Monthly Archives: September 2008

72 posts
TTW Ephemera

Chairing WAC

I haven’t got to mention that I’ll be chairing the ALA Web Advisory Committee for this coming year. I thank our president Jim Rettig for the appointment. I just sent this message to the group and wanted to share it here as well: Greetings Web Advisory Committee! I am very happy to serve as chair for this coming year. I’m even more excited about the launch of the new ALA website, which will be on September 22nd. The preview is available here: http://staging.ala.org/home.cfm Here’s some of what’s ahead: For the first two weeks, we’ll be asking the members of WAC to proactively spend […]

TTW Ephemera

Legally, should Libraries NOT be Using Flickr?

  Inside by the Fire courtesy of Lester Public Library That’s Gil. He’s enjoying the newspaper and the fire at Lester Public Library. The cliché says a picture is worth a thousand words but I must agree that the story this picture tells about what patrons will find at LPL is pretty darn priceless. With this in mind, have you seen “Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library” by Bryan Carson? http://www.infotoday.com/mls/sep08/Carson.shtml Carson covers the best ways to use photographs taken at library events and in the library for promotion: It is clearly a violation of the right […]

TTW Ephemera

On Innovation, Control and the Organization

A wonderful post by Eric Schnell caught my eye last week. http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2008/09/library-innovation-requires.html His words are so well-chosen and ideas so spot on IMHO: To move towards a move innovative organization requires experimentation, trial and error, doing new things, and breaking rules.  Libraries looking to become more innovative are confronted with reality: it takes 100 crazy ideas to find 10 worth funding experimentally in order to identify 1 project worth pursuing. As it has been said, that it takes a lot of acorns to grow an oak tree. The challenge is that most library organizations are structured and managed to continue current […]

Library Organizations

Online Meeting Space from ALA & OPAL

http://discuss.ala.org/marginalia/2008/09/11/new-online-meeting-space-now-available/ Basically, though, ALA has four rooms available for groups to use – two 25-seat rooms, one 50-seat room, and one 100-seat room. Because these are virtual spaces, they’re available 24/7. Any ALA unit (divisions, round tables, sections, committees, etc.) or ALA-affiliated group can use a room to hold a meeting (following existing ALA bylaws for meetings), a discussion group, or as a presentation space for up to 100 participants. OPAL rooms provide: Text chat (including the ability to save the transcript); Voice chat for participants with microphones and speakers (including the ability to record the conversation); The ability  to […]

Library Spaces

Please Eat in the Library

Please Eat in the Library, originally uploaded by JenWaller. Jen writes: DOK has no rules, and good food is sold and eaten in the library! This area is super bright and cheery, and there were a lot of people reading here. Now that I look at this photo I realize I didn’t go to the back of this area (up the three steps in the background) and check out the comfy looking black and white chairs. I did check out the selection and great display of magazines and newspapers. Sigh. Adding this to “The Hyperlinked Library.”