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Excellence in Service Award Winners Recognized - HCL News - Harvard College Library
News | hcl.harvard.edu | 3 hours 37 minutes ago
Selfless co-workers, prolific catalogers, technology experts and excellent service providers – all were recently recognized as winners of the 2009 Excellence in Service Awards, a merit-based honor established to recognize employees who go above and beyond the call of duty to support of the mission
http://hcl.harvard.edu/news/articles/2009/service_awards_2009.cfm
R2 Consulting - Rick Lugg, Ruth Fischer, library workflow analysis, workflow consulting, focus
"... Under competitive conditions, some libraries are floundering, mired in tradition and denial, or hampered by insular perspectives ... But others are leading --- innovating, competing ... " (from a recent ATG article)
The Library: Uncatalogued trailer
Video | www.libraryjournal.com | Apr 16, 2008
Using only an $800 grant, one student employee, and many volunteers, Anika Fajardo of the College of St. Catherine Library, St. Paul, MN, created the information literacy film The Library: Uncatalogued. In addition, see her article "Ten Things I Learned from Creating an Information Literacy
http://www.libraryjournal.com/flashVideo/element_id/2140198058/taxid/29305.html
Academic library adoptions of the Summon service spread around the world -- [Library Technology
Web | www.librarytechnology.org
Press Release:Academic library adoptions of the Summon service spread around the world. Less than a month into its official launch, the Summon discovery service from Serials Solutions has its first commercial adoption in Australia. The University of South Australia joins such American institutions
http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14153
Book Design
Everyone points to how cars replaced horse-drawn carriages, but there are so many examples where a new technology did not replace previous methods. Yes, e-books will shift print books, publishing, and booksellers in new directions but that doesn’t mean the eradication of print.
Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs - Elsevier
Web | www.elsevier.com
Description Building on the success of the 14 previous editions, this remarkable reference has been extensively reorganized and expanded and now comprises almost 1,500 individual drug articles providing the most complete coverage of adverse reactions and interactions found anywhere.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/721813/description?navopenmenu=-2
Rare Book News.com
"A 110,000-square-foot building planned for Waddell Street will give librarians state-of-the art rooms to store and preserve UGA's special collections - an ever-expanding vault of rare books, manuscripts and films."
Barbara Immroth Lands TLA's First Lifetime Achievement Award
News | www.schoollibraryjournal.com | Apr 16, 2009
Barbara Immroth, a professor at the University of Texas School of Information and a former president of the Association of Library Services to Children, has received the first lifetime achievement award from the Texas Library Association (TLA)..
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6651887.html?industryid=47074
It’s On: Court Acknowledges More Than 400 Submissions in Google Settlement
News | www.publishersweekly.com | Sep 16, 2009
In an order posted Wednesday, federal judge Denny Chin said the fairness hearing for the Google Book Search settlement scheduled for October 7th will go on, despite the receipt of over 400 submissions.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6697405.html?rssid=192
Social Software in Libraries
"This book is a great guide to social software in libraries. It's part social software history and part implementation guide. This book is bound to give you great ideas about creating digital spaces!
