International and Comparative Librarianship

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S. R. Ranganathan, P. N. Kaula, R. N. Sharma, J. F. Harvey, D. J. Foskett, J. P. Danton, M. M. Jackson, etc.
This Blogosphere has a slant towards India [a.k.a Indica, Indo, South-Asian, Oriental, Bharat, Hindustan, Asian-Indian (not American Indian)].

Sunday, February 10, 2013

OLA Super Conference, 2013: HANDOUTS And MEDIA MONITORING

PS. This is an unofficial effort to report the OLA Conference. Any omissions are mine.
It was nice meeting the delegates at the OLA Super Conference. 
Thanks to all the team spirit of OLA that helps us connect and re-connect.


Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference, 2013
Welcome et bienvenue to the 111th annual conference and the 19th anniversary of Super Conference!
Jan 30- Feb 2, 2013,   Metro Toronto Convention Center
SESSION HANDOUTS AND MATERIALS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013
  •  P013    Mini-Marketing:  Lessons from Small Libraries Handout1 / Handout2
 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Media monitoring:

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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Nine Jobs that will vanish, includes Librarian

Jobs that will vanish | Photo Gallery - Yahoo! Finance Canada Extract:


Steven Herman, left, head of the Library of Congress storage facility, at the Library of Congress in 2003, in Washington, and left, a "bookBot", an automated retrieval system at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in 2013, in Raleigh, N.C. Many middle-class workers have lost jobs because powerful software and computerized machines are doing tasks that only humans could do before.
The list includes:
9. Travel Agent
8. Librarian
7. Toll Collector
6. Bank Teller
5. Assembly Line Worker
4. Train Conductor
3. Telephone Switchboard Operators
2. Mail Carrier
1. loom operators
On the same shelf:
  • Robots are eating our jobs: tech as the enemy of the middle class? Minnesota Public Radio, February 1, 2013

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