Atlantic Librarians

This network is for Atlantic Librarians, defined in its broadest sense. How broadly? Well, if you live in, want to live in, once lived in, or have friends who live in Atlantic Canada and you play or work in a library then you qualify.

Library Journal News

Library 2.0 Gang Kicks Off

The Library 2.0 Gang podcast series launched March 19, featuring gang regulars John Blyberg, Nicole Engard, Char Booth, Carl Grant, Rob Styles, and guest Aaron Swartz, discussiing The Open Library and new cataloging influences with host Richard Wallis.

OverDrive Breaks the iPod Barrier for Downloadable Audio

For years, librarians and patrons have complained that the most popular digital audio player, the iPod, is incompatible with the Windows Media Audio (WMA) files, the format for library downloadable audio titles. Now OverDrive will offer at least 3000 titles—about 15 percent of its catalog—in MP3 format, which means compatibility with nearly every MP3 player and mobile phone, including iPods.

Tulare County Supervisors Back Library in Probationary Librarian Firing

Despite a probationary library assistant's contention that the loss of her job was connected to an unauthorized report to police that a library patron was looking at child pornography, the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, Visalia, CA, said an internal review determined that decision was not connected to that report.

Book News: Rowling’s Deathly Hallows Split into Two Films

Warner Brothers executives have confirmed the rumors that the seventh and final installment of J.K. Rowling’s smash series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be divided into two movies.

InfoTech: Refworks Offering RefAware Service

RefWorks  has added a new service dubbed RefAware, which the company describes as an “online personal research assistant and monitoring service.”

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Richard (Dick) H. Ellis to receive Merit Award

The APLA Executive is pleased to announce that Richard (Dick) H. Ellis will be honoured at the Merit Award Banquet and Dance, Saturday May 26, 2007 - 6pm-1am.

Dick Ellis has been a longstanding member of APLA holding the positions of President and Bulletin Advertising Editor. In addition to his APLA contributions, he has been an active participant in
various associations and organizations including CACUL and CARL and the Council of Atlantic University Librarians (CAUL) over the last… Continue

Posted by Donna Bourne-Tyson on April 17th, 2007 at 1:41pm — No Comments (Add)

Future Development for the Network

One thing that Ning lets you do is add RSS feeds to your network. Currently, I have added two: 1) Library Journal news and 2) Del.icio.us bookmarks for the "Library 2.0" tag.

While the former is probably familiar to most of you, the latter may not be. Basically, del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool where people can share bookmarks publically and/or read the book marks of other people who have chosen to share their bookmarks.

People can also "tag" a bookmark with a name fami… Continue

Posted by Ryan Deschamps on March 30th, 2007 at 10:35am — No Comments (Add)

Come to NL for CLA!

The CLA/APLA/NLLA conference 2007 is being held in St. John's! Come join us for a great conference and fun social events...
CLA/APLA/NLLA Conference 2007

Posted by Annette on March 29th, 2007 at 5:00pm — No Comments (Add)

The NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARY TECHNICIANS

Nova Scotia Association of Library Technicians

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Posted by Donna Bourne-Tyson on March 14th, 2007 at 3:32pm — No Comments (Add)

New Look!

Thanks to Donna Bourne-Tyson, we have a new look. A nice foggy picture of Hubbards, NS is a great way to add an east coast flavour to the site. Thanks Donna!

That said, I don't want to be accused of being "Nova-centric." So, if you got a good picture you want to share, let me know and I'll create a banner out of it for a while. Or if you don't want me doing a hack job of your photo, why not just add it to your "photos" and share it to the front page.

I see that people have alre… Continue

Posted by Ryan Deschamps on March 12th, 2007 at 8:57pm — No Comments (Add)

 
 

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