The Future is bleak:
93% believe the next 10 years look less promising than before for the profession of librarian.
70% believe their libraries’ commitment to intellectual freedom is diminishing even when 81% believe the need for public libraries to protect intellectual freedom is increasing.
55% believe more fee-based services are in their future, 44% believe the library’s place in the market is eroding.
The Associated Press: FBI withdraws digital library's national security letter 5/7/2008
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Five laws of library science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These laws are: 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader his [or her] book. 3. Every book its reader. 4. Save the time of the User. 5. The library is a growing organism.
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"How Libraries can use LibraryThing * Collection Development o “People who own this book also own…” o Search or browse tags o Find foreign-language books * Book Reviews * Zeitgeist - http://www.librarything.com/zeitgeist * LibraryThing For Libraries - add tag-based browsing, book recommendations, ratings, reviews and more to your OPAC - http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/ * Widgets to display new or featured books on your library website"
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CIL2008: Open Source Applications
"Libraries benefit from open source -- make sure that you are giving back to equal the benefit. Teach it, use it, document it, evangelize it."
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CIL2008: The New Generation of Library Interfaces
"Patrons are steering away from the library. Scarily low percentages of users think to start their research at the library. Libraries live in an ever-more crowded landscape -- there are so many places information seekers could go. Our catalogs and sites do not meet the expectations of our patrons. Commercial sites are engaging and intuitive. "Nobody had to take a bibliographic instructions class to use a book on Amazon.com."
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libstats - Google Code
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Botanicus.org - a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of historic botanical literature
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Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment|… = Clipping [?] | … = Public highlight [?]
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