Advocacy

Departments: Why Librarianship Endures

Gentle Readers will always need Gentle Guidance

Will Manley

Once when I was working the reference desk, a seemingly normal community college student (no exposed underwear, multiple tongue piercings, neck tattoos, or a message shaven into his hair) asked why so many Civil War battles were...

Posted August 31, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Feature: Dynamic Doers

Welcome to a showcase of the dynamic doers—a snapshot of those who have dedicated themselves to the profession, who have gone above and beyond, and whose contributions have been so significant and so varied. These individuals and...

Posted August 27, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Blog entry: Out-of-Box, Collection-Defining Libraries a Thing of the Future?

Have you seen the comedy skit by legendary comic George Carlin about “stuff”? It’s one of my all-time-favorites and relevant to today’s discussion (though it...

Posted August 26, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Feature: Winning Grants: A Game Plan

How to write proposals that work

By Herbert Landau

Grant seeking is a marketing process. Simply stated, you define your library’s need and sell it to one who can fund your project. Librarians are their own best grant-proposal writers. No outsider can write a proposal as effectively as...

Posted August 24, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Departments: Measuring E-Resource Use: Standards and Practice for Counting Remote Users

By Rachel A. Flemming-May and Jill E. Grogg

Over the years, librarians and researchers have studied the usage of books, journals, meeting rooms, photocopiers, programs, and just about any other resource or service libraries have chosen to provide. The reasons for doing so are...

Posted August 23, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

News Story: New Youth Library in Ethiopia Makes Impossible Dream Reality

The need in Ethiopia is great but the vision and perseverance of Yohannes Gebregeorgis is greater, which helps explain why a new library worthy of any developed country opened August 20 in Mekele, the first of its kind in this small and...

Posted August 23, 2010 | Comments: | Read More