{"id":3868,"date":"2012-04-17T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/?page_id=3868"},"modified":"2012-05-03T07:04:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:04:36","slug":"about-the-categories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/aboutthissite\/about-the-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"About the categories and menu items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">More info about the categories&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About<br \/>\n<\/strong>Posts to this category will provide an update to something related to the design or structure of the Web site.\u00a0\u00a0 Examples might be the addition of a link for signing up to a mailing list for updates or new categories or new menu items.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Historical Photos<br \/>\n<\/strong>When new historical photos are added to the site, a post will be added here.\u00a0 Many of these photos will come from The Semonche Files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internships<br \/>\n<\/strong>New internships are posted here.\u00a0 Most of these will have been posted to the NewsLib mailing list so if you are looking for a news library or news researcher center internship and are not subscribed to NewsLib, get signed up!\u00a0 This will build a history of news library internships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jobs<br \/>\n<\/strong>Job postings of interest to news librarians and news researchers are posted here.\u00a0 Most of these are in some type of newsroom setting but occasionally jobs in other settings but are quite similar to a news library job are posted here.\u00a0 This will become a historical record of jobs in the field of news librarianship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News Library News<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Many years of News Library News are available on the old Web site in searchable format.\u00a0 As time allows older issues will be added to this archive.\u00a0 I expect to make a lot of progress on this in 2012.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>NewsLib<br \/>\n<\/strong>Find here information about subscribing to NewsLib, the electronic mailing list for news librarians.\u00a0 Subscribers include researchers, archivists, students, vendors, academic journalism librarians, reporters and others interested in the field of news librarianship.\u00a0 Contributions to the list include questions about help with research, Web sites and research sources of interest, questions about archiving methods, sharing success stories, job and internship postings, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obituaries<br \/>\n<\/strong>This area is an archive\u00a0of\u00a0obituaries of news librarians and researchers.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it may also become and archive of news libraries.\u00a0 If you are a former librarian from a news library that no longer exist and would like to write an obit for it, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old NewsLiBlog Postings<br \/>\n<\/strong>This category takes you to the posts from the NewsLiBlog created by Liz Donovan in May 2003. The first post is <a title=\"First post to NewsLiBlog, the first news librarian blog, created by Liz Donovan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/?m=200305\">here<\/a>. All of these posts have been tagged so if you want to see the posts that Liz Donovan made, look under the Tags section for <a title=\"Liz Donovan posts to NewsLiBlog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/?tag=liz-donovan\">her name <\/a>and click on it.\u00a0 Jessica Baumgart was also a <a title=\"Jessica Baumgart's NewsLiBlog posts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/?tag=jessica-baumgart\">major contributor <\/a>to the early days of NewsLiBlog<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Old Web site<\/strong><br \/>\nHave a favorite page on the old Web site?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve left it as it was on the day we made the change to WordPress.\u00a0\u00a0To view the old Web site, follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slanews.org\/indexoldsite.html\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NewsLib Alumni: What are they up to?<br \/>\n<\/strong>In this area, you&#8217;ll find stories and\/or columns from folks who are now retired or once worked in a news library.\u00a0 Many of them are off on new adventures so it will be interesting to hear what they are up to.\u00a0 Are you one of them?\u00a0 If you would like to write something for the blog let me know.\u00a0 Not interested in writing but interested in updating us about you?\u00a0 Drop me a note and I&#8217;ll interview you for a post.\u00a0 Know a retiree or former news librarian involved in an interesting project?\u00a0 Sends news tips to me at <a href=\"mailto:ufriverat@gmail.com\">ufriverat@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0Upon request, these tips will be anonymous. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Semonche Files<br \/>\n<\/strong>When Barbara Semonche was the director of the Park Library at the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication, she created several Web pages devoted to news librarians and researchers.\u00a0 These were an awesome historical record of the profession.\u00a0 Therefore I decided to refer to these at &#8220;The Semonche Files.&#8221; As time allows I will be adding as much of this material as possible to the Web site.\u00a0 Occasionally as I work on other parts of the Web site, I will draw on this material to enhance that section.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site Index<\/strong><br \/>\nFind here a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/site\/siteindex.htm\">site index of the old site<\/a>.\u00a0 Eventually I might build a site index to this site and you will find it here as well. 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