dailypress.com – “Type in “cancer” and you'll get about 20 million hits on Google. So where do you start, and how do you know whether the information's reliable? Enter Ruth Smith. Smith is the outreach services coordinator for the Edward E. Brickell Medical Sciences Library at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk.”
Ottawa Citizen – “Each of my own books,” says Ottawa writer Frances Itani, “takes anywhere from three to seven years to complete. That's a pretty heavy investment.” It is also, says the award-winning creator of such international bestsellers as Deafening and Remembering the Bones, a compelling reason for fiercely protecting ownership of those books.”
Star-Gazette – “Our school library lends during the summer, but when I went with my son Jack, I was told kindergarteners can't check out nonfiction books. Jack loves robots, astronauts, dinosaurs and sports. I protested, but the librarian still wouldn't allow us to check out a nature series and sports biographies, suggesting stories instead. Why won't they let young readers check out nonfiction?”
PAUL N. COURANT – “As the steward of one of those libraries, a library that has had some 3 million of its works digitized by Google, let me assure readers that Google will not have a monopoly on the information that we hold. We retain the original copies, we have our own copy of the digital scans and we are free to scan the works again.”
See also, Paul’s blog
Vallejo Times Herald – “Eleanor and James Moss are not the kind of people who usually make the history books, but they have stories worth remembering. The California State Library now wants to hear them. Armed with tiny cameras and bright lights, librarians are visiting living rooms across the state as part of a project to document, in digital form, the memories of ordinary Californians.”
Seattle Times – “Northwest author Bonny Becker has hit the big time with her children's book “A Visitor for Bear.” At least as big as big time gets in the world of children's publishing.”
Gant Daily – “Michael Furlough, assistant dean for Scholarly Communications at the Libraries, sees today's students collaborating more than their predecessors. Able to do solitary research from anywhere, students increasingly take advantage of the social aspects of the library, such as open study spaces and group meeting rooms. Recent studies suggest that digital media, far from turning students and researchers into lonely, disconnected readers, have actually promoted more networked modes of learning. (Digital humanities scholars, for example, seem to do much more collaborating than their “traditional” counterparts.) Digital media have helped transform libraries into communal spaces for students to research, discuss, and study together—which, notes Furlough, has made them much louder places than you may remember.”
Chronicle.com – “Disturbed that an article she wrote as a college student could be turned against her in moments with a Google search on her name, Ms. Dobo contacted The Daily Collegian and asked if it would essentially “hide” the article on the paper's Web site so it would be less prominent in any search results.”
Kentucky.com – “Nineteen Lexington Public Library employees who had active library credit cards, other than chief executive Kathleen Imhoff, spent about $350,000 with them over the past three years, according to a Herald-Leader review of library documents. Earlier this month, the library board voted to cancel most of those credit cards after a Herald-Leader story detailing $134,000 that Imhoff spent in five years on travel, meals, gifts and other items. Imhoff and four others were allowed to keep their cards.”
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