Welcome to the Military LIbraries Division Blog. We hope that you will find this blog a useful source of information on information, trends, and events that affect military libraries and information centers and the people that run or use them.
Welcome to the Military LIbraries Division Blog. We hope that you will find this blog a useful source of information on information, trends, and events that affect military libraries and information centers and the people that run or use them.
Posted by Pat Alderman on May 29, 2008 at 04:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Just released this morning by the White House and the Pentagon "Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense" http://www.defense.gov/news/Defense_Strategic_Guidance.pdf Primary Missions for the U.S. Armed Forces *Counter Terrorism and Irregular Warfare *Deter and Defeat Aggression *Project Power Despite Anti-Access/Area Denial Challenges *Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction *Operate Effectively in Cyberspace and Space *Maintain a Safe, Secure, and Effective Nuclear Deterrent *Defense the Homeland and Provide Support to Civil Authorities *Provide a Stabilizing Presence *Conduct Stability and Counterinsurgency Operations *Conduct Humanitarian, Disaster Relief, and Other Operations
Pentagon Press release http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=66683
Posted by SLA-Divisions on January 05, 2012 at 08:53 AM in Greta's LInks | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
"The Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL) Public Access to Legal Information (PALI) Committee has just posted the updated edition of Locating the Law: A Handbook for Non-law Librarians. We've corrected links, added a few more sources, and moved the "Common Abbreviations in the Law" from the end of Chapter 2 to Appendix B. You can view individual chapters or the entire publication in one large PDF (274 pages)." [June Kim, Senior Reference Librarian, UCLA Law Library]
From beSepcific January 3,2012
Posted by SLA-Divisions on January 04, 2012 at 04:52 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Hello Fellow Members of MLD:
Just a reminder that the deadline for submission of articles and people/places news for Military Libraries, the MLD Division’s newsletter, is Monday January 16. I anticipate much of this issue will be devoted to the recent MLW workshop, so if you were there please consider contributing an article about it. Could be about your overall workshop experience, brief summaries of some of the sessions, a more in-depth discussion of a session that you found particularly useful or meaningful, etc.
Please also send your short news items on people, places, accomplishments. I have noticed that many military libraries submit articles and news items to the ALA FAFLRT newsletter. It would be really nice to have some of these for our division newsletter as well.
Please submit your content in an unencrypted message to: mld.newsletter@gmail.com Include the following IN THE TEXT OF YOUR SUBMISSION file: Your name, location and name of your place of employment (if applicable), your email address
Any graphics should include: Permission to use it (with attribution if applicable, ie, photo taken by John Q. Photographer) Names of any people in photos, any other info you suggest for photo captions
Thank you, and please feel free to contact me with any questions. The archive of past issues is posted on the Division’s NEW website at http://military.sla.org/newsletter-2/archives/
Anne Jacobson
Posted by Pat Alderman on December 19, 2011 at 08:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Sabrina Pacifici, in her Dec 7 BeSpacific, wrote that, "Via NextGov, a compilation of aggregated government tweet feeds organized by type of organization as well as by most recent postings. Very useful for a comprehensive, one-stop view of agency tweets and updated data."
The site also has pages for blogs, channels, news, events and the basics.
Posted by SLA-Divisions on December 08, 2011 at 05:34 AM in Current Affairs, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The 2011 Military Libraries Workshop has just finished its seond day. Tonight the attendees and guests are getting ready to attend the evening's festivities on the Spirit of Norfolk. For the past 2-1/2 days, the 130 attendees have had a chance to visit with over 40 vendors and learn what new produts and prices they are offering the military committee.
To read more aobut MLW, please check out the blog posting from DMIL member, Marie Kadell, LexisNexis Government Info Pro. http://www.governmentinfopro.com/federal_info_pro/2011/12/mlw-2011-veterans-history-project-value-and-connectivity.html
Posted by SLA-Divisions on December 07, 2011 at 02:49 PM in Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Library of Congress has announced an online Federal Library Directory, sponsored by the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) with research assistance from the Federal Research Division (FRD).
This resource presents an interactive mapping tool and library/collections data from more than 1,000 federal libraries worldwide, including information on staff size, leadership, circulation and reference services, contact information, and notes providing more in-depth description of collections. Note: Use Mozilla browser to access the Directory.
See: Federal Library Directory (index page) http://www.loc.gov/flicc/FLD/index_FLD.html
Federal Library Directory (Listing; Interactive Map; and Chart viewable by Type of library, Department, State, Country, Collection size, or Staff size) http://recollection.zepheira.com/views/FRD/directory/ (Use Mozilla Firefox browser to access the software.) "
Library Census Maps 1,000 Federal Libraries," Library of Congress news release, 10/28/11 http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-208.html
Posted by SLA-Divisions on October 29, 2011 at 11:23 AM in Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
The Summer/Fall issue of Military Libraries is now posted on the MLD website at http://military.sla.org/newsletter-2/archives/. In this issue you will find the Corporate Commons column by Maryhelen Jones, featuring Dr. Anne Marie Casey (Library Director at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), as well as member summaries and a few photos of sessions from SLA this past June.
A few things about upcoming issues of Military Libraries: • If there is interest I would like to experiment with some issues focusing on themes of interest to MLD members. I welcome your suggestions on potential topics. • I would love to have some additional “columnists” and/or people interested in taking responsibility for coordinating sections of the newsletter. If you have an idea for a column you’d like to try, please let me know. For example, wouldn’t it be great to have a regular section with book and/or electronic resource reviews of special interest to military libraries? Or a column featuring the special collections at one of our member libraries? Or how about a column featuring a different innovative use of technology at one of our libraries in each issue? Just to throw out a few ideas… Also, the Member News could really use some beefing up. If anyone is interested in soliciting, gathering and compiling this information for the newsletter please let me know.
The deadline for submissions for the next issue is January 15, 2012. I hope some of you going to MLW in December will contribute something about it to that issue. Please send your submissions or other emails related to the newsletter to me UNENCRYPTED at
Thank you! Ann Jacobson
Posted by Pat Alderman on October 18, 2011 at 10:42 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
New website for USA Government Publications offering a wide variety of topics. Check here first for current government publications. http://publications.usa.gov/USAPubs.php
"Publications.USA.gov offers publications from across government, on topics including: Cars | Consumer | Protection | Education | Employment | Federal Programs | Food | Health | Housing | Money"You’ll find hundreds of free publications to read online, download in PDF format, or order in print. We also offer a small but growing number of e-books to download to your e-reader, tablet, or smart phone. Many publications are offered in both Spanish and English." Source: beSpacific - October 4, 2011
Posted by SLA-Divisions on October 15, 2011 at 10:41 AM in Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
The US Marine Corps has a new social media principles manual.
• "The Marine Corps must continuously innovate to communicate in media-intensive environments, to remain the nation’s force in readiness. This mission is based on the Marine Corps Vision and Strategy 2025 and the public affairs tasks outlined in the Marine Corps Service Campaign Plan for 2009-2015. While building and launching a social media program or accessing a favorite social media site can sometimes be fast, easy, and inexpensive. Existing rules for public affairs as well as personal conduct still apply. The Marine Corps encourages Marines to explore and engage in social media communities at a level they feel comfortable with. The best advice is to approach online communication in the same way we communicate in person — by using sound judgment and common sense, adhering to the Marine Corps’ core values of honor, courage and commitment, following established policy, and abiding by the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). The social media principles provided in this handbook are intended to outline how our core values should be demonstrated, to guide Marines through the use of social media whether personally involved or when acting on behalf of the Marine Corps."
Posted by SLA-Divisions on September 28, 2011 at 04:50 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Future Ready 365 is SLA's blog dedicated to sharing "knowledge,ideas and insights on how we are prepared for the future". Written by volunteer bloggers from across SLA, the blog often has a 'theme' week where writers from a particular unit each write a different blog post for that week. The recent week of September 12-16 featured a number of Knowledge Management centric post.
The most recent blog posts are highighted in the Features portion of the Blog. The calendar section offers a chronological list of previous postings.
What will be SLA's next endeavor to steer the association into the future?
Posted by Pat Alderman on September 26, 2011 at 05:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
