Future Librarians and Information Professionals
Another link to an article from a professor in my MLIS program from Inside HigherEd.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/10/libraries
It expands on the Kindle article posted earlier and discusses the economics of print and digital library collections along with the challenges faced in making the conversion to digital.
I was just reading the reviews for a new book that might make a good choice for the next book club selection:
This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
by Marilyn Johnson
And just a reminder: We will be discussing our first book selection – “Everything is Miscellaneous” – at the next FLIP meeting on February 19.
Kato Ha’unga, a UAA student here in Anchorage, is in the process of saving books for a new library in Tonga.
Here is her story: UAA student helps Tonga gain a library (from the Anchorage Daily News).