The bold emphasis is mine: A World Music Walk in the multilingual, multitalented and multitechnological Kista Kista is like no other place – share a multi-special experience with us, where the mobile technology opens doors to the world music! What? Join us on a fascinating journey where the world’s musical diversity meets the technical innovation that is so unique to Kista. Nowhere else in the world are so many world-leading innovation companies gathered side by side with a unique variety of musical, linguistic and cultural skills. The Mobile World Music Walk is about getting to know the possibilities with the […]
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Leah White, a good friend of TTW, writes: As many of you know, I recently took a position at the Morton Grove Public Library as the Readers Services Librarian. The first major project I planned was our participation in the Playaway Picture This Contest. Playaways are a relatively new style of audiobook and as a promotion, they are awarding $10,000 to the library who created the best display. I coordinated with every department in the library, borrowed some mannequins from Turin Bicycle in Evanston, IL and got to work on creating the best display we could possibly get together. Its […]
Don’t miss: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/10252010/illinois-libraries-talk-sustainability Sixty librarians from around Illinois met at Chicago’s Field Museum October 22 to discuss how they could better help their communities go green. The workshop kicked off the Illinois Library Association’s year-long Go Green @ your Illinois Library program, which aims to develop a group of librarians committed to environmental awareness. “It’s about libraries holding the conversation in their communities about sustainability,” said Denise Raleigh, director of marketing, development, and communications at Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin. “Libraries already connect people to resources; this is about connecting people to each other.” Find out more here: http://gogreenila.info/
I said: It’s very easy to dismiss people who don’t share our views. It’s harder to find common ground. Even harder is saying “I can learn from you.”
http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/02/23/redbox-rights-and-wrongs Brian Herzog writes: I had heard of libraries using both Redbox and Netflix, but never really gave it too much though. So I was kind of surprised at my response to my director: Maybe this is just a reaction based on the kind of day this has been, but I have mostly negative feelings about this. Based on http://tametheweb.com/2009/07/01/red-box-rentals-at-princeton-public-library/ is seems any money we get is minimal, and I’m always reluctant to give businesses a green light to target library patrons. If we did put one of these in, I sincerely hope it wouldn’t mean we’d be buying fewer […]
I am loving this! Great stuff from Down Under. I’ll be adding this to my Intro to LIS course.
Murder in the Mysteries Aisle, originally uploaded by scampion. Steve Campion writes: All that’s left of this ill-fated mystery reader is the chalk outline in the library’s stacks. Actually it’s a tape outline, and it’s been drawing the public’s attention to the library’s mysteries section for several months. The librarian decided to try it after rearranging the shelves housing the fiction genres. A staff member created the outline with the help of a (living) high school student volunteer.
Entries for the third annual contest will be accepted for the public library sponsored “two-minute or shorter” my favorite book online contest from January 20 through Feb. 28. The contest is open to all, with prize awards available to young people entering kindergarten through high school (K – 12). Storytubes won the PLA Polaris Innovation in Technology John Iliff Award in 2009. Alan Harkness, Director of the Piedmont Regional Library System, chaired the PLA award jury. He said that the StoryTubes project was chosen for the prize because it “captured the essence of using technology in an innovative way […]
OGPL Staff Christmas 2009, originally uploaded by OakGroveLibrary. Oak Grove Public Library writes: Santa Claus came to the library on Thursday, December 03 and everybody had a chance to take a picture with him!