Library Cataloging
Here is some good news from Texas.
- Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting
The annual Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative meeting will be held on February 4 and 5, 2010, at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin. Everyone is invited to attend. Speakers this year include Dr. Andrew Torget from the University of...
- Texas Librarians
Each year the Texas Library Association recognizes contributions and excellence in our profession through the TLA Awards. TLA depends on its members to identify those individuals, organizations, and projects most worthy of recognition for having advanced...
- New Blog
I have to mention a new 'blog here in Texas, Library Technology in Texas by Christine Peterson, of Amigos, our OCLC service provider. Most of the items apply to libraries outside Texas so give it a read. Today she has some low cost, easy it do, tips...
- Tx Project
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is pleased to announce an opportunity for public, academic, and other TexShare libraries to participate in the Uplift Pilot Program for the Library of Texas Resource Discovery Service. Uplift is defined...
- Library Portals
The Library Journal v. 127, no. 15 (Sept. 15, 2002) has an article "The Advent of Portals" by Mary E. Jackson. It describes some of the activity, especially by ARL, in designing and implementing a scholar?s portal.The Texas Library Journal v. 78, no....
Library Cataloging
Texas
Here is some good news from Texas.
PEN American Center today named Jerilynn Adams Williams, a Texas librarian who successfully turned back an attempt to remove books from circulation at Montgomery County public libraries, as the recipient of this year's prestigious PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. Ms. Williams will receive the $25,000 prize, along with a limited-edition artwork, at PEN's annual Gala on April 22, 2003 at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.All too often Texas is depicted as a place of backward, intolerant, fundamentalists. Here is someone who shatters that myth.
- Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting
The annual Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative meeting will be held on February 4 and 5, 2010, at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin. Everyone is invited to attend. Speakers this year include Dr. Andrew Torget from the University of...
- Texas Librarians
Each year the Texas Library Association recognizes contributions and excellence in our profession through the TLA Awards. TLA depends on its members to identify those individuals, organizations, and projects most worthy of recognition for having advanced...
- New Blog
I have to mention a new 'blog here in Texas, Library Technology in Texas by Christine Peterson, of Amigos, our OCLC service provider. Most of the items apply to libraries outside Texas so give it a read. Today she has some low cost, easy it do, tips...
- Tx Project
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is pleased to announce an opportunity for public, academic, and other TexShare libraries to participate in the Uplift Pilot Program for the Library of Texas Resource Discovery Service. Uplift is defined...
- Library Portals
The Library Journal v. 127, no. 15 (Sept. 15, 2002) has an article "The Advent of Portals" by Mary E. Jackson. It describes some of the activity, especially by ARL, in designing and implementing a scholar?s portal.The Texas Library Journal v. 78, no....