Monday, August 3, 1998

08:58:00 AM

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Youth Services Consultant Sought

The NOLA Regional Library System is searching for a very special person - a Youth Services Consultant. This independent contractor will work 80  hours a month for the next ten months. If you are interested in developing a dynamite program, or know of someone else, check out our Employment Resource Page on the NOLA Desktop today. The search closes on August 12, 1998.

Items submitted by:
Millie Fry - Email
NOLA Regional Library System

Library Web Manager's Site

Most librarians are familiar with Berkeley's excellent Sunsite. It is a huge resource of information not clouded with the advertising fluff of Yahoo, Infoseek and the others. Now, there is a nice resource page for the person tasked with managing the library website. The Library Web Manager's Reference Center includes archives of the popular listserv Web4Lib, programming links, directories of web resources, as well as a guides and tutorials section.

Primary Sources

The Primary Sources Network bills itself as an education resource. Primarily geared towards curriculum development, the main mission of PSN is to provide access to "original data and artifacts". The project defines a "primary source" as any uninterpreted source of information, and includes links to:

• First-person accounts (oral histories, diaries, memoirs)
• Documents (maps, treaties, laws or legal arguments)
• Physical artifacts (which reflect the period in which they were made and used)
• Scientific data which has been collected but not interpreted (census data, population statistics, weather records, production/manufacturing systems data, air quality measures, animal migration patterns, etc.)
• Face-to-face or on-line mentors who possess specific knowledge or expertise.

This project is funded by a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Another Online Manifesto

Ok, so this one's a little more benign, but still maintains some explosiveness. Basically, Redesigning Library Services, a Manifesto seeks to look at the impact of technological change on "traditional" services from a broad perspective. The entire book is online and seeks to create an alternative to the plethora of pieces written that are unrealistically futuristic or technically obsessed. More a "here is where we have been, and here is where we might possibly be going" book, Michael Buckland puts in terms that are useful to librarians. Published in 1992, it still retains a current flavor.

Items submitted by:
Kenneth S. Bell - Email
NOLA Regional Library System

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