University of South Florida Scholar Commons GENEALIB Archive Tampa Library 3-1-2009 GENEALIB Archive 2009-03 GENEALIB Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/genealib_archive Scholar Commons Citation GENEALIB, "GENEALIB Archive 2009-03" (2009). GENEALIB Archive. 128. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/genealib_archive/128 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Tampa Library at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in GENEALIB Archive by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. From reminder at comcast.net Sun Mar 1 12:43:04 2009 From: reminder at comcast.net (Ceya) Date: Sun Mar 1 12:43:10 2009 Subject: [Genealib] Question... References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <0EDA8132187746139D46C896435CF78C@node1> Where is the best place to look for job openings in Library Management? This is for a young cousin of mine, who has just received her Masters in Library Management and is having a difficult time knowing where to look for jobs. Ceya Minder, Librarian Southeast Alabama Genealaogical & Historical Society, Inc. Dothan, Alabama [email protected] From c8screek at msn.com Sun Mar 1 12:50:01 2009 From: c8screek at msn.com (Dave Cates) Date: Sun Mar 1 12:50:04 2009 Subject: [Genealib] Bertie Beginnings: The Story of Our County and It's Distinguished Citizens Message-ID: <[email protected]> Cynthia Herrin has published a compilation of the information found in "Bertie Beginnings: The Story of Our County and It's Distinguished Citizens". The publication information of Cynthia's compilation is: Herrin, Cynthia, comp.. Bertie County, North Carolina Vital Statistics, 1700s-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001. I am desperately trying to contact Cynthia or locate a copy of the original source "Bertie Beginnings:...". My contact information is: Dave W. Cates, 2255 Campbellsville Rd. Pulaski, TN 38478 ([email protected]). Thank you for any assistance you could offer. Sincerely, Dave W. Cates _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live?: Life without walls. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/pipermail/genealib/attachments/20090301/4fbc85b7/ attachment.html From Larry.Naukam at libraryweb.org Sun Mar 1 15:17:08 2009 From: Larry.Naukam at libraryweb.org (Naukam, Larry) Date: Sun Mar 1 15:17:12 2009 Subject: [Genealib] RE: Looking to the Future References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Sadly, the outlook for 20 to 30 years from now isn't very good. Now, people are coming more and more to rely on computers to "check everything"., which of course is a fallacy. Other have pointed out that merely having something digitally available is nice, but it's not a complete solution. Probably the scariest outlook is that libraries will be staffed as cheaply as possible, with no experts in the field; and that even now budget considerations are forcing libraries to discontinue access to computerized databases. If that happens patrons will HAVE to go back to using microfilms - but there isn't much money to buy them. And in my humble experience, many librarians are at retirement's door, and there haven't been any young people brought along. I wish that I had a better outlook, but I am nothing if not a realist. And that's not even mentioning if libraries can afford to buy computers and get net access. From Heather.McLeland-Wieser at spl.org Sun Mar 1 15:21:30 2009 From: Heather.McLeland-Wieser at spl.org (Heather McLeland-Wieser) Date: Sun Mar 1 15:21:37 2009 Subject: [Genealib] RE: Looking to the Future In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Larry; Its not all bleak. At Seattle Public we are absorbing budget cuts but we've been there before and we survived. Door count, question count and database use are all up and believe me we let the Mayor and City council know that. We also have a number of young librarians interested in Genealogy in the Seattle area. Maybe you can entice them to NY with suitable blandishments <G> Heather -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:genealib- [email protected]] On Behalf Of Naukam, Larry Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:17 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Genealib] RE: Looking to the Future Sadly, the outlook for 20 to 30 years from now isn't very good. Now, people are coming more and more to rely on computers to "check everything"., which of course is a fallacy. Other have pointed out that merely having something digitally available is nice, but it's not a complete solution. Probably the scariest outlook is that libraries will be staffed as cheaply as possible, with no experts in the field; and that even now budget considerations are forcing libraries to discontinue access to computerized databases. If that happens patrons will HAVE to go back to using microfilms - but there isn't much money to buy them. And in my humble experience, many librarians are at retirement's door, and there haven't been any young people brought along. I wish that I had a better outlook, but I am nothing if not a realist. And that's not even mentioning if libraries can afford to buy computers and get net access. _______________________________________________ genealib mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/genealib From loathout at tcpclibrary.org Sun Mar 1 18:43:17 2009 From: loathout at tcpclibrary.org (Larry Oathout) Date: Sun Mar 1 18:43:17 2009 Subject: [Genealib] Question... In-Reply-To: <0EDA8132187746139D46C896435CF78C@node1> References: <[email protected]> <0EDA8132187746139D46C896435CF78C@node1> Message-ID: <[email protected]> I would have her check lisjobs.com Larry Oathout Director Tell City-Perry County Library Tell City, IN 47586 812-547-2661 (Fax) 547-3038 www.tcpclibrary.org -----Original Message----- From: "Ceya" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:43:04 -0600 Subject: [Genealib] Question... Where is the best place to look for job openings in Library Management? This is for a young cousin of mine, who has just received her Masters in Library Management and is having a difficult time knowing where to look for jobs. Ceya Minder, Librarian Southeast Alabama Genealaogical & Historical Society, Inc. Dothan, Alabama [email protected] _______________________________________________ genealib mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/genealib -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/pipermail/genealib/attachments/20090301/485d0a16/ attachment.html From loathout at tcpclibrary.org Mon Mar 2 08:21:42 2009 From: loathout at tcpclibrary.org (Larry Oathout) Date: Mon Mar 2 08:21:48 2009 Subject: [Genealib] Looking to the Future In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> I guess I am going with the flow, but only books and other paper are forever, and that is why they should remain. Microfilm will still exist in one form or another. Databases will stay, and the best ones will be locally produced, as you still "own" them. It is a scary future when vast collections can just disappear when you are forced to cancel a subscription, or the company goes under. Larry Oathout Director Tell City-Perry County Library Tell City, IN 47586 812-547-2661 (Fax) 547-3038 www.tcpclibrary.org -----Original Message----- From: "David Hardin" <[email protected]> To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:05:59 -0600 Subject: RE: [Genealib] Looking to the Future To echo Paul?s thoughts, you will find the trend of the ?next best? format has always been to produce media with a shorter shelf life than the previous. For any item, a print version will outlast a microform version, and a microform version will outlast the digital version in reasonable conditions. Records (LPs) have a longer shelf life than tape, and tape lasts longer than any digital format in place today. This is also true to some extent with photographs; those older color photographs will fade alarmingly fast, while the black and white images can stay timeless. The hope is that those in charge of our digital legacy will be aware enough to transfer the files to new media before too much degradation occurs (hence restarting the time bomb). ?Digital archives? is an oxymoron. If any institution is ?archiving? items only digitally, say goodbye to that collection unless they are incredibly steadfast in their backup plan AND incredibly lucky. The concept that we will no longer need books or even microfilm in the future is just as preposterous as the concept of a paperless society (I am sure you remember that from your library school days). More to the point of the original question, I believe in 20-30 years our library will have access to more databases with digital images of original records, we will have many more books, and we will still have microfilm. The ratio of print to digital will change due to the potential for digital to grow incredibly fast and also the potential to completely crash. We are already seeing restrictions within our system on expanding the number of public computers based on bandwidth issues. Microfilm reader/printer/scanners will continue to be costly and may become scarce in the future.