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.
A woman stopped me on Harvard’s campus. “Excuse me. Can you tell me where the library is?”
“Which library?” I inquired.
“There’s more than one?” She responded.
“Yes, there are about 90 libraries.”
“Oh! I thought there was only one!” She exclaimed.
I learned through further questions she wasn’t even looking for one of Harvard’s libraries.
My instinct to ask her [...]
"NEWSPLAN SCOTLAND, an ambitious campaign to preserve almost 4 million pages of Scotland’s endangered historic newspapers from the period 1700-1950, led by the National Library of Scotland (NLS), has now been completed."
from the ResourceShelf
Addendum 9/1: LISNews mentions this project, too.
UCLA’s Department of Information Studies and the international preservation research group InterPARES hope news librarians will spare about an hour of their time to complete a survey regarding best practices and long-term issues of digital news archives.
From an e-mail to Newslib:
"By taking the survey, you will:
Help assess the potential threats to invaluable cultural resources
Raise [...]
The summer issue of News Library News, the bulletin of the Special Libraries Association News Division, is now available online. It includes a look at CNN’s library in New York and lots of coverage of the SLA 2005 Annual Conference, including a brief report of the blog course I taught there. That’s where the tagline [...]