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Latest Library Links, January 16, 2015

News from ALA and the profession

January 16, 2015

Digitization at the Smithsonian
Digitization at the Smithsonian

ALA News

School librarians and intellectual freedom web meetings

Webinar: Understanding credit scores and reports

Awards & Grants

Honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Newbery Visionaries at the Darien Library

2014 Margaret A. Edwards Collection Development Grant winners

Libraries in the News

Four Queens Library vice-presidents resign

Guam has not had any librarians since 2003

Issues

Number of GED graduates has decreased

Tech Talk

The end of Google Glass

The science of preservation

E-Content

Digitization at the Smithsonian

Books & Reading

Midseason TV replacement readalikes, part 1

10 novels that aren’t what you heard they were about

Science fiction set in the near future

Tips & Ideas

How to make a new coworker feel welcome

Another hashtag from Ferguson: #libraryfirst

National Library Service will implement new Braille code

Flickr Commons celebrates its 7th birthday

Keeping storytime fresh for you

How to use board games to improve your real life

15 gorgeous Little Free Libraries

The Black Vault puts USAF Project Blue Book UFO files online

Real World Objects

Grand opening of the Slover Library, Norfolk, Virginia (video)

Documenting the great libraries of the world

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Latest Library Links, January 15, 2015

News from ALA and the profession

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Latest Library Links, January 19, 2015

News from ALA and the profession

Latest Library Links

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    Angela Hursh writes: “Libraries have great stories to tell. But getting the media to listen isn’t always easy. Here are the top 10 practical tips that Leslie Marinelli, communications manager at Forsyth County (Ga.) Public Library; Ray Holley, communications manager at Sonoma County (Calif.) Library; and I shared [at a recent online panel] for getting your library into the news.”

    Super Library Marketing, June 30

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    Tortoise on a lawnPranay Parab writes: “I’ve mostly been really happy with my M1 MacBook Air, which I’ve been using for nearly three years now. However, I regret not going for the variant with 16GB of RAM. The newer laptop still occasionally slows down when I open too many browser tabs. Luckily, I did some troubleshooting and fixed the problem, and I’m here to share what I’ve learned with you. So, if Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari or other browsers are slowing down on your computer, try some of these tips to nip that problem in the bud.”

    Lifehacker, June 26

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    LaRue County Schools logoVictoria Cox writes: “LaRue County (Ky.) Board of Education heard both criticism and praise last week when members were asked to remove 14 books from the high school library. Although the vote was split, the board ultimately refused to ban the books, citing the need to uphold the constitutional rights of students” by a 4–1 vote. Books the board considered include The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood; Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi; Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas, and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

    LaRue County (Ky.) Herald News, June 25

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    Monarch butterfly drinking nectar from a purple flowerJennifer A. Keach, Jenne M. Klotz, and Galen J. Talis write: “Library leaders at all levels are well-placed to create opportunities for joy in their organizations and to model how to do so with nuance and balance. Toward that end, we explored the multidisciplinary literature and compiled an annotated bibliography for leaders who wish to support joy within groups, organizational change agents who want to create equitable conditions for joy in the workplace, and readers seeking to develop their personal practice of joy. We provide a guide exploring five themes: defining joy, finding individual joy, work and organizational joy, empowering change with joy, and joy-adjacent emotions.”

    Library Leadership and Management, June 30

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    Data visualization examplesDavid Vickers Loertscher and Michelle Young write: “This tutorial introduces school librarians to the use of data visualization tools for documenting and communicating their impact on teaching and learning. By leveraging accessible platforms like Google Forms and Google Sheets, the authors demonstrate how librarians can build dashboards and real-time visual reports to showcase co-teaching, instructional collaboration, and student engagement. The tutorial features real-world examples, highlights common data sources already available to librarians, and argues that dynamic visual storytelling is a powerful alternative to traditional library statistics.”

    Learning Hub, June 25

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    User design graphicRobin Camille Davis writes: “It wasn’t until seven years into my career as a user experience librarian that I realized I’d been accidentally excluding a sizable segment of users from my user research. Interviews, surveys, and usability studies favor people who are gifted at oral and written communication. What about people who are more gifted at visual communication? In the context of user research, this participatory design invites participants to design their own response to a given prompt.”

    Choice 360 LibTech Insights, June 30

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    Library stories mapStories from communities nationwide come to life on ALA’s new Show Up for Our Libraries interactive site map. The stories illustrate the real-life consequences of potential funding cuts to rural, research, city, state, and university library programs and, in turn, to the hundreds of millions of library users across the country. Services such as summer reading programs, telehealth resources, interlibrary loan, and ebooks have all been affected. ALA collected the stories in conversation with patrons, library professionals, and advocates across the country to better understand the impact of federal funding cuts since the President’s executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

    ALA Public Policy and Advocacy Office, June 25

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