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iLibrarian » How to Talk to Your Patrons About Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to
oedb.org | Feb 11, 2012
Bobbi Newman at Librarian by Day offers advice about How to Talk to Your Patrons About Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to Libraries. This helpful post provides a suggested script for discussing ebooks with patrons, contact info for publishers, and plenty of resources on the topic.

California State Library Blog : Pew Internet: The Tone of Life on Social Networking Sites
blog.library.ca.gov | Feb 11, 2012
The overall social and emotional climate of social networking sites (SNS) is a very positive one where adult users get personal rewards and satisfactions at far higher levels than they encounter anti-social people or have ill consequences from their encounters.

Writers Against Racism: Black History Month: Honoring the Storytelling Tradition « Bowllan's Blog
blog.schoollibraryjournal.com | Feb 10, 2012
Today is my mom’s 70th birthday! Go, Mom! And she certainly from the ’storytelling’ generation, so I will be interviewing her a little later to see how times have changed. In meantime, thanks Laura OpenMedia for these authentic and insightful videos.

The PLA Blog | Official Blog of the Public Library Association
plablog.org | Feb 9, 2012
Registration for the PLA 2012 Virtual Conference is now open. On March 15-16, 2012, the Public Library Association (PLA) will share a condensed, live and online PLA Conference with public librarians and public library workers who can’t make the trip to Philadelphia. The PLA 2012 Virtual Conference

Teaching with the Library of Congress
blogs.loc.gov | Feb 9, 2012
The Library of Congress has launched a new blog to help teachers bring the power of the Library's online collections into the classroom: Teaching with the Library of Congress. < br> < br>The Library has the world’s largest online collection of primary sources—more than 20 million historic

Library Juice » Women in Libraries – February 2012 issue
libraryjuicepress.com | Feb 9, 2012
There is a new issue of Women in Libraries, formerly a print publication, is now online. It has items on the Occupy Wall Street Librarians on feminism, activism & librarianship; Elizabeth Andrejasich’s Q&A with Hillary Jordan; and the 2012 Amelia Bloomer List.

The Life of Books: Some Issues Answered: West Explains and Raises questions....
thelifeofbooks.blogspot.com | Feb 9, 2012
skip to main | skip to sidebar The Life of Books This blog is dedicated to exploring the idea that "books are dead". (Yeah, right.) Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Some Issues Answered: West Explains and Raises questions 3 Geeks and a Law Blog: WestlawNext - Some Issues Answered published an email that

Information Literacy meets Web 2.0: LASSIE reports!
infolitweb.blogspot.com | Feb 2, 2012
skip to main | skip to sidebar Information Literacy meets Web 2.0 How does Web 2.0 affect our delivery of Information Literacy? How do librarians cope with the Google generation and what does this mean for Information Literacy? This site will be a sounding board for us to exchange our views and

Western's Education Library is on Facebook - Education Library Blog
www.lib.uwo.ca | Feb 2, 2012
Education Library Blog Almost daily entries highlighting education-related news, new books added to the Education Library, information about our electronic resources and research databases, library services/hours of opening, and other related items of interest to our graduate students, faculty

LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Jobs in Library Technology: February 1
litablog.org | Feb 1, 2012
New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 11:00 a.m. Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week Circulation Supervisor,  Oregon State University