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Houghton’s collaborative digitization project of the Theodore Roosevelt manuscript materials with Dickinson State University in North Dakota includes 11 scrapbooks. Newspaper clippings dominate the majority of the materials pasted into the scrapbooks, browse his pers onal scrapbooks, fully digitized & online hvrd.me/YEyPwD  

The Internet offers today’s youth unprecedented opportunities to connect with peers and seek knowledge in almost any area of interest—and libraries are uniquely positioned to play a central role in this learning, according to Mimi Ito, professor and cultural anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine, and principal investigator for Connected Learning, a new education model funded by the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative. “As educators we can do much more in supporting, navigating, and curating this for young people.  http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/10/k-12/libraries-play-a-central-role-in-connected-learning-the-digital-shift-2013/      .... Karyn M. Peterson

last week’s “The Digital Shift” virtual event, “Reinventing Libraries,” produced by Library Journal and School Library Journal, looked at the broad spectrum of ways in which libraries are remaking themselves and rethinking their missions—and how to accomplish them—in the digital age. Throughout the day, panelists gave presentations, took questions from honing new skills, developing new ones, and thinking ahead about what assets will make a successful library—and a successful librarian—in the future. By Ian Chant http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/10/public-services/reinventing-libraries-keynote-panel-looks-into-industrys-future-the-digital-shift-2013/

The Library of Congress no longer needs the computer room that visitors once used to search its electronic card catalogue. These days the entire library has a wireless Internet connection, so workers this summer put a collection of old microfilm machines in that room instead. Meanwhile, the library’s old-school physical catalogues, the kind filled with carefully penned index cards, have long since been relegated to cool basement hallways where schoolchildren marvel at their obscurity. By Adrienne LaFrance http://goo.gl/nnxnq7

Libraries Change Lives…. Individuals and communities have a right to libraries… As a child, I dreamed of changing the world. And then I encountered Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy: “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” I realized that dreams become reality only when we take action. So I embarked on a lifelong path to “being” the change through librarianship……..Barbara, K.S.

WorldCat database reaches 2 billion holdings…. WorldCat (a global catalog of library collections) is a database of bibliographic information created and continuously updated by some 25,000 OCLC member libraries around the world. WorldCat records describe specific works and contain a listing of institutions that own an item, referred to as "holdings." Institutions use holdings information to create local catalogs, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work.

35 Powerful Cloud Tools for Modern Librarians New 35 Powerful Cloud Tools for Modern Librarians – Stephen's Lighthouse stephenslighthouse.com These tools work as an alternative to Microsoft’s expensive Office Suite. Choose from the products below to save money on expensive software licensing while also keeping software current with more frequent updates. These Cloud apps may also integrate with automation services. .....http://stephenslighthouse.com/2013/08/21/35-powerful-cloud-tools-for-modern-librarians/  

JSTOR has launched JPASS, a new program offering individual users subscription-based access to 1,500 journals from JSTOR’s archive collection. http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2...

'The most beautiful people are in the library'...

'The most beautiful people are in the library'...

'The most beautiful people are in the library'...

Objectives To provide for the nation a source of intellectual support and stimulus for advancement in all fields of human endeavour, particularly in academic, social, cultural, scientific and technological enterprise. To provide comprehensive and rich collection for reference and research in all fields within and beyond the nations physical boundaries, and  To ensure for the nation a place in the community of nations which depend on knowledge and original ideas for survival. Services Legal Deposits Bibliographic Control Services Court Subpoena and Summons Issuance of ISBN, ISSN, ISMN Production of National Bibliography of Nigeria (NBN) To Establish and maintain a Branch of the National Library of Nigeria in each state Readership Promotion Campaign (RPC) Book Gifts and Exchanges Virtual Library Services – ICT, Content Development, Internet Services Provision of Reference and Document Delivery Services Publication of Catalogues, Classification tools, indexes and Semi

The idea of setting up the National Library of Nigeria began with the role of the Nigerian Division of West African Library Association (WALA) whose efforts and activities were more directly connected with the realization of the dream for a National Library of Nigeria, a dream that dated back 1930s. Following the recommendation of the Nigerian Division of (WALA), which later became the Nigerian Library Association in 1962, a Library Advisory committee was established in the late 50`s.  This Committee had the assignment of working out plans for library services in the country and to persuade the government to agree to set up a National Library.  On the attainment of independence, the Nigerian government embraced the idea of a National Library as proposed by the association. The Ford Foundation of America agreed not only to finance but also provide the necessary expertise for a feasibility study. The survey recommended a National Library of Nigeria, thus backing up the recommendat

MISSION To acquire, process, organize, disseminate as well as provide links to information resources for their educational pursuits and informed decision making. VISION Ensure the building of an informed and enlightened citizenry through the provision of information resources that are readily available and easily accessible. Mandate The National Library of Nigeria is the apex Library and the giant memory of the nation.  It is the intellectual store-house and the databank of learning in the remembrance process. Established by Act No. 29 of 1970.  Its mandate is: to establish and maintain in accordance with this Act, the National Library of Nigeria, and to provide in accordance with this Act such services as in the opinion of the Board are usually provided by national libraries of the highest standing