Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Sacramento Public Library board will consider adopting a response rejecting many findings and recommendations put forth in a grand jury report. Anne Marie Gold, director of the Sacramento Public Library, faces scrutiny from the library's board of directors.
PM (Free subscription) | yesterday
...or to be precise, the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament. AP reports: "The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again - online. The British Library says the full text of the Codex Sinaiticus (we've pictured it here) will be available to Web users by next July, digitally reconnecting...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the article: The UK’s national library is using a new Ethernet networking infrastructure as the basis for a number of projects to digitise huge amounts of content and to consolidate its data centre using virtualisation. The British Library needed to find more reliable and cost-efficient ways to network its two sites in London’s St Pancras and [...]
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | yesterday
The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at the Catholic University of America seeks a full-time Clinical Assistant, Associate or Full Professor to teach in its library and information science master's program, be responsible for accreditation related responsibilities and participate in developing alternative delivery formats for offering its program in school library media program. The...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
From the news release: In January 2009, the British Library will be starting a collection moves programme of low-use items. This is the largest programme of moves we have undertaken since the opening of St Pancras in 1998. The transfer of low-use items to a new storage facility in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, will take place in [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
From the article: Business is booming at Canada’s major public libraries, which credit everything from the high price of buying books to social networking, vampires and a new social acceptance for frothy best-sellers. “People say libraries are dying because of the Internet,” said Beth Barlow, chief librarian at Surrey Public Library. “But we’re finding a lot of growth [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
From the article: IT CONTAINS farm labourers’ Shakespeare-inspired expressions and the reasons why Pembrokeshire is called “Little England”. It took more than 40 years to compile and will form an epic record of Anglo-Welsh dialects for generations to come. Because now the new audio encyclopaedia – a fascinating series of recorded interviews studying the English spoken by people [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
From the article: The U.S. Library of Congress has postponed a meeting planned for Wednesday to change the subject heading for Korea’s Dokdo islets from “Tok Island (Korea)” to “Liancourt Rocks,” an old international moniker, and file it under “Islands of the Sea of Japan,” the body of water Koreans know as the East Sea. The [...]
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
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Science Library Pad (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
This could very easily descend into an anti-business or urban planning rant, so let's go pointform: the city is for its citizens the public library is for the public public space is essential to a healthy urban environment the central...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 31 minutes ago
Carlos Delgado hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth inning and Oliver Perez stifled the Philadelphia Phillies again, helping the New York Mets earn a 3-1 win Thursday that gave them sole possession of first place in the NL East.
Eater (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Chow has a great "Obsessives" video up right now about menu historian and librarian at the New York Public Library Rebecca Federman and the library's 35,000 piece menu collection. She discusses the differences between menus in the early 1900's and...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Sacramento Public Library director Anne Marie Gold could be fired today by the library governing board, which also is considering how to respond to a critical grand jury report.
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
From the article: When Shippensburg University’s student library is remodeled next summer, it will be losing up to 30 percent of its book collection in favor of electronic storage. Source: Public Opinion
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
From the editorial: When we learned libraries were installing video games to draw teens and young adults through their doors, our first thought was that it’s like luring people to church with free beer. Who says that’s a good idea? Sure, they’ll come, but then how do you get rid of them? The library, we thought, was [...]
