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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: Library
Strickland Gets Strict
Last Saturday, Governor Ted Strickland suggested that Ohio Librarians ought to take a pay cut rather than be critical of his budget proposal: As for libraries, which, in Strickland’s original budget framework were slated for a 30 percent cut in … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, News, Politics
Tagged budget crisis, Government, Libraries, Library, News, Ohio, Politics, Ted Strickland
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Awful Library Books
You know it, even if you don’t admit it… your library has books that should have been weeded years ago, but have hung around until they become anachronistically funny. To give you an anonymous outlet for this outlandish situation, there … Continue reading
American Libraries on Ohio Funding
The American Libraries article is just one of many to explain the issues facing Ohio, but I found the following information worth posting: Strickland’s office was also flooded with phone calls; gubernatorial spokesperson Amanda Wurst said in the June 23 … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Government, Libraries, News, Politics
Tagged Event, Government, Governor Strickland, Libraries, Library, News, Ohio, Politics, Save Ohio Libraries
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Ohio Libraries Update
A few items of note to update yesterday’s post: The Library is Now Closed (a.k.a. Shuttered Library) is a blog created by an Ohio librarian named Mike (didn’t see a last name) which is compiling links to a vast amount … Continue reading
Ohio Potentially Cutting Library Support in Half
It’s happening, folks. State and local budgets are under extreme pressure, and tough decisions are being made by Governors, state officials, countys counties, towns and taxing districts. Libraries that rely on public funding are now almost certainly facing severe cuts. … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Groups, History, Libraries, News
Tagged Government, Governor Strickland, History, Libraries, Library, News, Ohio
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One in Twenty
Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest is a New York Times article about blogging, specifically about the study showing an estimated 95% of blogs have not been updated in over 4 months. Does this signal an end to blogging? The … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, News
Tagged Blog, blogging, communication tool, Empty Forest, Facebook, Libology, Library, library technology world, New York Times, Twitter
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UCLA Acquires Huxley Library
The UCLA Library has acquired the library including many papers of Aldous Huxley, who died in 1963 (the same day as John F. Kennedy). As Island is one of my favorite reads, this gives me one reason to actually want … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Libraries, News
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Island, John F. Kennedy, Library, UCLA, UCLA Acquires Huxley Library The
UCLA Library, UCLA Library
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A Heavenly Library in Austria
Jessamyn posted this link, in an effort to help identify the library. I wasn’t the first to come up with the correct answer, but it was a treat to scan several pages of Google Images containing library frescos before finding … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Photography, WebSearch
Tagged Austria, fresco, Google, Google image search, Heavenly Library, Jessamyn West, Librarian.net, Library
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Does a Degree a Librarian Make?
The debate has been going on for years, and has recently flared up again on PUBLIB : Does a person need the MLIS degree to do the work of a librarian? LISNews has decided to take a poll (and encourage … Continue reading
OCLC Creates Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship
Some big news from OCLC: They are creating a review board to solicit feedback about their licensing policy (and judging from the press release, the entire concept of sharing library data). They are drawing from the OCLC Board of Trustees … Continue reading
HotStuff 2.0
HotStuff 2.0 is described by its creator, Dave Pattern, as “an automatically updated blog… [in which] a daily blog post is generated using a single word that has seen a marked increase in usage over the last few days.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Language, Libraries, Library 2.0, Web Design
Tagged Blogs, Dave Pattern, Libology, Library, Words
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2008 Presidential Election Search Engine
The 2008 Presidential Election Search Engine is a Google Custom Search Engine created by the University of Kansas Library. It is a great resource in that one can find the needles of information in the haystack of campaign rhetoric. found … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, News, Politics, Search, WebSearch
Tagged 2008 Election, Google, Kansas Library;, Library, Politics, search engine, University of Kansas
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