PowerPoint Slides Available

The PowerPoint slides from today's lecture are available (.ppt format or .pdf format)

Library Usability Testing/Student Committee

• If you are interested in receiving 50 free iPrints you can participate in the library's web usability study. Contact Oakley Cline at: obc9017@uncw.edu or 910.200.9552 to set up a time to participate.
  
  
• If you are interested in serving on the Library Student Committee, contact Sue Cody (codys@uncw.edu).

In the News ...

Libraries are repositories of society's greatest thoughts ...

A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source (this link is temporary)

Google suffers setback in copyright case

Budget cuts threaten British Library services

Courts turn to Wikipedia, but selectively

Baghdad day to day: A librarian’s journal

Library Amusement on Valentine's Day

Library Perfume?

An Introduction to the Book

Extra Credit Events

African American Read-In
Wednesday (2/14) 11:00 - 2:00
Must participate (read) to get extra credit

Flash Fiction Contest
This week (due on Friday, 2/16)
Do not have to win for extra credit - submit copy of story to instructor

Carole Weatherford, Children's Book Author
Friday (2/16) 4:00 - 6:00

Assignment #3 and Lecture Slides

The lecture slides for today's lecture are available (.ppt format or .pdf format)

If you did not receive Assignment #3 you can view it here (.pdf format)

2/26 and 2/27

My office hours are cancelled for 2/26

Class is cancelled for 2/27

In Class Exercises: 2/13

Complete the following:

Call Numbers #1

Call Numbers #2

Reminder: Test on 2/22

This test will be multiple choice and will cover any discussions about Randall Library (information from the tours, class, etc.) and "library lingo."

Missed a tour or class? Consult your classmates.

Library Flash Fiction Contest - win $150!

Not only will you get 2 extra credit points for participating ... you could win $150!

The library is hosting a Flash Fiction contest and if you are interesting in writing, I encourage you to participate:

http://library.uncw.edu/web/events/flash/flash_fiction_2007.pdf

State of America's Libraries (Report)

The American Library Association released a report on the State of America's Libraries in 2006

Meeting Location for Thursday (2/8)

Please remember that we are meeting in the Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) on Thursday (2/8)

The CMC is located in the Education Building (#127)

If you enter the building from the front entrance, this room is at the back, right of the 1st floor

British Library to Start Charging

Its archives hold the Magna Carta, Beatles manuscripts and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Visitors to its fabled reading room in the British Museum included Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens and George Bernard Shaw. But the future of the British Library as a world-class, free resource is under threat fromplansto cut up to 7 per cent of its £100m budget in this year's Treasury spending round.

To survive, the library proposes to slash opening hours by more than a third and to charge researchers for admission to the reading rooms for the first time.

Read more ...

GOOGLE’S MOON SHOT: The quest for the universal library

Article from New Yorker about Google's "Google Book"

Library Lingo Test

On 2/22, you'll have a test about Randall Library and on "library lingo." You'll need to be prepared to answer multiple choice questions about the "lingo" on this page: http://library.uncw.edu/web/instruction/lib103/pemberton/lingo.pdf.

This test counts for 10% of your final grade.

Lecture Slides from 1/25/07

PowerPoint Slides (.ppt format) (.pdf format - handouts)

Having Trouble with your Blog?

If you are having trouble logging into your blogs, here is some information that might help:

1) Make sure you click on "New Blogger" when you sign in (http://www.blogger.com/start). This is at the top, right of the page.

2) Make sure you type in your e-mail address as your username (whatever e-mail you used to create the account).

3) If you are still having trouble, try retrieving your password by going to this page: https://www.google.com/accounts/ForgotPasswd

If you do not know what e-mail address you used to create the blog, you may have to create a new blog. If you do, please make sure you send me the new address.

Lecture Slides from 1/18/07

PowerPoint Slides (.ppt format) (.pdf format - handouts)

Get Books from an ATM?

An ATM for books
Coming soon: The most inclusive reader's catalog in the world, at your fingertips.

By Emily Maltby, FSB Magazine
December 14 2006: 9:36 AM EST

(FSB Magazine) -- Buying a book could become as easy as buying a pack of gum. After several years in development, the Espresso - a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library - is nearly consumer-ready and will debut in ten to 25 libraries and bookstores in 2007. The New York Public Library is scheduled to receive its machine in February.
The company behind the Espresso is called On Demand Books, founded by legendary book editor Jason Epstein, 78, and Dane Neller, 56, but the technology was developed six years ago by Jeff Marsh, who is a technology advisor for New York City-based ODB (ondemandbooks.com).

The machine can print, align, mill, glue and bind two books simultaneously in less than seven minutes, including full-color laminated covers. It prints in any language and will even accommodate right-to-left texts by putting the spine on the right. The upper page limit is 550 pages, though by tweaking the page thickness and type size, you could get a copy of War and Peace (albeit tough to read) if you wanted.

As a librarian, it is hard for me to imagine getting a book out of an ATM type machine. It does make me realize that print has not and doesn't seem to be doing away.

Welcome to LIB 103

Welcome to LIB 103 @ UNCW. Check this blog frequently as important announcements about the course will be posted here.