Professional Reading Shelf
Copyright–United States
Source: ALA Washington Office
ALA Washington Office Provides Update on Library Community Filing on Orphan Works
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Academic Libraries
Source: AP
‘Sexy’ library worker pursues discrimination case against Harvard
“Jury selection is expected to begin today in a discrimination lawsuit brought by a Harvard University assistant librarian. Desiree Goodwin says she has been turned down for 16 promotions during her eleven years working at Harvard.”
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Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries–Finances
Source: Emerald
This Week Only: Free Full Text Access to Three Recent Issues of The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances
Articles include:
+ Simplifying serials sourcing: A case study in decision support for managing electronic journals access (Vol. 18 No. 1)
+ The Canadian National Site Licensing Project and the logic model (Vol. 18 No. 1)
+ Thoughts on endowment fundraising for libraries (Vol. 18 No. 1)
+ Executive compensation in libraries: an oxymoron? (Vol. 17 No. 4)
+ Measure by measure: assessing the viability of the physical library (Vol. 17 No. 4)
+ Using the world of blogs for project and financial management (Vol. 17 No. 3)
+ What you don’t know about banking could hurt your library (Vol. 17 No. 3)
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Preservation
Source: DCC
Call For Papers: Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data
