Seeking Submissions from Practicing Librarians (U.S. and Canada) for ALA Editions The Published Librarian: Successful Professional and Personal Writing (American Library Association) Foreword: Bob Blanchard, Adult Services Librarian, Des Plaines Public Library. Contributor to Illinois Library Association Reporter; Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians (McFarland, 2008) Introductory Note: Wayne Jones, Head of Central… Read More Writers Needed
Google Librarian Central has given up its blog for a newsletter. Every few months, they will deliver to your mailbox a a letter that details how Google works. Newsletters are available online or for delivery. The current newsletter is full of infomation on Google Books, Google Sky and Google Health.
Have you signed up yet to join the Brown Book Shelf’s Summer Chat series on MySpace? The next chat is 23 July. What are you waiting for?!
The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, with more than 134 million books, recordings, photographs and prints, maps, music items, and manuscripts. Collected in more than 470 languages, the materials range from rare cuneiform tablets to born digital materials. Through its Web site, the… Read More LOC online Orientation
The ALA office for Diversity will examine the impact of white privilege in the library envirionment at the Beyond White Privilege 101 session scheduled during the ALA’s Annual Conference in Anaheim CA.
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