Interviews

American Libraries interview with Director of National Library Service for the Blind

Karen Keninger became director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in March. She is the first person who is blind to direct the Braille and talking-book program.

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/newsmaker/karen-keninger

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Chicago Underground Library Lives and Thrives

Chicago Underground Library Lives and Thrives What do you do when a natural disaster takes out your library? You go mobile. The Chicago Underground Library, an organization dedicated to the collection and distribution of local independent and small-press media, is nothing if not about adaptation created by necessity.

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A Digital Library Guru Discusses New Rules on Sharing Scientific Data

Interview with Sayeed Choudhury of Johns Hopkins University on the recent change by the National Science Foundation requiring researchers to submit data-management plans with their grant proposals.

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read it here.

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LambdaLiterary.org features interviews with LGBTIQA librarians

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"....We would like to recognize the valuable work that librarians do to select and promote LGBT literature of any kind.

Neil Gaiman on the Importance of Libraries (Audio Version)

Minnesota Public Radio has posted a couple of interviews with Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Stardust, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, etc), this year's honorary chair of National Library week: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/12/gaiman/

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The Reanimation Library...Recycling Images and More

Very cool project here in Brooklyn, NY, the Reanimation Library. Below, a video explanation of the project via Rocketboom. Ella Morton interviews Andrew Beccone, master librarian and founder of the Reanimation Library: Additional information at the Reanimation Library website. Sounds like THE perfect place to send of some of those old weeded illustrated volumes....

Book Learning

The C.E.O. of Amazon.com talks about reading his Kindle in the bathtub.

Interview here.

This is the story of a struggling librarian from Uganda

The incoming chair of the Petroleum & Energy Resources Division [DPER] of SLA dropped us a link to an interesting librarian.

Interview With Librarian / Poet Colleen Harris

The Process: Featuring Colleen Harris

How would you describe your work?
Hrm. It depends on my mood, I suppose – my work is readable for the general public, it’s an exploration of memory, a negotiation of relationships, it’s trying to give voice to the things we don’t say out loud that we wish we could. I do tend to write largely in a woman’s voice, but I think as humans we all have the same general worries, concerns, and yearnings.

LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #91

This week's episode contains an interview with web celeb Cali Lewis about blogging today and recent rumblings from the Federal Trade Commission about disclosures bloggers must make. Related links: Cali Lewis on Twitter GeekBrief TV The Blog of Cali Lewis Linux Outlaws LISNews Account Registration

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