Via Melissa, one of my students comes this article from Kennewick, WA: Kennewick library Giving StUdents the Boot. Attention grabbing headline, no? From the article: Kennewick High School students have been banned from using the library across the street from their school while classes are in session. Students who often walked across the street to the library during lunch arrived at school last week and learned they were no longer welcome there — at least not between 7:30 a.m. and 2:10 p.m. “I think it’s stupid that they call it the public library and it’s not open to the public,” […]
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Happy cell phones, originally uploaded by tscrobinson. Nice artwork from Allen County’s Sean Robinson.
Bjorn Jones wrote me an email and I thought it would be best to share it withh TTW readers in case someone can help him out. I’m Bjorn. I just started my first job as a public librarian for the city of Salinas, California. My first day on the job I was assigned the task of launching a new Mac digital arts lab. Our new Mac computers are loaded with software for creating digital media. My library’s goal is to connect the community with the media creation tools now available on our new Mac computers. This is a HUGE undertaking that would be a […]
Jessamyn writes: I try to keep “who to vote for” politics pretty well off of this blog and prefer to discuss politics in general and better and worse strategies for promoting libraries in whatever political climate we happen to be in. People acutely interested in high level politics in the US who also work in libraries may be interested in this Time magazine article about Sarah Palin. I was very interested in this paragraph. [Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go […]
Jen Maney, Virtual Library Manager, at the Pima County Public Library wrote to say that her Emerging Tech team has kicked off a statewide Learning 2.0 program today called Baker’s Dozen: Learning 2.0 Arizona. They are using a wiki for the program – http://bakersdozenarizona.wetpaint.com/ Any library staff member in Arizona (any kind of library, including library school students!) can participate.
Productivity workstations as far as the eye can see, originally uploaded by julieshen. julieshen writes: This is the Cal Poly Pomona University Library’s brand new productivity center. It’s located next to the Reference Desk (now called the Research Help Desk), which shares space with staff providing technical help, and part of our new learning commons. It’s not open for use yet, but once it’s ready the productivity workstations will have the normal Microsoft Office software suite along with a lot of other software, including GIS and SPSS. It’s part of theexpansion we’ve been going through for the past 2 years: www.csupomona.edu/~library/TheNextChapter/
Click here to download the 174MB file: StephensHyperlinkedMasterFall2008.pdf
http://www.starbucks.com/mycard/choosetheme.asp? I can create my own Starbucks card at the link above. Can some folks point me to personalized library card services at libraries?
There’s an excellent new article from Sarah Houghton-Jan at Ariadne: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/houghton-jan/ All of it is golden, but here are some bits that resonated with me: Make an Inventory of Your Devices Not only do we need to consider the data, and the mechanism for their input, but the devices we use to access that data. I have a choice about accessing my work email; I can use any of three different computers or my smart phone. I have a choice about what device I use to talk to my parents; do I use my home phone or my smart phone? […]
Stuff what we’re doing at Edge Hill University View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: webdev edgehilluni) I’m really enjoying this presentation today as I prepare course content, update “The Hyperlinked Library,” and ponder the role of IT and the university library at my institution.