The traditional job title \”librarian\” has become surprisingly controversial–and possibly outdated. Is \”librarian\” still an accurate reflection of our jobs? If many of us will not be called \”librarians\” when we graduate, what kind of job titles will we have?
Click here to find out – so far I\’ve come up with \”Information Services Manager\” and \”Automation Coordinator\”
Thanks to Blisspix.
Via the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter:
During 2001 and 2002, the University of California libraries will be participating in a research project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of this project is to determine user responses to relying on digital access to selected journals, print holdings of which will be relocated to remote storage during the project. The study will test the hypothesis that effectively shared digital resources can begin to relieve the pressures on physical facilities and capital budgets to house and manage print materials.
For more information about this initiative, click here. The project is expected to be of critical importance to all of UC’s libraries as we develop strategies, policies, and programs for managing research library collections of print and digital materials. In addition, we expect that the project’s outcomes will also be of considerable interest to academic and research library communities nationwide.
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From Excite News:
Pittsburgh-based Preservation Technologies, L.P., signed a new five-year contract with the Library of Congress (LC) to preserve over a million books and 5 to 7.5 million manuscript pages using its Bookkeeper process. This is the first step toward the LC\’s goal of preserving 8.5 million retrospective and new books over the next 30 years.
With strong support from Congress, LC has worked with Preservation Technologies since the mid-1990s to preserve hundreds of thousands of books. As the national library and the official library of the U.S. Congress, LC\’s mass deacidification efforts have focused primarily on its collection of \”Americana.\”
After rigorous research and review, the successful treatment of more than 300,000 books and the successful completion of a four-year contract, the new contract ensures that the Library of Congress and Preservation Technologies will continue to work together to preserve endangered volumes.
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Bessie Barnes passed along
This one on a donation by Afeni Shakur, mother of slain rapper and \”Thug Immortal\” Tupac Shakur.
The $10,000 donation is the largest unsolicited donation in the library system\’s history.
\”Basically, she came in to use the library, looked around, then came to the circulation desk and told them that she wanted to make a donation to the library,\” says Fisher, who grudgingly allows that he enjoys The Beatles, folk singers like Pete Seeger – and the symphony.\”
Bob Cox sent along 2 stories (One and Two) on that guy whose assistance dog was attacked last year by a library cat that served as the Escondido library\’s mascot filed a $1.5 million lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Escondido.
He alleges the city violated state civil rights laws, including laws designed specifically to protect the rights of the disabled, by denying him full access to the library with his assistance dog. He also alleges that a library administrator and a patron chastised him for ignoring the sign and bringing Kimba into the library and that police did not promptly respond to his call for assistance.
Charles Davis added One More Story, as well.
Washington Post author, Carol Morello, writing from aboard the USS Roosevelt, shares a story about sailors reading bedtime stories to their children at home. The ship\’s library contains a collection of children\’s books that parents can read aloud on videotape and send home to their families. The activity is part of the United Through Reading Program, launched some years ago, in order to keep parents stationed offshore connected with their children. More
stuart yeates writes \”
Yahoo is carrying a story about a modernised, sanitised version of Ulysses being banned for copyright resaons.
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A High Court judge in London, ordered that undistributed copies of a “Reader\’s Edition\’\’ of the book published by Picador under the Macmillan imprint be handed over to the trustees of Joyce\’s estate.
He said it breached copyright because it contained words not published in Joyce\’s lifetime
Clifford the Big Red Dog will be visiting the home of every first-grader in Baytown, Texas this Christmas. In an effort to get kids reading, librarians and school teachers, with the help of community members, have purchased thousands of Clifford books to be given away to the kids as gifts. The program is in its second year. More
The Freeport Public Library (IL) is in the news again, but this time it\’s not about their new library building woes. The library is going to serve as a safe haven for victims of domestic violence. Librarians, along with law enforcement officials, will be trained in how to \”establish community libraries as central repositories and safe environments where victims of violent crimes can get information about local assistance and shelters, as well as how to apply for crime victim\’s compensation.\” More
For The Palm Beach Post, Frank Cerabino writes…
\”In March we\’re all supposed to be reading the same book. It\’s a fad: Seattle did it. Chicago did it. Now, Palm Beach County is going to do it. What book? We don\’t know yet. Of course, March is when the new Shady Palms story will run — the serialized third installment of my novels set in a fictitious Boynton Beach condominium. But it would be graceless for me to pitch my own stuff.\” More
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