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Nine Questions with Naomi House, founder of I Need A Library Job
Naomi House Naomi House is the founder of I Need A Library Job (INALJ), one of the most productive resources out there for new librarians and those seeking new positions. LJ caught up with House to...
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Administration Takes Faster Action on Access to Federally Funded Research
In a policy memorandum released today, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director John Holdren directed Federal agencies with more than $100 million in research and development spending to...
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NYPL, Brooklyn Merge Technical Services
The New York Public Library (NYPL) and Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will integrate their tech services departments, the libraries announced last week, saving BPL $2 million per year and NYPL about...
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ACRL Preview: Indianapolis, IN, April 10-13, 2013
The next biannual conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)—ACRL 2013: Imagine, Innovate, Inspire—will be held in Indianapolis, April 10–13. Why is this conference...
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Gale Cengage Strikes Smithsonian Digitization, Distribution Deal
Gale Cengage today announced a licensing agreement with the Smithsonian Institution to distribute Smithsonian assets into the library and academic space. Though it developed out of a public RFP issued...
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How To Become a 21st Century Librarian
A version of this article by Rachel Singer Gordon was originally published June 1, 2005, under the title “How To Become a Librarian.” It has been updated a number of times over the years with new...
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Douglas Co. Commissioners Seek Greater Control of Library Board
In pursuit of what they view as greater accountability, the Douglas County, CO, board of commissioners is making a bid to take over the naming of library trustees. Since the mid-1990s, new trustees...
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Bill To Reform Presidential Library Funding Reintroduced
According to the Sunlight Foundation, on March 20 the House Oversight and Government Reform committee green-lighted a bill that would make public presidential library donation records. (In committee...
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JLA Board Resigns Over Licensing Terms
Editor-in-chief Damon Jaggars and the whole editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration resigned en masse on March 22 over the journal’s licensing terms. On the following day, the board...
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Six Questions with Damon Jaggars, former JLA Editor-in-Chief
Damon E. Jaggars, Associate University Librarian for Collections & Services at the Columbia University Libraries, recently stepped down as editor of the Journal of Library Administration (JLA),...
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Philly Free Library Debuts Virtual Collection at Suburban Station
One of the QR codes from the Philadelphia Free Library’s Virtual Library The Free Library of Philadelphia will launch what it calls the first virtual library at a U.S. train station on April 2....
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Ten Questions with the Library Publishing Coalition
Julie Speer More than 50 academic libraries, in collaboration with the Educopia Institute, founded the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) this January. The project initially emerged from conversations...
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NCSU’s Groundbreaking Hunt Library To Be Dedicated
On April 3, North Carolina State University will officially dedicate the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. Named for North Carolina’s governor from 1977 to 1985 and 1993 to 2001, the library will also house...
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Ithaka Survey: Humanities Faculty Love the Library; Scientists Less Enthusiastic
(Click for larger image) Ithaka’s strategic consulting and research service today released the results of the fifth of its periodic surveys of college and university faculty. (For the full survey, see...
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Credo Survey: Today’s Students Struggle with TMI
Credo and Libraries Thriving will release the full results of What Students Know about Information Literacy, a survey of primarily undergraduates, on April 11 at the Association of College and Research...
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Toronto Public Library Enters Alternate Reality (Gaming)
Every April, the Toronto Public Library (TPL) runs its Keep Toronto Reading program, a month-long celebration which includes a big community read of a single title. But this is the first year patrons...
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Five Great Things Libraries Are Doing With Old Books | LJ Insider
Library book sales (and their descendants, such as Better World Books) are a great institution, but they’re not the only thing libraries can do—or help their patrons do—with obsolete titles besides the...
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Philly Free Library to Merge with Rare Book Specialist Rosenbach
Dr. Rosenbach’s personal library on the third floor of the RML. Photo © Susan Beard. The Free Library of Philadelphia plans to merge with The Rosenbach Museum & Library, which houses a rare book,...
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One First-Time World Book Night Giver’s Experience | LJ Insider
Day : World Book Night byhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/31403417@N00/6984068458/ Last night I celebrated World Book Night (WBN) by handing out 20 copies of one of my favorite books, Neil Gaiman and Terry...
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Pew: Parents Love the Library
Virtually all parents surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project for its Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading study—94 percent—say libraries are important for their children; nearly...
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