What We Need, written 10 hours ago, The cover story for the October issue of Library Journal is titled What We Need.  It centers on the results of a survey of Movers & Shakers, the annual group of people recognized by Library Journal for innovation and leadership.  It contains a lot of great i...

Ohio Housing Locator, written 3 days ago, Created by a partnership of five state agencies, OhioHousingLocator.org is free for landlords and for people searching for affordable housing.Use the search engine to find housing to fit your needs. Limit your search results by several variables including si...

5 Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss, written 9 hours ago, DJ Francis, author of OnlineMarketerBlog.com, writes a guest post for ReadWriteWeb titled 5 Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss. For anyone who is currently trying to push social media at their library or organization, you may want to...

Teen Read Week: October 12 to 18, written 6 hours ago, Once a year, we take a week in October to recognize the importance of teen reading. This year Teen Read Week is from October 12 to 18, and the theme is Books with Bite. I could go on about the importance of encouraging teens to read and list a b...

Props to Rutherford Free Public Library, written 1 day ago, My lady made me aware of this: http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=187342 Do your part America and don't return your books and pay those fines!       

Mark your calendars: Fall SEMLOL Meeting, written 9 hours ago, The SEMLOL (Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries) Fall meeting is Friday, November 21, 2008 at Wayne State University and the Detroit Public Library.  The program will be about "Old Spaces, New Places: Reuse, Recycle, Reinv...

Sustainability is a campus buzzword, written 1 day ago, The Kept-Up Academic Librarian notes in a recent blog post that going green can improve more than just a carbon footprint; it's seen as fundamental and an incentive to students, parents, and even potential donors. The post refers to an article ...

Why A CLS And ULS, written 1 day ago, An interesting question was raised by Lisa Allen over at the Facebook page for the ACRL College Libraries Section. Lisa wanted to know why ACRL maintains separate sections for college and university librarians when it is likely that many of us share and deal wit...

K12 Online Conference, written 2 days ago, The K12 online conference begins soon(the first event is October 13). I'm sure most readers of my blog are aware of the conference, but if you are not, it's an all-online conference.  You attend by watching the presentations that are posted each day during...

keep your eye on this one., written 8 hours ago, In the Library with the Lead Pipe is new blog by a few folks I go way back with and some others who I'm sure are similarly sharp. Here's how they represent: We are six librarians working in academic, public, and school libraries across the United Stat...

ACRL National Conference Green podcast, written 2 weeks ago, I'm very pleased (and a little bemused–it's weird to hear my own voice!) to have been able to participate in a short podcast for ACRL National Conference, discussing the work of the Green Committee to make the conference more sustainable...

McDowell textile mill closes, 83 workers lose jobs, written 8 hours ago, http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:ACTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=12399F10ED8267E8&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0DF0646...

Friday Fun: Changing colors of Fall, written 16 hours ago, Picture linked from Chemical of the Week: Autumn Colors from scifun.orgSo many of the Eckerd students come from out of state. I thought some students may miss Fall colors. The Fall Foliage Celebration site from University of Buffalo provides...

Free Document Delivery for Engineering Faculty, Staff, Grad Students, written 1 day ago, Interested in receiving copies of articles and chapters from the S&E print collection electronically, without leaving your office or lab? This quarter, the Science & Engineering Library is making our Ava...

MLA ‘08 blog.

Library as [a fun] place, written 1 day ago, Mark at the AALL Spectrum Blog wonders whether law libraries are holding fun events in the library, and whether anyone has studied (and presumably reported on) that. My answer to the first question is an emphatic "yes!" At my previous job in a f...

The library status quo must go!

Librarians keeping up with technology in the Lone Star state.

Library: Don?t take no for an answer, written 1 day ago, By SUSAN LOYER Staff Writer • October 9, 2008 Asbury Park Press On-Line OLD BRIDGE — Librarian Tim Niland sat patiently in front of the computer screen awaiting his next assignment. A short time later, he was alerted to an incoming message...

Beer Goggles for GMail?, written 2 days ago, Yesterday I was perusing the Internets for something to throw into a presentation. Anyways, I stumbled upon a mention of something new from the Google Labs that adds a little extra protection before you send out your messages via Gmail. I cannot remember ...