Academic Librarians, Conference Presentations, and a Contest

[gary]

Hello from D.C. 

I posted the following four stories on my weblog, The Virtual Acquisition Shelf 
and News Desk (http://resourceshelf.freepint.com), this morning.


4 Items
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Librarians 
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education 
"A Shortage of Academic Librarians" 

Jennifer Jacobson writes, "Academic libraries, experiencing a wave of 
retirements, are finding they have more job openings than qualified candidates to 
fill them. The seller's market for academic librarians is a result of a few 
trends: the graying of the profession, the stagnant number of graduates from 
schools of library and information science, and the fact that many of those 
graduates shun academe to take higher-paying jobs in the private 
sector." "Academic librarians fear that students will suffer the most from the 
recruiting problems in the profession. 

Full-Text at: 
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/08/2002081401c.htm 

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Presentations from the 2002 RLG (Research Libraries Group) Annual Meeting 

The conference agenda and bio pages have been update with direct links to the 
presentations. 
http://www.rlg.org/annmtg/speakers02


Presentation Titles: 
"Creating New Knowledge" by Eric Ketelaar 
"The Evolution of the Internet into Cyberspace" by Robert J. Aiken 
"The Grid: Enabling Resource Sharing within Virtual Organizations" by Ian Foster 
"Back to the Future: 'Big Brother' or Prohibition...Scenarios of Data Access for 
Social Scientists" by Ron Dekker 
"Notes from the Digital Desert—Saved by Cyber-Research (with more salvation yet 
to come)" by Howard Bloom 
"Creating New Knowledge through RLG Cultural Materials" by Ricky Erway


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"Publishers and Librarians Agree on the Preservation of Digital Information" 
http://www.ifla.org/V/press/ifla-ipa-pr.htm

>From the announcement, "Agreement on the archiving and preserving of digital 
information has been reached by an international group of librarians and book and 
journal publishers. The statement, entitled "Preserving the Memory of the World 
in Perpetuity" was agreed by the Joint Steering Group, established by the 
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the 
International Publishers Association (IPA)." 


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Finally, for those of you with CSS skills, AllTheWeb announced a new design 
contest today. 

Details:
http://www.alltheweb.com/contest


Much more on the weblog. Please stop by. 


cheers, 
gary 

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Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
gary at freepint.com

The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk 
http://resourceshelf.freepint.com