As of March 18, 2008. CE COURSES Saturday, June 14, 9 AM – 6PM (full-day CE) Cataloging for Non-Catalogers – Course covers ISBD (International Standard Book Description), MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging), and cataloging using an automated bibliographic utility. Saturday, June 14, 8 AM – 12 PM (half-day CE) Creating a Brand…
Deadline for all Nominations: April 1, 2008. The ABA Commission on the American Jury Project established the Jury System Impact Award to recognize an individual or organization that has made significant contributions and tremendous efforts to the improvement, preservation and strengthening of the American Jury System. The 2008 Award will…
Excerpts from AIIM President, John Mancini’s Keynote Address — 4 March 2008 — AIIM International Exposition and Conference There are four intersecting tensions in the marketplace that have been at work over the past 2 years and are aligning right now to change all of this and to truly create…
Letter to New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Bruno From Gov. Eliot Spitzer (PDF 192.2 KB) Official Letter of Resignation as Submitted March 12, 2008
________________________________________________ Illegal Sex Discrimination or Permissible Customer Preference? Refusal to Hire and Employ Male Gynecologists: A Legal Research Guide “This new publication from Hein is the latest title in the Legal Research Guide Series. Professor Amy Stein provides researchers with a starting point to help determine when the occupational qualification…
“As Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg observed: ‘In working as a lawyer, law teacher, and now judge, I have discerned no distinctive male or female styles of thinking or writing. And I agree with Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Jeanne Coyne, who said, when asked whether women judges decide cases…
News from ALA and the world of libraries: New York librarian becomes embedded journalist in Iraq “Twice in the past two years, librarian Shelby Monroe persuaded the 101st Airborne Division to let her be an embedded war correspondent and blogger. In those articles and accompanying photographs, she tries to capture…
The Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science at River Forest, Illinois (near Chicago) has been conducting a series of innovative workshops on this topic, including the following: March 17, 2008: 4-6pm “Get a Voice: Why Writing, Blogging and Speaking Out Are Crucial to Advancing Your LIS Career”…
QUESTION: I am interested in finding out the types of assignments that other Heads of Tech Services (or equivalent titles) are responsible for, besides just running the tech services dept. I’m wondering if there is a future for those of us in this position. Is this position part of the…
From: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Welcome to the second issue of the Routledge Library Newsletter! The aim of the Newsletter is to provide you with the latest news about all our products including reference books, eBooks, online products, and major works. We want this Newsletter to be an interesting…