Come to Library School! Just Don’t Expect a Job! – Annoyed Librarian – Blog on Library Journal.
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Does the Brain Like E-Books?
Does the Brain Like E-Books? – Room for Debate Blog – NYTimes.com. “Show me one person who has made a serendipitous discovery while wandering the library stacks, and I will show you a thousand whose eyes glazed over at the sheer anomie, inefficiency, and...
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The Future is Now
The Future is Now – Annoyed Librarian – Blog on Library Journal.
But for the reference librarian there has to be something a little humiliating about being replaced by a coffee machine. The only saving grace is that it’s a really expensive coffee machine. We...
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Print Management in libraries: friend of foe?
Print Management in libraries: friend of foe? | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan.
“I am a proponent for eliminating all charges in libraries whenever possible, including late fines,...
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Libraries – leveraging the network
The Guardian.
Pioneering system will allow users to borrow books from almost anywhere in the UK, using their existing membership card
From today, more than 4,000 libraries across England, Wales and...
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BC OneCard — BCLibrary
BC OneCard — BCLibrary
A library card from your home public library opens the...
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Stanford Special Collections’ Virtual Archives in Second Life
Stanford's Virtual Archives contains a small, but growing, subset of some of our collections. Patrons can open virtual manuscript boxes and a sampling of scanned documents from the real...
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The Internet and Civic Engagement
The Internet and Civic Engagement | Pew Internet & American Life Project.
….internet is not changing the fundamental socio-economic character of civic engagement in America.
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Still, there are hints that...
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Motivation in the work place
“But libraries still have to motivate their employees. Pink suggests that we need to give them three critical things:
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
In other words, we need to give them the ability...
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dot matrix
- Larger Threat Is Seen in Google Case - NYTimes.com March 3, 2010Larger Threat Is Seen in Google Case - NYTimes.com: There is more than meets the eye in the ruling:... […]
- Italian verdict on Google privacy sets dangerous precedent March 3, 2010Italian verdict on Google privacy sets dangerous precedent: The Italian law distingushes between... […]
- How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com December 9, 2009How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com […]
- Col. Douglas Macgregor: The Bog of History in Afghanistan October 18, 2009Col. Douglas Macgregor: The Bog of History in Afghanistan […]
- Transcript of President Obama’s remarks October 9, 2009President Obama’s Nobel Reaction - NYTimes.com I also know that this prize reflects the kind of... […]
Resource shelf
- New Report from OCLC Research: Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata Practices March 12, 2010 resourceshelf
- Online Searchable Database: Library and Non-Profit Book Sales and Book Stores (U.S.) March 12, 2010 resourceshelf
- Macmillan CEO John Sargent on eBooks Possibly Causing a Change in Publisher/Library Relationship March 12, 2010 resourceshelf
- Memory, Literacy and Democracy: Remarks by Daniel J. Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada March 12, 2010 resourceshelf
Science News Stream et al.
- digg_sciences: "Climate Change Threatens Migratory Birds, Report Says" - http://digg.com/d21LPfb?t10 March 13, 2010
- Stanford: Mark Coggins ('79, MS '88) on how a crush on his Stanford prof landed him a role in her novel: http://bit.ly/c9bo0v, http://bit.ly/d9XzwD March 13, 2010
- REPTILESMag: Russ Friday Movie Review this week is Alice in Wonderland. http://fb.me/4Cxiezc March 13, 2010
- BadAstronomer: Hmm, passed 32767 followers without incident. Word. March 13, 2010
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