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Comment on LA Librarian Leaves for USC by librarians guild

librarians guild — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:44:14 +0000

Your Feb. 15, 2012 article about City Librarian Martin Gomez leaving the Los Angeles Public Library underscores Mr. Gomez’s work with city officials to help “create a ballot measure [Measure L] to amend the City Charter and increase the library’s share of dedicated city funds.” The ballot measure came about due to public outcry after Mayor Villaraigosa and the city council’s budget cuts reduced LAPL to 5-day service for the first time in our library’s history. The Librarians’ Guild (AFSCME 2626), a professional organization and union that represents the organization’s librarians, advocated against these cuts to no avail and was a major influence in pressuring city council to create the ballot measure. When the Measure L campaign began, the Librarians’ Guild and its members were one of the biggest contributors and most visible forces in the city working for its eventual approval. In fact, on election night, the Guild hosted the official election returns party at our union headquarters, which was attended by Mr. Gomez and other elected city officials.

Sincerely,

Roy Stone, President, Librarians’ Guild
W. Henry Gambill, Vice-President, Librarians’ Guild

Comment on Therapy Dogs’ Presence Steadily Grows in Libraries by Karl Helicher

Karl Helicher — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:17:49 +0000

Wow, lighten up everyone, or else readers are going to think this is the “Celebrity Death Match Blog,” or even more horrific, the home of Annoyed Librarian. Everyone please take two dogs and call me in the morning!

Comment on Therapy Dogs’ Presence Steadily Grows in Libraries by Mary Brower

Mary Brower — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:51:32 +0000

Shirley, you should take a flying leap.

Comment on Therapy Dogs’ Presence Steadily Grows in Libraries by Shirley May

Shirley May — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:41:16 +0000

Mary Brower……. Our therapy dogs do all that you mentioned. Our R.E.A.D. dogs are registered to attend assisted living homes, Hospice, hospitals, schools, etc. Most of our teams spend a considerable amount of time with the elderly and ill. You should educate yourself about our animals in therapy work.

Comment on Transferable Skills: Stepping Afield to Get a Foot in the Library Door | Backtalk by Rosa

Rosa — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:30:51 +0000

When I graduated, in 1995, the Canadian economy was not good, and Canadian libraries were in even worse shape – we were paying our bills in US $ and the Canadian $ was about 60 cents US. It took me 2 years to get a library job. But I had a job right away. I managed an online information intranet for an accounting society – posting tip sheets and legal updates, facilitating bulletin boards and discussions, and training people in its use. I kept the part-time academic job I had too. I moved on to other technology jobs, all related to information management. Eventually, an academic library job, which was what I wanted, came up. Another good thing to do is to keep a part-time job, if you can get/keep one, in the library area in which you really want to work ultimately.

Comment on Digital Content Curation Is Career for Librarians | Backtalk by Coleman Foley

Coleman Foley — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:01:18 +0000

Even if you have assembled a huge network of human sources, as you have, machine-driven discovery can be a helpful supplement. Personalized news services are an excellent supplement to RSS readers and Twitter because they can find content that slips through your human filter. I found this post in my Filter Failure feed on personalized news service Trapit (where I work).

I told Trapit that I like this article, and now it will find more articles like this for me, much like Pandora does for music.

Librarian Laura Larsell is our Chief Information Ontologist. She describes how we filter content in a fascinating post here: http://blog.trap.it/86992925

Trapit is completely free. Try it at http://trap.it

Comment on Little Libraries Sprout Across the Country by Meredith Schwartz

Meredith Schwartz — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:41:10 +0000

And The Atlantic weighs in with yet another street library project in NYC:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/02/how-new-york-pay-phones-became-guerrilla-libraries/1288/

Comment on Transferable Skills: Stepping Afield to Get a Foot in the Library Door | Backtalk by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

Barbara Fritchman Thompson — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:41:31 +0000

I too made a jump from the library world to the legal field. I left my job as a public librarian after 20 years to pursue other avenues. I started at a local law firm working in data base management ten years ago before transferring to our Intellectual Property group. I use my skills as a librarian in a wide variety of tasks especially those that are very detail oriented and research.

Comment on Harvard Library Releases Org Chart, Offers Buyouts by wow, just wow

wow, just wow — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:35:23 +0000

And here is a link to an image of the chat transcript in question: pic.twitter.com/1MyLLdC4

Comment on Harvard Library Releases Org Chart, Offers Buyouts by disrespected

disrespected — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:05:02 +0000

Staggering evidence of the disrespect for Harvard library workers among the transition leaders, or How not to reorganize a library system: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/20/library-chat-employees-conversation