Via Constance in Kentucky: http://www.faulkner.edu/jsl/library.asp What a nice bit of text – and check out the poster image! The library staff welcomes you to our library, which is designed to meet your legal information needs through a growing collection of electronic and print resources, value-added services such as research assistance and small-group workshops, and study space for individuals and groups. Even when not physically present in the library, you may take advantage of our website to search our many databases, read library publications, or contact us with a reference question or inter-library loan request. The website has links and information […]
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#76: We’ve got some ideas for you too: some new tools we need, some better service. Stuff we’d be willing to pay for. Got a minute? Yes indeed. And guess what? In our world, some tools are FREE!
For those GTD fans out there, I’m particularly enjoying Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders blog, including this post about getting started with GTD. Merlin also has really cool hair. You may be into or not, but some of the tips are HOT. Mine the 91 Comments to the post as well for even more. Here’s another! http://www.43folders.com/2004/12/29/a-year-of-getting-things-done-part-1-the-good-stuff/
http://www.librarian.net/stax/1215 “…we all know libraries are changing. The library workforce is changing and the nature of the job is changing. The more librarians know the lingo of the new tech world of fee-for-service models instead of you-bought-it-you-own-it models of yore, the better we will be able to advocate for our patrons to provide the best service for them and the best return for their investment in us. You don?t have to live on IM to understand why IM might be a good alternative to 24/7 ref. You don?t have to check your email 100 times a day to know why […]
Take a look: http://www.njlibraries.org/vid.mpeg (Thanks Frances!)
This is a cross post from the Online Social Network Conference going on now: One thing that has really impressed me is the use of subject-guide categories at Kansas City Public Library. Their site is full of pages that are often updated with local information and general interest stuff as well — and many of the pages have specfiic RSS feeds. ? Take a look at: ? http://www.kclibrary.org http://www.kclibrary.org/guides/computers/index.cfm?article=read&articleID=109 It’s ingenious and I believe they hit on one of the strengths of creating an OSN for a community via the library: highlighting local information. Back in the day — 🙂 […]
One of our cool Reference librarians came to see me right before I left for CA. We talked shop and Macs and music..and I thought back to this post, written at PLA as he described with excitement his plans for a new computer purchase: Public Libraries should do everything they can to provide a computer — a laptop — for all of their librarians. (it’s also a pretty snazzy perk in a job where there aren’t bonuses and the like…) We have it GOOD at SJCPL, each manager gets a 15″ Powerbook and the means to take it anywhere! I […]
http://www.tametheweb.com/galleries/AppleDallas/ A much much much better retail environment than the Seattle store! Oh, heck, here’s what I wrote then: During my stay in Seattle for the Public Library Association Conference I planned to visit the Apple store and buy two more iSights and an iPod mini. I was outside the store with the Sony camera shooting the silvery Apple logo and two employees came out and stood on either side of me. The female said: “Excuse me what are you photographing…we have a policy… what are the pictures for?” I said “For my blog of Apple Stores I have visited…” […]
As part of our Staff In-Service day last week, the whole SJCPL team took the Myers Briggs Type Inventory Assessment Tool with our facillitators Sharon and Dan Wiseman. I am an ENFJ. Seven years ago, we did the test and I was an INFJ. The purpose? To show the library staff how differently each of us meets the world and experiences it. We broke up into types (NFs for me) and did an esxercise. It was pretty darn cool.
Working on the article about “technolust,” Chris introduced me electronically to librarian Wanda Bruchis in Louisiana. We spent an hour on the phone talking tech and planning it was just the coolest. Wanda’s library was featured in that NYT article I mentioned here. Thanks Wanda! I look forward to meeting you at a library conference someday!