December 10th, 2008 | by Derek Willis | published in Journalism, SLA
Update: The Miami Herald’s obituary for Liz. Liz Donovan, one of the best news researchers ever, died of lung cancer in Gainesville, Ga. Truly a pioneer among news librarians, she was instrumental in everything from research for Woodward and Bernstein during Watergate to embracing (and leading other researchers to adopt) the use of blogs, wikis [...]
June 19th, 2008 | by Derek Willis | published in Journalism, SLA
At the recently-completed SLA conference in Seattle, Nora Paul led a session on the “future of news libraries” that asked the attendees to imagine 2012, when librarians (or news researchers, or whatever you want to call them) are recognized as leaders of innovation in newsrooms, and then to explain how that came to pass. It [...]
June 18th, 2008 | by Derek Willis | published in SLA
This year’s Special Libraries Association conference was, as usual, a great experience. Lots of good sessions from the News Division and other divisions. Some of my highlights, in dump mode: A session on controlled vocabularies in art museums featuring folks from the Getty in Los Angeles. Turns out they have several datasets that might be [...]