A hearty congratulations to all the winners of the ULS 2009 Elections!! They are: Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Kim Leeder Secretary: Glenda Thornton Members-At-Large: Tinsley Silcox and Tanner Wray Winners have been added to the official 2009-10 rosters at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/resources/leadership/sectioncommittee1.cfm.
Are your library’s databases accessible to people with disabilities? Do they comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act or the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines? How about your other licensed resources, such as ejournals, ebooks, and metasearch engines? Catalogs, chat software, wikis and other web 2.0 applications? There is a...
C. Derrik Hiatt is the new Electronic Resources Librarian for the Z. Smith Reynolds Library of Wake Forest University. He will assist in managing the Library’s subscription based electronic resources. He comes to this position after having served for 6 years as the Assistant Serials Librarian at the Harold B....
Judy Jeng, Head of Collection Services at the Congressman Frank J. Guarini Library of New Jersey City University, has been appointed to serve on the IFLA Standing Committee for Acquisition and Collection Development, 2009-2013. The 2009 IFLA conference will be held in Milan, Italy. Judy also recently published a chapter...
April 2009 marks the launch of an updated, user-centered design of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Web site. The update is the result of an extensive planning and redesign process in order to better serve the information seeking needs of the ACRL membership and general public. The...
The University of Southern California (USC) Libraries seek an innovative, service oriented librarian to lead the library services and information support requirements for the Rossier School of Education and the School of Social Work. Reporting to the Director, Public Services Division III, the librarian will participate in a full range...
Do you have a story to tell? Come and share it at Library Worklife! Library Worklife is looking for aspiring and experienced writers – library employees and graduate students who have stories to tell about their careers, jobs, research, and pathways to success. Stories can be about: You or a...
Loreen Phillips, Head of Information Literacy Services in the McDermott Library at the University of Texas-Dallas (http://www.utdallas.edu/library), recently published a book on marketing for libraries. This topic is always of interest to librarians — as Loreen said, “especially in these times when we must maximize use of the campus library...
Dr. Richard Price recently finished his Ph.D on the philosophy of perception from Oxford. With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, he’s just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things: – It shows academics around the world structured in a ‘tree’ format, displayed according to their departmental...
Join your colleagues in Seattle, March 12-15, 2009, at the premier professional development event for academic and research librarians and staff. Registration and housing for ACRL’s 14th National Conference is now open! The ACRL 14th National Conference will challenge you to explore new ideas, engage in new learning, and extend...