Fighting Fat

We are not the only ones who have been putting our Libguides "on diet"! This short article from the Duke Libraries' Instruction and Outreach blog was written by Diane Harvey who was my mentor at Duke University.

U. Delaware Is First ARL Library to Adopt WorldShare

The University of Delaware Library is switching to the cloud-based OCLC WorldShare Management Services. Some 33 libraries have begun using OCLC WorldShare Management Services since its launch in July 2011 (as Web-scale Management Services; OCLC rebranded it in December 2011). Some 117 libraries worldwide have committed to using the service. However the University of Delaware Library is the first academic research library and the first member of the 126-library Association of Research Libraries(ARL) to implement WorldShare.

Book Burning, 213 BC–2011 AD

Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.
     — Heinrich Heine

  A recent scene in the United States!