Libraries and Librarianship: May 2007 Archives
The Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers has produced a four-part video on plagiarism that is both informative and entertaining. And the voice of the schoolmarm is just fabulous.
Do you blog? If yes, then please consider participating in an online survey from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. The study, Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation, is meant to investigate bloggers’ own perceptions on digital preservation in relation to their own blogging activities, as well as the blogosphere in general. More informatio about the study is included in the study's fact sheet.
The web-based survey will be available through May 23, 2007.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Carolyn Hank, the study's Principle Investigator, at hcarolyn@email.unc.edu. Thanks!
In celebration of its 207th birthday this year, the Library of Congress recently launched the Library of Congress blog.The purpose of the blog is to "give readers the opportunity to see more of the institution" and "highlight many of the wonderful things that happen here."
For its first post, on April 24th, the director of communications, Matt Raymond, began with the words of Samuel Morse in 1844: "What hath God wrought?" - the first words ever transmitted electronically via the telegraph.