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ALA Conference is coming. Are you ready?

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:59:56 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: I am not sure I can make it to the ALA Conference this year. I know! What kind of librarian do I think I am? Well, obviously, I'm trying to be great but I also have 2 other conferences this summer which means my head might explode. The Shifted Librarian posted a link to this so I thought I would Clipmark it and share it with all of you lovely people.
Enjoy!

Clip Source: alfocus.ala.org

Your ALA Annual Conference & You!

Gee willikers! Check out this swell 1950s-style educational film that gives you the A-B-Cs of having a jim-dandy time at Annual Conference. It's packed with so many super tips that every Billy and Sue out there will exclaim, "Golly! Can we watch it again?" Yes indeedy, you can! (Stick around afterwards for a few bloopers, too.)

Tags: libraries, ala, conference, how-to, video

Libraries are hot!

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:19:29 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: This was in Entertainment Weekly & I just couldn't help myself with posting it!

Clip Source: www.ew.com

Photo Gallery
18 Sexy Trips to the Library Stacks

Okay, maybe all these library scenes aren't as ''sexy'' as the naughtiness in ''Atonement'' but it's National Library Week -- why quibble?

By Joy Piedmont | Apr 14, 2008

Clip Source: www.ew.com

THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)
An entire day in the school library doesn't sound like punishment to me, but I'm not an athlete, a basket case, a princess, a criminal, or even a brain with suicidal thoughts. The breakfast club tear pages out of books (that sound you hear is my breaking heart), smoke pot, and play loud music; all big no-nos for a hall of learning. However, the teens learn from each other (awww) and that's why the library rocks.

Tags: libraries

Yet another reason why I need to get to Holland

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:25:21 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: The Shifted Librarian wrote an excellent post about visiting the DOK in Delft, Holland. It sounds amazing. Read on friends..read..on..

Clip Source: theshiftedlibrarian.com

Visiting the Most Modern Library in the World

Earlier this month I had the incredible good fortune to visit DOK in Delft, Holland. Normally I would call it the Delft Public Library, but it just goes by the name “DOK” and the sign on the door says it’s a “library concept center.” The staff did this on purpose to get away from the traditional stereotypes of the public library, because the institution they’ve created is about as far away as you can get from the connotation of a 1950s building, filled with quiet people, all of them sitting alone, in a relatively dreary building, being shushed by an old lady with a bun.

Instead, it is easily the most colorful and aesthetically-pleasing library I have ever seen. Granted, I’ve seen a very small percentage of the world’s libraries, but the use of a diverse palette of bright and unusual colors was a very stark contrast to every other library I have seen in person or in pictures.

Tags: libraries, holland, dok, shiftedlibrarian

Interesting question & post from Attempting Elegance

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:21:02 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: I work at a school library and this is a great question. I will have to take some time to reflect on it.

Clip Source: rogersurbanek.wordpress.com

Attempting Elegance

What is real library work, anyway?

“I’m not trying to be a pain, but if someone’s, like, just doing Facebook, can I kick them off? Can you? I have actual work to do!”

Tags: libraries, library, work, school, social, judgment

Scholarship & the Read/Write Web

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:11:38 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: During my undergraduate and graduate years, the libraries I used struggled with the ever increasing cost of scholarly peer-reviewed journals. Today, faculty in Harvard's arts & sciences department are going to vote on whether they want to publish their research on an open-access server maintained by the library.
This is a great move. I know, I am completely biased. I love reading other people's research - a lot of librarians and educators - already use their blogs as a means of sharing their work and also working with others. I
However, I do wonder about what types of issues with come up once this starts and people begin access it. There are issues of plagiarism, how it will effect existing journals, how it will effect those specific fields and I am just not sure if the detriment will out weigh the benefits.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web

Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free.

Although the outcome of Tuesday’s vote would apply only to Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university’s prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost.

Under the proposal Harvard would deposit finished papers in an open-access repository run by the library that would instantly make them available on the Internet. Authors would still retain their copyright and could publish anywhere they pleased — including at a high-priced journal, if the journal would have them.

Tags: harvard, publishing, journals, scholarship, open-access, peer-review, education, universities, university

Print vs. Online Sources - editorial piece

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:13:36 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: This is an interesting editorial on online sources (e.g. Wikipedia) versus print sources. As a librarian, I am slowly changing my mind about the validity of the information in Wikipedia. I do not agree with Magnus Linklater's idea that Wikipedia is the first and possibly only place to find information. I still feel that print sources are valid and that they should be a part of research. I do not know any thing about the UK's education system so I cannot comment on that. But I do know that education curriculum needs to change. Research, writing, peer-reviewing -- all of these things are changing with the "read/write" web and as an educator/instructor we need to prepare students for these changes.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Reference books? Give me Wikipedia

The sniffy critics of the internet think we should be traipsing down to the library to do our research

Today it is the University of Google that stands accused of purveying the new socialism by offering equality of information to everyone. Modern students, say the critics, are being handed unlimited supplies of dubious facts from online sources such as Wikipedia, without the means of distinguishing between the good and the bad. Because they no longer have to sift through books and carry out their own research, the students' sense of curiosity has been blunted. The internet provides “white bread for the mind” and it is breeding a generation of dullards.

Tags: education, wikipedia, print sources, libraries, research, opinion, timesuk

Library Use by the "Well-Wired"

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:40:22 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: I thought this was an interesting study conducted by Pew. Though, I am wondering what they are referring to by "Library Use." Is it checking out books? Using the wi-fi? Using the databases?
From my own experience at the public library, we do have a lot of users who utilize the wi-fi but a lot of users do not have internet access at home.

I wonder who they surveyed...