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Reference/Collections Librarian Archives & Rare Books Library
Libraries faculty, and will participate in library-wide reference services and initiatives. This faculty position reports to and receives direction from the Head of the Archives & Rare Books Library. *Environment: *The Archives & Rare ...
Campus-wide access to CHE now available!
The University Libraries now have campus-wide and remote access to the Chronicle of Higher Education-Web Edition. Users can search the complete content of issues of the Chronicle from the current issue back to 1989. ...
Libraries helping women in business
Woman’s Day magazine and ALA recently announced the winners of a contest that asked participants to write about how they started businesses with help from their local library. It’sa neat contest idea, and one that I think could be ...
Gibson wins ALA award
Craig Gibson, Associate University Librarian for Research, Instructional and Outreach Services at George Mason University, is the winner of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section’s Miriam Dudley ...
Enid's Library Director Resigns
Kader’s tenure as director of the Public Library of Enid and Garfield County has been controversial and drawn an unnecessary amount of negative publicity. The director has been at odds with staff members, and there have been accusations ...
Evelyn Thurman Award to Author Albert A. Bell, Jr.
... of the Lonely Grave,” on February 16 in Kentucky Building. Apart from the award committee members Sean Kinder, Deana Groves, and Tracy Harkins, the Dean of the Libraries and the department heads were also present at the luncheon. [...]
17 UNC Libraries to Share Resources
The 17 University of North Carolina (UNC) libraries have been awarded a $150000 grant to develop a virtual union catalog system that will enable their users to request prompt delivery of materials to and from all UNC institutions across ...
Harvard Faculty to publish free online
The open-access repository will be managed by the university library. The New York Times interviewed university librarian Robert Darnton about the decision: “In place of a closed, privileged and costly system, it [...]
False public libraries
A recent post on the LISNews blog brought my attention to a rally staged last weekend at the Boston Public Library to protest the library’s use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology on its electronic materials. ...
Beijing libraries seek to lure readers amid TV, Internet competition
The National Library of China (NLC), which was recently made free to the public, received more visitors during the Spring Festival holiday, with an increase of 1000 in daily visits compared with last year, according to the statistics. ...