http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6617658.html Once it began, everything seemed to be going smoothly. That is, until I saw a security guard shoot a look at a group of loud teens, telling them to keep it down. He then shut the door in their faces as they stood in the doorway trying to get into the event. The teens were initially shocked and looked to each other for some kind of explanation. Then they burst out laughing at the absurdity of the situation. There were more than 150 teens attending this YA author visit, buying books, CDs and T-shirts. It was a librarian’s dream: […]
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Library Sign – Gadgets – Blue, originally uploaded by ccacnorthlib. This series was inspired by ipod advertising and is being used throughout the library. A special thanks to daxtor for making this image available under Creative Commons.
A big congratulations to Dr. Brian Kenney who attended the hooding ceremony at the University of North Texas this weekend. Brian is in the 2nd IMLS Fellowship PhD Cohort at UNT. A big shout out to Dr. Brian and to all of the others who graduated this weekend.
Some big news. Magazines are now included in Google Book Search: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/search-and-find-magazines-on-google.html Today, we’re announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony. Are you a baseball history fanatic? Try a search for [hank aaron pursuing babe ruth’s record] on Google Book Search. You’ll find a link to a 1973 Ebony article about Hank Aaron, written as he closed in on Babe Ruth’s original record for career home runs. You can read the article in full color and in its original context, […]
Aaron reports on his new job: http://www.walkingpaper.org/1029 I’m super excited to let interested parties know that I’m now the Digital Initiatives Librarian for the District of Columbia Public Library. Not quite sure what a Digital Initiatives Librarian does? Well, it is vague on purpose but I can tell you that I’m going to be doing website visioning, usability testing, web presence development and planning all sorts of fun projects. Much of this stuff is going to fall under a subdivision of the DCPL Information Technology Services department that we’re calling DCPL Labs (still in beta so expect to find some lorem ipsum). I am especially interested […]
http://twitter.com/zappos/status/1052162305 I wonder how many directors and managers will be staffing library service desks and circulation points for busy Holiday times? I hope many will.
At the Skokie Public Library Twitter has become a nimble, extremely quick, and easy to use internal communication device. A small group of Skokie employees use Twitter to bounce ideas off one another, solve simple issues such as “how do I check something out to missing,” and even answer reference questions. What makes me excited about this use of Twitter? First it came about totally on its own, nobody planned to use Twitter as a means of communicating. Second is the mass effect of Twitter. I can send a question to many and not have to worry about one particular […]
2009 January 13, 2009. Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009 Education Institute Program online January 29, 2009. Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009 SLA Click U Live Program January 30, 2009. Technology Retreat for Suburban Libraries, TBA February 6, 2009. The Hyperlinked Academic Library: Next Generation Services for Next Generation Students, University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, Texas. February 13, 2009. The Hyperlinked Library. Web 2. You Conference at the McGill University School of Information, Montreal February 28, 2009. The Hyperlinked Library Trustee. ILA Trustees Conference, Lisle, Illinois March 10, 2009. The Hyperlinked Library: Trends, Tools, Transparency. Maricopa County Library Council Continuing Education Committee Program, Phoenix, […]
Brains, originally uploaded by mstephens7. Despite my nasty cold, my last talk of 2008 was wonderful. I appreciate all the kindness (a care package of cold medicine) from Kelley at ACLA and the warm reception at my talk. The slides are here.
Out in the Cold, originally uploaded by Fox River Grove Memorial Library. Liz Delzell, Youth Services Assistant, Fox River Grove Memorial Library in Fox River Grove, IL, writes: I just wanted to share this picture of some of the members of our BRAND NEW teen advisory board. We have a lovely little library serving about 4500 residents in a small northern suburb of Chicago, and while we see lots and lots of kids, adults, and seniors, we don’t seem to draw in area teens. We hope the members of this board will be able to give us some insight into […]