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I am a librarian at Cal Poly Pomona. I have an M.S. in library and information science and an M.A. in English. This weblog reflects my interests in library & information science, literature, language, culture, and the arts. Click for my full profile.


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    Yes on Prop. 81 for California's public libraries (5/25/2006)

    "...Proposition 81 won't come close to meeting the massive needs of library systems statewide, which a 2003 survey by the California State Library put at $4.4 billion."

    "'We wish we could do more,' said Nancy Mahr, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County public library system, the state's largest, which recently calculated it would cost nearly $850 million to modernize its 84 branches, many of which were built in the 1960s or earlier."

    It's not enough, but it's something!

    Library 2.0 Lens on Squidoo (5/18/2006)

    A reading list for the ALA Library 2.0/Library Futures online course created by Jenny Levine and Michael Stephens, it contains a link to Chad and Miller's Do Libraries Matter? (PDF), the white paper from TALIS that started the Library 2.0 discussion.

    PENDING: The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (5/08/2006)

    Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn) are co-sponsoring legislation to require agencies with research budgets of $100 million+ to make journal articles generated via federally funded research available to the public within 6 months of publication. Eleven agencies would be affected:
    The NIH already had a policy in place, but it has largely been unsuccessful. In a news release, library organizations (AALL, ALA, ARL, ACRL, MLA, and SLA) enthusiastically announced their support of the new legislation.

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