In Celebration of National Library Week 2012

From Proquest – SIRS Knowledge Source, CultureGrams™   Historical Newspapers, The New York Times 1851-2008 and Los Angeles Times 1881-1988 ProQuest is happy to join you in celebrating National Library Week. Here’s what we’re bringing to the party April 8-14, 2012. Sweepstakes: Start here…for a chance to win. During the week, visit the ProQuest Facebook [...]

The eBook Evolution

The Press Democrat recently published an interesting article entitled “The e-book evolution” that speaks of the diverse ecosystem emerging for digital reading in 2012 as electronic devices become more mainstream and become more widely used by curious, tech-savvy consumers. Cooperfield’s Books now offers customers to browser the print version and if they want to purchase [...]

Internet Librarian 2011: Community Embraces Online 11:1

Sarah Oct 18, 2011 5:25 PM – Show original item Internet Librarian 2011: Community Embraces Online 11:1 Denise Siers, Melissa Falgout, and David Wasserman Denise Siers gave us an overview of the King County Library System: a large system serving many people over a large geographic area.  They have 1 million card-holders, 90% of whom [...]

Internet Librarian 2011: Designing for Optimal UX

Staff who are looking at ways to continue to make the Library relevant to our users may wish to follow some of the highlights from Internet Librarian 2011. Here’s one summary of interest. Sarah Oct 18, 2011 5:31 PM – Show original item Internet Librarian 2011: Designing for Optimal UX Nate Hill and Chris Noll [...]

Developing Staff Skills for the 21st Century

Part of the Trends in Library Training and Learning @ WebJunction. This is free online conference  August 10 – 11, 2011 Starts at 8:30am PDT and ends at 1:45pm PDT both days.If you are interested in the virtual Library hosting any of these sessions please let me and I’ll reserve the Virtual Training Lab. For session [...]

Vote Now!

Build a Bridge to Your Library Contest Finalists Announced! A virtual bridge, that is, connecting your library to your users using our Credo Topic Pages. The idea is simple – build a single web page using Credo Topic Pages to point to authoritative sources, images and more. We are a finalist at Credo Reference Topic [...]

The Future of Libraries

Interesting blog post from MAKE magazine editor Phillip Torrone on how public libraries might merge with hackerspaces. Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make “TechShops”?  

Saving Libraries

There’s an article in the Wilmington (NC) Star News titled “A kids’ performer turned Internet hip-hop star just might save libraries.” An excerpt: “Scott Hayes, aka Scooter Hayes, aka Melville Dewey, is without a doubt the greatest library rapper of all time. In fact, he’s the only library rapper of all time, as far as [...]

Libraries at the Tipping Point?

There has been some discussion about what is scary about ebooks? Here is an excellent presentation that, in my opinion, explains the issue pretty well. It’s from the “ebooks: Libraries @ the tipping point” was an interesting online conference that occurred on September 29, 2010. Eli Neiberger (Ann Arbor Public Library) gave a brilliant 20-minute [...]

2010 Library Perceptions Report

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community clicking the above link will provide the 60 page report. The new report provides updated information and new insights into information consumers and their online information habits, preferences and perceptions. Particular attention was paid to how the current economic downturn has affected information-seeking behaviors and how those changes [...]

Death of Print?

The Death of Print? Cindy Orr Sep 14, 2010 7:03 AM – Show original item Have we reached the tipping point? In her monthly blog post, contributor Cindy Orr discusses accelerating eBook adoption in the mainstream and what it means for libraries. Experts are beginning the inevitable big debate that somehow we all knew was [...]

How Libraries Stack Up: 2010?

How libraries stack up: 2010 This new report examines the economic, social and cultural impact of libraries in the United States. As the current economic environment is impacting library budgets and library usage is increasing, particular attention is paid to the role that libraries play in providing assistance to job-seekers and support for small businesses. [...]

Public Libraries Using Twitter

There is a new report by NFI Research on top libraries using twitter – Top Public Libraries on Twitter. These are the top public libraries on Twitter who 1) regularly update their page and communicate with their followers 2) use Twitter to advance/promote communication with their community 3) have a proportionate number of followers to [...]