Are Fulton County Library Users Happy with AFPL?
Commissioner Boxhill Wants to Know Posted February 21, 2005 Fulton County’s District 6 Commissioner Nancy Boxhill is asking in the January/February newsletter she mails to her constituents for comments on the public’s experience seeking service at AFPL libraries. Here’s Boxhill’s survey. • Are You Now Or Will You Ever Be a Part-Time Librarian? Posted February 21, 2005 If so, you might want to take a gander at the web page maintained by the Association of Part-Time Librarians, founded way back in 1988. Among the hyperlinks on APTL’s page: “Characteristics of a Good Part-Time Librarian’s Position” and “Hints for Finding a Part-Time Job as a Librarian.” • Catalogs and Search Engines: Similaries and Differences Posted February 21, 2005 Most librarians who are not catalogers–and certainly most library users– assume that Internet search engines have made library catalogs obsolete, or will soon supplant catalogs altogether. Wrong, says this article, based on a paper presented at a 2002 conf
