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Editorial: Censorship Alert at Hopkins By Francine Fialkoff, Editor-in-Chief, fialkoff@reedbusiness.com - 05/01/2008
A stealth attack on U.S. freedoms—intellectual, academic, and personal—came to a halt in early April, at least for the time being, when quick action by librarians restored the term abortion to the search function of a health database. Word spread like wildfire as the story migrated from the library blogosphere to the mainstream press, landing in quick succession on Wired, NPR, the New ...
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BackTalk: Diversity and the MLS By Tony Greiner - 05/01/2008
I attended a diversity workshop last fall at Emporia State University, KS, where I mentored a Latino student who had won a full scholarship as part of the school's effort to bring more minorities into the library profession through a program supported by a federal grant. In one exercise, we brainstormed on the obstacles minorities face in becoming librarians.
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East Baton Rouge Director Leaves for Nova Southeastern Job Norman Oder - 04/24/2008
Lydia Acosta, director of the largest library system in Louisiana, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, will return to a previous career track in academia by taking a job as VP of information services and university librarian at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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Last Byte: Opening Up to Open Library By Karen Coombs - 04/15/2008
Open Library (openlibrary.org) is being developed as a partnership between the Internet Archive and Open Content Alliance (OCA) to create a free, global online catalog and library. In their view, the best way to represent books and their metadata online is to create a web page for every book. These pages then combine the data found in traditional library catalog and publisher ONIX records with...
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NextGen: Why I Went Parapro By Sami Lange - 04/15/2008
After recently completing my MLIS through the online program at San Jose State University, CA, I realized that my ideal career would be in an academic library. I was an intern at the Sonoma State University Library, and, not wanting to uproot my family, I was determined to get a full-time job there in whatever capacity was available to me.
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Editorial: Format Free By Francine Fialkoff, Editor-in-Chief, fialkoff@reedbusiness.com - 04/15/2008
We should have called the April 15 LJ simply “format free,” because in one way or another that's the theme of so much in this issue, as well as of the netConnect supplement—“Content Your Way”—mailed along with it. The phrase format free also describes libraries today.
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In the Bookroom Raya Kuzyk, Associate Editor, Library Journal April 25, 2008 Going to Manderley Again
On my first reading of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, conditions were optimal: cr... More
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