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My fiance and I are planning to move to England after we finish librarian school. It is nearly impossible to own a home and start a family in the USA with the economic problems this country is facing. How easy is it to buy a home, find a job and get settled in England?

By: tnvito

I wanting to become a Librarian. For that I need a Master in Librarian Science.

But first I need to get a Bachelors in what….? I have no idea. I am told I can get it in anything.

But I have no idea.. I thought about education, but that centers mostly on teaching. I want to be a law Librarian… Some say that law librarians have law degrees, but Im not sure I want to do that way..

Anyone got an idea what kind of Bachelors degree I should get that will best fit me becoming a Law Librarian..

By: LadyCatherine

What is a good type of librarian job ot get into or specialise in?

By: Nemo

Does the librarian has to bear the loss? Any rule to waive off or condemn the books on some percentage. I wish to have some ruling on this in Black and white

By: pavu

Is it because they are too busy reporting the firing of a librarian in Wasilla, AK?

By: Jack F

This Q is sort of a confession…but I was wondering if I’m just a “badgirl” or If I have company among YA?
You see,I’m in the process of moving across the country and have been sorting through all of my books.
To my slight shock ( and amusement), I realized that I have at least 10+ books from various libraries.
Now “technically” I own them because I have paid all the fines or charges for them.
But I’m sure the librarians have some kind of secret hit list for people like me…lol

Are you guilty of the same?

By: Kymimom

When I was in grade school, our librarian would read books to us and I have a memory of this story but I don’t think she ever finished it and I don’t know the name. I’ve thought about it on and off over the years and it’s driving me crazy to know what it is!

From what I remember, there was a young orphan boy who didn’t know his own name. He was working on a farm (I think potatoes) and befriended a young girl who decided she would come up with the perfect name for him. The day she decided on a name, she was just about to tell him when her hair got caught in some machinery and she was killed. I know, great story for grade-schoolers! LOL!

This is all I remember. Is this a real book?

By: sharonj_1017

I’m new at this and didn’t realise how it all works. I thought ‘me’ had a great answer to my previous Library career question, but didn’t know that if I voted it would close my question.

Still along the same lines re Library careers - what can we expect as a salary - how high can you go?

Many thanks

Roberta

By: Roberta

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Is Google’s data grinder dangerous?
It wants to know more about us than we know ourselves.
By Andrew Keen, ANDREW KEEN is the author of “The Cult of the Amateur.” ak@aftertv.com.
July 12, 2007

WHAT DOES Google want? Having successfully become our personal librarian, Google now wants to be our personal oracle. It wants to learn all about us, know us better than we know ourselves, to transform itself from a search engine into a psychoanalyst’s couch or a priest’s confessional.

Google’s search engine is the best place to learn what Google wants. Type “Eric Schmidt London May 22″ into Google, and you can read about a May interview the Google chief executive gave to journalists in London.

Here is how he described what he hoped the search engine would look like in five years: “The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ And ‘What job shall I take?’ ”

Schmidt’s goal is not inconsiderable: By 2012, he wants Google to be able to tell all of us what we want. This technology, what Google co-founder Larry Page calls the “perfect search engine,” might not only replace our shrinks but also all those marketing professionals whose livelihoods are based on predicting — or guessing — consumer desires.

Schmidt acknowledges that Google is still far from this goal. As he told the London journalists: “We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don’t know enough about you. That is the most important aspect of Google’s expansion.”

So where is Google expanding? How is it planning to know more about us? Many — if not most — users don’t read the user agreement and thus aren’t aware that Google already stores every query we type in.

The next stage is a personalized Web service called iGoogle. Schmidt, who perhaps not coincidentally sits on the board of Apple, regards its success as the key to knowing us better than we know ourselves.

iGoogle is growing into a tightly-knit suite of services — personalized homepage, search engine, blog, e-mail system, mini-program gadgets, Web-browsing history, etc. — that together will create the world’s most intimate information database. On iGoogle, we all get to aggregate our lives, consciously or not, so artificially intelligent software can sort out our desires. It will piece together our recent blog posts, where we’ve been online, our e-commerce history and cultural interests. It will amass so much information about each of us that eventually it will be able to logically determine what we want to do tomorrow and what job we want.

The real question, of course, is whether what Google wants is what we want too. Do we really want Google digesting so much intimate data about us? Could iGoogle actually be a remix of “1984’s” Room 101 — that Orwellian dystopia in which our most secret desires and most repressed fears are revealed?

Any comparison with 20th century, top-down totalitarianism is, perhaps, a little fanciful. After all, nobody can force us to use iGoogle. And — in contrast to Yahoo and Microsoft (which have no limits on how long they hang on to our personal data) — Google has committed to retaining data for only 18 months.

Still, if iGoogle turns out to be half as wise about each of us as Schmidt predicts, then this artificial intelligence will challenge traditional privacy rights as well as provide us with an excuse to deny responsibility for our own actions. What happens, for example, when the government demands access to our iGoogle records? And will we be able to sue iGoogle if it advises us to make an unwise career decision?

Schmidt, I suspect, would like us to imagine Google as a public service, thereby affirming the company’s “do no evil” credo. But Google is not our friend. Schmidt’s iGoogle vision of the future is not altruistic, and his company is not a nonprofit group dedicated to the realization of human self-understanding.

Worth more than $150 billion on the public market, Google is by far the dominant Internet advertising outlet — according to Nielsen ratings, it reaches about 70% of the global Internet audience. Just in the first quarter of 2007, Google’s revenue from its online properties was up 76% from the previous year. Personal data are Google’s most valuable currency, its crown jewels. The more Google knows our desires, the more targeted advertising it can serve up to us and the more revenue it can extract from these advertisers.

What does Google really want? Google wants to dominate. Its proposed $3.1-billion acquisition of DoubleClick threatens to make the company utterly dominant in the online advertising business. The $1.65-billion acquisition of YouTube last year made it by far the dominant player in the online video market. And, with a personalized service like iGoogle, the company is seeking to become the algorithmic monopolist of our online behavior.

So when Eric Schmidt says Google wants to know us better than we know ourselves, he is talking to his shareholders rather than us. As a Silicon Valley old-timer, trust me on this one. I know Google better than it knows itself.

By: trevathantim

A. Find information on the internet

B. Revise a rough draft

C. Borrow references books in the libary

D. Speak with a reference librarian

By: mindy