Library Journal’s annual survey of Placements and Salaries has been released. It is interesting reading for the future of the profession in the US and an idea of what may happen here, but what is more interesting is the Emerging Jobs/New Titles  that new graduates are gaining. Some of the more interesting new titles include: Emerging technologies librarian Data [...]

IFLA has published a Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers.  This code’s aims are: • encouraging reflection on principles on which librarians and other information workers can form policies and handle dilemmas • improving professional self-awareness • providing transparency to users and society in general. (IFLA 2012) The key tenets of the [...]

The first ‘unglued’ (crowd-funded rights to make a book free to the world in e-format) is available for download under a Creative Commons licence. Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth H. Finnegan. Read Jan Holmquist’s article at Tame the Web to learn more about Unglue It.  

From Sam Laird at Mashable Tech… “when it comes to encouraging people to embrace the written word, e-readers trump their physical counterparts.” – Are Books Doomed? The Rise of E-Reading [INFOGRAPHIC] But from Dan Turner at UX Magazine… “Reading on an iPad, or a tablet, just isn’t the same as reading a book. And for [...]