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MLS student Qwame Nelloms, gives us her take on the 2019 Texas Library Association annual conference held in Austin, TX.

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Qwame Nelloms is a student in the Master of Library Science (MLS) program. She is a school librarian, and attended the Texas Library Association (TLA) conference for the first time this year in Austin, TX, an experience that she says is a "necessary experience for all library students during their c...

Glad everyone is safe!

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Thank you, to our Web content manager/developer Adam Chavez for sharing these photos during the tornado warning last night.

Take a look at the lowest level of Discovery Park if you have never been in the basement.

We’re hopeful this is it for the rest of the season. 🤞🏽

If you're planning on attending the CIMA/SSA joint annual meeting, don't forget to register for the conference by May 6!

Registration for the pre-conference wor...kshops happening on Wednesday, May 15th will remain open after May 6 as long as space is available. The workshops include:

9:00 - 5:00 Pre-Conference Workshop: SAA DAS Course- Tool Selection and Management: Finding the Right Tool for the Job, UA Main Library, Rm 112A

8:00 - 12:00 Pre-Conference Workshop: Protocols for Native American Archival Materials Protocols 101: How to Start the Conversation at your Organization, Madera Room

2:00 - 4:00 Pre-Conference Workshop: How to Manage a Diverse Staff: A Workshop Presented by SSA Diversity Committee, Madera Room

The workshops Protocols 101 and How to Manage a Diverse Staff are free. Donations will be accepted to defray cost.

Register here!: https://2019cima.southwestarchivists.org/registration/

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★Job Alert★ Assistant Law Librarian in Denton County. No MLS required.

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THIS POSTING MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME ONCE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.Under the direction and supervision of the Law Librarian, the Assistant Law Librarian is primarily responsible for providing reference assistance to the library's patrons, maintaining relevant and current....

❋Original cataloging!❋

To make his enormous library more usable, Hernando Colón paid an army of readers to create short summaries of his books. That catalog has just been discovered i...n a manuscript collection in Denmark. It's 2000 pages long and almost a foot thick, and there's a project underway to transcribe the work and make it available to to the public. https://n.pr/2W9ISd2

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In the 16th century, Hernando Colón assembled one of the greatest print-media collections the world had ever known. For centuries, its reference book was missing — until it turned up in Denmark.

Congratulations on your win, ASIS&T!

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We won the Outstanding Student Organization Event Award for last year’s Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium! This year’s symposium is a week away ...and is going to be even better with more presentations, more posters, and an incredible keynote. Go to MIRS.unt.edu to register now. We can’t wait to see you on April 27th at #MIRS2019

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➠Archivists: Job Alert!
Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas is hiring a Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian. Apply today!

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•With the Senior Archivist, work to identify and prioritize projects to ensure that digital archival collections and University records are well described, archived and preserved • Plan, coordinate, and oversee workflow for digitizing and cataloging Archives collections. • Supports discovery o...
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It is with deep sympathy we at the College of Information honor the passing of Dr. Don Cleveland. No services have been planned at the present time. A memorial ...will likely take place in the fall semester.

Use the following link to read the full letter from his wife Professor Ana Cleveland.
https://ci.unt.edu/professor-emeritus-donald-cleveland

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#Notredame's art getting a new home at the Louvre.

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The artworks evacuated from Notre-Dame Cathedral during the devastating fire on April 15 will be transferred to the Louvre Museum, French Culture Minister Franck Riester told reporters. Staff from the Paris fire department, culture ministry, and city hall rushed to the cathedral when the fire starte...

Thinking of our colleagues in Spokane. High-quality library programs have a positive correlation with student achievement. #librariesmatter #anecessitynotaluxury

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Spokane Public Schools, facing a projected $31 million deficit next year, says that school librarian jobs will be eliminated next year. Librarians with seniority could be offered classroom jobs; newer hires could be laid off.

The Washington Department of Corrections partially rescinded a ban on sending books to prison inmates, though the nonprofit Books to Prisoners Seattle still considers the new policy "insufficient."

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Facing public criticism over a ban on sending free books to prison inmates, the Washington Department of Corrections has backed down and partially rescinded the ban. Advocates for prison inmates call the new policy insufficient and continue to negotiate with DOC officials.

➥Future archivists, check out this paid summer internship opportunity! The Dallas Morning News is hiring archives assistants to help them digitize materials.

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The Dallas Morning News Research and Archives Department seeks applications for two full-time, paid, summer intern positions assisting with the digitization of Dallas Morning News archival materials. A successful candidate will be self-motivated, organized, quick at learning new technologies and abl...

Happy birthday, Beverly Cleary! #classic #NationalLibraryWeek #103yearsold

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The beloved American children's author turned 103 on April 12, 2019.
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Someone took a rare copy of "The Hobbit" from the University of North Texas' library 45 years ago. They just now returned it.

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Or, 'There And Back Again: A Book's Journey Home to Texas'
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Happy National Library Workers Day! Take time today to thank library workers for the hard work they do every day to transform lives and communities. Submit a star at: http://ala-apa.org/nlwd/
#NLWD19 #NationalLibraryWeek

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#MIRS2019 registration is now open! This going to be an amazing day of presentations from information scholars in various fields. Registration is free! (And if you’re anything like us, you want to know that breakfast and lunch will be provided 😇) Go to MIRS.unt.edu to register now!

★Call for proposals!★
CTLC invites you to submit a proposal for the 7th annual Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference, happening on Friday, August 2, 2019 at TWU

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CTLC 2019 Date: August 2, 2019 TWU's Address: 304 Administration Dr, Denton, TX 76204 Questions about your proposal? Contact us at (940) 898- 3781 or alanier@twu.edu