... doing collaborative work, their collaborators are likely to be located all across the globe — and that has implications for how libraries support that work. Publications serve many purposes for faculty, but the ... from the world of academia that academic librarians ought to understand. What am I leaving out? Tagged: future of libraries, librarians, publishing, research, scholarship, teaching

... ten incredibly important and equally complex questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools. Doug Johnson has begun to react ... questions, wouldn't you think that every librarian would want to respond? Unfortunately from where I sit, however, I still see three kinds of librarians (and teachers, for that matter - the same we've seen now, for years): Those that read and participate ...

I had a library school student who emailed me some questions about Web 2.0 and libraries. Rather than reply via email, I made this video. This video also serves double duty as my Day 6 video ... my other videos for the month. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: navlopomo, navlopomo09, athens, ohio, libraries, librarians, technology, information literacy, learning Share This

... , I congratulates them for choosing the profession. These librarians have been with us, exploring, observing and knowing the libraries and the librarians for several years. How I wish they would consider working in public ... of learning, the next stop is the library. And, SOME Pinoy public libraries have something to offer however, lacks the force to undertake.. and to do away with it gradually, it ...

... it was those who serve as stewards to textual knowledge; librarians, deans of libraries, and so forth. And yet, whenever I read articles on "the future of libraries", ... they were given stewardship of is now dead and the rest of us had better get used to it. The general consensus seems to be that libraries used to be places in which books were stored, but now the 'consumers' don' ...

... to travel. Thus began a lifeling love of books. Even today librarians and archivists will tell you that the only thing we can be sure will have some chance of still being around in 100 years time is paper ... meaning for today - a today that is ever changing. Our horizons can be broadened by libraries and books, but more often they are also broadened by encounters with extraordinary people and their ...

... numbers on Japan’s network of public libraries as part of a survey taken every three years of “social ... 1995. Though there are only 14,981 employed librarians or assistant librarians in Japan (including those working at privately ... research! While I won’t get into it now, Wikipedia has some info on the history of libraries in Japan if you’re interested. (link thanks to J ...

Radical patron provides a summary of recent advocacy for libraries by non-librarians, including this bit: Nov 6 Author James Patterson ... at a national conference for school librarians. “It’s time for librarians to start making a lot more noise,” Patterson told the packed crowd. “School libraries are not a luxury, they are a necessity.” Additionally, Patterson and a team of publishing ...

... of our two hour presentation was, “Digital Citizenship in Libraries: Constructively Leveraging the Power of the Social Web.” System librarians have re-evaluated their strict content ... a delight to share this presentation and these ideas with Oklahoma public librarians, and again present with one of my children as I’ve been able to do several times this fall. Kids ...

Last week I attended the Massachusetts Library Association’s Rally for Libraries at the State House in Boston.  Librarians came from all over the state to hold signs and lobby that ... We cheered when a speaker said something great. We chanted – but rather quietly. Librarians just aren’t cut out to be protesters! But we are cut out to serve the people of ...