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Posted Jun 21, 2021 | 9:37 AM by Gerry CENTRAL RESOURCE CENTER COORDINATOR Athabasca Denesuline Education Authority is seeking applications for the position of Central Resource Center Coordinator The Central Resource Center Coordinator is responsible for library services, collections, and learning spaces to support academic excellence and student engagement at Athabasca Denesuline Education Authority (ADEA).  Provides library services to Central office staff, students and community members inc...

Share NYU Libraries and ProQuest have launched a pilot project that will make over 150,000 scholarly titles available to students and faculty via their mobile devices. NYU users can access coursebooks, ebooks, and reference works from major publishers through an e-reader app called SimplyE. Available on both Apple and Android devices, SimplyE is a free-to-use service that allows library users to browse, borrow and read ebooks on their phones or tablets. Based on open-source technology and devel...

5 March 2021 A small but striking sculpture on display in the Special Collections Reading Room symbolically invites you to discover the National Library’s extensive Music Collection. This year’s Friends Creative Arts Fellow David Wickham will explore and share with us the works of composer Frederick Septimus Kelly but there is much more to be found. The sculpture Open Book shows a conductor, arms outstretched with a baton in his hand. Gifted to the Library in memory of English-born Aust...

PLOS and Yale University Announce Publishing Agreement Yale University posted the following announcement on its website on February 23, 2021 Yale University Library has signed two innovative agreements that will allow Yale-affiliated authors to publish in any PLOS open access journal without paying article processing charges (APCs). PLOS is a non-profit, open access publisher of seven highly respected scientific and medical journals. Last year Yale authors published more than 100 articles in PL...

I began volunteering at libraries 13 years ago when my daughter began kindergarten. At the time, I was an experienced educator turned stay-at-home mom, and wanted to volunteer in the building (without intimidating her brand new teacher). The school librarian was happy to have a parent to shelve, laminate and help students find their "just right books."  When we moved to York, I encouraged my daughter, who was in middle school at the time, to volunteer at the York Public Library. For many year...

Top circulated books, movies, albums of an unprecedented year  As 2020 draws to a close, the Boston Public Library is reflecting on a year unlike any other. From launching BPL To Go during a global pandemic, to an outpouring of demand for BLM and anti-racist literature, the BPL has worked to meet the evolving needs of the Boston community. “As it was for everyone, 2020 was a truly unprecedented year at the BPL. As the City of Boston, and the world, went virtual, we were proud to continue t...

Top circulated books, movies, albums of an unprecedented year December 31, 2020 BOSTON – December 31, 2020 – As 2020 draws to a close, the Boston Public Library is reflecting on a year unlike any other. From launching BPL To Go during a global pandemic, to an outpouring of demand for BLM and anti-racist literature, the BPL has worked to meet the evolving needs of the Boston community.  “As it was for everyone, 2020 was a truly unprecede...

Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials I’m writing in the last weeks of what feels like the longest year in memory. These past months have been an exercise in imaging three or four tenuous paths for the near future while managing only to put one foot in front of the other. One day soon we’ll be able to sit in fellowship and share stories of this challenging time, to honor SALALM members taken by the pandemic, and to untangle its consequences on our work. We’ll also...