Welcome to the Black Caucus of the American Library Association-New Jersey Chapter. The BCALA-NJ is a new chapter of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association formed by some of New Jersey’s finest librarians involved with New Jersey libraries through employment or advocacy in many of the state’s academic, public, school, and special libraries. Part of our mission is to enhance and enrich the lives of black people through the profession of librarianship.
Readings of Possible Interest- U Minnesota Bookstores Partner with McGraw-Hill To Reduce Textbook Costs May 15, 2012Students at the University of Minnesota (U of M) will soon have access to their course textbooks through their e-readers and tablets at a reduced cost. […](author unknown)
- Indiana U Signs Pearson into eTexts Program May 14, 2012Indiana University has signed a deal with Pearson as part of the institution's sizable eTexts@IU initiative. […](author unknown)
- 2012 ACRL Election Results May 4, 2012Trevor A. Dawes, circulation services director at Princeton University Library, has been elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect. He will become president-elect following the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, and assume the presidency in July 2013 for a one-year term. A full biography of Dawes will be available on the ACRL website next week Marilyn […]David Free
- Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses May 2, 2012The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced a partnership that will host online courses from both institutions free of charge. The platform, its creators say, has the potential to improve face-to-face classes on the home campuses while giving st […]Nick DeSantis
- Britain Announces Plan to Make Publicly Financed Research Freely Available May 2, 2012Throwing its weight behind open access, the British government has declared it wants to make all research paid for with public money freely available online. If it succeeds, the move is likely to have significant consequences for publishers, and will boost the international momentum of the open-access movement. But the government won’t share details about ho […]Jennifer Howard
- Social Networks, Reliability, and Death April 30, 2012Image: Data Reliability by Bryan Loar. Source Images: Volvo 262 c by and Courtesy of Andreas Nilsen, Car104 by and Courtesy of detritus. I recently came across my first postmortem LinkedIn profile. The profile led me to ponder that, in our age of social networks, a deceased person could have hundreds of profiles scattered across the web. Will their famil […]Bryan Loar
- 3 Ways College Libraries Are Exploring Pinterest April 27, 2012Pinterest, the social network on which users share collections of images inspired by their hobbies and design interests on digital pin boards, has exploded in popularity since coming online in 2010. The Association of College and Research Libraries hosted an online seminar this week dealing with Pinterest’s potential in academic settings, and some college li […]Nick DeSantis
- iPad App Helps Students with ADHD Stay on Task April 26, 2012A new iPad app feature tied in to Facebook is designed to help students with ADHD combat procrastination and stay on task. […](author unknown)
- Appointments Update, Part 3 April 25, 2012Editor’s Note: This entry is part of an occasional series of posts from the ACRL Board of Directors. In this post, Vice-President/ President-Elect Steven J. Bell provides an update on the ACRL appointments process. The 2012-2013 appointments process is moving rapidly to its conclusion. With the exception of a just a few situations in which appointees decli […]Steven J. Bell
- Video from the Standards and Strategies for Fair Use Decisions... April 18, 2012Video from the Standards and Strategies for Fair Use Decisions Inside Libraries and Universities program at Columbia University. #Librarianscode is the first topic! […](author unknown)
- U Minnesota Bookstores Partner with McGraw-Hill To Reduce Textbook Costs May 15, 2012