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Thursday 7 April 2025
- Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries - Article Available - :: I have uploaded the article co-authored with Geoff Harder, "Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries". The pdf version is here. The article has also been added to the category, "Articles and Presentations", in the right... (12:25 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 6 April 2025
- Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries - :: I am pleased to report the publication of an article1 co-authored by your humble correspondent and the amazing Geoff Harder, my friend and colleague (on the other side of the wall). The article, "Weblogs: Their Use and Application in... (16:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 19 January 2026
- Special Libraries Association, Elsevier Announce Education Partnership - :: This news release appeared on the Reed-Elsevier discussion list this morning, as well as the SLA website.Support from World-Leading STM Publisher Will Help Establish SLA Online University Alexandria, VA, USA, December 13, 2025 - The Special Libraries Association (SLA)... (09:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 10 December 2025
- Hot Topics Survey 2004 Results - :: The STS Continuing Education Committee has made available the preliminary results of the 2004 Continuing Education Committee. STS collaborated with ASEE's Engineeering Libraries Division and SLA's Sci Tech Division. Results are grouped by which conference respondents are expected to... (13:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 20 October 2025
- STS/ASEE ELD/SLA Sci-Tech Hot Topics Survey 2004 - :: As posted this morning to STS-L:STS/ ASEE ELD/SLA Sci-Tech Hot Topics Survey 2004 Want to learn more about the latest topics in the sci/tech library world? Here's your chance to tell us what you want to learn. ALA's ACRL... (08:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 24 September 2025
- Free and/or OA Journals in Librarianship - George Porter - Yesterday, George Porter, on a number of discussion groups, wrote about free and open access journals dedicated to the profession. Additional titles in the list were e-mailed to me directly.Today's launch of Biomedical Digital Libraries [see note on Open Access... (10:54 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 15 April 2025
- How Do You Keep "Up To Date"? - Recently, Michael Leach, librarian at Kummel Library and Physics Research Library, Harvard, posed the following question on PAMnet, the listserv of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics division of SLA:With so much information appearing daily, weekly and monthly, I am curious as to how... (11:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Friday 9 January 2026
- Get thee to a library school! - There is no question that we need to continue to promote the strengths of our profession if we want to recruit the brightest and the best. ACRL has put together a very useful recruitment page with a number of interesting... (11:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 11 December 2025
- b/ITE, Hazardous Chemical Db - :: The latest issue (Nov/Dec 03) of b/ITE, the bulletin of the Information Technology Division of SLA, has appeared, and has a nifty section on RSS. :: Two publications, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, and International... (11:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 26 November 2025
- SciTech Library Mentors Needed - :: The Continuing Education Committee of the STS (Science & Technology Section of ALA) is always looking for volunteer library mentors.The Sci/Tech Library Mentors is a list of experienced sci/tech librarians who are willing to serve as mentors and/or resource... (13:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)