Library & Information Science

The program was organized by the ALA International Relations Committee, Subcommittee of East Asia and the Pacific. Speakers presented the state of digital library developments in Taiwan, China, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

It is committed to promoting alternatives to the dominant paradigms of library and information work and publishes its own journal, Information for Social Change.

These two bloggers also maintain other sites that provide listings of library jobs.

Perhaps the most well-known blog host and provider, Pyra Labs, a tiny company started by 3 guys annoyed at silly contract web projects, had its share of ups and downs until Google, seemingly on a whim, asked, "You seem to know something about blogging. Can we buy you?" Pyra Labs’s response? "Yes. Yes, you can."

The Green Library blog is devoted to documenting significant activities, events, literature, and projects that focus on " ... increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal" of and by libraries.

A blog from two UK professors, Sheila Webber and Stuart Boon, and one Scottish professor, Bill Johnston.

He maintains the following sites: Libdex, the libary index; Library Weblogs (by and for librarians); Publishers’ Catalogues; Weblogs Compendium, a site for blogging resources; and allrecordlabels.com, a list of record label companies.

Rambling only to keep us awake, Lorenzen often posts very useful tools for librarians, e.g. the IllumiRate Directory.