Greetings....
I can't believe I let an entire month go by; lots of interesting things happening in the world of librarianship. Check out the following:
A Disaster Relief Website with good information:
Center for International Diaster Information (CIDI)
This site was established to handle public inquiries and to provide education on how to respond in a useful & productive manner in times of disasters.
http://www.cidi.org
Interesting Books In Print:
John McWhorter's Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America
ISBN: 1592401880; 2006 by Gotham Books-Penguin Group, New York
Mary Francis Berry's My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations. ISBN: 1400040035; 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf-Random House, Canada.
Julius H. Bailey's Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. ISBN: 0813028426; 2005 by The University Press of Florida.
Interesting Articles:
That Good Education Might Not Be Enough
American workers at all levels are vulnerable to outsourcing, experts say, posing a challenge to the assumption that more schooling is the answer.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-outsource6mar06,0,4152173.story?coll=la-story-footer
A Degree Program called "Digital Media Studies" at my Alma Mater:
University of Detroit Mercy
http://digital.udmercy.edu/
Enjoy!
-Leslie
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