Library Newscast Explores Blogging for Tenure, Defeat at the Polls in KY, Prizes for Self-Checkout

Nov. 8, 2007 - PRLog -- On today's edition of LibVibe: the library newscast, host Marv Kaminsky features interview comments from an associate professor and librarian at a major research university who says blogging can be scholarly, peer-reviewed communication and should count for tenure just like traditional print publications do. The process is much faster and more interactive than publishing on paper. Also, the systems manager and organizer of a promotion at a public library system in South Carolina tells listeners why they’re running the contest that offers patrons who try out new self-checkout stations a chance to win prizes, including a new laptop. Will the new machines mean the loss of jobs? Do promotions and the lure of prizes offer ways to make more people aware of libraries and help the profession fight misconceptions and those who marginalize us?

The eight-minute program also includes comments from the mayor and public library director in Louisville, Kentucky, where a proposal for a tax increase to fund libraries was defeated at the polls on November 6th by a huge margin. Also, the story of a serious incident of vandalism at a public library in Michigan.

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