Italian blog whose aim is to involve in library related discussion non only professionals but also library users. The blog pays thus great interest in services to the public, relation among libraries and users, users rights. There is also interest for library technologies, web 2.0 and free software.

This blog was born in Liguria (NW Italy), thus it has a certain specific attention to that territory, but such attention is in no way exclusive and all library related themes can be discussed. Users from all over the world are welcome, and posts or comments in langueges other than Italian are allowed, though Italian is the main language of the blog.

Knowbodies is a current awareness blog that provides news about websites, technology, resources, applications, trends and all manner of information that might be of interest to librarians and others with a professional interest in finding information. A secondary focus of the blog is international relations and public diplomacy; the reason for that is that the precursor to this blog, the now retired ircworld, originated in the community of nearly 180 information resource centers (IRCs), libraries and American centers located at U.S.embassies and consulates in more than 140 countries. The present blog is private, has no affiliation with the U.S. government, and welcomes postings from librarians outside the U.S. embassy community.

Knowbodies seeks to emulate the many useful library blogs and current awareness sites that exist on the net, and aggregates a selection of them in the Pageflakes pagecast "Knowbodies: libraries & technology."

You can get Knowbodies.blogspot.com postings via email (Feedblitz) or rss.

Librarians and others with an interest these matters are encouraged to become part of the community and contribute posts to the blog – if you’d like to join, send an email to signon@knowbodies.info Editorial guidelines are simple; content should be consistent with the scope and focus outlined above. Posts that are obscene, slanderous or disrespectful will not be tolerated, unless they are very funny.

The patron saint of this site is the fellow in Carl Spitzweg's 1850 painting "The Bookworm"

This website focuses on the management and research of primary source materials.
Based on Library 2.0 technologies, Archivopedia offers many services helpful to librarians and those wishing to learn more about library and archival research.

The wiki encyclopedia is open for anyone to edit and contains information relevant to archivists, librarians, public historians, and museum professionals. MLIS students will also find the study guide of terminology and biographical entries helpful. For individuals seeking a job, internship, or practicum experience, the wiki offers a free service to post a link to a resume or ePortfolio. For administrators and directors, there are links to funding sources like library grants and foundations that cater to library-related projects such as digitization, preservation, and collections description.

Link to the wiki to find out more: http://archivopedia.com/wiki/

In addition to the wiki, the site offers a search engine specially customized to find primary source materials around the world by keyword. This feature takes advantage of open source / open access initiatives and is designed to promote repository collections containing original materials by enabling researchers the opportunity to find and link to collections and specific items held at various repositories that might interest them in a single search. Try a sample search like “George Washington” in the search engine:
http://www.google.com/cse?oe=utf8&ie=utf8&source=uds&start=0&cx=01516329....

Link to the search engine: http://archivopedia.com/_mgxroot/page_10753.html

A new Online Learning Center was recently introduced. Designed for library, archival, and history educators at all levels in mind, the Online Learning Center focuses on:

* How to use primary sources in teaching
* Building instructional design modules
* Learning object database
* On-demand tutorials
* Web 2.0 integration and programming tips
* Web-deliverable interactive, self-paced 24/7 lessons

Members can deposit a learning module for their students or library patrons.

Link to the Virtual Campus page: http://archivopedia.com/_mgxroot/page_10754.html

Primary Sources, the site's news publication, pulls the latest stories from news headlines relevant to archivists, librarians, records managers, public historians, and museum professionals. Readers can vote on issues in the news though online polling with instant results.

Link to the News page: http://archivopedia.com/_mgxroot/page_10743.html

The site is currently seeking beta version users and contributors to explore and comment on development issues.

Sincerely,
The Archivopedia Development Team

A blog about Talking Books and other great resources for blind or visually impaired persons. Find out what's happening in the world of libraries and Talking Books! The blog also includes information and resources of importance to older adults, as well as those with disabilities.

People who are unable to read standard print due to a visual or physical impairment, or those who have a reading disability, may qualify for free Talking Books. This is the national web site for Talking Books provided by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) - The Library of Congress. Users can search to find their local Talking Books library or search the online catalog to find titles of books.

A blog designed to keep library staff up to date with new technologies.

This team blog was created in 2003 by the librarian at the U.S. embassy in Oslo. Posting to ircworld is open to staff of more than 100 overseas libraries and information resource centers (IRCs - see http://ircworld.blogspot.com/worldlist.html) and to the corps of U.S. State Department Information Resource Officers (professional librarians who are also foreign service officers and who supervise the State Department's overseas library program)

Postings fall into two categories:
1.resources/technology of interest to librarians and 2.information/news about public diplomacy which is the overarching purpose of these IRCs

The site provides RSS streams from a number of library and (a few) public diplomacy blogs. Nearly all postings are by the Oslo IRC librarian, who would very much like to see more IRCs contributing..Lots of interesting stuff, check it out!

NE2007 is the Fourth Northeast Regional Law Libraries Meeting. The 2007 conference will be held in Toronto from October 17-20, 2007, hosted by the Toronto Association of Law Libraries (TALL). Attendance of up to 600 law librarians from the north-eastern United States and eastern Canada is expected: professionals from law firms, law schools, courthouses and government institutions will come together to learn about professional and legal issues and to see how our colleagues are taking librarianship beyond its traditional borders.