Library Stuff

I’m a bit behind in my professional development reading, so I missed this LISNews piece last week which linked to an article about the Ministry of Reshelving. I was contacted by the Book Standard about the ‘Ministry’ and was quoted in the article. Neat.

Also, from the article, I became aware of a new(ish) blog called Babson College Archives run by the archivist for the college.

The BookFinder Journal breaks down what ALA READ posters they used to have hanging in their office. A bit of remorse:

“We changed offices a few years ago, leaving our warehouse space for smaller, but marginally tonier, digs in the heart of downtown. We still have reasonably high ceilings, but we ditched the READ posters from our old office so we can put up new book-related art on our walls. I like the way our new space looks, but every once in a while I still miss seeing our walls lined with pictures of actors, athletes, and the occasional celebrity engineer or scientist pitching the joys of reading.”

I used to have 4 READ posters hanging in the office that I shared with a part-timer (R.E.M. and Courtney Cox were mine – Anotonio Banderas and Harrison Ford were hers). I miss them terribly and should have brought them home to hang in future offices. Sigh…

Here’s and interesting (and very useful) blog.

Library Support Staff Jobs – “This is a list of job openings for library support staff, library assistants, library technicians, and library clerks. Updated whenever I find a new listing.”

I’d love to see this list categorized by state as well.

When a professor at San Diego State University saw that her lectures weren’t enough to get her students engaged, she turned to new adaptive technologies. From the article:

“Before the workshop, Amtower had used Blackboard and her own Web pages; after the workshop, she incorporated blogs, wikis, Flickr, RSS feeds, and digital storytelling into her curriculum. But the interaction with colleagues at the workshop was equally as beneficial as the instruction. Out of that interaction came the realization that she wanted her students to be “touched and changed” by the literature they studied.”

“You have to keep giving the information to them in a new format,” she said. “The format is everything because that makes them look at it differently. These new tools I have will only be good for a year and them I’m going to need some new ones! That’s going to be the trick for us – trying to keep always one step ahead so that we’re showing them something new and exciting that makes them want to do more of it.”

Librarians, take note.

Someone is having some Flickr fun.