Sign of the times. Pick your district, assess the carnage.

Courtesy of Library Journal, in partnership with Mandy Knapp and Laura Solomon (contributing author and web designer of SaveOhioLibraries.com).

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A nice blog for Dutch Librarians.

Este blog es un lugar para compartir experiencias sobre Alfabetización Informacional (ALFIN) y temas relacionados con la Sociedad de la Información, revisar conceptos, aclarar dudas, difundir eventos, noticias y actividades y, en definitiva, aprender entre todos. Los/as invito a unirse y enviar sus experiencias y comentarios para ir descubriendo entre todos qué sucede con la ALFIN en Uruguay y en el mundo.

We would like to invite everyone to Freeze-n-Read 4 Libraries anywhere you are on 4.17.10@4pm or in the classroom with students anytime during National Library Week. (April 12-16) What began as a simple NLW activity for our school has grown into a library advocacy event we hope everyone who loves libraries will embrace. Our website, www.freeze-n-read.weebly.com explains the simple process (Promote, Freeze, Get Involved) and brings together in one place links to "cool" and "chilling" facts about libraries along with effective ways to bring about change. We include a blog to gather information about libraries in crisis, photo gallery for "Freezers" and a poll to document participation. My students and I are excited about the potential this has, but we need your help. Please ask your colleagues, friends and family to Vote 4 Libraries on the website and Freeze-n-Read in some way during National Library Week!

Website of the public library in Figueres, Catalonia (Spain).
Information about its services and collections. Two blogs associated. It includes a special collection of 19th century photographs and a digitalised press collection.

Complete redesign which showcases Web 2.0 functionalities and customizable content, engages patron participation, features an easy to use navigational structure with prominent displays of library events, materials and resources, and offers a wealth of new content.

Advocacy for Libraries, Librarianship and Information Science.

The new OPL website launched on 15 Jul 08. This is the first library to go live with BiblioCommons as the catalog. BiblioCommons allows complete integration of the catalog into the website, no more "click here for catalog" links.

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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"