New Book

• The Library in the Twenty-First Century (2nd ed.) by Peter Brophy

Stumbled Upon Thoughts

Michelle McLean wrote in her blog, "If it hadn't been for library bloggers I would never have:
- started reading blogs
- started reading the library literature more widely
- started writing book reviews for the library literature
- started reading outside my profession for parallel experiences and new ideas
- started my own blog, to share my own experiences
- discovered the amazing resources and programs available out there
- participated in Learning 2.0 and become a champion for my library's staff when doing the same
- been invited to participate in a librarian group blog - Libraries Interact, with a great group of motivated librarians from around Australia
- been motivated to apply for and receive the scholarship and conduct the study tour I did in April this year
- pushed for my library to start its own blog
- started using mashups on my library's website - only just scratching the surface here though so far
- developed increased confidence in myself, my skills and the new skills and inspiration I was receiving from your posts
- asked to participate and then actually write a chapter for a book being published in the UK next year
- gathering new inspiration and ideas to play with and hopefully translate into something my library service can utilise and better serve my patrons
- had the confidence to submit proposals to library conferences in Australia
- had the inspiration to write for the library literature in Australia (still working on that one).
.... and that list is just off the top of my head, without any long consideration.
I have progressed more professionally in the last 3 years, than I had in the previous 19. Even though my job title hasn't changed much, the work that I do, my love of it and my wider knowledge of the profession has grown exponentially (and there is potential in the job situation, so that may better reflect this development soon too).

And it's all because library bloggers out there unselfishly decided to take the time to share their thoughts, experiences and more. They took a risk, put themselves out there, not knowing whether anyone would read and I again want to say thanks. I am more in love with my profession, my work and the life-long learning process that I am again engaged in, than I have ever been before. They are an inspiration to me, they give me inspiration to make the changes, small and large, to help make my library service better for our users - as a professional, I could not ask for a better gift from my profession.

So I am freshly motivated. By the posts I am reading, the motivations behind them and the people who create them. It is an honour to be numbered amongst them."

How many of us feel this way?

New Additions

• Listen Up!: Podcasting for Schools and Libraries by Linda W. Braun
• E-Learning: Train Your Staff the Newfangled Way - delivered 09/19/07 (Urban Libraries Council)

FYI: Each audio conference unit contains a CD-ROM of the conference audio plus access to event materials. The accompanying binder also contains printed materials.

New Books

• Senior High Core Collection: A Selection Guide (17th Ed.) edited by Raymond W. Barber and Patricia Bartell

FYI: The former title of this book is Senior High School Library Catalog

• The Complete RFID Handbook: A Manual and DVD for Assessing, Implementing, and Managing Radio Frequency Identification Technologies in Libraries by Diane Marie Ward

Journal Added

The Professional Collection has added the Progressive Librarian A Journal for Critical Studies & Progressive Politics in Librarianship. This is the official journal of the Progressive Librarians Guild. According to the PLG Web site,

"PLG is committed to:

• providing a forum for the open exchange of radical views on library issues.
• conducting campaigns to support progressive and democratic library activities locally, nationally and internationally.
• supporting activist librarians as they work to effect changes in their own libraries and communities.
• bridging the artificial and destructive gaps between school, public, academic and special libraries, and between public and technical services.
• encouraging debate about prevailing management strategies adopted directly from the business world, to propose democratic forms of library administration, and to foster unity between librarians and other library workers.
• critically considering the impact of technological change in the library workplace, on the provision of library services, and on the character of public discourse.
• monitoring the professional ethics of librarianship from a perspective of social responsibility.
• facilitating contacts between progressive librarians and other professional and scholarly groups dealing with communications and all the political, social, economic and cultural trends which impact upon it worldwide, in a global context. "

If you would like to have this journal routed to you, please let me know. It is only published twice per year so you will not be over burdened with reading.

New Book

• Booktalks and Beyond: Promoting Great Genre Reads to Teens by Lucy Schall

FYI: Focusing on titles published after 2000, Schall provides background information, ready-to-use (or adapt) booktalks, read-aloud selections, learning activities, related reads for approximately 100 fiction and nonfiction books with broad teen appeal. [from back cover]

New Books

• Serving Latino Communities, 2nd ed. by Camila Alire and Jacqueline Ayala
• Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program edited by Susan Carol Curzon and Lynn D. Lampert
• Libraries and Librarianship: Sixty Years if Challenge and Change, 1945-2005 by George Bobinski

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