NCLIS Names Dr. Trudi Bellardo Hahn Interim Executive Director
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Libraries--United States
Source: NCLIS National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Names Dr. Trudi Bellardo Hahn Interim Executive Director
"The U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) today announced that Dr. Trudi Bellardo Hahn has been hired to be the Interim Executive Director for the Commission. Dr. Hahn, formerly Manager of Library User Education Services and Adjunct Professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, has held prior positions as training specialist with the Maryland State Department of Education, Director of Professional Development for the Special Libraries Association, Associate Professor at Catholic University, and Assistant Professor and Data Services Librarian at the University of Kentucky. Dr Hahn was also the President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) in 2003. She is the co-author of A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976.
-- Museums--United Kingdom
Source: Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Visitors to Museums and Galleries 2004
From the press release: "The most comprehensive survey in five years of museum satisfaction rates and visitor numbers, published today by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), shows that more people visit museums each year than go to live sports events, theme parks or the theatre. Over a third (37%) of adults in Britain visited a museum and/or gallery in the past year. Almost everyone who did so said that they would go to the same venue again in future (92%), and eight out of ten people feel it is important that their local city or town has its own museum or art gallery."
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-- The British Library--Archives
Source: The Times British library starts email archive
From the article: "The British Library is creating an archive to store the emails of the nation's top authors and scientists, as the written word is replaced by electronic messages. Emails from literary figures such as Ted Hughes, the late English Poet Laureate, will form a new digital archive alongside the library's collection of paper correspondence, which includes love letters written by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas. Curators have become concerned that conventional letters are becoming increasingly rare as writers and scientists abandon paper for more perishable email."
-- Public Libraries--Consumer Health Information
Source: ALA 10 library systems selected for "Be Well Informed @ your library�"
"Ten library systems have been selected to host a seminar series on consumer health education as part of the 'Be Well Informed @ your library�' program. Sponsored by ALA and Walgreens, the program will provide grants of $25,000 to these library systems to conduct the seminars between November 2004 and November 2005." Systems chosen are: Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, Boston Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Cleveland Public Library, County of Los Angeles Public Library, Detroit Public Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore), Houston Public Library, Orange County (FL) Library System, San Diego Public Library.
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