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The Democat Librarian

Travelin' Librarian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Warning Sounds for Librarians

the wee librarian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

First of all, apologies for the extended silence. Between IFLA, First Year Experience activities and a slew of beginning of term instruction, I have had little time to think let alone blog. Now that things are quieting down, I hope to be more on the ball. I decided to title this post after an article I [...]

Librarians and Wikipedia

Internet News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Putting the Library in Wikipedia By Lauren Pressley and Carolyn J. McCallum. Online (Oct 2008) "Through trial and error we have learned strategies for how librarians can effectively use Wikipedia to make their collections known on the web. We feel...

McGill ranks 20th ...

Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | yesterday

in the world ( on the Times of London lis). The alma mater ranked higher last year, but 20 is still pretty good and it is 21 spots above U of T!

UM Scholarly Publishing Office Releases Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet

DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library has released an open access monograph, Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet. It is edited by Wendy Pradt Lougee (University Librarian, University of Minnesota) and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason (Arthur W. Burks Collegiate Professor of Information and Computer Science, School of Information, University [...]

Follow the lead QUESTIONS

Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | yesterday

One of the things I learned as a librarian and as a citizen is that, much as it pains me, I can't know everything. So it's good to know people who you know and trust to vet things for you. For instance, if I were suddenly to develop an interest in Doctor Who and wanted to know what book to read first, I wouldn't bother researching it,; I'd just ask Gordon . So it is with local politics. There's coterie...

Fresh clashes between Arabs and Jews erupt in Acre

Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | yesterday

Jack Khoury, Jonathan Lis, Fadi Eyadat and Yoav Stern; 11/10/08 Clashes between Jewish and Arab residents of the northern town of Acre resumed Friday evening as clashes raged in the city for a third day. Police forces securing the area fired water cannons to disperse the crowd and arrested two rioters. Calm has been restored for [...]

Friday Love Letters - Flexibility - Part 1

F i n a ' D r e a (My Main Blog!) (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

My friend Lis has been posting what they call "Friday Love Letters" for some time now... I enjoy reading hers and thought it may be a neat tradition for me to start on my blog. Since I inspired her to start blogging, teehee.. I know she wont mind me doing the same. I found it to be such a neat idea... for more information check out Baby Love Letters. Q : How do you stay flexible when changes come into...

Getting a job 2.0

Confessions of a Science Librarian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

It's interesting times in the world out there. And not surprisingly, the world of the internet is thinking about the implications. One of the big implications is that it's going to be harder to get a job, and that's going to be true librarians as much as anyone else. As it happens, I've been collecting some links on my FriendFeed lately that talk about getting yourself ready to find a job. (Not that...

Top 10 Traits of an Ideal Teacher According to Dean Giustini

Clinical Cases and Images (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Dean Giustini is a Reference Librarian at Biomedical Branch Library, University of British Columbia, the author of UBC Google Scholar blog and a "Medicine 2.0 celebrity" (not shown in the picture). According to Dean, an ideal teacher is: 1. Humanistic - cares about his/her students. 2. Clear - establishes clear and transparent guidelines for assessment, and clear expectations. 3. Makes you feel hopeful...

Issue 4 of TVFH on Sale Now

The view from here (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

by Mike Interviews with authors ... Paul Torday of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Gary Davison Jon Haylett School Librarian of the year Nikki Heath Industry News Original Fiction & much more! ISSN 1758-2903 Click here to see a full preview and to buy.

SLA Alabama

Stephen's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

A lovely sunny trip to Tuscaloosa Alabama to visit the SLA Alabama chapter. Here are the PPTs. They even broadcasted it to the distance education students. Again, it's wonderful to visit so many LIS schools and see some pretty good innovations and specialties. Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves, Our Associations and Our Enterprises Stephen

SLA Michigan Chapter

Stephen's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Twas a great evening and day in Detroit meeting LIS students, tourng Southfield PL, lunch with the SLA locals and doing an event for the evening. Here's my special stump speech for SLA Michigan: Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves, Our Associations and Our Enterprises Stephen

What It Feels Like… to maybe have someone who writes for Esquire to have heard about your idea?

SEO'Brien (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Leave it to Esquire to bring the Library analogy to explain search and SEO to the masses. In the November ‘08 issue, an endorsement of The Public Library from Esquire’s Meryl Rothstein reads, …a librarian is like a Google that actually finds what you’re looking for and never clutters your screen with porn. That’s sort [...]

Nominations for the LPSS Marta Lange/CQ Press Award Due by December 5, 2008

Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

The annual Marta Lange/CQ Press Award recognizes an academic or law librarian who, through research, service to the profession, or other creative activity, makes distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science. This award honors Marta...