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CHICAGO – The American Library Association’s (ALA) Public Information Office (PIO) is gearing up to work with the Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) on the 28th annual Banned Books Week, held Sept. 26 – Oct. 3.
In 2008, there were 197,000 librarians, 44,000 library technicians, and 101,000 other education, training, and library workers. Most librarians work in school and academic libraries; about one-fourth work in public libraries. Librarians are mainly between the ages of 45 and 55, and assistants are more likely to be under 35 years old. In 2008, 25.8% [...] The McCormick Freedom Museum in Chicago is offering a kit of posters, signs, table tents, shelf dangers, and bookmarks designed to challenge library users into thinking about First Amendment issues. Libraries that wish to host the Libraries and the First Amendment exhibit can register for a complimentary kit and access to an array of supplemental [...] A rare moment when a San Francisco Public Library free Internet access terminal is not in use. Matthew Lasar The ALA Washington Office sent a letter (PDF file) to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling July 23 stating that the first-round Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) to implement the Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program raises [...] Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Angela’s Ashes,” died Sunday. He was 78 and lived in Manhattan and Roxbury, Conn.
OITP announces the release of two new online copyright education tools: the Fair Use Evaluator and the Exceptions for Instructors eTool. These great new resources–developed by Copyright Committee super member Michael Brewer–add to OITP’s repertoire of copyright tools, including the Public Domain Slider and the Section 108 Spinner. For more information visit: http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=3207 [...] Nancy Shugart, Owner of AmazingVideoMagnifiers.com, is now collecting names of libraries who do not have a video magnifier or who are in need of a new one. She will then work with a corporate sponsor to purchase one for each library on the list. A video magnifier, also called a CCTV, is an electronic magnifier which enables people [...] The ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services has created a number of useful tool kits, which are accessible from its OLOS Toolkit Directory. These tool kits address a wide range of topics, from how to assist non-English speakers and older adults, to how to support and advocate for rural and small libraries and tribal libraries, to [...] Barack Obama against a bookcase captioned on PunditKitchen, where users create captions for photos of politicians. Librarian blogger Sarah Faye Cohen reposted this images saying, Obama "makes libraries cooler by the second." PunditKitchen.com March 24, 2009. |
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