Archive for the 'librar*' Category
Book ‘Em and Learn
November 27th, 2007I love this. “Book a Librarian” at SFPL.
Librar* Regalia
November 26th, 2007Librarian Avengers - “It’s the Holiday Season, which means new stuff in the Librarian Avengers Store.”
What’s Primary?
November 26th, 2007Loose Cannon Librarian - “Libraries are fundamentally about people, information and connecting the two. The technology is secondary, but it’s there and it’s important.”
University of Utah Library Debuts “One Stop Shopping” Service
November 26th, 2007Press Release - “The pull service means that patrons can now request that books and other items be pulled from the stacks via the library catalog. Patrons then pick up requested volumes from the reserve desk on the first floor. There is no limit to the number of books that can be requested.”
Very cool!
If It’s on the Interweb, It’s Real
November 25th, 2007Super Librarian - “This Is Why Librarians Aren’t Obsolete”
Funding Controversies in NJ
November 25th, 2007Asbury Park Press - Libraries fighting legislation to give surpluses back to towns they’re in
Thanks Uncle Larry!
Too Many Library Users?
November 25th, 2007Jennifer Radcliffe - “And HISD isn’t the only local district struggling to meet state guidelines. Others, including fast-growing Cypress-Fairbanks, also are missing the mark, sometimes because they can’t stock their shelves fast enough to keep up with the influx of students.”
Need a Wrench?
November 25th, 2007Christina Hall - Libraries lend out art, tools and more
Library Meeting Rooms and Politics
November 24th, 2007Craig T. Neises - Broadcast won’t violate library policy
Love Stories Like This
November 24th, 2007Linda McAlpine - Motorized wheels will help disabled library patrons
New Book on Librar*
November 19th, 2007Bob Minzesheimer - “At first, Don Borchert wanted to title his quirky memoir about the unlikely drama found in a public library Ten Years, Good Behavior. After all, it deals with the bureaucracy of civil service which rewards rule-following more than creativity or imagination.”
We <3 Librar*
November 19th, 2007Betty Birney - “What would writers do without librarians? Or without libraries.”
More on Porn @ The Library
November 18th, 2007Felisa Cardona - “Investigators routinely use the Internet to capture sex offenders, but there’s still a place where online traffickers of child pornography can escape the arm of law enforcement: the public library.”
More Non-Librarians at Library Conferences
November 15th, 2007Brett Bonfield - “it’s time we use the pulling power of speaking to thousands of librarians (not to mention the larger budgets for the bigger events) to bring in people who are setting the tone for the non-library information community.”
Ellyssa Kroski has put together a dynamite session for CIL 2008 that is filled with professionals [...]
How To Pick Up A Librarian
November 14th, 2007Dos and Don’ts from LB.
Blake put together a bunch of them back in 2003. Still hilarious!
Bringing the reading room into the digital age
November 14th, 2007Elizabeth Church - “Jeff Trzeciak is out to revamp the role of the university library, putting computers where rows of books once stood and experimenting with new ways to deliver information that include gaming and a site in cyberspace”
Another Piece on Libraries and Change…
November 13th, 2007Roger H. Aylworth - “In a career that spans more than 30 years, Brenda Crotts has gone from being the keeper of a realm where even whispering was frowned upon, to having to deal with a customer who regularly announces he is going to surf porn on the Internet.”
Maybe she needs one of those silly [...]
Read a Book While Washing Your Clothes
November 13th, 2007Alexander MacInnes - “Czesak is not short on ideas on how to improve services, including opening more storefront branches, adding 40 computer terminals and providing more “concierge” service. During an interview at her office last week, Czesak half-jokingly proposed installing a Laundromat, so people can peruse books while washing clothes.”
Join the Club
November 12th, 2007Brad Barker - “Secret librarian handshake revealed!”
Ouch!
November 12th, 2007Lia Miller - “Borders bookstores — with their cafes, toys and games and large displays of movies and music — have never exactly been confused with, say, university libraries.”
The Starbucks Library
November 12th, 2007Jacqueline Wayment - “No one blinked while we erected a commercial blemish in the most fair and public of buildings - a library. Is it because we now don’t have to cross University Drive to access our happy, national coffee company that we all stood blithely by? Or, maybe it’s because we didn’t change the [...]
Just Old Ladies, Right?
November 12th, 2007Julie Winkelstein - “Upon reflection, being a librarian is never boring”
Tech Tests
November 11th, 2007Sarah Long - “Technology test can help libraries stay in the loop”
The Official…
November 11th, 2007…Library Page Uniform for 2008, brought to you by turn the page.
Pieces on Libraries I Like to Read
November 10th, 2007Fran Silverman - “Darien and Cold Spring Harbor are among dozens of libraries in the area that are being rebuilt or renovated, and, in the process, recast. From Princeton in New Jersey to West Hartford in Connecticut, libraries are starting to look more like Internet cafes and bookstores and less like quiet rows of book-lined [...]
Diggbrar*
November 8th, 2007Liszen has put out a Digg style page for librar* content. Suweeeeet! (via)
I’m still waiting (praying?) for a “librarmeme”, styled after Techmeme.
More on Ads in Library Books
November 6th, 2007Jill Stover - “I’m not a fan of this approach at all, and I’m a marketing enthusiast!”
More on Outsourcing Public Libraries
November 6th, 2007David Bollier - “There may be no more eloquent statement about the erosion of our civic connectedness than the news that public libraries around the country are starting to outsource their daily operations.”
Josh Neff should like this piece.
Here’s Your Sign
November 6th, 2007Tales from the “liberry” almost had me snorting my energy drink with this post.
Library Users Like Non-Fiction
November 4th, 2007Amanda Iacone - “From coin collecting to roof repair, local readers prefer non-fiction books to any other type of material available through the Allen County Public Library.”