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Media Preservation Residency Librarian, Librarian I – Fixed Term at Michigan State University

The Michigan State University Libraries invites early career professionals to apply for our Residency in Media Preservation. This is a two-year project funded by the National Historical Preservation and Records Commission, and supports the work of the Media Preservation Unit in its effort to preserve the WKAR early television films within the University Archives and … Continue reading "Media Preservation Residency Librarian, Librarian I – Fixed Term at Michigan State University"



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Research Support Librarian (Evidence Synthesis) at Tulane University

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Health Sciences, the Research Support Librarian (Evidence Synthesis) will coordinate and manage the Matas Library’s Systematic Review Service, providing support and expertise to evidence synthesis efforts in the Tulane University School of Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and National Primate Research Center. Working with the Health … Continue reading "Research Support Librarian (Evidence Synthesis) at Tulane University"



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TEI Toolbox, or "How a geeky librarian reads Horace"

By marking up documents in XML/TEI, you create sets of well-structured narrative data, and consequently, this enables you to "read" the documents in new and different ways.

  • Keywords: reading; XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language);
  • Source: This document was originally published as an Infomotions Musing.



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Alcuin Interviews for a Data Librarian Position

Alcuin, a librarian of the Carolingian Renaissance and advisor to Charlemenge, recently interviewed for a data librarian position, and below is a transcript of some of the interview with the search committee.

  • Keywords: librarianship; fiction;
  • Source: This is the initial publication of this item.




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Training Librarians for 21st Century Repository Services: Emerging Trends

The paper reviewed the emerging roles of the 21st century librarians, charged with the responsibility to manage repository services across libraries in present-day information technology environment. Librarians need to be trained and empowered with requisite skills and knowledge needed for successful management of the ICT driven repository initiatives that the 21st century demands. Literature was reviewed on the roles and responsibilities of librarians, training needs and opportunities, career path and recruitment of librarians, and community support necessary for effective and efficient implementation and management of repository initiatives. This entails the ability to comprehend trends and change patterns which are essential for providing research focused and user-friendly models in open repository services that are based on thorough analytical understanding of the challenges of emerging trends. To achieve this requires the training and retraining of librarians to reposition them as information specialists in their career path. The role of the library as an integral part of its social environment is to educate the community about the existence of an open repository by building partnership with community-oriented research centres through seminars, workshops, symposium, training, and awareness programmes. The study recommends that librarians should strategize and collaborate with researchers to make open repository an essential research tool.




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Role of Librarian in Internet and World Wide Web Environment




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Librarians rejoice at new books policy

Implementation of fresh rules sends waves of happiness among librarians




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New Librarian serving Conover and Claremont branches of County Library

Catawba County Library System has hired a librarian to serve both the Conover and Claremont branches. Siobhan Loendorf will add preschool Ready to Learn sessions, computer classes and adult programming for Conover and Claremont branch libraries.




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U of T librarians discover Johan Halvorsen’s long-lost violin concerto

Toronto, ON — Librarians at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music Library have discovered Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen’s violin concerto that was believed lost for over a century. Violinist Henning Kraggerud will perform the 21st-century premiere of the concerto under the direction of Bjarte Engeset in Stavenger, Norway in July 2016 as part of […]





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The mindful librarian : connecting the practice of mindfulness to librarianship

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Adult Services Librarian (Poquoson, Va (Hampton Roads))

The Poquoson Public Library (PPL) seeks an enthusiastic and detail oriented full-time Adult Services Librarian with a strong public service philosophy and excellent communication skills to join its team. PPL is an award winning and vibrant one-branch library (<2>Full official posting and online application link




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State Library welcomes the appointment of new State Librarian

Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon has been announced as the State Library's new State Librarian.




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This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library

It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan's immense collection of books and art




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ARL Fall Forum on Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future

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Proceedings

Best quote: Librarians are like Mr. Paperclip from MS Office - we pop up when you least expect it and try to offer to you help...

This conference focused on the science library's role in supporting e-science and integrating into research collaborations and science departments. There was a mixture of speakers: government, library and institute directors, and a few librarians. The presentations were a mixture of big picture descriptions and some concrete examples. I felt like there wasn't as much hard solutions that we could take back to the library and implement, but perhaps just educating the library community on how radically different e-science is changing the research landscape is the necessary first step.

I've included the highlights from my session notes below (let me know if you'd like the see my full notes in gory detail). Check out the proceedings link above for powerpoint and document files for most of the speakers.

As a side note, our poster about GatorScholar was well-received with many people already aware of the project from either Val's USAIN presentations, the SLA poster, or from hearing about Cornell's project. Medha Devare was one of the panel reactors and she mentioned our collaboration in her presentation. Most of the poster visitors seemed very interested in starting their own version and perhaps at some point we'll have a network of databases.

Thursday

E-Science: Trends, Transformations & Responses

Convener and Moderator: Wendy Lougee, University of Minnesota
Speaker: Chris Greer, Director, National Coordination Office

NCO part of Office of Science and Tech Policy, coordinates all major science orgs

E-Science defined as digital data driven, distributed and collaborative - allows global interaction.

Science pushed to be trans-disciplinary - scientists pushed to areas where they have no formal training - continual learning important;

It fuses the pillars of science: experiment, theory, model/simulation, observation & correlation

Come a long way: ARPANET -> internet, redefinition of the computer (ENIAC to cloud computing)

Question: how many libraries do we need? Greer thinks this will change over time.

Future library: Imagine all text in your pocket, question answered at speed of light (semantic web concept), wearing contact lens merge physical and digital worlds -> in the long run we'll have the seamless merging of worlds

Science is global and thrives in a world that is not limited to 4-D. Cyberinfrastructure reduces time and distance. Need computational capacity and connectivity with information.

The challenge for society: responsibility to preserve data.

Reinventing the library:
Challenges: institutional commitment, sustainable funding model, defining the library user community (collection access is global so who is the user?), legal and policy frameworks, library workforce, library as computational center, sustainable technology framework.

We've come a long way but we're at the beginning of a dramatic change.

2. A Case Study in E-Science: Building Ecological Informatics Solutions for Multi-Decadal Research

William Michener, Research Professor (Biology) and Associate Director, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico

Data and information challenges:
data are massively dispersed and lost sometimes
data integration - scientists use different formats and models. Lots of work to integrate even simple datasets
problem of information and storage


LTER has a lot of data archives that are very narrow in scope of data stored. Also has a lot of tools. Working on adoption of tools - predict an exponential increase with time.

Future: science will drive what they do. Look at critical areas in the earth system. Understanding changes in world involve a pyramid in data collection scale (remote sensing to sampling)

Technology directions; Cyberinfrastrcture is enabling the science, consider whole-data-life-cycle, domain agnostic solutions (since budgets are bad, solutions have to be universal across all the sciences)

We need
Cyberinfrastructure that enables: data needs to be able to pull in from different sources, easy integration, tools that allow visualization

Support for the data lifecycle - need to work on metadata interoperability across data holdings.


Sociocultural Directions:
education and training: science now is lifelong learning
engaging citizens in science: have websites to education public,
building global communities of practice: develop CI as a collaborative team
expand globally in future, expand with academic, govt, NGO's and companies

Challenges:
Broad active community engagement: need educators to teach students in best practices
transparent governance
adoption of sustainable business models

3. Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, Emory University Libraries

"Making a Quantum Leap to eResearch Support: a new world of opportunities and challenges for research libraries"


Where do we need to go: intelligent grid presence, collaboration support, social software, evaluation and research integrity (plus lots of other areas mentioned)

Dataset & repositories: need to have context of data, curation centers, users want mouse-click solutions and will come up with their own solutions if we don't.

PI's taking more responsibility on projects becoming publishers and curators. Librarians need to take on role of middleware

Researchers want:
information collaboration tools: shared reading, virtual worksapces and whiteboards, webspaces support wikis, data sets, preprints, videos of conference presentations, news

Need information visualization: browse information using maps of concepts, collaboration and citation networks, coauthorship networks, taxonomies, scatter plots of data, knowledge domain visualization

Where do we need to be: systems to facilitate shared ideas, presence, and creation

Individual libraries can't do this - we need collaborations

Challenges: connect newly forming disciplines and newly emerging fields

Libraries work a lot on support layer but we need to get in the workflow layer where we're connected with scientists and coordinate on a multi-institutional structure

Need new organizational structures: hybrid organizations: subject specialists - : intra-disciplinary teams. The future library office -> lives in project space/virtual lab

Need informaticians and informationists (embedded librarians)

What percent of our research library content and services are unique? What % of our budget resource ssupport uniqueness? We need to do something others cannot do or do something well that others do poorly.

Library cooperatives are useful for reducing redundancy. Next phase shift requires an expanded mission of shared purpose.

We fall short on scale, speed, agiliity, and resource, focus. Collective problems require collection action, which requires a shared vision - think cloud computing for libraries

We must do more than aggregate and provide access to shared information: Our job now is to wire people's brains together so that sharing, reasoning, and collaboration become part of everyday work.

Wendy Lougee

Pitfalls: not to fall back on traditional roles, currently we don't respond to multi-institutional collaborations, our boundaries stop with the institution

We need to understand scientists' workflows, need to identify strategies for embedding librarians into project teams. We need to think about core expertise of librarians, reimaging roles of librarians

What do we do to build this collaborative action? We need to think outside the box.

Data Curation: Issues and Challenges

Convener and Moderator: James Mullins, Dean of Libraries, Purdue University

  • Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN

Transition or Transform? Repositiioning the Library for the Petabyte Era

How can libraries work with science (in a very general sense)?

1. Transition or Transform? Need to become embedded and integrated into team science. Many different models of engagement

Geosciences pilot where the library worked with the Geological department to curate their datasets (Edinborough):
Found: Time needed is longer than anticipated, inventory doesn't have to be comprehensive, little documentation exists
Outcomes: positive, requirement for researcher and auditor training, need to develop a data policy

2. Lots of opportunities of action: leadership by senior managers, faculty coordination, advocacy & tranining, data documentation best practices

People and Skills: there are not enough specialised data librarians. In UK 5 data librarians. Need to bring diverse communities together - facilitate cooperation between organizations and individuals.

Open science: new range of areas where results are being put onto the web (GalaxyZoo eg.) Librarians need to be aware of implications.

3. Need multidisciplinary teams and people in library, huge skill shortage, need to find core data skills and integrate it into the LIS curriculum. Recruit different people to the LIS team, rebrand the LIS career. Go from librarianship to Informatics.


  • Fran Berman, Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, and Co-chair Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
"Research and Data"

Researchers are detectives, shows different major questions (SAF, Brown Dwarfs, bridge stress, Income dynamics over 40 years, Disease spread-Protein Data Bank) - key collections all over.

CI Support: all these issues are crucial. researchers want a easy to use set of tools to make the most of their data.

She finds different preservation profiles: timescale, datascale, well-tended to poor, level of policy restrictions, planned vs. ad hoc approach

Researchers focused on new projects, customization of solutions to problems, collaboration

Researchers need help: developing management, preservation and use environments, proper curation and annotation, navigating policy, regulation, IP, sustainability

Questions about preservation: what should we save and who should pay for it? Just saving everything isn't an option. 2007 was the crossover year - digital data exceeded the amount of available storage. What do we want to save? Who is we?
Society: official and historically valuable data, Fed agency or inst normally takes part.
Research community: PDB, NVO.
Me: medical record, financial data, digital photos - real commercial market for preservation solutions.

What do we have to save?
private sector: HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley,
OMB regulations for fed funded research data (3 years, not always easy to do).

Economics: many costs associated with preservation. Maintenance upkeep, software, utilities, space, networking, security, etc.

UCSD forged partnership with library. Trying to create a preservation grid with formal policies, nationwide grid with other institutions.

Panel Responders:
  • Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean of University Libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University

Data Curation Issues and Challenges:

It makes sense to help scientists deal with public and higher levels of data, not the raw data.

Considerations: need to work within their systems, consider gateways for systems as part of infrastructure development (think about railroad gauge), focus on both human and tech components of infrastructure, human interoperability is more difficult than tech interoperability, trust is key!

Questions: What about the cloud or the crowd? Can Flickr help us with data curation? What are the fundamental differences between data and collections? Human readable vs. machine readable? How do we transfer principles into new practices? What are we trying to sustain? Data? Scholarship? Our organizations?


Supporting Virtual Orgs

  • Thomas A. Finholt, Director, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW) and Research Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, School of Information, University of Michigan

Changing nature of geographically-distributed collaboration:

history: transition in terms of distributed work. Much of what came before (collaboratory, video conf) had a precedent but new emerging has no precedent (crowdsourcing, VO's), no traditional context leaves us a bit adrift.

Lesson 1: anticipate cultural differences.
Domain scientists: characteristics: power distance (bias toward seniority, hierarchical), individualist(solo PI, individual genius), masculine(adversial and competitive), uncertainty avoidance
CI developers: power distance (bias toward talent, egalitarian), collectivist(project model), masculine, embrace risk

Lesson 2: plan for first contact.

It can be tough to recognize successful innovations: first efforts are often awkward hybrids



Crowdsourcing: idea that we send out challenges and solutions come to us (ex. Innocentive website, Games with a Purpose). We don't know who is going to do the work, effort is contributed voluntarily -> incentives are important to motivate work

Delegation of organizational work: people can count on organizations to do some of the basic policy work. Much attention has focused on technology and processes to support social ties, alternative course is the use of technology to supplant social ties - > think of this as organizing without the work of organizing, questions of who to trust, who pays, permitted to use the resources are managed by middleware.

Group work is an inevitable fact of org life.

  • Medha Devare, Life Sciences and Bioinformatics Librarian, Mann Library, Cornell University
Idea of Virtual Organization: boundary crossing, pooling of competencies, participants or activities geographically separated, fluid, flat structure, participant equality

Library contributions: technology choices, tools; tech support/guidance; subject expertise; understanding of research landscape; vision - user needs of the future?

Examples of library support: VIVO, DataStar (supports data-sharing among researchers)

DataStar: Data Staging Repository: supports data sharing, esp during research process, promotes publishing or archiving to discipline specific data centers and/or to Cornell's DR. Nascent stage

Reinventing the library? Librarians as middle-ware to facilitate process of connecting and creating coherence across disciplines - both VIVO and DataStar aid this.

Hope that both tools seamlessly interact with each other.


D. Scott Brandt, Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University Library

Tries to embed librarians in research teams. We have to redefine what we do, collect.




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Librarians’ vital role in the world of academics

Their part in fostering knowledge is invaluable




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Catalogue of books and papers relating to electricity, magnetism, the electric telegraph, &c.: including the Ronalds Library / compiled by Sir Francis Ronalds, F.R.S. ; with a biographical memoir ; edited by Alfred J. Frost, Acting-Librarian of the So

Archives, Room Use Only - Z5831.R66 1994




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METADATA SERVICES LIBRARIAN

Responsible for access to digital resources and collections, including identifying and resolving access issues related to resources Perform original and complex copy cataloging and classification of materials in all formats and languages following natio......




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Maryland Association of School Librarians awarded AASL ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant

CHICAGO – The Maryland Association of School Librarians (MASL) is the recipient of the 2020 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant. Sponsored by ABC-CLIO, the $1,750 grant is given to an AASL Chapter for planning and implementing leadership programs at the state, regional, or local level.




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School libraries hit by the loss of a dying breed as teacher librarians enter 'survival mode'

Researchers are reporting an "alarming" loss in the number of qualified teacher librarians in schools, and they warn student literacy will continue to suffer if the trend is not reversed.




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New-age librarians embrace new technologies to accommodate growing communities needs

One high-tech regional library hosts a "zoom room" for video conferencing, an interactive jumping floor for kids, eBooks and eAudiobooks and yes, plenty of good, old-fashioned printed books.



  • ABC North West Queensland
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  • northwest
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  • Arts and Entertainment:Books (Literature):Fantasy
  • Arts and Entertainment:Library Museum and Gallery:All
  • Community and Society:Regional:All
  • Science and Technology:Computers and Technology:Internet
  • Science and Technology:Information Technology:All
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Kimberly O'Sullivan, local studies librarian Cessnock City Library



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  • Community and Society:Immigration:All
  • Community and Society:Multiculturalism:All
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Ask A Librarian: VPNs?

  From a Vermont librarian: VPNs are really important and I’d like to remind our patrons about them, but it...




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Ask A Librarian: Hard Drive Cleanup for Macs?

  I am looking for someone who can help me find and clear out excess data on one of my...




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Ask A Librarian: What About Controlled Digital Lending?

From a friend: Please explain to me your enthusiasm for controlled digital lending. Please let me know what you think...




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Ask a Librarian: Older person wanting to learn about tech

Subtitled: What’s the Yahoo! Internet Life for this generation? From a friend: A nice older lady asked for advice on...




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Ask A Librarian: Graphic Novels for Boomers?

I was wondering if you might give my little women’s (boomers) some guidance as to a beginning graphic novel for...




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Ask A Librarian: What is the deal with “free” ebook sites?

It’s been an odd set of months. I got busy with Drop-In Time and then very un-busy. I’ve been keeping...




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Q&A: What do people ask a librarian in a pandemic? L.A. Library's InfoNow has the answer

With libraries closed, L.A. librarians now work from home to help people find free ebooks, music and movies during the coronavirus crisis.




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The data librarian's handbook / Robin Rice and John Southall.

Data libraries.




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Easy graphic design for librarians : from color to kerning / Diana K. Wakimoto.

Libraries -- Marketing.




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Librarian at Penn State Harrisburg elected to third term leading national group

Bernadette Lear, Penn State University Libraries behavioral sciences and education librarian and coordinator of library instruction at the Penn State Harrisburg Library, has been elected vice chair/chair elect of the Library History Round Table, a membership group of the American Library Association.




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Penn State Law librarian elected 2021 chair of national law library organization

Rebecca Mattson, head of faculty and research services for the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Law Library, Penn State University Libraries, and professor of legal research at Penn State Law at University Park, has been elected vice chair/chair elect of the Research Instruction and Patron Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries.




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Librarian Duties




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The last librarian / Osdany Morales ; translated by Kristina Bonsager

Hayden Library - PQ7392.M4696 P3713 2017




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Latest News: Librarian Seeks Input on Register of Copyrights

The public will have the opportunity to provide input to the Library of Congress on expertise needed by the next Register of Copyrights, the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, announced today.

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REMINDER: In Conversation with Librarian of Congress: Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood

 

 

Country Music Icon Trisha Yearwood and Gershwin Prize Recipient Garth Brooks “In Conversation with Librarian of Congress,” March 2

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will host a conversation with Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter Garth Brooks and country music artist, actress, author, celebrity chef and wife of Brooks, Trisha Yearwood on Monday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. in the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium in the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C.

Brooks will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song later that week on Wednesday, March 4. The country music titan and multiple hall of famer is the youngest recipient of the prestigious prize. You can follow and join in on the #GershwinPrize conversation via Twitter.

During the conversation, Brooks and Yearwood will discuss their success as a country music power couple, their careers as music industry changemakers and the humanitarian projects they devote their efforts to each year. The conversation is being presented as part of the Library’s initiative to Explore America’s Changemakers.

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Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.




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Online training being imparted to librarians

Online training being imparted to librarians




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Law Library: News & Events: Ask-a-Librarian: We Are Here for You!

If you’ve never taken advantage of our Ask-a-Librarian service, allow us to introduce you!

Through the Library's online reference service, the Law Library can help you with:

  • Legal and legislative research assistance for US federal and state, foreign, international, and comparative law
  • Queries on resources unique to the Law Library of Congress

Learn more about this FREE service on this guest post by Chief of the Public Services Division Andrew Winston.




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Librarian career development [electronic journal].

Bradford, West Yorkshire, England : MCB University Press, 1993-1999.




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TONIGHT: Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood with Librarian Carla Hayden

TONIGHT, Monday, March 2 beginning at 7pm ET

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will host a conversation with Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter Garth Brooks. Brooks and Hayden will be joined by country music artist, actress, author, celebrity chef and wife of Brooks, Trisha Yearwood. They will discuss their success as a country music power couple, their careers as music industry changemakers and the humanitarian projects they devote their efforts to each year.

Brooks will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song later that week on Wednesday, March 4. The country music titan and multiple hall of famer is the youngest recipient of the prestigious prize.

You can follow and join in on the #GershwinPrize conversation via Twitter.

Watch here on the Library's YouTube page.

Watch here on the Library's Facebook page.
Tune in to Facebook at 6:30 pm ET for a special edition of Garth Brooks' "Inside Studio G" Facebook program LIVE from the Library of Congress!

 

 




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CRS Employment Opportunities: Research Librarian (Domestic Social Policy)

CRS is accepting applications through the Graduate Recruit Program for a Research Librarian (Domestic Social Policy), GS-9 until April 10, 2020.

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CRS Employment Opportunities: Law Librarian

CRS is accepting applications for a Law Librarian, GS-12 until May 22, 2020.

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A librarian's guide to graphs, data and the semantic web / James Powell, Matthew Hopkins

Online Resource




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Recording of Responsible Conduct of Research: training for librarians




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Outreach for music librarians / edited by Scott Stone

Lewis Library - ML111.O98 2019