Turn Discarded Books into Cash

Zubal Books (www.zubal.com) will pay for books libraries no longer need.  If they are unable to resell them, they are sent through North American nonprofit organizations to libraries in developing countries. They will even pay the shipping.  They can be reached at (216) 241-7630.

 

Video on Google’s Book Scanning Project

See this ABC news clip about Google’s mass digitization project, with interviews of 2 librarians from the California Digital Library.  http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=5905656 

 

Emergency Management for Healthcare Systems

The U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs created an Emergency Management Program (EMP) Guidebook for hospitals. It provides a process to develop a fully functional EMP and contains extensive examples of plans, policies, contingencies & solutions for potential problems.   Here is the link:  http://www1.va.gov/emshg/page.cfm?pg=114 

 

Creative Commons

Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) is a flexible content licensing model. They are a free service and enable people to make their creative works (print, audio, visual) available for certain uses.  Authors can define the extent to which their work can be used, between the spectrum extremes of full copyright and the public domain.

 

The Research Imperative

MLA’s updated policy concerning health information research can be found at: www.mlanet.org/research/policy/policy-01_toc.html.  MLA encourages its members to take part in the advancement of our profession.

 

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

Try out this wiki which was created by librarians to compile best practices across the globe: http://www.libsuccess.org. It’s a good reference tool for library activities and development.