Librariology

You should be able to - we've authorized and deauthorized (ctrl-shift-D in Adobe Digital Editions) and reauthorized public computers here more than six times. - Melissa M

oy vey. - αnnα vαȵ scoyoç

There are a couple of libraries that do, but they are AFIK public domain drm free books. - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫ from iPod

WE don't do this for the reasons Ro mentioned - the issues with ADE. Also, Ro, does anyone even have OD download stations at this point? - Louise Alcorn

Is it essential that the proxy be part of it? - Nikki D.

Yeah. Yanked the proxy stuff out of the URL...surprised our library hasn't addressed the issue. I guess few users want RSS alerts from Scopus. - David Rothman (☤) from Android

*bump* - LB ♥s VALZ

Oh, absolutely! I've been telling people not to use RefGrab-It for years. - marthalib

We are conducting a study looking at how instructors talk about technology and its use in their classroom syllabus. If you are currently teaching a class that talks about technology in your syllabus (i.e., you have a laptop and/or cell phone policy, discuss how blogs or wikis will be utilized in the classroom), and would be willing to share your syllabus with us, and fill out a quick survey (under 10 minutes) about your teaching experiences, your participation would be greatly appreciated. The results of this study may help researchers and instructors better understand technology policies. We will accept syllabus submissions through October 31, 2011. - Caitlin from Bookmarklet

Japanese librarians and library patrons have been collecting photographs of earthquake-damaged libraries at this link. Here’s a rough Google Translate version of the caption for the picture embedded above: “The Library Media Center immediately after the earthquake took the SFC. Even though this shake Fujisawa, Kanagawa. I fell and almost all books on the top bunk. Glad no people injured.” If anyone knows of a library-focused charity in Japan, we will be happy to share the link. If you want to help, the Authors for Japan site just launched yesterday, as writers and publishing professionals have donated some great prizes to raise funds for earthquake and tsunami relief in Japan. We also created a Twitter list of writers living in Japan. - CarlC from Bookmarklet

Dónde está el enlace? - Joseba Abaitua

ha haa haaaaa... oh, wait, that's not very helpful... It's more of an Art than a Science here... As long as there are a few hours in the week left over after instruction (for the heavy instruction weeks) it's considered "good enough" (also, we're down to 5 libns from a recent high of 8 and way down from our all time high of 12 (in the '90s) - we do such good sessions, we're increasing the session count, too) - awd

αnnα, only one prof gave me a why ("there was a noticeable drop in citation quality") -- I assume the rest were for a similar reason. - awd

GUT - Arafat Nur

Yup. FAFSA is the way you do it. Direct Loan is basically the handling service that deals with international payouts and confirmation that international schools are valid and qualify. Hopefully he'll receive the payments directly, although chances are they will go to his school and then to him. If he ends up in the latter situation I suggest you buy him a stress ball and advocate patience. - Soup in a TARDIS

"In New York, as in districts across the country, many school officials said they had little choice but to eliminate librarians, having already reduced administrative staff, frozen wages, shed extracurricular activities and trimmed spending on supplies. Technological advances are also changing some officials’ view of librarians: as more classrooms are equipped with laptops, tablets or e-readers, Mr. Polakow-Suransky noted, students can often do research from their desks that previously might have required a library visit. “It’s the way of the future,” he said. Nancy Everhart, president of the American Association of School Librarians, whose membership has fallen to 8,000 from 10,000 in 2006, said that, on the contrary, the Internet age made trained librarians more important, to guide students through the basics of searching and analyzing information they find online." - Katy S from Bookmarklet

Very sad - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

"ALA sent a letter to WSJ on 6/10 in response to the Meghan Cox Gurdon article. The letter was a joint response from ALA, OIF and YALSA. However, it now appears that the Wall St. Journal isn’t going to publish ALA’s response to the YA lit article so I wanted to make sure and share it with all of you just so you could be aware that it was sent and so that it was available to use as a jumping off point if anyone needs it as they conduct interviews or answer questions that may continue to arise." - Katy S from Bookmarklet

Dan miss a chance to spam a link? NO WAY - Andy

Kicking off, hi from Tucson Arizona. - Ruth Kneale

Hello from New Orleans (but still a Minnesota girl at heart)! - Caitlin from Android

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Now that you mention it... let me dig around. I *know* I have an old pic of me wearing my mask and shirtless and all that silly shit. But gawd... I'd have to find it. EDIT: Crap it's not on any of my online services, so it's probably on a back up DVD at home. I still have the mask and it's on my desk here at work if ya wanna see that. :) - Dan: Bibrarian

Part of me wishes that if the focus had to be on the museum-like qualities libraries can have, that she could have also discussed the way small community libraries can be repositories of community history. While the big libraries are interesting, this is so remote from most people's public library experience that I wonder if they would identify with it. - Katy S

On the other hand, I'm happy to see a pro-library piece written by someone who doesn't work at a library. - Katy S

The title doesn't match the body of the article, in a way. - Andy

"A Germantown firm is slated to assume management of the three public libraries in Santa Clarita, Calif., in July, a move that has ignited a passionate debate over whether some municipal functions should be off limits to for-profit operators. Opponents of the deal call public libraries, like fire or police protection, the epitome of local government service. And even in these shaky financial times, they shudder at the idea of libraries being run by a firm looking to make money. “Nobody was complaining about the libraries here. Nobody,” said Lynne Plambeck, a Santa Clarita resident who opposes the contract with Maryland-based Library Systems and Services. “I don’t know why they are doing this. I worry about a private corporation having control over our libraries.”" - Katy S from Bookmarklet

It's pretty much just a way for cities to claim they reduced the public payroll. In California (and elsewhere) our cities are under *huge* pressure from angry taxpayers to get out of the business of paying people and especially giving them any kind of decent benefits. These will become Walmartized libraries with no accountability to the local community, but you know, Walmart is really really popular, so who's to say this is wrong. - Jenny Reiswig

"Facing the likelihood of state budget cuts that would eliminate $15 million for library and reading programs – and, apparently, a future in which people no longer read things on paper – the city of Newport Beach is considering turning its first library into a community center that would host all the same amenities – except for the books. Reports the LA Times: Instead of a reference librarian, patrons would be greeted by a kiosk equipped with video-calling software that would allow them to speak with employees elsewhere. And books — when ordered — would be dropped off at a locker for pickup… “A lot of people still want to touch a book, hold a book, smell it,” said Cynthia Cowell, library services director for the Newport Beach Public Library. “The sensory experience is still very important to many of us.” [City Manager Dave Kiff] proposed in an email: “Shouldn’t the modern library reflect what people are doing now, instead of reflecting what we might have done 20 or 30 years ago?”" - Katy S from Bookmarklet

:((( - Anna Haro

No other ideas, though? - David Rothman (☤)

@Barbara, I'd totally use a spreadsheet, too. :) - David Rothman (☤)

Not academic (so I won't email it), but possibly interesting: http://efanzines.com/SAC... - laura x

I don't know how useful this is, just saw the link elsewhere on ff - http://efanzines.com/SAC... - Rachel Walden

Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don’t tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost. The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwise known as an e-book — is the subject of a fresh and furious debate in the publishing world. For years, public libraries building their e-book collections have typically done so with the agreement from publishers that once a library buys an e-book, it can lend it out, one reader at a time, an unlimited number of times. - CarlC from Bookmarklet

Last week, that agreement was upended by HarperCollins Publishers when it began enforcing new restrictions on its e-books, requiring that books be checked out only 26 times before they expire. Assuming a two-week checkout period, that is long enough for a book to last at least one year. What could have been a simple, barely noticed change in policy has galvanized librarians across the... more... - CarlC

*subscribes* - lris

Feed added! - Catherine Pellegrino

are you using any ILL management programs? what we did was work with EBSCO to set up a pre-populated form in the database so all the user has to do is put in their personal info and citation info is automatically captured and everything gets sent to us in an email. We've got something set up in Wilson databases as well, but that was a pain for my systems librarian to put together, but it can be done. If you have OpenURL setup you should be able to capture the info from other databases as well... - Sir Shuping is just sir

yes we use ILL, I'm trying to get a handle on our OpenURL setup right now. So I'll get that straightened out first and contact you for more details (if that's okay) thanks Andrew! - Jason (not an Argonaut)

"Texas librarians of all stripes came to the State Capitol in Austin on Wednesday for their biennial Legislative Day, and they made loud and clear that plans to eliminate nearly all state funding for key statewide programs was not a wise thing to do. And this was just a warmup." - Katy S from Bookmarklet