About

LISWire is a new idea from the guy behind LISNews & LISHost, Blake Carver. Carver is an MLS and professional librarian who brings a broad background of work and life experience to his skills in librarianship. As the founder LISNews, Carver serves an international community of library professionals offering a constantly updated source of news and information about the profession; how it affects and how it is affected by the events of the day.

Hundreds of library professionals, paras, students, professors, publishers, authors, reviewers, vendors and other interested persons have chosen to participate in the process making LISNews infinitely informational and varied. News stories are posted by authors from a broad library population and readers can add their comments to each story. Participants may also write about librarianship or other issues in their own journals making the website even more diverse in scope.

Partnering with Carver on this undertaking is LISNews author Robin K. Blum, aka 'birdie'. As a publishing professional for nearly twenty years and an LISNews author for seven, Blum has an expansive knowledge of the book world. Blum owns and operates In My Book®, manufacturing and selling a line of greeting card/bookmarks to bookstores, library and museum stores as well as to individuals.

With LISWire, Carver and Blum take the next step in building a network to distribute this information around the globe 24/7.

If it's not obvious, we run on Drupal, using the lovely marinelli theme. Some of the images you see in rotation in the header are from the marinelli theme, some from Robin's personal collection and some from Blake's. It's a bad idea to take images without asking. If you'd like information about any of the photos please contact us.