[Publib] This Week in Best of PubLib

Robert Balliot rballiot at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 17:25:37 EDT 2009 

 This Week in Best of
Publib<http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/this-week-in-best-of-publib-8/>
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on October 18, 2009 by Robert Balliot
 Best of Publib Current Topics and Archives
This week  in  Best of Publib covers the weeks of September 28th through
October 18th. These last weeks include discussions about food for fines and
collection development, thought provoking discussions about drug testing
Friends groups and  cataloging Obama , post mortem niceties,  and the
relevance of Teamster librarians. Some of the topics we will be reviewing
include:

   - *Topic -*<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127657.html>
   Children and
technology<http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/images/superstock_1098r-4920b.medium.jpg>–
Should we give them what they want or tell them what they
   *should* want?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127691.html>*
   *-<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127691.html>
   f32bb3e838340b8318b565ac7e59477d3b5c775d* - Do we confirm, deny or
   neither?
   - *Topic -<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127709.html>
   *  PubLib list moderator Karen Schneider is on the move again - Is
   Oakland <http://www.hnu.edu/cushingLibrary/index.html> ready for her? –
   Will Tallahassee ever be the same?
   - *Topic -<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127714.html>
    * ALA-APA seeks course
providers<http://ala-apa.org/lsscp/courseapprovalapplication.doc,>–
But writers ask ‘At what cost’?
   - *Topic **-*<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127719.html>
   The cashless library? Is your money is no good here anymore?
   - *Topic **-
*<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127764.html>
Food
   for fines revisited – How do you balance the budget and still help the less
   fortunate?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127784.html>**-<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127784.html>
   *NYPL staffer Esther Averill’s and her Jenny
Linsky<http://www.librarything.com/series/Jenny%20Linsky>books.
   - *Topic **-  *
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127804.html>-
   Patrons and back packs
   <http://www.couragecenter.org/images/Backpack_b_sm.jpg>- should there be
   different rules for teens?
   - *Topic -* <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127826.html>
   – Vacation messages – housekeeping your email settings – Should you use
   Gmail <http://mail.google.com/> for Publib?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127831.html>**-<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127831.html>
     * – Foreign language collection development
   <http://www.loc.gov/acq/colldev/handbook.html>- What are the best
   sources?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127845.html>**-<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127845.html>
     * – Downloadable audiobooks – What resources are available other than
   Overdrive <http://www.overdrive.com/products/cdl/>?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127892.html>**-<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127892.html>
     * - Selling thumb drive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive>/
   usb devices – Elizabeth Fraser in Charleston WV explores cost management.
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127915.html>**
   -  <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127915.html>
    * – Sign me up – Does the brand of union affect the outcome of
   negotiations? Does a Teamster <http://www.teamster.org/> librarian have
   more clout?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127925.html>**
   -  <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127925.html>
    * - Is there a nicer name for post
mortem<http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=post-mortem> ?
   Phalbe Henriksen from the great State of North Carolina asks for a
   less morbid descriptor.
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127954.html>**
   -  <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127954.html>
    * – Room use and background / drug tests for Friends groups in New York
   – Do you ask your Friends to pee in a
cup<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_test>?

   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127978.html>**-<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127978.html>
     * – Cataloging  Obama – Pre-Obama presidency and post-election
   materials cataloging rules investigated – Where do *you* shelve the
   President <http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/President_obama/>?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127985.html>**
   -  <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127985.html>
    * - What are libraries charging for non-resident use of the Internet?
   What are the new economics – how are costs recovered from transient patrons?

   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127999.html>**
   -  <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/127999.html>
    * – Library Drug policies – Do you have a library Drug
Czar<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_czar>or needle sharing
programs?  Do you just say ‘know’?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/128019.html>**
   -  <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-October/128019.html>
    * - Our time – Michael McGorty provides a thoughtful  link to this LATimes
   homeless story
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bessie16-2009oct16,0,7618199.story>
- from
   the richest country on earth.

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