Professional Reading Shelf
Cataloging
Source: American Libraries
MARC Creator Henriette Avram Dies
See Also: From 2004, Accomplishments and Other Info Henriette D. Avram (via University of Tennessee)
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Public Libraries–Readers Advisory
Source: StatesmanJournal.com (OR)
Salem library worker matches readers’ tastes with book titles
“If you’ve got a hankering for a book but can’t quite decide what, Robin Beerbower likely can help you. Beerbower, the Salem Public Library’s outreach coordinator, is known as one of the top readers’ advisers in the state — a person who specializes in suggesting books for patrons.”
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Digital Preservation
Source: LC
Library Holds Strategy Session on “Preserving Creative America”
Focus of session? Working with the commercial sector. “A recent Library of Congress strategy meeting with leading producers of commercial content in digital formats has revealed that creators of television, radio, music, film, photography, pictorial art, and video games are keenly interested in the preservation of their digital materials for archival and other purposes…The April 7 session, which drew more than 50 attendees from the private sector, focused on potential partnership projects between NDIIPP and the content producers. The Library plans to issue in 2006 a request for expressions of interest from private industry for cooperative projects as a way to catalyze preservation work in the private sector.”
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Librarians
Source: The Scientist
Rise of the Bio-Librarian
Access only available to subscribers of The Scientist. “Once the part-time, poorly paid province of postdocs and graduate students, biocuration has become a full-time, salaried career, driven by the explosive growth of biological data in recent years.”

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