Thursday, February 27, 2003

Congrats to Nancy John of UIC: Nancy R. John, interim university librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago, has written an article with Dennis C. Tucker of Northwestern State University entitled "10 Myths About PDAs --Debunked!" for the March 2003 issue of Computers in Libraries. 12:06:15 PM

Schools and the recent election: School referendums failed during the election on Tuesday.  This Sun Times article has details.  10:14:53 AM

Strategic marketing @ your library: "The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces a new electronic discussion list - ACADEMICPR - to assist academic and research librarians in sharing ideas and best practices in marketing and public relations. This new resource has been developed for the Academic and Research Library Campaign, an initiative co-sponsored by ACRL and the American Library Association (ALA) as part of @ your library*, The Campaign for America's Libraries. The discussion list is to open to any academic and research librarian interested in learning more about how to promote their library. To subscribe, send an email to: listproc@ala.org. In the body of the message, type: subscribe ACADEMICPR and your first and last name." -- from ALA press release 10:11:24 AM

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