


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