The ALA Public Programs Office and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invite you to apply to host Let's Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War, a reading and discussion program in America's libraries. Online applications are available at www.ala.org/civilwarprograms and must be submitted by April 19.

Hello Colleagues,Has your U.S. university or college begun to plan or implement the retrospective digitization of older (non-ETD) theses or dissertations? If so, you are enthusiastically invited to assist in a research study on the WHY of retrospective digitization. A brief survey on the reasons, perceived benefits and unexpected challenges of retrospective digitization is now underway.

Wikispaces for Higher Education - FREE!http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/higheredWe are giving away all of the features of our Plus wikis (normally $50/year).No fine print, no usage limits, no advertising, no catches. * Post, Publish, and Share with Ease Unlimited pages let you and your students share text, images, files, and more. * Set Privacy You can decide who has access to your wiki’s content. * Create Student Accounts Our easy, three-step process doesn’t require email addresses.

Info about the controversial decision by HarperCollins to limit Overdrive e-books to 25 checkouts.

So, when I did my dossier for promotion (I go through a rank and promotion process which is somewhat similar to tenure but *not* tenure) , I did it in Jquery. I wanted something that represented my skills as well as meet the format of the dossier.You can see it live embedded below or go to http://www.robinfay.net/cv/ http://www.robinfay.net/cv/

The Digital Commons @ Kennesaw State and the Horace W. Sturgis Library arepleased to announce "Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice:Institutional Repositories as Publishers," a free one-day conference oninstitutional repositories and their place in undergraduate education.Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011Location: KSU Continuing EducationThe keynote speaker will be Nancy Hensel, Executive Officer for the Councilon Undergraduate Research.

Georgia librarians (& any other interested parties):If you're interested in volunteering for the 2011 Access Services Conference:https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG12dXRveVJ3ZHZqd0FYUnRKaG82QXc6MQInformation about the conference is available here:http://www.accessservicesconference.org/

Logi Insight for Libraries with Voyager ILSFeaturing Kevin Kidd, Manager of Libraries, Boston CollegeDate & Time: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 1pm ESTDuration: 45 minutesPresenters: Kevin Kidd, Manager of Libraries, Boston College Matt Hoffman, Director of Library Solutions, LogiXMLWho Should Attend: Deans, Systems Librarians, Electronic Resources Librarians, etc.Join us for a webinar on our new reporting solution for academic libraries using the Voyager ILS.

A colleague and I are gathering data on succession planning in the library. We invite you to respond to our survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XGHZGG3, and share with us your voice regarding succession planning at your library. We will share the results with you once our project is completed.Thank you,Angiah Davis--------------------Angiah Davis, MSLISReference Librarian, Information & Research ServicesRobert W. Woodruff Library - Atlanta University Center111 James P.

For those who might be interested:(snip)Changes that will directly benefit members include:New Member Advisory/Interest Groups to enable members to contribute to the development of LYRASIS programs and services;The creation of the Ideas & Insights Series to allow members to share their knowledge and experience with other professionals in the field;Broadened Professional Development and Consulting services to support member Web Scale readiness; and A series of discussions hosted in partnership with OCLC on the topic of “Moving Library Cooperation to Web Scale."LYRASIS has also updated its w