Professional Reading Shelf
Academic Libraries–North Carolina
Source: The Herald-Sun
University of North Carolina names new top librarian
“A Utah librarian has been picked to head UNC’s campus library system. Sarah C. Michalak, currently the director of the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, will begin work in Chapel Hill Sept. 20. She succeeds Joe Hewitt, who recently stepped down after a 29-year career at Carolina.”
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Libraries
Source: The Herald (South Carolina)
Libraries struggle to keep up with demand for instant information
From the article, “It’s a common situation in public libraries locally and across the state. In the age of accessing information at the click of a button, most people want results five minutes ago. That means hardcover reference books — Encyclopedias, atlases and medical journals — often don’t budge from the shelves, even though they are a treasure trove of facts…Other information-seekers could also avoid research roadblocks if they just remembered to use one of the most accessible resources in the library — the librarian.”
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Academic Libraries–California
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz Library Gets Large Planned Gift
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National Libraries–Kazakhstan
Digitization Projects
IBM and Kazkommertzbank to Sponsor Kazak Rare Books Digitization
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Criminal Records–Maine
Source: Portland Press Herald
Paper trail entangles justice
From the article: “Only 10 percent of Maine’s criminal records are entered into the state’s two-year-old computer database. The rest – roughly 405,000 records – are still on paper. Because 90 percent of the state’s criminal records are still on paper, it can take clerks weeks to cull data from paper files and transpose it to the electronic database that prosecutors access.”

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