Category Archives: Libraries
Position Announcement: Baylor University – Assistant or Associate Librarian, Non-tenure Track, Cataloging and Database Maintenance Librarian
The Baylor University Libraries is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to join our team of librarians, serving as the Catalog and Database Maintenance Librarian. We’re looking for a detail-oriented individual with strong problem-solving skills to lead the print monograph and … Continue reading
Position – Baylor University: Curator (Assistant or Associate Librarian)
The Baylor University Libraries seek an innovative, service-oriented second Curator to help build and expand access to the collections of the Armstrong Browning Library (ABL). A research center and museum dedicated to the study of poets Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett … Continue reading
Baptist Library Uses WorldCat Local
OCLC’s newly released WorldCat Local online catalog solution has quickly gathered a number of implementers. This new search and discovery service offers a number of advantages over traditional ILS catalogs. One Baptist library, the James P. Boyce Centennial Library at … Continue reading
Archives Web Sites
Hello, ALABI gang! We are working on improving our Special Collections Web site, and I wondered if you had sites that you would recommend? Are there sites you don’t like? Why not? All suggestions are welcome.
The Googlized Future of Libraries?
For a couple of years, speculation has been rampant about the future of Google’s plans for it’s Google Books service. Due to Google’s involvement in litigation over the issue of copyright infringement, all bets have been off as to how … Continue reading
The Future of Libraries
Some of you may be interested to read Robert Darnton’s thoughts on libraries from the latest New York Review of Books. Dr. Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. Also, Dr. R. … Continue reading