California State Library Blog

January 2008 - Posts

• Friends of the San Francisco Public Library study shows SFPL return on investment is $3.34

  The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library has released a study, "Providing for Knowledge, Growth and Prosperity: A Benefit Study of the San Francisco Public Library," that shows the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) generates a $3.34 Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:28 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: California public libraries

• IMLS awards California 2008 Connecting to Collections: Statewide Planning grant

  The Institute of Museum and Library Services ( IMLS ) has awarded California, through the Peninsula Library System, $39,982 to conduct a statewide planning project from March 2008 through February 2009. Called the California Connecting to Collections Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:34 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: grants, IMLS, CSL partners

• Radio-Frequency Identification Document Advisory Panel to meet Feb. 6, 2008

  California’s Radio-Frequency Identification Document Advisory Panel will hold its second meeting February 6, 2008 at the California State Library in Sacramento. At the February 6 meeting, the panel will address several topics crucial to California Read More... Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:16 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: State Librarian, Sacramento events, CSL publications, CSL website, CRB reports

• Winter 2008 CSL Connection now LIVE on California State Library website

  The Winter 2008 issue of the California State Library’s quarterly newsletter, CSL Connection , is now LIVE and available in HTML and PDF on the California State Library website. Just click CSL Connection under "Featured Links" on the California Read More... Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:45 AM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL publications, CSL website

• Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library receives IMLS National Medal with First Lady Laura Bush

  At a January 14, 2008 White House ceremony celebrating the 10 winners of the 2007 National Medals for Museum and Library Service, including the Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Director Read More... Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 11:29 AM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL publications, CSL website, IMLS, California public libraries, US libraries

• RSS feeds now available on CSL website

  If you have perused the CSL website during the past few weeks, you may have noticed that it now offers a new feature. Our website now provides RSS feeds to new issues of the California State Library’s Studies in the News publications as well as Read More... Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 9:25 AM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL general, CSL publications, CSL website, CRB reports

• Genealogists grateful for Sutro Library Saturday hours

  Genealogists are pouring into the California State Lbrary's Sutro Library in San Francisco to research their family trees during the library’s first-Saturday-of-the-month openings. The first-Saturday openings started on November 3, 2007, with Read More... Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 1:24 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: Sutro

• NEW CRB report, Ex Parte Communications: The Law and Practices at Six California Boards and Commissions, now available online

  Ex Parte Communications: The Law and Practices at Six California Boards and Commissions Charlene Wear Simmons, Ph.D (CRB-08-001, January, 2008) This report, which was requested by Assemblymember Loni Hancock, Chair of the Natural Resources Committee, Read More... Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:25 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL publications, CSL website, CRB reports