The European Digital Library, created to counter Google’s digitalization efforts and promote the digitalization of European texts, is facing problems due to something that librarians everywhere will have no problem understanding.
They’re running short of funds.
Tasked with the creation of digital collections, the 80 institutions involved face a massive job with little government backing.
One more from California this morning, This Time it’s from LA, where some L.A. libraries face increasing disruptions from thugs, vandals and other troublemakers. Plans are underway to beef up security. At the Jefferson branch, six windows were smashed this month by gang members seeking a man who hid inside until police gave him a ride home. At the Exposition branch, an August shooting outside the library’s main door prevented patrons from leaving until security arrived. Last spring, a principal at a charter school sent a letter to parents, urging students not to go to the Hyde Park-Miriam Matthews Public Library because children were being “taunted, harassed and intimidated by the students [from nearby schools].”
Over at The San Francisco Chronicle Peter Warfield Says San Francisco’s Prop. D is bad for libraries; Very, very bad.
It is being deceptively sold as a “renewal” of the Library Preservation Fund, a pitch likely to lull voters into thinking everything will stay the same as before. But it won’t. In fact, Proposition D repeals the fund two years before it expires in 2009, and replaces it with a revision that undermines what the fund was set up to do.
For author Henry Petroski, the simplest of instruments be it a pencil or a telephone keypad can offer fascinating stories of engineering, design and cultural history.
Even toothpicks don’t escape his inquisitive eye. His latest book explores the history of this seemingly mundane tool and why picking our teeth is among mankind’s oldest bad habits.
Story continued here on NPR.
Here’s one visitor’s irreverent glimpse at the Reagan Presidential Library, with some great photos of the interior. Blogger Christine N. Ziemba agreed to take her Republican parents to the library, even though her politics are quite the opposite.
Kelly writes “Amazing accounts from writer Naomi Wolf, who is finding out that, in her travels throughout the US, people are waking up to the encroaching darkness. Here’s her book-related observations, “Someone else says that his friend opened his luggage to find a letter from the TSA saying that they did not appreciate his reading material. Before I go into the security lines, I find myself editing my possessions. In New York’a La Guardia, I reluctantly found myself putting a hardcover copy of Tara McKelvey’s excellent Monstering, an expose of CIA interrogation practices, in a garbage can before I get in the security line; it is based on classified information. This morning at my hotel, before going to the airport, I threw away a very nice black T-shirt that said “We Will Not be Silenced” — with an Arabic translation — that someone had given me, along with a copy of poems written by detainees at Guantanamo.” More here: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/12/450 2/“
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 28, 2007
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries: Carleen (woody+wired), then Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free), then Carleen again.
lislemck (Biblioblather) just finished one of those 23 Things Challenges. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) on blogging about the library experience.
Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib) is compiling a directory of experimental library tool sites. John Miedema posted his Eight laws of library technology.
Daniel Chudnov (One Big Library) points to two articles about the World Digital Library.
K. G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) reports on OCLC’s report on sharing, privacy, and trust.
LIBRARIANSHIP
Back in August, Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack had some thoughts about library literature. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) responds.
Lazygal (Killin’ time being lazy) has some thoughts about what it means to be a “real” school librarian.
Krafty Librarian writes about the difference between academic medical librarians and hospital librarians. Krafty Librarian also notes that librarians can help decrease hospital length of stay.
John Miedema has some thoughts as he finds himself halfway through a part-time MLIS.
A volunteer’s first encounter with AACR2. (via)
SURVEYS
Survey on middle management in libraries.
Survey of academic websites. (via)
SUBJECT GUIDES
From Meredith Farkas, more about 2.0 subject guides.
ODDS & ENDS
Krafty Librarian with a reminder to check your domain name expiration date. [Ed.: but watch out for fake renewal emails]
The story of the superhero librarian who rescued the children from the scary monster.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
ASIS&T 2007 (October 19-24)
– Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant).
– Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib).
Internet Librarian 2007 (October 29-31)
– Lots o’ bloggers
– Twitter.
AASL 2007 (October 24-28)
– Christopher Harris (Infomancy).
Strategic Thinking and Planning (with Larry Seaquist) (October 19-21)
– Duane McCollum (The Information Auditor)
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on LISNews every Monday. [Feeds]
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 28, 2007
……….
Online learning and its impact on public libraries: Carleen (woody+wired), then Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free), then Carleen again.
lislemck (Biblioblather) just finished one of those 23 Things Challenges. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) on blogging about the library experience.
Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib) is compiling a directory of experimental library tool sites. John Miedema posted his Eight laws of library technology.
Daniel Chudnov (One Big Library) points to two articles about the World Digital Library.
K. G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) reports on OCLC’s report on sharing, privacy, and trust.
LIBRARIANSHIP
Back in August, Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack had some thoughts about library literature. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) responds.
Lazygal (Killin’ time being lazy) has some thoughts about what it means to be a “real” school librarian.
Krafty Librarian writes about the difference between academic medical librarians and hospital librarians. Krafty Librarian also notes that librarians can help decrease hospital length of stay.
John Miedema has some thoughts as he finds himself halfway through a part-time MLIS.
A volunteer’s first encounter with AACR2. (via)
SURVEYS
Survey on middle management in libraries.
Survey of academic websites. (via)
SUBJECT GUIDES
From Meredith Farkas, more about 2.0 subject guides.
ODDS & ENDS
Krafty Librarian with a reminder to check your domain name expiration date. [Ed.: but watch out for fake renewal emails]
The story of the superhero librarian who rescued the children from the scary monster.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
ASIS&T 2007 (October 19-24)
– Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant).
– Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib).
Internet Librarian 2007 (October 29-31)
– Lots o’ bloggers
– Twitter.
AASL 2007 (October 24-28)
– Christopher Harris (Infomancy).
Strategic Thinking and Planning (with Larry Seaquist) (October 19-21)
– Duane McCollum (The Information Auditor)
………………..
This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on LISNews every Monday. [Feeds]
Ever wonder what happened to Donna Shalala? She served as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton for all eight years of his administration.
Since 2001, she’s been the fifth President of the University of Miami, and she’s exceedingly proud of the libraries on her campus. “The most important buildings on our campuses are our libraries,” said Shalala. She explained that libraries can be an effective recruiting tool, which is one reason UM will continue “upgrading and expanding our collection.”
The three millionth book, Dialogues et Chants Royaux, a previously lost 16th century manuscript, has just been added to the U of M library, with the fanfare described here.
OK, we’ve reported on the ghost in the library, now here’s a dear little story about a library angel in Kansas City.
Uh oh, ghost in the library. In the library bathroom to be precise. Here’s the story from Zee News, Kent, UK.
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