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Looking For Latino Librarians

Julio Santillán Aldana is looking to contact Spanish speaking Latino Librarians here in the States and elsewhere.

He runs a little magazine down in Peru called Bilbios.

Check it out, you can also reach him by email at:
santillan@peru.com

Shopfront libraries?

Desley writes in from always sunny Australia: \"I would like to know if anyone on the site has any information on \'Shopfront libraries\' that is libraries in shopping centres, you call them malls over there. All information, comments etc would be appreciated as we are looking at changing the location of ours as the area has developed away from this site.\"

Email her at :

Wanted urgently: WAP sites for Librarians

Godfrey Oswald writes: \"Hello

Due to the massive response I have received around the world for WAP sites for
inclusion in the Info Connect Directory, I have decided to provide links here
to a selection of reference WAP sites of interest to librarians that have been
sent in.

The full list of all WAP sites will be available with the launch of the Info
Connect LIS Directory WAP version (based on WML).


The current list of reference WAP sites for librarians is at:
http://www.geocities.com/infolibrary/Page28.htm


When you get to this link, scroll down till you get to \"WAP sites for
librarians\"

Please help me by e-mailing more WAP sites.

Thanks.

Godfrey Oswald.

Godfrey Oswald MSc.
information scientist and author.
London. \"

Advice on Filters

Skip Auld writes:
\"Is anyone aware
of tests of an Internet filter called \"American Family Online,\" a product
created by a subsidiary of the American Family Association
(http://www.afo.net/)? It\'s been called an \"effective, low-cost filtering
program ... available for $1-2 per month per computer when used by government
customers.\" Please contact Skip Auld, Assistant Director at Chesterfield County
(Va.) Public Library (auldh@co.chesterfield.va.us) with any information\"


Now that it\'s law to use filters, what are you using?

Attention Library School Students!!!

Hey everyone!! I was wondering if my fellow library school students can help me out. I am in the midst of putting together some data for my Master\'s thesis on methods that library school students use to keep up to date in the field. I have put a questionnaire online (http://www.freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?id=296). It takes a few minutes to fill out and would a great help to me. Please, students enrolled in library school only. Thanks. Steven M. Cohen.

What is the current usage for the librarian in charge?

Someone writes \"A librarian the other day told me they were a master librarian. I have looked around the library web pages and found titles for the librarians that have the overall responsibility of a particular library, go by general titles as chief librarian, head librarian, university librarian,campus librarian. Since library functions are always changing, I have two questions. Is there a general title as master labrarian and what are current titles for the librarian with the most responsibility at any library?

Yes, I do not work in a library. \"

I\'d say Library Director sounds about right, but maybe there are others? I\'ve never hear of Master Librarian, but it sounds pretty cool!

How Do You Motivate Your Staff

Linda Mbonambi writes:\"
I am researching on staff recognition to other insitutions. I want to find out how do they do it, and what kind of rewards do they give to their staff and what criteria do they use to recognise a staff member in a library setting. We as staff recognition team would like to apply some methods to our staff as a way of motivating them.\"


eMail her and let her know how you do it.

Science Libraries

Fele Lay
writes:


I am majoring engineering and I want to enter a
university that has an excellent science library.


Now I go to New york public library-science and
industrial and business
library to search books and journals. I do not know
whether it can be
compared with the best science libraies in universities.

Does anyone know of any Library Rankings for
Science Libraries?Or can anyone suggest a good
science library?

What are you looking for?

I was doing some house cleaning and thought I\'d share some interesting search terms people have entered on LISNews.com, some are strange, some are funny. Judge For Yourself:

microsatellite dna
GASB34
macintosh computer
LIBRARIANAVENGERS
"Do you have sex"
jamie
chocolate chip cookies
worlds rainforests
homosexuality
sprague
Fiber Optics
vehicle maintenance
mousercise
Cereal
Natural resources of Texas
Arrowhead Trail Accomidations camping
latchkey
church of Satan
oxygen atom
big six
subito
monster of shark
mousexercise
eyes de la quimica
boobies
Little Black Sambo
drew carey
Pesdisids
methalbromide
lobster
sex
pictures of the human heart
catnip
http://www.lolitasex.com/
obsessive compulsive disorder
gamlet
my brother sam is dead
Dentistry|Web site
soil salinization
marine bacteria
feotus
eyewitness
verteporfin
Saklad
Bye, bye bacteria
bioflavonoide
tyranny
The Executive Producer
nudes
are not are too

Measuring electronic resource use and the network

Marcia Geyer writes \"I am seeking information (and willing to share what I receive so we\'ll all be better aware). The subject of my inquiry is, what are other academic libraries or the university I.T. staffs that support them doing to measure utilization of their local LAN and licensed gateway resources? I\'d like to establish contact with anyone who is doing measurement of either the information resources being used or the server and library\'s network resources being \"spent\" to support the information retrieval through the library -- even better, any attempts to correlate information access and resources used to facilitate it.

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