Anonymous Patron writes “Judge to felon: Repay library Just two days after a Will County judge sentenced her to jail, another judge has ordered former Homer Township Library District director Regetta Meyers to repay $337,000 to the district.”
Samantha
Would-be inventors enliven librarian’s life
Cortez writes “Hot damn, Lenny Adams has himself one cool job. What? How’s that? How could a librarian’s job sound like so much
Read the story here.
Its nice to see a reporter get enthused about a library service,I’ve used the http://www.uspto.gov/
but it sounds like Lenny Adams is a master of the world of patents and trademarks.”
A Civil War fight closely watched
Bob writes “Did Confederate Gen. Evander McIver Law loot the South Carolina Statehouse when he fled Columbia, SC ahead of General Sherman in 1865? Well, trying to figure out the rightful owner is now playing out in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court:
Click here for the story.
“Libraries and collectors are waiting to see whether the case has repercussions, such as states gaining the right to take anything that once belonged to the government.””
Google and Libraries
Anonymous Patron sends us a blog post entitled “Amateur Megalomania: Google and Libraries.” In it, the author proposes a new scheme for copyright that would end libraries’ ‘institutionalized theft,’ as he calls it, of authors’ works. Interesting read.
“The Librarian” one last time
rteeter writes “For those who missed it (and those who want to relive it), Television Without Pity has an in-depth recap of ‘The Librarian’.”
The Electronic Library
The New York Times joins in the editorializing about Google’s digitization projects. This short editorial brings up a lot of the points that we as librarians have already mentioned, and it has a nice pro-library perspective.
Touched by the Turn of a Page
A nice editorial on the joys of physical libraries in the face of Google’s digitization initiative.
Into the stacks, tablets in hand
The New York Times reports on a couple of roving reference setups using Tablet PCs, lightweight notebook computers that work like PDAs (no keyboard necessary, incorporating a touch screen) and connect wirelessly to web resources and work like a regular computer. Very neat idea!
Covering the Bases: a PhD’s guide to becoming a librarian
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Career Network column features today an article by a humanities PhD who is now a librarian. He offers helpful hints for those who wish to follow in his path. #1 – have some library experience. #2 – get a MLS or equivalent from an ALA-accredited institution. Helpful hints to anyone looking for a librarian position, I would say!
Why librarians are so tight-lipped
Anonymous Patron writes “The Guardian has a Suprising or Sad Story on restrictive user fees Most UK public libraries have to do deal with on their subscriptions to online encyclopedias and digital archives. The publicity problem stems from the way libraries pay for their online resources. Academic libraries tend to negotiate on the basis that anyone can access these services at any time, a luxury denied to the public library service. “An awful lot of the contracts provide for a certain number of simultaneous users,” says Tim Buckley-Owen of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. “This puts libraries in the invidious position of not publicising their online services because they can’t afford to meet the demand that would follow.”
There is currently no prospect of a central solution for English libraries, as there is in Scotland and Wales, but the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) – which also oversees the People’s Network initiative – is working to produce a basic agreement that will give library authorities a head start in the negotiation process.”
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