I just wanted to share this with you. Just last week, we invested in a subscription to Heritage Microfilm’s Newspaper Archive, an online database that houses literally millions of newspaper pages (in an oh-so-handy searchable PDF format) from 1759 to the present. Included in the collection of newspapers from across the country are old issues [...]
I talk to librarians on a daily basis about their innate ability to “find things” sometimes these things are a missing news article, a certain book, an obituary..sometimes its the drinking fountain. Finding new and easier ways to obtain information is necessary for librarians and really for all of us. I have noticed a lot of [...]
Large public libraries allocate a substantial portion of their budgets to pay for subscriptions to various databases, but even small libraries can provide some access through cooperative agreements with regional or state systems. http://librariesandliteracy.wordpress.com
I have noticed more and more libraries trying to partner together within their system. Team work is what we are going to need to get through these [...]
Congratulations to the libraries all over the United States this week, it’s National Library Week. It was first sponsored in 1958, over 51 years to date. On a personal note I would just like to say “thank you” to all the staff members, volunteers, librarians, and directors that I have been working with. I couldn’t ask for a better crowd [...]
