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• Perceptions: What Librarians Do
• Literature and Language
• Career Insights
• New Technology, New Skills, Innovation and Adaptation

Perceptions: What Librarians Do

A new study out (supported by the ALA) affirms that libraries have "weather[ed] the storm of the economic depression, but funding cuts now threaten to undermine public access to public libraries. Find the Final 2011-2012 report here: Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2011-2012.

Freshman Composition Is Not Teaching Key Skills in Analysis, Researchers Argue This is why librarians are needed now, more than ever!

The Higher Education Learning Crisis Another reason why librarians are needed and relevant.   

Infidelity in the Library by Michael English at Inside HigherEd.  This article discusses how new trends in librarianship are leading librarians away from books.

Literature and Language

Toward an Index of All Stories: Previewing Small Demons Jason B. Jones of the Chronicle of Higher Education speaks well of the possibilities for this new service that allows readers to discover how stories might intertwine, influence and reflect on each other.

Going Mad for Charles Dickens

Why Community College Students Need Great Books

Censorship has always been a concern, even for the great Humanist philosopher, Erasmus!

Words from the Dictionary of American Regional English:  After half a century of studying jib-jabbing, linguists have just finished the nation's most ambitious dictionary of regional dialects.  Will language become boring because our country has become too homogenous?

Career Insights

LinkedIn--Librarians In the Job Market: Postings for Library Assistants Doing Professional Tasks  Interesting comments here.  What does it say about the profession?

Foundations: So You Want to be an Academic Librarian

Hiring Librarians Why are we here? 

New Technology, New Skills, Innovation and Adaptation

  

Tovin Lapan (Las Vegas Sun) reports on How Libraries Reinvent Themselves for the Digital Age.

Infidelity in the Library by Michael English at Inside HigherEd.  This article discusses how new trends in librarianship are leading librarians away from books.

Rise in E-Book Readership Is Good News for Reading Over All, Report Says  Good news for bibliophiles: "Readers of e-books like to read in all formats, they favor print books for sharing and to read to children, and on average they read more books over all than print-only readers do." 

Update: Google Search Education by George Williams at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Google’s search engine is a powerful and impressive tool for locating information online. Unfortunately for many students, the simplicity of the default search interface can lead to some pretty poor search habits and results. 

Archive Watch: Building a National Cooperative for Archival Standards by Jennifer Howard at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Just For Fun: Kansas City Public Library Parking Garage catches the eye!

Justice Dept. Sues Apple and Major Publishers in E-Book Price-Fixing Case By Nick DeSantis

Crowdsourced Book-Review Project Puts Critiques Online  This would be a good resource for collection development, and possibly readers' advisory.

How Educators Are Using Pinterest for Showcasing, Curation  Interesting possibilities; possible drawbacks as well.

 14 Global Projects that could Make You the World’s Next Billionaire  Interesting possible implications for the library realm.