http://librarystream.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/marketing-a-vibrant-community-place/ Libraries are part of the communities they serve. They’re often a very active part — sometimes central to the daily life of community events, programming, and resources. So why not show that pulse? Why not display the vibrancy of daily life. One photo at a time might not mean too much, but look at the same sort of calendar quilt done for a library. Thanks Steve!
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http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/10/10/tracking-words-with-twitter/ working from library today – walk through downtown and the sound of commerce ringing clear Back in the stinking library. Listening to a preschool story group reciting “Diddle Diddle Dumpling My Son John” with a teddy bear at the library. Library has ALL of the Thin Man movies! Thin Man Marathon! (with cocktails!) “The library isn’t good for books” Wow. Gwan UCC! off to the library to get some intense work done before dreamweaver/CSS class this evening (mix in some Game database work on the side pls) Research at the UM Map library on consumer water usage in Israel […]
From Wearing Scarves Year Round: (emphasis mine) Yesterday, I walked into the brick wall that was the realization that many of the projects I want to work on at the Northern-most library I might not get to work on. It’s frustrating because I thought I would be able to get a lot of things off the ground and I got excited and invested in that, and then it turned out that the library’s promises of being interested in making themselves more 2.0 and integrating social networking services into their world was not on the level. They do seem to want […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-DacdfJPwM I would love to see more directors and other library staff sharing their thoughts on books, etc this way. Is anyone else giving it a try?
Librarians in Smocks – Shush 2.0 Originally uploaded by CCL Staff Those smocks! checkout the fun some New Zealand librarians are having with Flickr showing off the smocks used in the 70s to protect clothes from dust. http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=nzlibfashion&m=text Thanks to Brenda Chawner for the link.
I try my best to be available to my student advisees. I do the office hours thing, share email and phone #s and give them my IM name. Today, however, was different — and could hint at things to come. I met a student in my office in the Cybrary City in Second Life for a few minutes of chat about the course he’s taking with me and about his library job. And it was the student, Kyle Jones, who suggested it. One thing we discussed was what might happen with Second Life and libraries in the future. I was […]
New fiction 2008_09 Originally uploaded by Books R Groovy Via Phill Bradley comes this striking image of the New Fiction Titles for August and September 2008 at Sutton Libraries. Well done!
http://blog.mash.yahoo.com/ YAHOO! announces a new social networking site. My questions: how will it tie into Flickr? How will Mash compare to the coolness of Facebook? (looks like they will have a “growing gallery of apps”)
http://lblog.jalcorn.net/archives/954-Whats-Wrong-With-Recreation.html Another from the archives. Louise at Librarian’s Rant comments on the blocking of MySpace on public computers at Manatee Library: I guess my ultimate question is what is this policy intended to solve? If it’s a question of equitable time limits on public computers, there are other solutions. Is it that they don’t want anyone to enjoy themselves while on the computers? That’s a great way to get people to hate your library system. This seems ridiculously self-defeating, and ultimately difficult to enforce. What a great question to ask when a new policy or policy change is coming up: […]
http://alreadygone.blogspot.com/2007/09/social-grieving.html Cindi Trainor shares a personal reflection on loss and grief for a colleague. My thoughts are withher and the staff of her library: I sat down tonight to write about how cool it is that many of us at EKU are grieving with each other through Facebook. We’re sending hugs and professing our sadness, and while I do take some comfort from seeing these electronic tidbits of humanity, it seems trite now to put it into words, the magic somehow hollowed and lost between seeing and posting. Instead I hope not to make the same mistake again. Of course […]