Llibraries are helping unemployed Americans get back to work not only by helping them acquire needed job skills but also by offering no-fee access to the Internet for online job searching, computers for working on resumes, resources for building small business plans, and much more.
Unfortunately, these very services are threatened by budget shortfalls in state and local funding; due to these budget cuts, many libraries may be forced to cut services that are so incredibly necessary during these tough economic times.
Right now, the House of Representatives is debating the Jobs for Main Street
SLA announced today that its members have voted in record numbers to reject the association's proposal to change its name to the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals (ASKPro), in a 3225 to 2071 vote.
SLAannounced today that its members have voted in record numbers to reject the association’s proposal to change its name to the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals (ASKPro), in a 3225 to 2071 vote. Fifty percent of eligible members voted.
Embattled former Lexington (Ky.) Public Library director Kathleen Imhoff is scheduled to appear at a board meeting today and present a detailed response to a report from city auditors that accuses her of, among other things, conflict of interest in her consulting work and using her library laptop to view "adult materials" on the internet.
Embattled former Lexington (Ky.) Public Library director Kathleen Imhoff is scheduled to appear at a board meeting today and present a detailed response to a report from city auditors that accuses her of, among other things, conflict of interest in her consulting work and using her library laptop to view “adult materials” on the internet.
American Libraries is rolling out a newly redesigned website, tentatively scheduled to appear January 4. The site, which is live now but still carrying the “beta” label, is at www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org. We encourage you to take a look and update your bookmarks and any links to us in your blogs and websites. The AL Online RSS feed will relocate to www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/rss.xml.
New York City welcomed the 10 winners of the 2009 I Love My Librarian Award with the lighting of the city’s Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. At least the timing made it look that way, and some 750,000 extra people in the streets made it seem as if the entire city had turned out to welcome America’s favorite librarians to the December 3 award ceremony at the splendid New York Times building on Eighth Avenue.
