News Of Interest

• New release from LexisNexis: "Best Practices for Government Libraries 2009 : change : managing it, surviving it and thriving on it". This was compiled by Marie Kaddell and includes 60 articles and submissions from librarians in government agencies, courts, defence and professional association leaders.
  

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• SLA 2009 Conference: SLA has made freely available online handouts and presentation files from the June 2009 SLA Conference.
• A "Government 2.0" taskforce was launched by the Hon Lindsay Tanner MP on Monday 22 June 2009. The taskforce is chaired by Dr Nicholas Gruen and will be looking at openess of government and online engagement. Read more at the Government 2.0 taskforce blog.
• LIANZA has released a report, "Emerging Trends in New Zealand special libraries" by Gillian Ralph and Julie Sibthorpe which focuses on the special libraries sector.
• "Horizon Report 2009", published 2009, includes technologies to watch, key trends, critical challenges.
• Listen to Radio National's "Australia Talks" program of 26 March 2009 on the "Future of libraries". [ Contact the Committee to access the file. mp3 22MB ]
• "Leadership in Uncertain Times: Federal Librarians Envision Use of Physical Space Through 2020", published 2008, is a FLICC Special Project on Planning for Library Spaces.
• "No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century", published 2008 by the Council on Library and Information Resources, is the output of a symposium in Washington and covers scholarly communication, peer review, preservation of data, and e-science.
• "Worth Their Weight: an Assessment of the Evolving Field of Library Valuation", published 2007 by Americans for Libraries Council, "aims to develop the knowledge necessary for strengthening advocacy for libraries and public access computing."
• "Economic impact: how information professionals are coping with change", J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc., White Paper on special libraries' recession survival strategies. [ pdf 147KB ]
• SLA name change proposal:

1. SLA name change discussion forum
2. The Alignment Project
3. SLA Name Change Blog, by Gloria Zamora
4. Positioning the SLA for the Future, by consultants Fleishman-Hillard
5. Summary of Alignment Issues, blog by SLA CEO Janice LaChance