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OCLC latest membership report explores the web of social participation and cooperation on the Internet and how it may impact the library’s role. A must read as we start the new year and head towards the closing years of the first decade of the new millennium.  The discussion will be continued at ALA Midwinter […]

L-TV 107 Rediscovering Victorian Novels
Deborah Barchi and Fran Farrell Bergeron discuss their favorite Victorian Novels, singling out specific titles that deserve to be read more than once.
Sunday, January 13 12:30 pm
Monday, January 14 […]

L-TV 106 Talking Books Plus

L-TV Host Fran Farrel Bergeron introduces the audience to Hope Houston, the librarian for the Talking Books Plus program at the Office of Library and Information Service as they examine the services that Talking Books Plus provides to people whose disabilities prevent them from using print materials.
Sunday, January 6 […]

L-TV 118 Ocean State Libraries
Fran Farrell Bergeron talks with Ocean State Libraries director Joan Gillespie and Regina Slezak, the director of the Newport Public Library, about the services Ocean State Libraries offers to its member libraries and the public and what prompted the organization’s name change from CLAN to Ocean State Libraries.
Sunday, December 30 […]

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has released State Library Agency Report for FY 2006. This is the first release of library statistics by the IMLS. It includes data on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year 2006. The data were collected […]

L-TV 119 E-Zone
Fran Farrell-Bergeron talks with Christopher LaRoux, the director of the Greenville Public Library, and Mattie Gustufson, the collection librarian at the Newport Public Library, about the Rhode Island Public Library E-Zone, a new library service that enables people to browse, check out, and download best selling digital titles 24/7 to their PCs and […]

In matters concerning the future of libraries, bookstores are often posed as models to follow. Adding a cafe, such as those found in bookstores, is one of the more common recommendations. Certainly cafes can be elegantly and unobtrusively added to libraries of any type. However, I can’t image following suit with a new Borders plan. […]