About Me
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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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Need a book? Go to the "ATM" (12/21/2006) Imagine a machine that can print and bind a 550-page book in any language, even right-to-left languages, in less than 7 minutes, on demand. The Espresso, made by On Demand Books, will debut in 25 libraries and bookstores around the country in 2007. |
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89 percent of librarians are white (12/21/2006) This article combines all "professional librarians" into its percentages. However, the 2004 ALA study does provide separate statistics for credentialed and non-credentialed librarians, and the numbers become even more bleak for African Americans and Latinos if you look only at those with credentials (i.e. degreed in library science). Of approximately 100,000 credentialed librarians in the U.S., 89 percent were white, 4.8 were black, 3.2 were Asian Pacific Islander, and only 1.9 were Latino. |
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A Library on a Disc (12/18/2006) A research team at University of Central Florida has developed a new technology that stores massive amounts of data -- the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's entire collection, for example -- onto a single disc or cube. See Two-Photon 3D Optical Data Storage via Fluorescence Modulation of an Efficient Fluorene Dye by a Photochromic Diarylethene in Advanced Materials, Volume 18, Issue 21, Date: November, 2006, Pages: 2910-2914, by C. C. Corredor, Z.-L. Huang, K. D. Belfield. A patent is pending. |
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ALA statement about use of force in UCLA library (12/14/2006) Yesterday the ALA president sent a letter to the UCLA chancellor about the Nov 14 incident in which Mostafa Tabatabainejad, an Iranian student, was Tased by university police in the library. "We applaud your decision to conduct an independent investigation ... but also urge you to reexamine your security practices ... [ALA's] Bill of Rights states that a person's right to use a library should not be abridged because of origin, age, background or views. We hope that UCLA and all its campus libraries honor this basic tenet of library service." (Title link added 12/18.) |
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Ongoing saga of EPA library closures (12/12/2006) Bush's proposed 2007 budget will eliminate all 27 Environmental Protection Agency libraries nationwide. While 10,000+ EPA scientists have signed a petition in protest, Bush appointed EPA heads have started shutting down services, even before the budget has been debated. |
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