Profiles, interviews, and more about Librarians from Library Journal
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
Feedback 06/15/2009
Libraries & animals I am grateful for Francine Fialkoff's editorial about the exclusion of libraries from the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (“FEMA Fails Again,” LJ 5/15/09, p. 8). It would be difficult to overemphasize the importance of libraries, especially during the aftermath of a disaster.
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Queens Library Named LJ’s Library of the Year Norman Oder - 06/12/2009
Announcement made on Manhattan's City Hall steps. From right: CEO Tom Galante, Council Member Leroy Comrie, and LJ's John Berry and Francine Fialkoff.
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Feedback 06/01/2009
Restrict cell phones I agree with most of the "Cheers & Jeers" offered by Michael Casey and Michael Stephens (The Transparent Library, LJ 4/15/09, p. 20), but I take exception to their jeers to libraries that still have signs restricting the use of cell phones. Casey is an IT division director, and Stephens is a professor.
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Feedback 05/15/2009
Gates's misguided gift I read with increasing frustration and dismay of the latest misguided effort by the Gates Foundation to support library advocacy (“Gates Gives OCLC $5M for Library Support Project,” Newsdesk, LJ 5/1/09, p. 12). Don't get me wrong, I really do appreciate their interest and support for public libraries.
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People 05/01/2009
Jean Boyer
has joined the Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center's (CCPLIC) Bordeaux Branch Library, Fayetteville, NC, as Information Services Librarian I. MaryAnne Sommer has taken the same post at CCPLIC's East Regional Branch.
Tony Howard
is now Service Area Manager at the Karl Road and Northern Lights branches of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH.
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In the Bookroom Bette-Lee Fox, Managing Editor, June 24, 2009 Recommending Romance
When it comes to romances, I consider myself fairly well read. In fact, of the RUSA R... More
LJ Insider Rebecca Miller, Executive Editor, Library Journal June 16, 2009 If I Were a Rural Librarian...
I'd be eating up the funny, insightful, and plain-old true thread on Publib "You... More
Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.