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2 hrs ago | Graphic Arts Online

Baker & Taylor Signs On Demand Printing Deals With Three Major Universities

Baker & Taylor Inc., the world's largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, today announced it has signed agreements to provide print-on-demand services - via its TextStream Digital Print Service unit - to Fordham University Press, University of North Carolina Press and Penn State Press.

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Related Topix: Fordham University

6 hrs ago | American Libraries

The Bunheads are Dead

Conjure up a picture of today's librarian, and you are likely to be wrong. Professional librarians are information analysts, freedom of information and protection of privacy officers, family literacy specialists, Internet trainers, teen specialists, genealogists, web designers and technologists, database managers, historical researchers, ...

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Related Topix: Web Design, Arts, Internet, Science / Technology, Computers, Long Island University

Tue Feb 09, 2010

The Epoch Times

Public Libraries Cutting Hours

Citing a $5.9 million dollar cut in funding, the New York Public Library system will cut hours in two-thirds of its locations across Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

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Related Topix: New York, NY

Daily Herald

Illinois library community's e-mail campaign

Something pretty wonderful happened on Jan. 20. The Illinois library community started an e-mail message campaign and it went viral and it worked! Here's how it happened.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Computers, Peoria Metro

Library Technology Guides automation ...

FHSU's Forsyth Library unveils AquaBrowser, a quick and easy system for locating materials

Now Forsyth Library at Fort Hays State University has moved to the next generation of online searches.

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Related Topix: Hays, KS, Fort Hays State University

Digital Photography Review (dpreview....

Apple unveils Aperture 3

Apple has unveiled Aperture 3, the latest version of its raw-conversion and photo management software.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Startups, Computers, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, CPU

Boston Globe

Books gather dust without librarians for teens

NATIVE BOSTONIANS can be rhapsodic about the branch libraries where they came of age intellectually.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, South Boston (Boston, MA), Family, Teenagers, Kids, Opinion

Mon Feb 08, 2010

AdelaideNow...

Education: Shortage of school librarians looms

A shortage of Librarians is expected in SA schools. Lesley Brideson is the librarian at Linden Park Primary, she is here with Sarah Lloyd .

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Atwater Signal

Popular downtown bookstore open with new owner

Surrounded by the likes of Stephen King, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Agatha Christie, Nancy Smith feels right at home.

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Related Topix: Merced Metro, Merced, CA, August, CA, UC Merced

Library Journal

Three Institutions Share $3000 Alibris Collection Award

Online new and used bookseller Alibris has named three winners of the 2010 Alibris Collection Award, sharing a $3000 book grant: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences , Raleigh; the Burlington County Public Library , Westampton, NJ; and Everett Community College , Everett, WA.

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Related Topix: Everett, WA, Seattle Metro

NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA

Library staff upset over no-trespass expiration

Former Selectman James Thivierge plans to appeal last week's federal jury's decision that ruled it was proper for Mayor Thatcher Kezer to ban him from Town Hall and the library in late 2007.

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Sunherald.com

An artist in transition

From deep purples and electric oranges to subtle tans and oceanic teals, the paintings in the Morton Library are all abstract, using those vivid colors and smooth lines to create a contemporary blend.

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Related Topix: Rankin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Arts, Poetry

News Times

Page Turners: Bethel Library book group is like a 'surprise party'

"It's fun! I love it!" Susan Anderson , the assistant for programs and public relations at Bethel Library , said about the two book discussion groups that meet monthly in the library's historic Seelye Room.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

Sun Feb 07, 2010

Library Journal

Resolve To Read and Learn | From the Bell Tower

Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA -- Library Journal, 2/4/2010 Probably the last piece of advice academic librarians want to read in an LJ column is that they should start following and reading more blogs and newsletters unrelated to librarianship.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA, Temple University, Blog News

The Gazette

Church on historic register, could complicate demolition

Demolishing a Cedar Rapids church to make space for parking for a new city library won't be as easy as some may think.

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Related Topix: Cedar Rapids, IA, Cedar Rapids Metro

The Good Library Blog

A major scandal in the public library service

In the past few weeks I have called for a total review of book supply to public libraries.

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Customer Interaction Solutions

Up in the Air Soars with Scripter Win

The author and screenwriters of Up in the Air took top honors at the 2010 USC Libraries Scripter Award ceremony.

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Related Topix: Up in the Air, Oscars, University of Southern California

Blackstone Valley Tribune

Library advocates argue for funds

Librarians might have the stereotype of being meek, quiet types, but they certainly threw the book at the region's state legislative delegation Friday while arguing against cuts in the governor's budget proposal.

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Related Topix: Haiti, World News, Central America, US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Sat Feb 06, 2010

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Libraries offers eager job-hunters more help in difficult economy

The doors on the Campbell library were still locked Saturday morning when an anxious crowd gathered in the drizzling rain.

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Related Topix: Campbell, CA, Santa Clara County, CA, Saratoga, CA, Cupertino, CA

MyCentralJersey.com

Area Libraries Join 2010 NJ State Library Pennies for Peace Campaign

Throughout February and March 2010, the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey Library Association and libraries throughout New Jersey plan to honor the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, as part of the national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commemoration, by collecting pennies.

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Related Topix: New Jersey

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