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Library of Congress Blog Addie Card, whose photo inspired Joe Manning to launch a project to tell the stories of the people whose lives early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine documented. In fall 2005, Joe Manning agreed to help his friend, author Elizabeth Winthrop, with a task that had become something of an obsession for her: discovering the story of a little girl staring intently out of a 1910 picture taken at a Vermont cotton mill. Winthrop had encountered the image in an exhibition of child-labor photographs by Lewis Hine, and she couldn’t get the girl out of her mind — Winthrop had based the character Grace in her soon-to-be-published novel “Counting on Grace” on her. Within two weeks, Manning had located and contacted Addie’s granddaughter. From 1908 to 1924, Hine took thousands of pictures for the National Child Labor Committee, exposing the often-dangerous conditions children endured working at textile mills, coal mines, vegetable farms, fish canneries and as late-night “newsies” on urban streets.

Blog I decided to take my own advice and make time for fun (yes, that’s a professinal resolution. Read on to see that one) – and more time for me. My blog for this week is a repeat of the one I did for January 2, 2017. I am also going to take next week off. I deserve it. And you deserve your time off – take it. So if you weren’t following me back then or if you need a refresher on the resolutions I suggested, here is the blog once again. Build Your Relationships Start a new relationship with a teacher or other staff member. Keep Up with Trends Read one professional article every month. Step Out of Your Comfort Zone It’s so easy to get locked into doing what you have always done, but you don’t grow unless you try new things. Volunteer for Leadership Technically this comes under the heading of stepping out of your comfort zone, but it needs special mention. Go for a Grant or an Award You get a lot of positive attention when you receive a grant or award. Get Healthier need/want to lose weight?

Letters to a Young Librarian Mr. Library Dude – Academic librarian with 15+ years of experience. Passionate about lifelong learning and student success. Interested in user experience and organizational leadership. For me, being a librarian has never been about the books–it's about th The Reluctant Entrepreneur - Bates Information Services One of the biggest challenges of a good info pro or researcher is to know when to say when. If we have five hours to spend on a project, we want to spend the entire time gathering information, evaluating it, seeing what’s missing, gathering some more, looking for more missing parts… you get the picture. Then, when our time’s up, we pull all the information together, slap on a cover letter explaining all the approaches we took and why we’re including what we have, and then proudly send it along to our client. This, of course, does a huge disservice to most clients.

Neighborhood Librarian ResearchBuzz – News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such information collections. Since 1998. Finding Reliable Information Online Blog | Leslie Stebbins Google: “Latina Girls.” Go ahead. I’ll wait. What did you get? My top five hits: Sexy Latina Girls (YouTube)7 Reasons Every Man Should Date a Latina (ReturnofKings.com)Sexy Latina Girls (Facebook)Sexy Latina Girl (Twitter)Best Latina Girls in Boston: Centerfolds (Yelp) Wait… Did I ask to have sex with a Latina girl? No. The only thing Google got right in my filtered results was that I do live in the Boston area, but I’m an old hetero female. And for the 14-year-old Latina looking for role models: This is what she gets from Google’s filtered results? Safiya Umoja Noble, an assistant professor at UCLA, investigates how search-engine bias affects women and girls negatively. What does it cost us more broadly in terms of the human experience and degradation of our humanity in that we over-invest in private solutions to information and search? Advertisers are heavily driving Google search ranking, and it’s not adversely impacting just women and girls. Marra claims he is not an editor. Not so fast!

The Digital Shift — On Libraries and New Media, powered by Library Journal and School Library Journal 5 Tips for Makers on a Budget from a Teen Librarian By The Digital Shift on August 4, 2017 “Teen Librarian Toolbox” blogger and SLJTeen Live! panelist Karen Jensen shares some ideas and resources for low-budget maker spaces. The Chatty Librarians: Podcasting | Field Reports By The Digital Shift on June 27, 2017 Library staff are the folks who love to talk about books. Library Ideas Launches Movie and TV “Hotspots” By Matt Enis on June 22, 2017 Library Ideas, developer of the Freading ebook and Freegal music solutions for libraries, is launching the GoChip Beam, a new type of device for lending movies and television series. Marmot Launches Digital Archive By Matt Enis on June 19, 2017 Marmot Library Network has developed a Digital Archive and repository solution, enabling its member libraries to showcase digitized collections of images, postcards, books, magazines, videos, recorded oral histories, music, and academic research. More Latest Stories

The Daring Librarian Blog What’s your tech personality? When it comes to new technologies, are you mainly a visionary or an implementer? Find out by taking this quiz. Tell us your results in the comments! read more New Book: Siri, Alexa, and Other Digital Assistants: The Librarian’s Quick Guide Are you curious about Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, and other types of voice computing? read more Top Technology Trends at ALA 2018 I'm looking forward to hearing from panelists at ALA's Top Tech Trends this year! read more Two Forthcoming Books on Technology Topics for Librarians Coming later this year -- two "Librarian's Quick Guides" to be published by Libraries Unlimited. read more Siri, Alexa, and Other Digital Assistants: The Librarian’s Quick Guide I'm working on a new short book, to published by Libraries Unlimited later this year.

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