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Jeffrey Trzeciak Named University Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis
| Academic Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
From a News Release: Jeffrey G. Trzeciak, university librarian at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has been named university librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, effective July 1, 2012, announced Provost Edward S. Macias, PhD, executive vice chancellor and the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences. Trzeciak replaces Shirley […]
UPDATE: The plan that’s described in the post and primary document below was approved last night (February 27, 2012) by the Toronto Public Library Board. via Torontoist: At its meeting tonight, the TPL board will consider a proposal to create an advertising policy for Toronto’s libraries. The reason such a policy doesn’t already exist is […]
Canadian Public Libraries Looking For Viable "Canadian Alternative" to OverDrive
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing
From Quill and Quire: In the past year, library groups such as CULC [Canadian Urban Libraries Council] have met several times with the Association of Canadian Publishers and the Canadian Publishers’ Council, expressing the urgency of finding “easier ways for our patrons to discover and borrow books, and [have] access to more content,” says de […]
Some New Canadian Book, eBook, and Library Statistics Available in New National Book Count
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Public Libraries, Publishing
From the National Post: The results of the second annual National Book Count were released on Thursday. For the second year in a row, book sales and libraries loans were tracked by a partnership of booksellers and library systems and combined by the National Reading Campaign, a group of “readers, parents, writers, editors, librarians, bookstore […]
Canada's Advertising History No Longer Collecting Dust, Large Archive of Material Heading to McMaster University
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, News, Profiles
From CTV: There is a corner of Terry O’Reilly’s office that smells like a basement. The culprit is a bag full of cassette tapes, sent to him after he asked a former creative director if he had archived any of his old radio commercials. “You know that smell? That’s the state of our advertising archives […]
Updated Statistics: Library Expenditures as % of University Expenditures Continue to Fall; Canadian Data Now Included
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries
Updated spreadsheets and charts now available from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Data on University & Library Total Expenditures (formerly known as the E&G Survey) are used to produce charts and tables showing what fractions of total university spending have gone towards the research library. Since 2003, this information has not been gathered in […]
Library and Archives Canada Launches Podcast Series
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Podcasts
From LAC: The title of the new podcast series is: Discover Library and Archives Canada: Your History, Your Documentary Heritage Developed and produced by the Resource Discovery Sector at LAC, the series showcases treasures from our vaults and explores topics such as Aboriginal peoples, transportation, immigration, genealogy, government, as well as military and peacekeeping. With […]
Canada: CBC's "The National" Airs Segment About eBooks and Public Libraries (Video)
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing
CBC’s national news broadcast aired a three minute report last night about accessing ebooks in Canadian libraries. The report discusses: How library ebooks work including a mention (not by name) of a “company in Ohio” Comments from an e-book/library user who says that if she reads a book and likes it she’ll, “probably go out […]
Digitization: Montreal's Jewish Public Library Yiddish Audio Collection to Go Digital
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Lecture, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources
From The Canadian Jewish News Thousands of hours of Yiddish audio books and literary programming taped at the Jewish Public Library (JPL) from at least the early 1950s are about to enter the digital age. [Clip] The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass., has embarked on a two-year project to remaster and digitize these cassettes […]
From the Calgary Herald: The Calgary Public Library set a borrowing record in 2011, making it the sixth-busiest municipal library system in North America, behind only Toronto, three New York City libraries and Los Angeles. Borrowing in 2011 was up more than a half million from the previous year. A record 17 million items were […]
