The spring issue of News Library News, the official newsletter of the Special Libraries Association News Division, is available. Highlights include some articles about Baltimore, the location of the 2006 SLA Annual Conference, a profile of The Baltimore Sun, a few articles about XML feeds, a recap of Gary Price’s visit to Boston, and the [...]
I’ll admit these are rather odd questions.
Do any of you get death or other kinds of threats at work? If so, how do you deal with them?
If you don’t feel comfortable answering online, feel free to tell me via e-mail. This is mostly for my own curiosity.
(Don’t worry, Mom, I’m fine. Love you!)
On Newslib, someone pointed out that the Winter 2006 (vol. 27, no. 1) Newspaper Research Journal includes an article by Howard Bossen, Lucinda D. Davenport and Quint Randle about the “… impact of digital cameras on photo procedures and archiving.”
I haven’t been able to find the article online yet.
An invaluable gift: The Anschutz Corporation is donating more than 5 million items from the San Francisco Examiner’s archives to the Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley. Already holding many items related to California’s history, the library’s collection will now have some excellent primary source materials from the newspaper.
"From its start under William Randolph [...]
One way to try to beat the potential employment shortage is to recruit and retain great professionals now. The October 10 BusinessWeek explores developing and mining talent within corporations. Much of what the articles discuss and highlight could be applied to libraries. Some ways companies emphasize and develop their workers is through exit interviews, professional [...]
Newslib, a discussion list primarily for news librarians, usually hums. This past week, rising above the daily melody was a serious tone about the downsizing of yet another news library, that of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. Reports on the discussion list indicate ten years ago, fifteen people provided news library services to [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of indexing and abstracting the last few weeks at work. It’s a task that requires lots of concentration on my part. Usually, my day is such that I do a variety of activities. Because of the amount of indexing I’ve needed to do, I’ve pretty much just been working on [...]
MassINC, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, will give tours of its redesigned Web site from the Massachusetts State House on Wednesday, October 26. They want to bring their new site to the people who use it or could benefit from it the most by taking it on the road. They’re even providing coffee [...]
My lunch with the library and information science students was cool. One considering business librarianship and another pondering law librarianship or records management or something joined me. We talked about library school stuff, the job market, how to get a job, and those kinds of things. None of us actually ate lunch. We hoped more [...]
I’ve read in several places that LexisNexis expanded their free offerings regarding coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath and reconstruction. The site includes 4,000 sources.