librarian needed to throw out collection
Librarian needed for the Summer at the Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts. Your responsibilities? To purge the film library. update: according to a correspondent, the hospital designation “film librarian” bears little or no resemblance to the actual librarian positions we know and love, except perhaps for the low pay. And not to be confused with this fine web site: film librarian.
accessibility links
Library Web Chic collates some links about accessible web sites
patron confidentiality put to the test
Not a USAPA story but close to it, a real world example of cops coming to a library to try to obtain patron information and the library saying “no.” [thanks jonathan]
vatican library cataloging hurdles
Vatican library says that if they keep cataloging at this rate, they’ll be done in 350 years or so, maybe “only” 40 to get just an outline of the collection. Read about some of the hassles involved in cataloging for the Vatican Library.
Proverbio pulls out a small, notebook-sized Turkish manuscript containing economic data about the Ottoman Empire in the mid 1600s.It’s missing the first eight pages and the last few pages. There’s no author listed, date or index. Yet it’s full of nuggets of information that might be of interest to scholars – so much so that Proverbio has produced 10 pages of catalogue information and he’s only halfway through. How long has it taken? “Two months, I’m ashamed to say,” he says. [thanks jude]