LIS School at LSU Threatened with Closure

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesCommitment to statewide outreachSave LSU's SLIS Program group formedAlso, UIUC GSLIS may face consolidationLouisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, aims to eliminate several academic programs, including the School More...

Are You Really NextGen?

At first it was just a stray gray hair or two, easily ignored. Then came the human resources training session, and the realization that I was in an EEO age-protected category. Finally, I was reading More...

CLA and San José State University SLIS Announce New Partnership

Break last year over services to students, Drexel relationshipGreater student involvement in organizations, mentorshipCALIX now at UCLALast month, the California Library Association (CLA) and San José State University School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) More...

Hirsh Named Director at San José SLIS, Succeeding Haycock

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesSLIS known for distance learningWork at Microsoft and Hewlett PackardLong history of serviceDr. Sandra Hirsh, a veteran scholar in LIS with significant industry experience, has been named as More...

Professional Media

Giesecke, Joan & Beth McNeil. Fundamentals of Library Supervision. 2d ed. ALA. 2010. 189p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-8389-1016-0. pap. $55.It's not unusual for librarians to be promoted into supervisory positions without the benefits of a More...

Poets House National InstituteAimsToBoost Poetry in Public Libraries

Poets House has grown exponentially since its 1985 founding by poet Stanley Kunitz and arts administrator Elizabeth Kray as a place for anyone to read or write poetry. Starting in a classroom in New York More...

Professional Media

Maatta, Stephanie L. A Few Good Books: Using Contemporary Readers' Advisory Strategies To Connect Readers with Books. Neal-Schuman. 2009. c.400p. illus. index. ISBN 978-1-55570-669-2. $69.95. PRO MEDIAReaders' Advisory (RA) is more important than ever owing More...

Professional Media

Pantry, Sheila & Peter Griffiths. How To Give Your Users the LIS Services They Want. Facet, dist. by Neal-Schuman. 2009. 224p. index. ISBN 978-1-85604-672-5. pap. $85. PRO MEDIAThough written by British authors and imported from More...

Coping with Continual Motion

During the Pacific Northwest's 2001 Nisqually earthquake, the ground in my backyard undulated as if it were the surface of the ocean. My notion of solid ground upended. A similar if not as threatening sensation More...

Professional Media

Bodart, Joni Richards. Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens. Scarecrow. 2010. c.464p. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-8108-6908-0. $45. PRO MEDIAVeteran author Bodart continues the work she began with Radical Reads: 101 YA More...

Professional Media

Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology. Information Today. 2009. 200p. ed. by Michael Crandall & Karen E. Fisher. illus. index. ISBN 978-1-57387-373-4. $59.50. PRO MEDIAThis book describes the spread of technological More...

In Charleston Conference Keynote, Lankes Urges Librarians To Embrace Social Action, Conversation

Go back to the Academic Newswire for more stories"The best days of librarianship" still to comeRevised professional emphasis necessaryLibrarians are "noble agents" of societyIn a fast-paced and funny keynote address (audio; slides) at the 29th More...

San Jose State Breaks with California Library Association Over Drexel Agreement

Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesCALIX, hosted since 1995, will moveDrexel has partnered with 25+ library groupsSJSU's Haycock says Drexel's reduced fees still higher than at public universitiesHaycock: "This was really the More...

Webcast: Doing More with Less: 'Training Up'; in Tough Economic Times

Training never stopsFocus on your institutions' goals and customer expectationsTop down and bottom up training worksResources and tools for learning new technologies are plentifulThe 'Training Up'; webcast, sponsored by Polaris Library Systems and Library Journal, More...

Going International!

Do you have a yen to see the world? Help people? Experience other cultures? Perhaps your career needs a recharge? Would you like to feel you are making a difference? Do you believe that libraries More...

Placements & Salaries Survey 2009: Change Agent: Kristin Centanni, Class of 2008

Kristin Centanni's job search came before the recession got to its deepest levels, a jump-start that may have made all the difference. A 2008 graduate of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at More...

How To Become a Librarian-Updated

So, you want to become a librarian? Welcome to a vibrant and exciting profession! Before leaping into a library career, though, take some time to explore your options. Learning what is involved and how librarians More...

New York Public Library "Restructuring" Eliminates 65 Jobs, Total Number Leaving Unclear

65 positions lost, 120 createdAffected staff members can applyLoss of institutional memoryThis week, the New York Public Library (NYPL) eliminated 65 positions as part of what they describe as a restructuring aimed "to better serve More...

Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Awards Will Impact Academic Libraries

Go back to the Academic Newswire for more stories33 grants total, several impactingacademic librariesProgram since 2002Digital information a highlightThe federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded 33 grants totaling $20.4 million as More...

Task Force's Recommendations for LIS Accreditation Criticized

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesASIS&T, iSchools in oppositionALISE wants more inputCOA to seek commentsThe American Library Association (ALA) Task Force on Library Education that issued a set of eight competences for LIS More...

New U.S. News LIS Rankings Mostly Unchanged

UIUC, UNC retain top marksBased on survey filled out by three academics at each programSpecialty rankings also releasedThree years after its last rankingof LIS graduate programs, U.S. News and World Report has produced a new More...

Simmons Graduate Library School Gets $1 Million Gift

Allen Smith taught 30 years, died in 2008Gift will support visiting scholar program, scholarshipsEmphasis on oral history and humanitiesSimmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), Boston, has received a $1 million gift from More...

In Rutgers Debate, Students Voiced Opposition to Name Change

School name changes from SCILS to SCILIS Department chair defends changeWill acronym be awkward?Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesAdding to the concern expressed by Rutgers LIS alumni before the name of their More...

Rutgers Board of Governors Approves Name Change Dropping Word "Library"

Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesIn an emotionally charged meeting, the Board of Governors of Rutgers,State University of New Jersey, today approved a resolution changing the name of the university's School of More...

It's Wrong for Rutgers to Drop the "Library" Name

As a Distinguished Alumna of the MLS program (1965) and also a graduate of the Ph.D program (1997), I would like to go on record to say how disappointed I am that the Rutgers School More...

Why Rutgers Faculty Agreed To Drop the 'Library'; Name

On February 4, 2009, the faculty at Rutgers' School of Communication, Information and Library Studies voted by a 3-to-1 margin to change the name of the school to the School of Communication and Information. The More...

People

Go back to the Academic Newswire for more stories UCLA Information Studies Professor Beverly P. Lynch is this year's recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Joseph W. Lippincott Award. The award, founded in 1938, More...

Movers & Shakers 2009 Launches

The 51 librarians, vendors, and more profiled in the ninth annual Library Journal Movers & Shakers are a veritable Who's Who of the libraryfield. Their efforts are changing libraries for the better. We call them More...

NJ Library Association Opposes Rutgers' Dropping "Library" from Name

Deletion of the name 'Library'; obfuscatesDismisses'Library'; as brandDean says school is growingGo back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesIn response to the decision by the faculty of Rutgers University's School of Communication, Information and More...

Rutgers Faculty Agrees To Drop 'Library'; from SCILS Name

NJLA incorrectly said to support moveLibrary students 27% of schoolSubtraction of "Library" adds to competitiveness?Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesAnother graduate school serving the library field is about to lose the 'L'; More...

ALISE Conference Highlights Cross-Disciplinary Programs

Attendance:nearly 500Three new programs in progressAwards announced; election resultsClose to 500 LIS educators and exhibitors attended the 2009 ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Conference in Denver, January 20–23, whose theme, set by More...

Some Hard Lessons on the Job Search

LJ's Student Affairs blogger Staci Elliott, in a swan song, offered some sober reflections on why she remains library-jobless since she started applying for positions in October 2007. (She earned her degree two months later.)First, More...

Wayne State LIS Program Becomes Autonomous School

Huge enrollment growthNew concentrations and degrees acontributing factorTop-rated program without doctoral degreeGo back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesCiting growth in enrollment and the richness of offerings at the Library and Information Science Programat More...

Distance Education Webcast a Big Draw

"Conveniently Located Everywhere" draws paraprofessionals and librarian wannabeesDistance learning flexible, but requires same work as classroom studyPrepares students for online work environmentA crowd equally divided among school, public, and academic library paraprofessionals and a host More...

LJ Teaching Award 2008: Rick J. Block

Despite his 'day job'; and a heavy schedule of classroom teaching, Rick J. Block finds time and intense energy to be the mentor, internship supervisor, and individual advisor to the students who fill every available More...

LJ Talks to Don Borchert

Don Borchert, a library assistant 1 and 12-year employee of the Torrance Public Library, CA, has written a memoir of his library life, Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library, coming More...

MA Library System's Nonprofit Temp Service Meets Target

BiblioTemps, a library temporary staffing service created and managed by the Central Massachusetts Regional Library System (CMRLS), Shrewsbury, now runs in the black some three years after its inception. "It's the first year we were More...

New Focus Needed To Recruit Minorities for Academic Library Jobs

If academic libraries hope to increase the number of minority librarians on staff, a single comprehensive recruitment and public awareness resource should be developed to channel profession-wide efforts to one place-taking a lead from other More...

I-Schools Form iCaucus To Brand the Field

In a sign of further potential divergence between more traditional library schools and those also identified as information schools, a group of 19 I-schools in the United States and Canada-14 of them with programs accredited More...

Valdosta State Univ. in Georgia Gets LIS Accreditation

The Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association (ALA) has announced accreditation actions taken in June at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Initial accreditation status was granted to the Master of More...

NextGen: Where Are All the Jobs?

When I first began applying to library schools, I heard rumors about all these great jobs that would be open to new students after graduation. For some time now there has been talk of a More...