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  • Movers & Shakers 2008 Live and Loaded!
    Michael Rogers - 03/20/2008
    The 2008 Movers & Shakers supplement profiles library advocates, community builders, 2.0 gurus, innovators, marketers, mentors, and problem solvers shaping the profession and defining its future. More

  • Wyatt’s World: Earth Day Reading and Viewing
    Neal Wyatt - 04/21/2008
    Planet friendly books and DVDs More
  • Librarian Doesn't Fry as Supreme Couch Potato
    By Staff - 02/01/2008
    How did Stan Friedman, senior research librarian, Condé Nast Publications, New York, sit in a recliner for more than 29 hours and watch endless sports on large-screen television to win the ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato Competition January 2? He credits “savvy bladder management” and the experience of conducting 14,000 online searches in 12 years. More
  • Twin Cities Most Literate, but Check Out Cleveland
    By Staff - 02/01/2008
    The annual ranking of America's most literate cities (population 250,000 and above) issued by Central Connecticut State University (www.ccsu.edu/AMLC07/overview.htm) shows that Minneapolis, which came in second behind Seattle in the two previous rankings, has taken over the top spot. The other Twin City, St. More
  • LJ Series "Job Satisfaction": Take This Job and Love It
    By Andrew Richard Albanese - 02/01/2008
    “You don't get rich,” says one librarian from a large university in the Pacific Northwest about her work, “but you are rewarded in so many ways.” Another, from the Northeast, says she enjoys “creating order out of chaos.” Many say they are book lovers. Others love the intellectual atmosphere. More
  • ALA-APA Library Administrator Program Sees First Graduate
    Jennifer Pinkowski - 12/18/2007
    Eighteen months after the post-MLS certification program launched, its first graduate is an Iowa librarian with hopes of a director position.    More
  • InfoTech: San Jose State’s SLIS Names Plosker Top Alum
    by Michael Rogers - 12/11/2007
    San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science has named George Plosker, IEEE client services manager, one of its “40 most influential alumni.” More
  • It’s Movers & Shakers Time! Deadline Extended
    by Michael Rogers - 10/25/2007
    Nominations wanted for LJ's annual Movers & Shakers. Deadline is now November 15. More
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