Archive for the 'librar*' Category
Library Genius
November 3rd, 2007I can’t blog this picture directly, but it’s really cool.
Marketing In Libraries
November 2nd, 2007Press Release - “In a ground-breaking initiative, UK libraries are offering advertising agencies and their clients the opportunity to place promotional inserts within their books.”
Librarian Parade
November 1st, 2007A Flickr set
Hahvard’s New Directah
November 1st, 2007David Rothman has some info.
Are Concerts at Libraries Too Loud?
October 28th, 2007Albert A. Marinelli, - “Now, I can tolerate a certain amount of conversation that takes place at normal voice levels, and the occasional cell phone discussions that take place next to me. But a full-volume musical concert within 50 feet of the main seating area is where I have to draw a line.”
Keeping Up…With Fashion
October 28th, 2007Erica Sherrill Owens - “Hattiesburg resident Nancy Kaul totally blows the stereotype of a dowdy librarian out of the water.”
New Librarian Sitcom
October 25th, 2007George Needham - “I always thought that there was a great library-based sitcom just waiting to be produced.”
What Shel Israel Will Tell Librarians
October 25th, 2007Shel - “If nothing else, my previous post asking what I should say in a speech to the California Librarians Association, produced over 30 responses. Clearly people are passionate on the subject. Clearly they also have a positive outlook for the need for libraries.”
I met Shel once (he probably doesn’t remember me) at a [...]
Don’t Let Your Domain Expire
October 23rd, 2007Lauren O. Kidd - “Type www.oceancountylibrary.org into your Web browser, and you no longer will be directed to the Web site for the Ocean County Library. That domain name — owned by the library system since 2000 — has been purchased by someone else. The library’s administration has been trying to reclaim the familiar name [...]
Willie Goes To The Library
October 22nd, 2007A Flickr set.
But Should We Cater To Them?
October 22nd, 2007G - “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what the On Demand culture of the Internet has done to your kids. Can’t even walk twenty feet to the next room, anymore. Heaven forbid they ever have to do anything useful”
Pesky Patrons
October 21st, 2007Guardienne of the Tomes - “As it was stated in the Billings Gazette: “phasing out services associated with the library as public space” is part of the plan. *sigh* Those pesky patrons again, bothering us in person, when they could just do it via IM so we could work from home in our pjs, with [...]
Library Confidential
October 20th, 2007Samantha Booth reviews the new book by Don Borchert
Sue The Libraries
October 17th, 2007Andrew Brown - “Why hasn’t the Recording Industry Association of America sued a library yet”
Librar* Comics
October 17th, 2007Stephen Abram has a summary of them.
Librarian R.I.P.
October 15th, 2007A Flickr set.
Future of Librar*
October 7th, 2007Joel Garreau - “Print technology made bookstores and libraries ubiquitous. Now that the Internet’s Amazon delivers, however, half of all U.S. independent bookstores have disappeared and the booksellers that thrive have morphed. They are now centered on their cafes, couches and cappuccino machines. They strive to become not simply warehouses but experience places.” (via)
Library Anniversaries
October 6th, 2007Joe Rodriguez - “The library computers crashed but they came anyway to check out books by hand, study homework or read the newspaper on a soft couch in the corner, just as they have for 100 years in this grand and overstuffed San Jose landmark east of Coyote Creek.”
Prison Librar*
October 5th, 2007Mary Rinzel - “So You Want to Become a Prison Librarian?”
Library Cards in NY
October 4th, 2007Suzan Clarke - “In a ruling Sept. 12, the library development division said it was acceptable for libraries to issue one kind of membership card to applicants who have photo ID and another kind of card allowing limited membership to people who lack proper ID and would otherwise not have access to any public library [...]
Amazon.com V. Librarians
September 29th, 2007Now, who is the better for recommendations?
(via)
Libraries and Movie Theaters
September 29th, 2007The Lexy Librarian - “Libraries and movie theaters actually have TWO things in common. Both venues prohibit the use of cell phones and both venues are patronized by individuals who selfishly flout that rule.”
When The Kids Are Bad
September 24th, 2007Courtney Mabeus - “With disruptive behavior on the rise at some Montgomery County libraries, some officials say they might start throwing the book at youthful violators.”
-Shushing
September 23rd, 2007Joyce Shelby - “Mack-Harvin is so determined to end the shushing that librarians from all 60 branches have been attending training sessions to get the word out about her approach.”
Well, yeah
September 17th, 2007Library Computer Guy - “[M]y point is that the public element of a public library exposes a public librarian to a wide array of patrons… a somewhat larger statistical skewing toward those with some form of mental illness.” (via)
Borrow, Not Buy
September 17th, 2007Consumerist - “We always knew one of the biggest scams in college was the school bookstore, but we never realized that you could actually try borrowing textbooks from the library.”
More on Jackson County Libraries
September 16th, 2007Damian Mann - “All 15 libraries in Jackson County could reopen by the first week in November if an outsourcing contract with a Maryland company is approved within two weeks.”
Tags, Tags, Tags
September 16th, 2007Melissa L. Rethlefsen - “Traditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use. Patrons regularly prefer Google’s simple interface. Now social bookmarking and tagging tools help librarians bridge the gap between the library’s need to offer authoritative, well-organized information [...]
Con Job
September 15th, 2007Foxy Librarian - “The patron had probably spent all day putting together this con. And all of this effort for what? $45.00 worth of fines.”
More on Prison Library Book Weeding
September 14th, 2007Michael Gerson - “In response to a genuine problem, the Bureau of Prisons has managed to be late, clumsy and self-defeating, all at the same time.” (via)