Archive for the 'helpers' Category

keeping current even without a job

Posted in helpers | Thursday, March 25th, 2004 | Comments Off

New mom Priscilla Shontz has written a great new article for LISCareer: A Librarian without a Library: Staying Professionally Active While Unemployed. Most of her advice is also great for library sfhool students looking at ways to engage with their future profession while still in school.

minority librarian in residence

Posted in helpers | Saturday, February 21st, 2004 | Comments Off

Yale has a minority librarian in residence program to try to increase minority representation among Yale library staff. The information page also lists other academic institutions that have similar programs.

Ken Wilson will send you text-to-speech versions of Gutenberg titles

Posted in helpers | Thursday, January 29th, 2004 | Comments Off

Ken Wilson is mostly blind but reads via text-to-speech software. He saves copies of the copyright-free books he reads in MP3 format. He offers to make text-to-speech recordings of Gutenberg titles on CD available to anyone who is blind or partially sighted as an MP3 or a wav file, for low or no cost [with donations gratefully accepted].

archive list

Posted in helpers | Monday, December 1st, 2003 | Comments Off

Here is a list of online libraries and archives dealing with HIV/AIDS information.

step in the right direction

Posted in helpers | Monday, December 1st, 2003 | Comments Off

The Rural AIDS Action Network in Minnesota is launching a Libraries Fight HIV/AIDS campaign in partnership with the MLA today.

exhibits at libraries today

Posted in helpers | Monday, December 1st, 2003 | Comments Off

Many libraries are hosting exhibits or events for World AIDS Day including: The National Library of Trinidad & Tobago, the Salt Lake City public library, the Maine College of Art library, the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro Vermont, Novato Public Library in Marin County and the Ames Public Library in Iowa.

gay library history

Posted in helpers | Monday, December 1st, 2003 | Comments Off

And, as some worthwhile related reading if you’re not too up on the gay library subculture: “They Sure Got to Prove It on Me”: Millennial
Thoughts on Gay Archives, Gay Biography, and
Gay Library History by James Carmichael from Libraries and Culture.
Without putting too fine a point on recent findings that suggest
that, even in urban collections, gay literature and gay studies have
received uneven treatment or recent evidence of a backlash against
social responsibilities as a part of the librarian mandate, it is probably no
exaggeration to claim that gay studies have progressed in spite of librarianship
as well as because of it. [pdf]

are librarians doing enough?

Posted in helpers | Monday, December 1st, 2003 | Comments Off

A South African library association’s newsletter asks if librarians are doing enough about the HIV/AIDS pandemic. [pdf]

NYPL is always ahead of the game info-wise

Posted in helpers | Monday, December 1st, 2003 | Comments Off

NYPL does HIV/AIDS technology training workshops at their libraries and have a helpful PDF pathfinder [also in Spanish] for finding AIDS/HIV information online.

bibliocide?

Posted in helpers | Sunday, November 2nd, 2003 | Comments Off

As I suspected, getting my name in the New York Times has resulted in a lot of friendly mail and link submissions. A few pages I’ve liked are: Bibliocide, The History of the Wisconsin Library School SLIS, and How Not to Handle a Complaint #1-5 from NHLA.
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