Bresnahan, Megan
July 23, 2015In January Megan Bresnahan joined Tufts University’s Tisch Library in Medford, Massachusetts, as science collections librarian and scholarly communication coordinator.
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Johnson, Kris
July 23, 2015Kris Johnson recently joined Montana State University Library in Bozeman as head of the Learning and Research Services Department.
McConnell, Jill
July 23, 2015Cooper-Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, recently appointed Jill McConnell executive director.
Morris, Tonda
July 23, 2015Tonda F. Morris became director of Bruton Memorial Library in Plant City, Florida, March 9.
Schlachter, Gail
July 23, 2015Gail Schlachter Hauser, 72, died suddenly April 27. She was active in ALA over 50 years, serving on the ALA Executive Board and the Publishing Committee. After a decade as an academic librarian, she started Reference Service Press to publish financial aid guides, including the Directory of Financial Aids for Women and the Directory of … Continue reading Schlachter, Gail
Serving Everyone
June 24, 2015LGBT librarians and the LGBT community are not responsible for making excellent library services happen. It is the responsibility of all of us who hold strong the values of librarianship: access, equity, intellectual freedom, and diversity. LGBT patrons and their allies want their privacy protected from prying eyes (which libraries already do well); the ability … Continue reading Serving Everyone
Idealism and Opportunism
June 22, 2015OA journals—categorized as “gold OA” to distinguish them from content placed in an institutional or subject repository (“green OA”)—make all of their peer-reviewed articles freely available online, in the final version and layout, as soon as they are published. DOAJ is the key directory for OA journals, with increasingly robust standards as to what can … Continue reading Idealism and Opportunism
Apps for That
June 22, 2015Search Axis with Boopsie Boopsie, a mobile platform-as-a-service provider for more than 4,000 libraries worldwide, has joined forces with digital content, print book, and entertainment product distributor Baker & Taylor to simplify searching for and finding a library’s e-content. The Boopsie mobile app is now integrated with Baker & Taylor’s Axis 360 digital media library. … Continue reading Apps for That
Forty Years of Interns—UNC-Chapel Hill
June 19, 2015“I had so little experience in libraries before I went to library school,” she says. “So I was especially keen to get some real-world experience.” Lucky for her, there was a library—the Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park (EPA-RTP) Library—that would offer Lamoureux an internship with that real-world experience she was craving. The internship, she … Continue reading Forty Years of Interns—UNC-Chapel Hill
All Ears This Summer
June 17, 2015The transformation of enthusiasm into expertise on the ways that audiobooks cultivate young people’s literacy skills is of keen interest to Sharon Grover. Grover, head of youth services at Hedberg Public Library in Janesville, Wisconsin, says audiobooks can help children and teens build and sustain vocabulary. Grover notes that this is especially important during summer … Continue reading All Ears This Summer
Future-Proof Your Project
June 15, 2015It is easier to leave a project behind when you know there are people equipped and committed to supporting it. I’ve heard horror stories about libraries that have not been able to maintain technologies—from blogs and Facebook pages to mission-critical, homegrown software—after an employee left. It’s challenging to think of leaving as part of project … Continue reading Future-Proof Your Project
Dyer, Victor
June 13, 2015Victor Dyer retired as director of Ipswich (Mass.) Public Library in January.