@ your library logos

Go to this page to download “@ your library” logos in multiple languages.  From the ALA website:   “The @ your library® logo is available for libraries and library organizations nationwide—libraries and library organizations do not need to seek permission to use the logo. See Trademark Use Policy and How to Use the @ your library Brand Correctly.”

ALA Core Competencies

Click here for the link to a new document from the American Library Association.  It is titled “ALA’s Core Competencies of Librarianship.”   This five-page document “defines the basic knowledge to be possessed by all persons graduating from an ALA-accredited master’s program in library and information studies” (quoted from webpage).

See this site for more information about librarianship as a career.

AL Direct

AL Direct, the weekly e-newsletter of American Libraries magazine, is now open access for anyone who wants to sign up for it, not just ALA members. The sign-up form is at http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/aldirect/aldirect.cfm.

Visit ALA’s Public Information Office site to find out more news, including the launch of the new AL Inside Scoop blog and the current issue of American Libraries available online without login.

Faceted Searching Solutions

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) offered a forum series at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim.  One was sponsored by the ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group entitled “Old Records, New Records, New Interfaces.”  Three librarians, Charley Pennell, Mary Charles Lasater, and Cheryl Gowing, presented their experiences from their online catalog redesign projects.  Links to the powerpoint presentations are below:

Charley Pennell, Principal Cataloger for Metadata, North Carolina State University Libraries – Endeca Presentation

Mary Charles Lasater, Authorities Librarian, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University – Primo Presentation

Cheryl Gowing, Director, Information Management & Systems, University of Miami – Encore Presentation

[Also, here is a link to SirsiDynix's faceted searching solution: Enterprise.]

Definition of Digital Preservation

ALCTS, a division of ALA, has announced a definition of digital preservation.  The short definition is: “Digital preservation combines policies, strategies and actions that ensure access to digital content over time.”  For the medium and long definitions and for more information, see the ALCTS website.

ALA Emerging Leaders Poster Session

If you plan on attending the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim this year, stop by the ALA Emerging Leaders Class of 2008 poster session on Friday June 27 from 3 PM to 5 PM at the Hilton Anaheim, California Pavillion C.

Steven K. Bowers, DALNET director, is a member of this year’s class of Emerging Leaders.

Click HERE for the ALA press release.

Applications for the 2009 class of Emerging Leaders are available HERE.