ARL Salary Survey: U.S. Academic Librarians’ Salaries Up 1.5 Percent The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released its annual salary survey today which showed academic librarians' salaries in 2010-2011 increased 1.5 percent in the United States and two percent in Canada.
In its ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010-2011, ...
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:20:45 Clemson’s Road Map In this Article
Mapping Clemson's Road Ahead
Road Map Resources
The bricks and mortar of academic libraries are seemingly permanent, yet the activities and services they are designed to deliver have been radically transformed in recent years. Mor...
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:20:30 It's Simple: Open Access, Open Minds | Peer to Peer Review Photo by Debora Miller
Last week I sat down with a faculty member to plan out an instruction session. She wanted to bring her first term seminar students to the library so they could learn how to publish their ideas to the world. The topic of the semin...
Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:20:05 They Really, Really Like Us | From the Bell Tower Sometimes we academic librarians get down on ourselves. We may think our future outlook is bleak. We may even think we're facing an imminent crisis. We may believe that it's because no one appreciates what we do—or even knows what we do, for that matter.
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Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:20:05 Library Copyright Alliance Voices Concerns Over Anti-Piracy Legislation The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—whose members include the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of College & Research Libraries—yesterday released a letter [PDF] written to the ranking members ...
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:20:04
Audio Reviews
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Audiobook Reviews, October 1, 2010 FICTION Bender, Aimee. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8¾ hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307737151. $35; 7 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. F Bender's (www.aimeebender.com) second novel, follow...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Audiobook Reviews, September 1, 2010 FICTION Adams, Will. The Alexander Cipher. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400114694. $69.99; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Adams (The Lost Labyrinth) presents h...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Audiobook Reviews, September 15, 2010 FICTION Beattie, Ann. Walks with Men. 2 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 2½ hrs. AudioGO (formerly BBCAA). 2010. ISBN 9780792772347. $39.95; digital download. F In PEN/Bernard Malamud Award winner Beattie's powerfully stark period novella, Jane, a recen...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Major Audio Releases Books on Tape
Grisham, John. The Litigators. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. Books on Tape. Nov. 2011. ISBN 9780307943217. $45; 1 MP3-CD; Playaway digital; digital download. F Narrated by Scott Brick, Grisham’s latest legal thriller will be ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 The Reader's Shelf: The Seductive Pleasures of Audio Memoirs, March 1, 2011 The Seductive Pleasures of Audio Memoirs
Memoirs offer readers rich evocations of time and place, personal memories made universal, and the pleasures of eavesdropping on another’s life. When memoirs are translated into audiobooks, those pleasures...
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:16:41
Book News/Interviews
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A Mystery Meet Up In St. Louis, November 1, 2011 Bowling for dollars
Bouchercon, held September 15–19 in St. Louis, always provides fun opportunities for mystery authors and readers to give back locally. At the stunningly retro Flamingo Bowl, 13 teams of authors, publishers, and wannabes knocked down ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 ALA 2011 | Authors & Celebrities AUTHOR-ITY FIGURES ALA always boasts a cache of fabulous and varied programs on books and their creators. (L.-r.): On Saturday, hear Jennifer Niven Celebraging Southern Writers and Wendy mcClure on the hot Literary Memoirs trend. Sunday is for Mystery and...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Collection Development | The Rise of the Locavore (Locavores), April 2011 Eat local. That’s the idea behind the growing locavore movement. The word itself has become more commonplace, especially since it was named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year in 2007. Locavores typically eat food grown or produced within ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Editors' Spring Picks While we do not represent the rainbow of reading tastes American public libraries accommodate, we Book Review editors—now nine strong—are a wildly eclectic bunch. One look at our bedside tables and ereaders would reveal very little crossover.
S...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Epic Journeys: Fantasy Makes a Comeback, SF Searches for a Renaissance | Cover Story Illustrations Copyright Sam R. Kennedy
In this Article
SF/Fantasy on the Web
Epic Fantasy: 20 Core Titles
Map to the SF/Fantasy Galaxy
There’s an important difference between setting trends and chasing them, and a look at 2011’s crop of ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
Book Reviews
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Fiction Reviews, November 1, 2011 Ausubel, Ramona. No One Is Here Except All of Us. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). 2011. c.336p. ISBN 9781594487941. $26.95. F In 1939 in an obscure Jewish village in Romania, a woman washes up on the shore of the river, the only survivor of a brutal ...
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:21:43 Annual Football Roundup: Pass the Books, August 2011 With the 2011 NFL season having been in some doubt, pro football fans may be glad to have the option of getting deep into the game with books. Even bibliographically, however, the season seems to be incomplete, with some defensive holding of titles un...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Arts & Humanities Reviews, August 2011 In this Article
Studying Scientology
Reviewer of the Year
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Cox, Caroline. Vintage Jewelry Design: Classics To Collect & Wear. Lark: Sterling. 2011. c.224p. illus. index. ISBN 9781600597145. $35. DEC ARTS Cox (cultural history, Univ. of t...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Arts & Humanities Reviews, July 2011 ARTS
Kalisher, Simpson. The Alienated Photographer. Two Penny. 2011. c.80p. photogs. ISBN 9780578071343. $49.95. PHOTOG Kalisher (Railroad Men) began his career as a photojournalist in 1948 and eventually embraced photography as an art form indepen...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Arts & Humanities Reviews, June 15, 2011 ARTS
Fisher, Celia. Flowers of the Renaissance. Getty. 2011. 176p. illus. index. ISBN 9781606060629. $39.95. FINE ARTS Fisher (The Medieval Flower Book) combines art history and botanical description to provide a fresh interpretation and floral ref...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
Buildings & Facilities
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The Quiet Plug Crisis Thirty years ago, the only person in a library looking for an electrical outlet was a blue-smocked cleaning person who had to plug in a vacuum cleaner with a very long cord.
Now, hordes of patrons outfitted with amp-devouring laptops and cell phones ex...
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:21:12 Clemson’s Road Map In this Article
Mapping Clemson's Road Ahead
Road Map Resources
The bricks and mortar of academic libraries are seemingly permanent, yet the activities and services they are designed to deliver have been radically transformed in recent years. Mor...
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:20:30 An A-List You Can Use | Editorial
The New Icons
The Ten New Landmark Libraries Poplar Creek Public Library Palo Verde Library/Maryvale Community Center Cesar Chavez Branch Library Hamilton Mill Branch Library Durango Public Library Sammamish Library Appaloosa Branch Libra...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Case Study: Experimenting with Design and a New Staffing Strategy| Library by Design Inspired by a regional lava dome, the 55,000 square foot Prescott Valley Public Library, AZ, houses a new hybrid university, town council chambers, and public meeting space in addition to the new library. A folded corten skin and glass window wall wrap...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Changing Spaces: Exploring Future User Needs, Sustainability, and Value | Library by Design In this Article
The Sponsors
Library Journal ’s ninth Design Institute, held May 10, 2011, at the Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis (and preceded by a tour of libraries on May 9), revolved around the idea that libraries’ role as a community c...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
Career News & Features
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Corner Office Interview: Gates Foundation's Deborah Jacobs U.S. libraries gave the world a top talent when Deborah Jacobs left her transformational role as City Librarian of Seattle in 2008 to head the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries program, the international sibling to the U.S. Libraries p...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 LJ 2011 Job Satisfaction Survey | Rocked By Recession, Buoyed By Service A recession that has rocked the bottom lines of libraries nationwide has not, despite any expectations to the contrary, managed to unseat the basic satisfaction of the workers who keep them ticking every day. That workforce is just as likely to choose ...
Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:17:23 Editorial: Sold on a Graying Profession The cover of the October 15 Library Journal, “A Losing Game,” portrays new grads from the class of 2009 in a game of musical chairs, feverishly trying to dislodge the competition—those longtime librarians—from coveted positions. They aren’t having muc...
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:15:10 LJ's Placements & Salaries Survey 2010 Finds Pay Stagnant, Unemployment Up According to LJ's annual Placements & Salaries Survey an uptick in starting pay for 2009 grads is countered by more part-time and temporary jobs, an expanding gender gap, setbacks for minority graduates, and a dip in the number of total graduates. The s...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 People Karl Aromaa has retired as Director of the Rumford Public Library, ME, after holding the job for almost three decades. Luke E. Sorensen is the new Director.
Terry Birdwhistell has been named Dean of Libraries, University of Kentucky, Lexington. He ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Collection Development | An American Art Form (The Art of Animation), May 1, 2011 It has been said that animation is one of two wholly American art forms. As with jazz, it was conceived of and truly developed in the United States and does not rely on Old World traditions for definition or direction. But the thing that really makes ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Collection Development | The Rise of the Locavore (Locavores), April 2011 Eat local. That’s the idea behind the growing locavore movement. The word itself has become more commonplace, especially since it was named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year in 2007. Locavores typically eat food grown or produced within ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Collection Development: After the Meltdown (Personal Investing), January 2011 Many current investors involuntarily entered the realm of investments for the first time when 401(k) retirement and other market-tied savings plans became the norm. Homeowners thought their homes were safe, appreciating investments.
Yet the last decad...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Collection Development: Celebrating Chemistry, February 1, 2011 A hundred years after Marie Curie received her Nobel Prize in Chemistry, this arm of science is pointing the way to a more sustainable future. Growing movements like green chemistry, which strives to create alternative and new chemical reactions that ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
Copyright/Fair Use
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Public Information for All: An Interview with Carl Malamud
Photo courtesy of James Duncan Davidson and O'Reilly Media
Since the early 1990s, Carl Malamud has made it his business to return to the public what is rightfully theirs: free access to public information. Despite legislation that mandates such acc...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 HathiTrust Orphan Works Project Grows as University of California, Others Join Up A number of recent announcements have greatly expanded the research bandwidth available to investigate the pool of orphan works in the HathiTrust collections—a fact that could stir discussion on orphan works access, both in and out of academia.
On August ...
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:19:27 JSTOR Announces Free Access to 500K Public Domain Journal Articles The JSTOR journal archive announced today that it is making nearly 500,000 public domain journal articles from more than 220 journals—or about six percent of JSTOR's total content—freely available for use by "anyone, without registration and regardless of...
Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:01 University of Florida Libraries Joins HathiTrust and Orphan Works Project University of Florida (UF) Libraries yesterday announced that it has become the latest academic library to join the HathiTrust digital repository—and the third library, after those of the University of Michigan (UM) and the University of Wisconsin (UW), t...
LJ's 2010 Budget Survey: Bottoming Out? Examining Library Journal ’s annual budget survey is like scanning a battlefield: there are bodies everywhere, the smoke and dust are blinding, and from over the horizon comes the unnerving sound of machines that promise either bitter havoc or sweet...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 LJ's Book Buying Survey 2011: Uphill Battle Let’s not panic. We knew the news would be bad. Respondents to LJ’s annual book buying survey of public libraries nationwide reported that adult book budgets were down eight percent overall, the largest plunge recorded since the survey began in 1998. W...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 News Desk, December 2010 FOUR BRANCHES MAY STAY OPEN IN BOSTON
The Boston Public Library is still facing unprecedented challenges, as the country’s oldest municipally funded library struggles to avoid the closure of four branches.
Amy Ryan, the library’s director, has been neg...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 NewsDesk, January 2011 Remembering Ron Shank It is with great sadness that we announce that Ron Shank, former group publisher of Library Journal, School Library Journal, Library Hotline, Críticas, and The Horn Book, passed away on Saturday, December 18, 2010.
Ron had an illust...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Miami-Dade Libraries Get Reprieve on 13 Branch Closures Thirteen libraries in the Greater Miami county area—more than one quarter of the entire Miami-Dade Public Library System—were rescued from closure this week under a revised budget that received an important approval Tuesday night.
The original $6.1 billio...
Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:18:13
Gaming
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Games, Gamers, & Gaming: "Gateway Games, Up a Level" In my previous column, “Gateway—or, ‘Bait’—Games” (LJ 11/15/10), I recommended basic games to intrigue apprehensive beginning players. Here, I discuss more complex games, for players up for more of a challenge.
Board games rule Electronic games, with ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Games, Gamers, & Gaming: The Great (M-Rated) Debate Does your library offer M-rated games? Whether you are currently exploring or rethinking your policies on this issue, there are many factors to consider.
What is an M-rated game?
Most video games released in North America are rated by the nonprofit En...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Games, Gamers, & Gaming: The Importance of Play By now, most libraries have embraced gaming. We understand that a fun-based activity like this fulfills our patrons’ social and recreational needs. It’s all very serious stuff, this having fun business.
But at the core of what we’re doing is play, and...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Envisioning the Future The sf genre has always posed the question, “What if?” Its sister genre, high fantasy, has held the throne of popular attention for some time, but now authors are employing hard and soft sciences again, creating novels of the near future. Many are exa...
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:19:35 Games, Gamers, & Gaming: Gaming: Let’s Talk Libraries have clubs where a group gathers to discuss a book the members have all read. Why not have game clubs built on the same principles? This is the question posed by Aramis Troche after I opened a discussion on Twitter. Troche is a reference pa...
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:19:08
Fiction Reviews
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A Mystery Meet Up In St. Louis, November 1, 2011 Bowling for dollars
Bouchercon, held September 15–19 in St. Louis, always provides fun opportunities for mystery authors and readers to give back locally. At the stunningly retro Flamingo Bowl, 13 teams of authors, publishers, and wannabes knocked down ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Christian Fiction, April 15, 2011 Though those of us in the northern states find it hard to believe, spring is just around the corner, and Christian publishing houses are preparing for a new season filled with exciting historical fiction, including new additions to popular series by Co...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Christian Fiction, August 2011 Historical fiction dominates these upcoming titles, from Lynn Austin’s Wonderland C reek to Sandra Byrd’s reimagining of Anne Boleyn (To Die For). Maggie Brendan (Deeply Devoted) examines the role of mail-order brides in the Wild West, while Yvonne Harris...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Editors' Spring Picks While we do not represent the rainbow of reading tastes American public libraries accommodate, we Book Review editors—now nine strong—are a wildly eclectic bunch. One look at our bedside tables and ereaders would reveal very little crossover.
S...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Epic Journeys: Fantasy Makes a Comeback, SF Searches for a Renaissance | Cover Story Illustrations Copyright Sam R. Kennedy
In this Article
SF/Fantasy on the Web
Epic Fantasy: 20 Core Titles
Map to the SF/Fantasy Galaxy
There’s an important difference between setting trends and chasing them, and a look at 2011’s crop of ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
Graphic Novels
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Graphic Novel Reviews, November 15, 2010 Picturing the Classics “The Jane Austen Centre in Bath sells our book!” burbled Nancy Butler about her adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. “How cool is that!” Butler was signing at the Marvel booth during BookExpo America 2010, and, indeed, Marvel has done...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Graphic Novels Reviews, July 15, 2011 Archaia’s A-List “When we were considering which publishers to approach about Return of the Dapper Men,” says artist Janet Lee, “we wanted a publisher known for beautiful, high-quality books that didn’t necessarily fit the traditional comics mold.” Cer...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Graphic Novels Reviews, September 15, 2011 YOE-YOE TRICKS You wouldn’t think editing and producing books could be as cool as being creative director for the Muppets and Nickelodeon. But Craig Yoe’s wildly creative historical comics collections do what he says: put the comic back in comics with...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Graphic Novels Prepub Alert: R. Crumb Times Two, Naruto, and a Librarian's Guide to Manga According to the August 22 edition of Publishers Weekly, higher education titles led all book categories in growth since 2008. In comics, we have seen an increasing number of adaptations of star titles (classic as well as popular), nonfiction graphic nove...
Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:19:09 Graphic Novels Prepub Alert: Jane Austen, Jim Henson & MetaMaus A fantastic month for comics, this October! Look for Jane Austen, CLAMP, Jim Henson, MetaMaus, and a Tezuka fave. Meanwhile, classics just keep moving into comics. In January this year, a new line was released in the United States: Graphic Dickens, from U...
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:18:00
Intellectual Freedom
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Public Information for All: An Interview with Carl Malamud
Photo courtesy of James Duncan Davidson and O'Reilly Media
Since the early 1990s, Carl Malamud has made it his business to return to the public what is rightfully theirs: free access to public information. Despite legislation that mandates such acc...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 LJ BackTalk: The Internet Is Not All or Nothing At least three nights a week, after working as a library director, I teach power yoga. Sometimes when the class is breathing into an uncomfortable twisting position, I ask them to look behind them and identify an old limiting belief. Then I ask them to...
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:18:31 “Free Speech Zone” at NYPL Artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese transformed the entrance of New York Public Library's Donnell Library Center this September (which included Banned Books Week) with two sets of illuminated triptychs, each with backlit portraits of blindfolded indi...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 14 Phoenix Public Library Users Banned for Porn In Phoenix, where city officials adopted a legally questionable policy to require all computers at city libraries to be filtered, 14 patrons have been banned for various times for violating the "no pornography" policy. According to the Arizona Republic th...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ACLU Sues to Lift Gag on Connecticut Library The American Civil Liberties Union has sued to lift the gag on a Connecticut library under investigation by the FBI, which has used a section of the USA PATRIOT Act to demand records. The ACLU wants its client—which was not identified, nor was the t...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45
Library 2.0
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Crowdsourcing RA | Social Mediator Would you recommend The Brothers Karamazov? How about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? The “Twilight” series? Love them or hate them, you’re not alone. There are likely millions of other people out there who feel the same, and they are making their op...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 You Can't Afford Not To Do These Things We've written about ideas for improving customer service, boosting staff morale, fostering change, and building a management and communication style that is win-win for both staff and administration. Almost everything we've discussed has, as its only cost...
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 A Public Library Tries LibraryThing LibraryThing developer Tim Spalding may have warned in LJ four months ago that public libraries were more scared of user-contributed data than academic ones, but he’s found a taker in the Danbury Public Library (DPL), CT. The library has signed up w...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 A Public Library Tries LibraryThing LibraryThing developer Tim Spalding may have warned that public libraries are more scared of user-generated tags than are academic ones (see 'Chief Thingamabrarian,'; LJ 1/07, p. 40–42), but he's found a taker in the Danbury Public Library (DPL), CT...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ALA Report: Computer Demand Still Increases Computer use surges; demand exceeds supplyLibraries offer more digital servicesBandwith issues remainWhile the number of public access Internet computers grew for the first time in six years-12 per branch, up from 10.7 in a year-nearly 20% of public libra...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45
Legislation
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Lessons From Ohio | LJ Feature Story Over the last 20 years or so, if the success of an Ohio public library initiative was mentioned at a national library conference, it was not uncommon to hear a groan or witness a roll of the eyes from non-Ohioans. Occasionally, a quick often dismissive...
Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:19:10 Opportunity Knocks | Editorial Opportunity. That was one of the watchwords at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in San Diego early last month. We heard it at the Urban Libraries Council program on broadband and at OCLC’s 2010 update to the Perceptions of Libr...
Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:15:31 Ain't No Sunshine: Promoting Open Government | Peer to Peer Review Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesI knew when I browsed the ALA program that one of the speakers I wanted to be sure to hear was Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, a trove of official documents liberated thanks to the Fr...
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting: WI LibraryNamed IF Award Recipient A press releaseabout the award,issued by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is below. Here's past coverage of the issue in School Library Journal.The press release
The West Bend Commun...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ALA to Libraries: Keep Alms for Jihad, Pulped in the UK At the urging of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), a scholarly book pulped by its British publisher is maintaining a safe haven in U.S. libraries. Alms for Jihad was the target of a potential libel suit in England b...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45
Library Culture
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In the Country of Anythink Beyond the sprawling Denver International Airport, there’s little to put Adams County, CO, on the map. The region’s light rail only stretches south, so Adams County, a mostly working-class zone to the northeast, has come late to growth. There’s no cen...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 A Conference Wherever You Are | LJ Feature Story The package from Amigos Library Services, Dallas, arrived in my mail one week before I was scheduled to deliver the closing keynote talk for the Amigos Member Conference 2011 last May. Why would I be getting a package for a virtual conference? What w...
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:19:24 “Annoyed” Strikes Again | Editorial This is an early release of the editorial that will appear in the Sept. 15, 2011 issue of Library Journal.
THERE WAS JOY IN SOME QUARTERS OF LIBRARYLAND in late August when LJ’s Annoyed Librarian (AL) blog went down for a day and then briefly several m...
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:19:02 Enlist the New Librarians! | Blatant Berry THE BRIGHT, NEW YOUNG LIBRARIANS graduating from our LIS programs are the best news in this awful period of library decline. Every semester my classes at Pratt Institute in New York and Dominican University in the Chicago suburb of River Forest bring a...
Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 Finding the Future: Inside NYPL's All-Night Scavenger Hunt | Cover Story Photo by Jonathan Blanc
They came wearing bowties and fancy hats, skinny jeans and peasant blouses. They came armed with smartphones, tablets, and laptops. On the evening of Friday, May 20, 500 young adults gathered at the New York Public Library (...
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:18:21
Library Education
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Martin B. Wolske | LJ Teaching Award 2011 Martin B. Wolske (top photo). Student nominators and winner (middle photo, l. to r.) Rumyana Hristova, Sayer Jackson Wolske, Stacey Snyder, Zachary Matthews, Anna Coats. Wolske (kneeling in jeans, bottom photo) with students after they set up a new Cyber...
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:20:30 NewsDesk, January 2011 Remembering Ron Shank It is with great sadness that we announce that Ron Shank, former group publisher of Library Journal, School Library Journal, Library Hotline, Críticas, and The Horn Book, passed away on Saturday, December 18, 2010.
Ron had an illust...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Office Hours: Can We Handle the Truth? If you haven't read the 2010 Project Information Literacy Progress Report from Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, you should. “Truth Be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age” is for anyone who plans for or se...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Online LIS Education—or Not | Office Hours HAVING JUST JOINED SAN JOSÉ State University’s (SJSU) all online SLIS, I read with great interest the new report from Pew Internet and American Life, “The Digital Revolution and Higher Education.” Pew interviewed over 1000 college presidents and more ...
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:19:41 The Role of Mentoring | Office Hours Having a strong mentor during your first few years as a librarian can provide a safety net of advice, encouragement, and caution for a newly minted professional. Such a relationship would be even better if it began during LIS education. This would als...
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:19:08
Magazine/Zine
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Revenge of Print: Retired Zinesters Return to Ink on Paper Fed up with all the end-of-paper-publishing rhetoric, workers from Atomic Books and Quimby's Bookstore declared the Revenge of Print 2011 (RoP). The Facebook page (I know, I know) has 473 posts as of August 2, 2011, so clearly the movement has attracted p...
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:19:52 The Magazine Rack: Farewell & a Look Back Exciting new magazines are still being launched, but at a slower pace than in previous years. LJ's magazines columnist Bill Katz noted in "Magazine Madness: The Best Magazines of 1986 & 1987" (LJ 4/1/88) that about 600 new magazines were being published e...
Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:19:30 The Magazine Rack: New Reviews, September 2011 This month brings reviews of two new magazines from Great Britain and one from Canada, along with a Western-themed literary magazine and a new offering from McSweeney's.
Delayed Gratification. 2010. q. £55. ISSN 2046-1933. Aud: GA (Subject: Cur...
Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 Disability Zines Educate, Agitate & Enable Change Zines can illuminate aspects of living with particular impairments and conditions and represent diverse experiences of disability and chronic illness. Disability zines, which often combine instruction (basic information about a condition) and personal nar...
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:18:40 The Magazine Rack: New Reviews, August 2011 Reviews of five new periodicals: a sports magazine, two literary journals, a news site, and one scholarly journal.
Red Bulletin. 2011. m. $29.95. Aud: GA (Subject: Sports. Issue examined: Jun. 2011) Red Bulletin is a glossy popular magazine fro...
Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:18:28
Managing Libraries
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The Quiet Plug Crisis Thirty years ago, the only person in a library looking for an electrical outlet was a blue-smocked cleaning person who had to plug in a vacuum cleaner with a very long cord.
Now, hordes of patrons outfitted with amp-devouring laptops and cell phones ex...
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:21:12 Clemson’s Road Map In this Article
Mapping Clemson's Road Ahead
Road Map Resources
The bricks and mortar of academic libraries are seemingly permanent, yet the activities and services they are designed to deliver have been radically transformed in recent years. Mor...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 ALA 2010, LJ Report: Sweating It Out When the 2010 annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) was assigned to Washington, DC, no one could have predicted that libraries (and the country) would be facing a collective budget crisis. So the Washington Convention Center tu...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 ALA 2011 | Professional Programs Aplenty, LJ's Picks & Pans There is plenty on the conference program for almost any librarian at any level at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in New Orleans, June 23–28. It may even be enough to keep you away from the many temptations of the bon temps i...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
New Librarians
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A Changing Academic Library Job Environment In light of recent professional discussions about tenure status for academic librarians, it seemed timely to explore graduate experiences in academic settings. Of the 416 graduates who accepted positions in academic libraries, 336 responded to inquiries r...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting: Spectrum Scholarship Fund Gets $100,000 Boost from Turock Spectrum program can't fulfill demandCorporations and foundations will be asked for $500,000All of ALA urged to get involvedThanks to the announcement today of a $100,000 gift from American Library Association Past President Betty Turock and her family, t...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Are You Really NextGen? At first it was just a stray gray hair or two, easily ignored. Then came the human resources training session, and the realization that I was in an EEO age-protected category. Finally, I was reading LJ's NextGen column and realized that I couldn't relate....
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Beyond the Library: Public vs. Private Sector Jobs Over the past several years a greater and more diverse representation of job assignments and types of organizations has lured LIS graduates, especially in the area of information science. Schools and graduates are reporting many intriguing job titles and ...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Editorial: What Value Fellowships? Instead of a gold watch to commemorate her 25 years on the job as director of Darien Library, CT, Louise Berry got a two-year, privately funded fellowship-not for herself but to hire a 2005 MLS graduate. The endowed fellowship sounds like the answer to th...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45
People
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People, December 2011 Mary Boone, State Librarian of North Carolina since 2005, has announced her retirement effective January 1, 2012. She previously was Foreign Service Library and Information Resource Officer, U.S. Department of State.
Donna Bourne-Tyson is the new Unive...
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:20:38 Blatant Berry: Knowing Norman Horrocks No personal loss is greater than the death of a close, trusted friend, upon whom you depend for all that friends do for each other. The passing of Norman Horrocks is both a terrible personal and professional loss for me. I have only a small stock of the...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Corner Office Interview: Gates Foundation's Deborah Jacobs U.S. libraries gave the world a top talent when Deborah Jacobs left her transformational role as City Librarian of Seattle in 2008 to head the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries program, the international sibling to the U.S. Libraries p...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Nancy Pearl: LJ's 2011 Librarian of the Year Photo by Ron Wurzer/Getty Images
No one other than Nancy Pearl has so convinced Americans that libraries, books, and reading are critical to our communities. Her passionate advocacy has done that nationwide for thousands of individual readers and li...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 People, October 1, 2011 Jim Buchman, Associate State Librarian, State Library of Ohio, has retired after 30 years with the agency. He began his career as a Typist/Library Assistant and, among other accomplishments, led the Ohio Talking Book Service through program consolidat...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
Opinion
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An A-List You Can Use | Editorial
The New Icons
The Ten New Landmark Libraries Poplar Creek Public Library Palo Verde Library/Maryvale Community Center Cesar Chavez Branch Library Hamilton Mill Branch Library Durango Public Library Sammamish Library Appaloosa Branch Libra...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Blatant Berry: Knowing Norman Horrocks No personal loss is greater than the death of a close, trusted friend, upon whom you depend for all that friends do for each other. The passing of Norman Horrocks is both a terrible personal and professional loss for me. I have only a small stock of the...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Editorial: A Hope in the Future The latest LJ Design Institute (DI), a daylong event presented in partnership with the South Carolina State Library and the Greenville County Library System (GCLS), SC, gave many of us who attended a needed shot in the arm at a time when so many libra...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Editorial: Passionate About Reading LJ ’S first librarian of the year, in 1989, felt as if she’d been demoted when she was transferred from the main library in Garland, TX, to the Walnut Creek Branch as an adult services librarian. A decade earlier, she’d been head of that branch when it...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Feedback | Letters to LJ, April 15, 2011 No outlets, no support In response to Harold N. Boyer’s “No free electricity” (Feedback, LJ 3/1/11, p. 10), I can understand budgetary concerns pertaining to the digital generation’s use of outlets at the library. I am a member of this newer generation...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
PrePub Alerts
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A Farewell to Anthony Shadid In September 2011, one of my Picks was Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone, a memoir about his working to restore his grandfather’s estate in Lebanon. Shadid spent time there after being released from his six-day detention, with four other New York Times reporters, by forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi. The book is currently set for [...]
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:37:33 +0000 Barbara’s Picks: August 2012, Pt. 4: Kitamura, Stedman, Grunwald, Marton Kitamura, Katie. Gone to the Forest. Free Pr: S. & S. Aug. 2012. 224p. ISBN 9781451656640. pap. $15. LITERARY Since his mother died, Tom and his father have dwelled together uneasily on their farm in an unnamed colonial country close to violence. Then a young woman named Carine enters their lives, forming a triangle and [...]
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:51:33 +0000 Fiction Previews, August 2012, Pt. 4: Reichs and Rendell Rule Barnes, Steven & Tananarive Due. Devil’s Wake. Atria: S. & S. Aug. 2012. 288p. ISBN 9781451617009. pap. $15. PARANORMAL Plague is sweeping the country, brought on by odd, uncontrollable biting attacks by the victims. The victims don’t die or join the realm of the undead, however; they’re simply front runners for an alien life force [...]
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:36:55 +0000 Nonfiction Previews, August 2012, Pt. 4: Nicholson Baker and the Caliph of Baghdad Baker, Nicholson. The Way the World Works: Essays. S. & S. Aug. 2012. 304p. ISBN 9781416572473. $25. ESSAYS Having stirred us up with his latest novel, House of Holes, Baker offers a second essay collection that should prove just as thought-provoking, whimsical, and physically detailed as that novel and indeed all his work. These essays, [...]
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:21 +0000 Book Chatting with Karl Helicher On February 8, instead of slaving at my desk, I hopped a train for King of Prussia, PA (named not for royalty but for a bar), to participate in a Book Chat led by Upper Merion Township Library Director Karl Helicher—also a longtime friend and longtime LJ associate, whose Reviewer of the Year plaque hangs [...]
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Professional Media
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Professional Media Review, October 1, 2011 West, Jessamyn C. Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide. Libraries Unlimited: ABC-CLIO. 2011. c.250p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781598844535. pap. $40. PRO MEDIA Nontechnical patrons and librarians educated before computers often suffer f...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Professional Media Reviews, April 1, 2011 Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century. Libraries Unlimited: ABC-CLIO. (Library Management Collection). 2010. 283p. ed. by Elaine R. Sanchez. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781598847024. pap. $50. PRO MEDIA This is not an introductory book for LIS c...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Professional Media Reviews, April 15, 2011 Harvey, Ross. Digital Curation. Neal-Schuman. (How-To-Do-It Manuals). 2010. 225p. illus. index. ISBN 9781555706944. pap. $75. PRO MEDIA In a world where obsolescence or loss of access to digital content is an ongoing threat, a book on digital curatio...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Professional Media Reviews, August 2011 Barclay, Donald A. & Eric D. Scott. The Library Renovation, Maintenance, and Construction Handbook. Neal-Schuman. 2011. 200p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781555707170. pap. $125 with CD-ROM. PRO MEDIA
Library administrators and trustees who are consid...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Professional Media Reviews, December 15, 2010 Boomers and Beyond: Reconsidering the Role of Libraries. ALA. 2010. 144p. ed. by Pauline Rothstein & Diantha Dow Schull. index. ISBN 9780838910146. pap. $55. PRO MEDIA Our population is aging. Not only are baby boomers now reaching retirement age, but...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 The Problem Is Poverty | Blatant Berry Sanford Berman is American librarianship’s first and leading champion of library service to the poor and homeless, as Steve Lilienthal points out (“The Problem Is Not the Homeless”). Decades ago, Berman worked with the Minnesota Library Association’s S...
Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:18:38 Finding the Future: Inside NYPL's All-Night Scavenger Hunt | Cover Story Photo by Jonathan Blanc
They came wearing bowties and fancy hats, skinny jeans and peasant blouses. They came armed with smartphones, tablets, and laptops. On the evening of Friday, May 20, 500 young adults gathered at the New York Public Library (...
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:18:21 Collection Development | Back on the Home Front (Veterans' Issues), July 2011 With troops returning from Iraq and promised upcoming withdrawals from Afghanistan, there has been an uptick in the development of materials on the “Wounded Warrior”—a term that seems to be used for returning veterans who exhibit behavioral issues seem...
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:18:07 The Problem Is Not the Homeless | LJ Feature Story The number of people who are homeless is on the rise, as is library service for them. Still, many librarians and library administrators believe they cannot meet the needs of this group since homelessness is such a complex issue. It often reflects the ...
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:17:43
Reference Reviews
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Access Video on Demand, from Facts On File and Films Media Group | eReviews Access Video on Demand Facts On File and Films Media Group, http://www.infobasepublishing.com/StreamingPLLanding.aspx
CONTENT Access Video on Demand is a streaming video subscription service for public libraries using the Films on Demand platform, pr...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 AtoZdatabases | eReviews www.atozdatabases.com/home
CONTENT AtoZdatabases contains information on 30 million businesses, 33 million business executives (with five million to be added this month), two million new businesses, 220 million residents, and 90 million home owners. Fift...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions | eReviews www.cqpress.com/lib/prs; for a free trial please go to www.cqpress.com/requestfreetrial.asp.
CONTENT CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions (PRS) combines a number of the publisher's government and political referenceCQ Press Political ...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 CRCnetBASE 2.0, from CRC Press | eReviews CRCnetBASE 2.0 CRC Press, www.crcnetbase.com
CONTENT CRCnetBASE 2.0 is the major new release of the CRCnetBASE platform, first launched in 1999. It offers online access to more than 6000 e-reference books and handbooks in over 40 disciplines, rangin...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Fish Market 101: Why Not a Reference User Experience? People come to the desk to ask a question. They get an answer or referral. They go away.
It sounds rather mundane and routine, which is why it’s called a reference transaction.
What if it were considered a reference user experience? Is such a thing ev...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25
Salaries
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Editorial: Sold on a Graying Profession The cover of the October 15 Library Journal, “A Losing Game,” portrays new grads from the class of 2009 in a game of musical chairs, feverishly trying to dislodge the competition—those longtime librarians—from coveted positions. They aren’t having muc...
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:15:10 Placements & Salaries Survey 2010: Stagnant Salaries, Rising Unemployment LJ's annual Placements & Salaries Survey, with 1,996 respondents representing 38.7% of the approximately 5160 2009 LIS graduates, found an uptick in starting salaries, but bigger bumps in part-time and temporary jobs, an expanding gender gap, se...
Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:13:46 A Changing Academic Library Job Environment In light of recent professional discussions about tenure status for academic librarians, it seemed timely to explore graduate experiences in academic settings. Of the 416 graduates who accepted positions in academic libraries, 336 responded to inquiries r...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ALA-APA: Call for Salary Analyses, Professional Development Opportunities Write a 1200-word paper analyzing the ALA-APA's 2007 salary data and get a free copy of a survey. The organization is putting out a call for paper proposals concerning either the ALA-APA Salary Survey-Librarian: Public and Academic or the ALA-APA Salary S...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Academic Librarian Salary Survey Released Go back to the
Academic Newswire for more storiesAverage administrative salaries range from $60,809 to $133,339Average Mid-Level salaries range from $38,379 to $58,675Survey uses revised job descriptionsThe Association of College & Research L...
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45
Technology News & Features
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Innovative Unveils 50 More Early Adopters and Development Partners of Sierra ILS [Update: The headline and text have been changed to reflect that Innovative Interfaces has announced a total of 75 early adopters and development partners.]
Innovative Interfaces (III) on Friday announced that it has reached agreements with a total of 75...
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:19:42 LITA National Forum 2011: Practically Minded Rarely has a conference subtitle been as apt as at this year's 14th Annual LITA (Library & Information Technology Association) National Forum: "Rivers of Data, Currents of Change." The roiling tech landscape for both public and academic libraries—from the...
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:19:29 HathiTrust's Growth Strategy: Full-Text Search Coming to WorldCat and EBSCO Discovery Service Today, in separate announcements, OCLC and EBSCO both unveiled plans to integrate full-text HathiTrust search capability into WorldCat and EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), respectively. Once implemented, the deals will make the full texts of all of the 9.5 ...
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:19:27 Robot Visions In this Article
Doing the Robot Dance
Colgate University, in upstate Hamilton, NY, sits in an area known for its small farms and lush, tree-covered hills. Driving into town on side roads, one can see scores of black-and-white cows munching on gra...
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:19:27 SirsiDynix Names Davison as New CEO Library automation company SirsiDynix announced today that its COO, Bill Davison, has been promoted to CEO. He replaces Matthew Hawkins, who became CEO in December 2010. Davison will take over day-to-day operations as of today. Hawkins will stay on the co...
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:19:27
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