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from March 2004
Last Number: December 2012
ISSN 0746-6129
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Library trustees are increasingly turning to recruiting firms to assist them in finding new directors. Excerpts from an article in the Baltimore Sun may offer some thought on how library boards could view the insider/outsider question when they have to choose a new director.
Van Drie reflects on how library policy has changed and an article in the Denver Post regarding library use. Denver reports over half of its total circulation comes from video and audio material. Van Drie wonders how long it will be before libraries supply books, music and films electronically to homes, with no need for a library building at all.
Following Google's lead, MSN has released its own Internet browser search toolbar. The toolbar, officially still in testing, lets users conduct MSN searches directly from their browsers.
Telephone tips for librarians are offered. Robinson suggests that librarians ask plenty of questions, listen to the answer, and check to make sure a requested book is not on the shelf.
A report by a group of security consultants hired by the Department of Defense to examine its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment concluded that the Internet is so fundamentally insecure that using it for voting in the foreseeable future threatens the integrity of the electoral process.
The Public Library Association (PLA) is offering an e-learning course entitled Creating Policies for Results, with Sandra Nelson and June Garcia. The course is $395 for PLA members, and better and much less expensive than a preconference with travel and hotel.
Radio frequency identification is a technology that is beginning to take the place of laser scanning and bar codes in some libraries. A tag, which contains a tiny chip on which data can be recorded, is attached to every item in the collection.