Library Stuff

I wonder what we should put up on the LISWiki? Shouldn’t a wiki have a purpose, not just launch for the cool factor? Interesting times… (link via LISNews)

Wickerpedia. Wheeee!

The Office of Advocacy for the Small Business Association has 2 feeds:

+ News Releases
+ What’s News

(Link via BNET)

I had an idea about iPods and mentioned it at a few talks that I gave over the past few weeks: Give away an iPod to the 100th person to sign up for a library card (or something similar). The Greensboro Public Library had another idea. From an article in WFMY News:

“Central branch Children’s Librarian Jim Young says that winning is as easy as visiting your local branch and checking out books. The first person to check out the “secret” book, wins the iPod.”

The latest Dispatches from a Public Librarian is up. Hold onto your chair…

“There’s a stereotype about librarian jobs that goes something along the lines of ‘all librarians ever do is sit around all day and wait for someone to ask for a book.’ This is simply not the case. For starters, most people don’t even know how to read anymore, and the few that do don’t come to the library—they’re obviously smart, and therefore well off financially, and therefore go to Amazon.com to buy books, which they in turn donate to the library, which the library sells at a book sale, from which proceeds go to buy new computers.”