Don’t miss: http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2008/09/sopac-for-the-smaller-set.html KJS: How about the staff’s relationship with the web? Has that changed? GH: When the blogs were a separate function of the old site, they were disconnected from our online presence. Blogging was doled out as a staff responsibility to one or two people. When we first started working in the staging site, I encouraged everyone to participate, which took some adjusting to for most of the department. There are a couple of staff members who discovered with the new website that they had a great voice and lots of really interesting things to share. Part of […]
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Cindi Trainor responded to my question in this post with a Google map mash up with this link. Thanks Cindi! A map of libraries who have participated in the Learning 2.0 program created by Helene Blowers at PLCMC.
http://www.robcoers.nl/weblog-artikelen/23-dingen-op-de-kaart.html Rob Coers posts an interactive Google mash up of all of the libraries in Holland that he’s helped do a 23 Things program. My question: have I missed the one that highlights how many times the program has been done worldwide?
Timber Wolf, originally uploaded by digitalART2. “Picturing the Wolf: The Art, Artifice, and Science of Being a Wolf in Children’s Books” Saturday, September 27, 10:30 am Newberry Library Speaker: Debra Mitts-Smith, Dominican University, with comments and discussion by Roberta Seelinger Trites, Illinois State University Chicago Public Radio will be broadcasting the talk: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Event_Detail.aspx?eventID=964 Join Debra Mitts-Smith of Dominican University as she examines visual, textual, and folkloric sources to understand the wolf as an icon of widely varied meaning and nearly universal significance. She traces the image over time in children’s books from the “Big Bad Wolf” of fairy tales to […]
SOPAC 2, originally uploaded by jblyberg. The library should encourage the heart.
Teen Team 2008, originally uploaded by mclib dot net.
Library quote, originally uploaded by alexandrayarrow.
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 […]
September TAB Meeting, originally uploaded by acpl. Nice photo of the Teen Advisory board. So glad ACPL shared on Flickr. I’m wondering: did their parents sign a release? 😛
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 […]