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Information Today June 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Presidential Archives: Hype, Reality, and Limits to Access Presidential records belong to the public according to law, but in 2001 President Bush signed an executive order limiting access to these records. |
Salon.com April 10, 2002 Christopher Dreher |
Hobbling history Scholars, authors and publishers go to court to fight the Bush administration's efforts to keep key presidential papers under lock and key... |
Information Today September 14, 2009 |
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed Job seekers have packed libraries around the country during recent months, searching online job sites, building resumes, making use of a wide range of other employment services and resources. More help is on the way. |
Popular Mechanics January 20, 2009 John Pearley Huffman |
The Secret Seven: The Top Presidential Limousines of All Time During the early years of the automotive age, Presidents got around in standard production cars. Then, in 1939, the specially built "Sunshine Special" entered the Secret Service's fleet. |
Information Today August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience |
Information Today August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
Inc. February 2004 Patrick J. Sauer |
Hail to the Chiefs Test your knowledge about U.S. Presidents, their policies, and the examples of leadership they provide. Facts about the 43 presidents. |
Information Today November 2000 |
Libraries Receive Grants to Digitize Resources The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency that lends support to the nation's museums and libraries, has announced the recipients of its Library Preservation and Digitization Grants... |
Information Today February 19, 2009 |
WebJunction Offers Guide to Library Management Competencies WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has released Library Management Competencies, to help library managers be more successful in their work. |
Information Today September 22, 2015 Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Find Creative Ways to Color Outside the Lines This is the second year that all types of libraries reached out "to their communities in new and engaging ways," with the shared event Outside the Lines. |
American History December 14, 2004 David J. Garrow |
The Once and Future Supreme Court The last four decades have witnessed a fundamental transformation in the types of men, and now women, who exercise the broad and untrammeled judicial power of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
Innovative Lays Out Strategic Goals Innovative released a set of strategic goals for the following areas: library success, employee success, product leadership, and library partnership. |
Information Today July 11, 2011 |
Early Agreements for Sierra Services Platform Announced Innovative Interfaces announced that 25 academic and public libraries have entered into agreements to be partners in or early implementers of the company's Sierra development initiative. |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
Information Today March 6, 2008 |
National Library of China to Add Its Records to OCLC WorldCat The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, making those records available to researchers worldwide. |
Information Today April 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
Information Today September 5, 2013 |
Polaris Streamlines ILS Migration Quality assurance and new structure for the implementations team helped Polaris Library Systems streamline its integrated library system migration process. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
Information Today November 12, 2015 |
OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 James Ghaphery |
My Library at Virginia Commonwealth University: Third Year Evaluation My Library is a personalization tool that allows the library user to consolidate frequently used library resources and services. Since 1998, My Library has been available as a web page to users of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. |
D-Lib January 2000 David S. Carter |
The Internet Public Library ...The IPL has as its purpose to challenge and redefine the roles and significance of libraries in a distributed and digital world.... |
Information Today June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
Information Today March 27, 2014 |
Upcoming Meetings Discuss IMLS Funding IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) will host a series of daylong meetings with library stakeholders to discuss IMLS' funding strategies |
Information Today February 11, 2002 Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
D-Lib December 2005 Bonita Wilson |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide. |
Information Today September 4, 2014 |
WorldCat Adds Holdings From China The Shanghai Library contributed 2 million holdings to WorldCat -- including about 770,000 unique bibliographic records -- making the library's collection available worldwide. |
Information Today October 2, 2008 |
EPA Reopens Regional and Headquarters Libraries The re-opening of regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City and the library at Headquarters will help the Agency better share information. |
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google. |
Information Today January 3, 2013 |
OverDrive Announces Record Ebook Traffic and Next Gen Services Public libraries using OverDrive's Next Generation digital lending platform served a record number of ebook, audiobook, music, and video titles to patrons on Christmas Day. |
Information Today November 15, 2010 |
Urban Libraries Seek Local Governments as Partners in Sustainability The Council's latest research report profiles how a strategic and successful relationship between the public library and the local government can be formed in order to accomplish sustainability for a community. |
D-Lib April 2006 Bonita Wilson |
Change and the Need for Innovation Numerous challenges face libraries and other information organizations in this time of rapid change in both technology and culture. |
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Information Today January 2, 2007 |
Internet Archive Receives Sloan Foundation Grant The Internet Archive's efforts to digitize content and make it freely accessible online have received a tremendous boost from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. |
Information Today December 10, 2013 |
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations. |
Information Today October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science. |
Information Today July 22, 2014 |
OCLC Gets Grant to Promote Early Literacy in Public Libraries OCLC's project will increase libraries' awareness of the new service model and help library staff members and administrators support their early literacy services. |
D-Lib January 2006 Martin Kalfatovic |
Galaxy of Knowledge: Art & Design Galaxy of Knowledge, is Smithsonian Institution Libraries' portal to its collections and to a wide array of exceptional Internet resources. |
Entrepreneur November 2006 Nichole L. Torres |
Beyond the Books Take advantage of the business resources your local library has to offer. |
Information Today March 12, 2012 |
CIVICTechnologies Launches CommunityConnect CommunityConnect is a SaaS solution that helps public libraries knowledgeably allocate money for resources, services, and collection development by predicting people's needs and interests, neighborhood by neighborhood. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 Mahesh S. Raisinghani |
Wireless Library Aids Student Productivity A wireless network permits a library to give all of its users high-speed access to the Internet as well as to its online resources. Students access the resources using laptops with wireless connections to the Internet and the library's intranet. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Late Breaks - Endeavor Information Systems In association with Endeavor Information Systems, Sun Microsystems' technology is the incubator for a full-featured digital library solution, called ENCompass... |
Information Today April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
Information Today June 11, 2015 |
Ratings and Reviews Come to Boopsie Mobile App Boopsie for Libraries will add rating and reviewing capabilities to its mobile platform. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson |
Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year. |
American History October 22, 2004 Jason Emerson |
Robert Todd Lincoln: Perpetual Non-Candidate Living in the shadow of his revered father, Robert Todd Lincoln served the Republican Party and his country with distinction. But while perennially courted by his party, he steadfastly refused a presidential or vice presidential nomination. |
D-Lib June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library? |
Information Today |
Sony Announces Inaugural Participants in Reader Library Program The program will provide participating libraries with in-house training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help librarians and patrons learn more about ebooks, and digital reading devices for library staff use and patron demonstrations. |