LibVibe - 31 May 2007

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• Town manager tells LibVibe - and you - why the the library had to close
• LIS prof talks about the importance of marketing
  

Stories reported:
Library closed indefinitely in wake of budget cuts (sound, print); Voters approve expansion funds; Library film festival riles anti-Castro community; Students learn about marketing, promote libraries around the world (interview, site); Not a bird or a plane.
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LibVibe - 24 May 2007

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• Staff, patrons: no confidence in public library management. Former administrator tells LibVibe - and you - why.
• Written requests to unblock? ACLU attorney tells us about 'appropriate' vs. 'constitutionally protected' Internet material.
• They can't do this in a magazine!

Stories reported:
Staffers fear library's too pop-fixated (interview, Bee); Library DVDs raise eyebrows; Library panel: keep web sites ban (interview, print); A childhood issue? Ask a librarian; Need an answer? Ask a librarian.
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LibVibe - 21 May 2007

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Stories reported:
Legislature approves merger of city and county libraries; Union approves deal to protect wages in library merger; Man accused of fondling girl at library; Former library employee sues university (interview, print); Vet prosecuted for opposing recruitment in library.
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LibVibe - 17 May 2007

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• Hear the voices of people in the library news
• Concise, professional, listenable
• They can't do this in a magazine

Stories reported:
The doors stay closed (interview, article); Thomson sells Gale, higher education assets, buys news agency; NLS going digital; BibMe (interview, site); Library camp.
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LibVibe - 14 May 2007

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• Kansas Library Ass'n. president tells LibVibe - and you - about relief efforts for a city's library destroyed by a tornado
• California SLMS tells why she won't do 'the bump'

Stories reported:
Day of Unity for Illinois Libraries (site, LISN); California school libraries continue staffing fights (AL, TV); Tornado destroyed Kansas library (story, fund); Contractor denies responsibility for fire; Mielke tapped as interim head of LSSI-managed system; Amdursky named as director in Des Moines; Cheerleader for Brooklyn's treasury of books.
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LibVibe - 10 May 2007

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• Library supporter tells LibVibe - and you - about 'a revolution'
• Librarian/filmmaker updates us on her documentary about us
  

Stories reported:
ULC Partners for Success Conference (interview, story); Saving libraries from extinction; Google Books: what's not to like?; Book worms lurk; Vienna's public library raising cash through erotica hotline; 'The Hollywood Librarian: librarians in cinema and society' (interview, blog/trailer video).
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LibVibe - 7 May 2007

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• Does the ref desk have a future?

Stories reported:
DC mayor moves to line up funding for library repairs, cause is discovered; Library fire costs UNM $17 million; Vatican to close home of Henry VIII's love letters (Guardian, BBC); School, library money can't be used to fund TIF districts; Rettig on reference...desks; Prodigal library snake is found; Super Librarian (story, site).
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LibVibe - 3 May 2007

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• Rettig on LibVibe: ALA's just-elected '08-'09 president tells you about his plans
  

Stories reported:
Fire claims library, and pieces of the past (interview, Post 1, Post 2); Rettig elected ALA president for '08-'09 (interview, release); Library issues pink slips as a precaution (interview, print 1, print 2); Police book into library to stop young trouble-makers; Some drug info 'too much,' mom says; Students meet at library - for prom.
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