Library Stuff

CJOnline – “Boomers are also connecting to old favorite places through social media. David Lee King is the Digital Branch and Services manager at the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library. The library has 20 to 30 blogs that customers can comment on. It has a Facebook page and Twitter, YouTube and Flickr accounts. King said the biggest challenge he sees for boomers trying to adopt social media is understanding that it’s about connections with people. “The goal isn’t to interact with your computer. It’s to meet somebody,” King said. “That’s a hard jump for some people who aren’t used to these kinds of tools, but if you immerse yourself in it for a month or so, I think you’d probably understand.”

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89.3 KPCC – “It’s time to play our favorite game. It’s called, “Go to the LA Public Library Photo Archive and type in a random word.”

and is willing to fight for it

Rich Jaroslovsky – “Everyone from desperate publishers to techno-lusting consumers knows what an e-reader should be: a thin, light, affordable tablet with a bright color touch screen, decent battery life and fast wireless access to books, magazines, newspapers and work documents.”

NYT – “No one doubts that helping users find fresh, up-to-the-minute content on the Web is valuable. But plenty of other valuable Web services — including content sites, free Web e-mail and social networks — have struggled to find effective business models. Analysts say Twitter may well find ways other than search to make money from the huge amounts of data that flow through its system.”

AP – “Libraries have always been in the business of providing information. But as diversity continues to grow in the United States, libraries like the system in Queens are trying to remain vital and relevant to their communities by offering information in a range of new ways.”

NYT – “I’m not wishing the Internet away. It has become so integral to my work — to my life — that I honestly can’t recall what I did without it. But it has allowed us to reflexively indulge every passing interest, to expect answers to every fleeting question, to believe that if we search long enough, surf a little further, we can hit the dry land of knowing “everything that happens” and that such knowledge is both possible and desirable. In the end, though, there is just more sea, and as alluring as we can find the perpetual pursuit of little thoughts, the net result may only be to prevent us from forming the big ones.”

The Province – “Dr. Philip Nitschke, the director of Exit International, has instead decided to go ahead with the event at a local church, after the library refused his booking for a second time citing legal concerns.”