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The Boston Globe reports three faculty members of the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science will spend the summer training Iraqi librarians.

The Dallas Morning News reports on medical librarianship, giving an overview of that kind of special librarianship.

leads to questions about whether library staff can do work that’s meant for unionized employees in order to remedy a situation that stinks and poses a health hazard.

When the FBI tried to remove computers from a Newton, Massachusetts, library, the librarians insisted on the FBI presenting them with a warrant before taking the equipment.
The Newton TAB gives a more detailed account.
Jessamyn has a bit about this situation, too.
Thanks for the link, Matt!
Addenda 2/7: Richard Cravatts, a Boston University lecturer, explores whether people [...]

From WXRT in Chicago comes Lin’s Bin, a segment where Lin Brehmer answers a listener’s question. This episode has to do with why librarians are cool. It includes lots of famous snippets, including those fabulous words of Evelyn Carnahan, the librarian in The Mummy, that make some of us stand up and cheer in crowded [...]

beSpacific mentions an article about three studies dealing with how quickly people evaluate Web sites. Many do it in fractions of a second–much quicker than some Web designers think it happens.
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The American Library Association will have these new buttons on sale during the Midwinter meeting in a few days. In the center are the words “Radical Militant Librarian.” Around the edge, it says “Defending Access Defending Privacy Defending Freedom.”

Libraries411.com mixes library location data with Google maps to make locating libraries easier.
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For years, people have debated who’s really a librarian. Library degree holders only? Paraprofessionals? Those who work in libraries doing the work of librarians but have no special training? Information scientists in non-library settings? Finally, an answer is on the horizon with this quiz Jessamyn mentions. Take it to find out if you really are [...]

beSpacific mentions this expert’s viewpoint that magnetic tape might be a better preservation medium than some CDs.
Conservation OnLine provides lots of information about preserving various formats. It includes some items about CDs and digital files in its audio materials and electronic storage media sections.