The Delaware Center for the Book is very excited to be working with Wilmington University on this December 18th event. David Plouffe will be discussing his new book The Audacity to Win: the Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory.
“Off the Page: An Afternoon with David Plouffe,” is presented by Delaware Center for the Book, Wilmington University Library, and Wilmington University’s College of Arts and Sciences’ Program in Government and Public Policy. The event will feature a 30-minute talk, a 30-minute Q&A session, and book signing.

If you’re planning to attend, and would like to report on the event via Twitter, please let us know in the comments section below- it would be great to stream twitter comments online for people (like me) who won’t be able to attend. Please use the #PlouffeWilmU hashtag!

Are you a new library school graduate – or mid-career and looking for a change? Are you wondering how to improve your career skills or ready to try a certificate program? Looking to refresh your resume? Alliance Library System and TAP Information Services invite you to join us for the first annual LIS Online Career Fair. Join us online in OPAL on Tuesday January 12, 2010 for an exciting day of learning how to start or to rejuvenate your library career in tough times! The day will kick off at 10 am central time/11 am Eastern/8 am Pacific and run through 4:30 pm central/5:30 pm Eastern. You will have your choice of a variety of informational and interactive programs which will assist you with your career no matter where you are.
The conference keynote speaker is Rachel Singer Gordon, webmaster of LISjobs.com, the largest library career site and job database, and consulting editor at Information Today Inc., Books Division. Rachel’s talk, “Career Building in a Down Economy,” will help librarians focus on what they can do to keep themselves moving forward professionally in a down economy. While professional literature discusses what librarians can do to help their communities and patrons, it does not give much information as to what librarians can do to help themselves. Rachel will address the ways in which the economy affects librarians professionally, how to control reactions and frustration, how to deal proactively with current events, and how to move forward effectively in tough economic times.

Other speakers include: Christi Confetti Higgins, Sun Microsystems; Cindy Hill, Hill Information Consulting; Morgan Cadwalader, Alliance Library System; Kitty Pope, Alliance Library System; Barbara McFadden Allen, Career on Institutional Cooperation; Meredith Farkas, Norwich University; Rose Chenoweth, Alliance Library System; Jim Rettig, University of Richmond; Marianne Steadley, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science and more!

For more information on this conference, check out http://liscareerfair.org . Thecost of the one day online event is $29 for graduate library students; $39 for librarians, and for a group, the price is $79.

For more information, please contact Lori Bell at ALS at lbell@alliancelibrarysystem.com or Tom Peters at TAP Information Services at tapinformation@yahoo.com.

Surviving and Thriving in the Recession: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians

Book publisher: Neal-Schuman

Editor: Carol Smallwood, MLS. Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook, American Library Association 2010 http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2646
Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook, American Library Association, 2010 http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2774
Thinking Outside the Book, McFarland 2008 http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3575-3. Some others are Peter Lang, Libraries Unlimited, Linworth, Scarecrow.

Afterword: Dr. Loriene Roy, Professor in the School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin, Past President of the American Library Association, Director/ Founder, If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything Reading Club.
Contributor, Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook, American Library Association, 2010

Chapters sought for an anthology by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians sharing their experiences on how librarians are handling the recession. Concise, how-to case studies, using bullets, headings, by librarians in the trenches based on experience using creativity and innovation. A sample will be supplied as to style.

No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One or two chapters sharing the range of your experience, 2100-2300 words total. One article 2100-2300 words; or two articles divided so they total 2100-2300 words. Chapters welcomed by one librarian, or co-authored by two

Possible topics: creative staffing, financial planning, grant writing, community donations, sharing facilities, cooperative buying, maximizing the media, legislative participation, workshops for job hunters, innovative technology

The deadline for completed chapters (Call A) is January 10, 2010. Contributors will receive an agreement to sign before publication. Compensation: a complimentary book if sole author--if co-authored the complimentary book is shared; discount on additional copies

To receive a "go-ahead" before completing writing, please e-mail in an attached Word File 1-3 topics each clearly proposed in separate paragraphs by December 10 along with a 80-90 word bio beginning with: your name, library of employment, city/state location, employment title, where you got your degree, awards, publications, and career highlights. If co-authored, each of the two librarian-writers will need to send a separate bio. You will be contacted as soon as possible telling you which one (if any) of your topics will work, inviting you to e-mail your completed chapter; an invitation doesn't guarantee acceptance. Please place RECESSION/your name on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

A-Z New & Notable Web Sites:
About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories,
search engines, publishers, social networks, government sites, booksellers,
calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups,
plus anything else of interest, etc, etc.

Nice Web Site(s):
TechJournalContents, Trove, and Microsoft Academic Search

Blogorama and Twittersphere
Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter items, related news items, etc

Recent Internet books in the Library

Book review
Bite-sized marketing, by Nancy Dowd et al

Get a life! Leisure Time
After hours

Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk), Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy