MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2015
From La Prensa: It’s called Teen Library at Central and it offers 13 – 18 year old students an opportunity to engage in out-of-school learning experiences with the latest technology. Ramiro Salazar, San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) director, said he hopes teens will use the space to collaborate, develop ideas together and build a community. […]
From KGO-TV: At a meeting Wednesday evening, the library advisory board decided it was a good idea to contract Discover Books — which collects, resells or gives away the material. Regardless, book enthusiasts are still upset that an estimated 172,000 items were dumped in the trash. “Many books are being pulled off the shelf without […]
Video: University of Michigan Library Discovers Unpublished Memoir Within New Orson Welles Acquisition
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Public Libraries
|From a Text Report: Though he is considered by many as one of the world’s greatest filmmakers, Orson Welles was an actor, producer, writer and radio broadcaster. He was also notorious for leaving many of his projects unfinished. Perhaps that is what makes the Welles collections at the University of Michigan so intriguing. “Not a […]
Vermont’s State Librarian Reports on a 14.7 % Cut to State Appropriation For Libraries
Funding, Libraries, New Issue, News, Public Libraries, Reports, School Libraries
|A report by Vermont State Librarian Marti Reid about the funding cut appears in the new issue ( (May 2015) issue of the Vermont Dept. of Libraries newsletter. From Reid’s Article: … and looming over all of this discussion [about “front burner” issues in Vermont] was the need to reduce State spending to meet a […]
New Data Files From NSF: Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipients: 2002–12
|The following data was released online on Thursday by the National Science Foundation (NSF). From the Web Site: This publication is based on data from two annual federal surveys. Bachelor’s and master’s degree data and data on doctoral degrees in engineering technologies were collected from institutions of higher education by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data […]
Last year we posted about the launch of the Edmonton Public Library’s EPL2Go service that EPL CEO Linda Cook called a, “food truck for the brain.” EPL2Go vans appear around the city providing, “a full suite of services, including puppet shows and family storytimes, as well as digital fun with iPads, robotics, gaming and more. […]
From the ProPublica Web Site: Your one-stop shop for health and safety data on cruise ships. [Clip] [The database includes info for] of over 300 ships that make port in the U.S. You’ll be able to see their health and safety records going back as far as 2010, as well as their current position and […]
UPDATE We’ve updated the title of this post to reflect that the layoffs at OCLC HQ took place earlier this week. Additionally, OCLC just shared this statement with us: OCLC is in a strong overall financial position. After a period of investment in the development of new tools and infrastructure, we are adjusting our staffing […]
A New Report from OCLC Research: “Making Archival and Special Collections More Accessible”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Resources
|The report begins with a forward by Jim Michalko, Vice President of the OCLC Research Library Partnership. From OCLC Research: Making Archival and Special Collections More Accessible represents the efforts of OCLC Research over the last seven years to support change in the end-to-end process that results in archival and special collections materials being delivered […]
From SUL’s Remix Newsletter: The Stanford University Libraries announce the acquisition of an extensive archive of Israeli popular culture from the files of the magazines ‘Olam ha-kolno‘a [Cinema World; 1951-1974] and Lahiton [Hit Parade Newspaper; 1969-1987]. The 20,000-plus photographs in the Lahiton-Cinema World collection (in both black-and-white and color) document the Israeli popular music scene […]