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Movers & Shakers 2008 Live and Loaded! Michael Rogers - 03/20/2008 The 2008 Movers & Shakers supplement profiles library advocates, community builders, 2.0 gurus, innovators, marketers, mentors, and problem solvers shaping the profession and defining its future. More
People 11/15/2009
LISHost has hired Karen A. Coombs as its Web Applications Specialist, helping libraries and librarians identify and implement open source web applications. Kathleen “Kats” Gustafson has joined the Rio Hondo College Library, Whittier, CA, as Dean of Library and Learning Support. She was Dean of Learning & Technology Resources, Grossmont College.
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America's Star Libraries: Top-Rated Libraries By Keith Curry Lance & Ray Lyons - 11/15/2009
This newest round of the LJ Index of Public Library Service rates America's Star libraries, recognizing the top-rated libraries based on the levels of service they provide. But its relevance does not stop there.
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Feedback 11/15/2009
Unacceptable When Kathleen de la Peña McCook was asked if there will still be a reference desk (Jenna Freedman, “Veterans Speak Out,” LJ 9/15/09, p. 26–27), she replied that when she calls the reference desk she gets voice-mail and when she visits she gets a sigh. This is unacceptable.
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Rebecca Knuth: LJ Teaching Award 2009 By John N. Berry III - 11/15/2009
The way Rebecca Knuth plans a class she's teaching illustrates why she was nominated by her students and won the LJ Teaching Award for 2009. The award, which comes with a $5000 honorarium and a celebration at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, is sponsored by ProQuest. For Knuth, a tenured professor in the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawai...
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Feedback 11/01/2009
The bookstore fad Another “fad” has raised its ugly head in the library profession in an attempt to legitimize the very existence of the public library (Barbara Fister, “The Dewey Dilemma,” LJ 10/1/09, p. 22–25). Now we are told that remaking the library into a “bookstore” format will bring the masses to our threshold as never before.
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In the Bookroom Bette-Lee Fox, Managing Editor, June 24, 2009 Recommending Romance
When it comes to romances, I consider myself fairly well read. In fact, of the RUSA R... More
LJ Insider Rebecca Miller, Executive Editor, Library Journal June 16, 2009 If I Were a Rural Librarian...
I'd be eating up the funny, insightful, and plain-old true thread on Publib "You... More
Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
The 2008 Movers & Shakers supplement profiles library advocates, community builders, 2.0 gurus, innovators, marketers, mentors, and problem solvers shaping the profession and defining its future. 
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