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Contact Your Elected Officials
Contact Your Elected Representatives NOW Restore Library Aid Funding in the FY14-15 Budget State library aid is now at 1997 levels, and $20M less than state Education Law mandates. Libraries are a core piece of our state’s educational system, yet … Continue reading
Leonardo da Vinci’s Handwritten Resume 1482 | Open Culture
in History | January 22nd, 2014 3 Comments We know that Michelangelo wrote grocery lists; now we have evidence that Leonardo wrote resumes. “Before he was famous, before he painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, before he invented … Continue reading
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Inside the Grolier Club, an Upper East Side Private Club Dedicated to the Book Arts | Untapped Cities
Nestled among the beautiful townhouses of the Upper East Side is the Grolier Club, a private club dedicated to the book arts. Founded in 1884 and named for the great French Renaissance bibliophile Jean Grolier, the club hosts eight exhibitions … Continue reading
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Georgians Revealed | Georgian Exhibition at the British Library
Tasteful and polite, or riotous and pleasure-obsessed? Discover the Georgians as they really were, through the objects that tell the stories of their lives. From beautifully furnished homes to raucous gambling dens, Georgians Revealed explores the revolution in everyday … Continue reading
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BUILD YOUR RESEARCH SKILLS WITH OUR MYMETRO RESEARCHERS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Now in its third year, the myMETRO Researchers program offers myMETRO members an opportunity to build their research chops in a supportive environment. The first two cohorts of myMETRO Researchers have had opportunities to design full-fledged research projects and … Continue reading
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Petition | Designate 31 West 57th Street as an individual and interior landmark. | Change.org
Petitioning New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission The Rizzoli Bookstore building is an icon of New York City architecture and one of the most beautiful commercial spaces in America. It is an impressive example of adaptive reuse of a former … Continue reading
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Call for Papers : World Library and Information Congress: 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly Lyon, France, from 16-22 August 2014 Congress theme: “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge”
Please share with colleagues. Any questions, please contact Fred Gitner, Queens Library, as indicated below. Thanks. Please excuse any duplication. Call for Papers Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section Theme: Libraries as Modern Towers of Babel: Fostering … Continue reading
10 Ways LinkedIn’s New ‘Contacts’ Can Help Job Hunters – OEDB.org
Ellyssa Kroski: January 24, 2014 LinkedIn used to be just another place to post your resume, but over the past couple of years it has evolved to be so much more. Most recently, LinkedIn rolled out enhanced functionality to its … Continue reading
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The User Is (Still) Not Broken There are disruptions everywhere—formats, distribution, and technology—but the one constant that gets forgotten is people By Bryan Kenney | Jan 27, 2014
Back in 2006, Karen Schneider, now university librarian at Oakland, Calif.’s Holy Names University, published “The User Is Not Broken: A Meme Masquerading as a Manifesto” on her blog, the Free Range Librarian. The post, as radical as it was … Continue reading
6 Terms that Instantly Reveal You as a Librarian Ellyssa Kroski — January 29, 2014
Few professions are as steeped in tradition and esoteric knowledge as librarianship. We have our own dialect packed with specialized jargon that only others in our vocation would understand. To decipher all of this we even have our own dictionary! … Continue reading
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