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  • ALA calls on Dept. of Education to highlight school librarians as states prepare to ‘Race to the Top’

  • Source: www.wo.ala.org Date: Aug 31, 2009
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Jenni TerryWASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA) recently filed comments to the Department of Education regarding the Race to the Top Fund, a competitive one-time grant program funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that More

  • ‘A new assignment: Pick books you like’: Verne, too, please—not just Austen and the rest

  • Source: www.teleread.org Date: Aug 31, 2009
    Will children fare better as readers if they can pick their own books? Yes, say Nancie Atwell and some other reading gurus. The New York Times has the More

  • A Certified Lunar Librarian

  • Source: lisnews.org Date: Aug 10, 2009
    The new exhibit at the Plymouth (MA) Public Library is so out of this world Margaret McGrath needed a special certification from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to handle it. McGrath, the library’s youth services librarian, is now a certified lunar librarian.For the next More

  • IMLS Awards More Than $20 Million in Librarian Recruitment and Education Grants

  • Source: www.imls.gov Date: Jun 21, 2009
    The Institute of Museum and Library Services is a grant-making federal agency supporting museums and libraries of all types. More

  • Education Schools and Library Schools: A Comparison of Their Perceptions by Academia

  • Source: www.information-literacy.net Date: May 13, 2009
    Blog of Michael Lorenzen discussing library user education, library instruction, librarianship, information literacy, education, and search engines. Also covers other observations on life in general. More

  • COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES: Diving Into the Blue: A Look at Michigan’s Repositories

  • Source: www.infotoday.com Date: Apr 1, 2009
    Libraries are constantly evolving and changing expectations for the user and the information environment. More than just being an authoritative source for research, expertise, and quality content in the form of books and journals, the information center is evolving into a more expansive role. More

  • Journal of Hospital Librarianship Looking for Article in the Technology Column

  • Source: kraftylibrarian.com Date: Mar 18, 2009
    Hope Leman, the section leader for the Technology Column is looking for articles to for the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Hospital Librarianship. Articles need to be with the editor by July 1, 2009. Specifically looking for an article such as "My Favorite Web 2. More

  • Virtual world continuing education courses for educators and librarians

  • Source: infoisland.org Date: Jan 13, 2009
    UIUC GSLIS and Alliance Library System are pleased to offer a series of non-credit continuing education courses for librarians, educators, and others interested in libraries, museums, learning and teaching in virtual worlds such as Second Life. Classes available include: Second Life 101, Second More

  • Library Leadership and Management Winter 2009

  • Source: www.ala.org Date: Dec 3, 2008
    Increasing Investment through Participation 5Redoing Workspace Layouts without Tears and AngstWyoma vanDuinkerken and Pixey Anne MosleyStatistical Analysis Models 12Applications for LibrariesTim SpindlerIntergroup Dynamics 17Librarians and Paraprofessionals in the WorkplaceMarian G. FragolaUsing More

  • American Education Week is November 16 - 22

  • Source: my.simmons.edu Date: Nov 14, 2008
    MySimmons is Simmons College intranet for current students, faculty and staff. More

  • TWO TO READ: THE "ACCIDENTAL" LIBRARIAN AND CREATING YOUR LIBRARY BRAND

  • Source: opls.blogspot.com Date: Nov 3, 2008
    MacKellar, Pamela H., The Accidental Librarian, Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2008, ISBN 978-1-57387-338-3, US$29.50, foreword by Karen Strege [Director of the American Library Association Library Support Staff Certificate Program]What is an “accidental” librarian? MacKellar, a library More

  • [L4L] Learning4Life: 18 Ways to Make a Difference

  • Source: schoolof.info Date: Oct 20, 2008
    With the launch of the Learning 4 Life campaign for implementing the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, the American Association of School Librarians identifies new roles we all need to adopt to ensure success. Over the next 2 weeks, I will be looking at the 18 objectives presented in L4L More

  • NetLibrary participates in Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification Program

  • Source: www.oclc.org Date: Oct 3, 2008
    Libraries that subscribe to both Serials Solutions and NetLibrary eBooks may now access their content directly through Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks, the comprehensive knowledgebase of content for libraries. More

  • ALA-APA Survey: 2008 Mean Salary for Librarians with ALA-Accredited Master's Degrees is $58,960

  • Source: digital-scholarship.org Date: Aug 26, 2008
    The American Library Association has published the 2008 edition of the ALA-APA Salary Survey: LibrarianPublic and Academic.Here's an excerpt from the press release ("Librarian Salary Survey Reports Mean Librarian Salary Up 2 Percent to $58,960 in 2008"):Analysis of data from more than 1,010 More

  • Notes to a new editiopn of Introduction to Public Librarianship. 8.26.2008

  • Source: librarian.lishost.org Date: Aug 26, 2008
    Introduction to Public Librarianship2nd ed. notes1. The Landscape of Public Libraries in the 21st Century….. 2-32. History- Beginning- 1918 [might retitle]……………………. 43. History-1918-Present [might retitle]………………………… 54. Statistics, Standards, Planning, Results, evaluation……. 6-7 5. Organization, More

  • Librarians - Twellow

  • Source: www.twellow.com Date: Aug 10, 2008
    Twellow is a service to search for other professionals who twitter. This link is for librarians who twitter, 762. More

  • Do Senior Librarians Have a Moral Obligation to Retire?

  • Source: www.lisnews.org Date: Jul 25, 2008
    Considering the current economy including the weakening job market, should senior librarians retire to make room for younger librarians? That's the question asked in Law Librarian Blog's poll at <a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2008/07/do-senior-facul.html" More

  • Cars, pie, life

  • Source: freerangelibrarian.com Date: Jul 10, 2008
    I just finished a long post about pie and software, which trashes my assertion that Id keep my Equinox posts short-short-short, yessiree! I think reading stuff I didnt agree with, in a post that invoked me of all things as a source, got me spinning like a top. Meanwhile, some have More

  • ALA Emerging Leaders - Bibliobloggers Comment

  • Source: tametheweb.com Date: May 29, 2008
    Lori Reed is NOT renewing her ALA membership next year:The announcement I just received from ALA about the application for Emerging Leaders is the final straw in my decision to not renew my ALA membership next year.The description of the program sounds exciting to someone who is eager to get More

  • More library benchmarking

  • Source: thecorporatelibrarian.com Date: May 15, 2008
    This has already made the rounds, but the Ark Group is publishing a study Managing the evolution of library and information services (the email I got states you can preorder before May 28th for US $345 plus shipping). The press release suggests a heavy sampling of law firm libraries, but also More

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