Blake Carver’s launched a new website, LISWire, featuring up-to-the-minute press releases, announcements, and other news from all kinds of libraries. You can subscribe to the main feed via RSS, or subscribe to one of more topics here. There’s also an email option.
Filed under: libraries, librarianship, news, rss on April 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Many e-handouts from the Public Library Association meeting that wrapped up last week, most in PDF or .doc format. Topics include Reaching Out to the LGBT Community; Creating Musical Storytimes to Encourage Emergent Literacy; Creating Dynamic Library Atmospheres; The Digital Revolution and Libraries - What’s Next?; Public Libraries as Community Problem Solvers ; Market Driven […]
Filed under: readers advisory, libraries, non-fiction, technology, memoirs, librarianship on April 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
Contra Costa County Library in California is getting ATMs that dispense library books in four locations around the county, with the first in a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station. The machines hold from 270-400 books. Patrons select books from a list of genres, and the machine authenticates their library card and dispenses the chosen […]
Filed under: libraries, technology on February 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Two articles on the related topic of libraries and access to knowledge:
From The Independent, Michael Savage asks “The Big Question: Does the decline in book lending spell the end for the public library?” He notes that figures just published show that the British “are taking out fewer books from libraries than we were 10 years […]
Filed under: libraries, Wikipedia, internet, information, critical thinking on January 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Good idea! The Bensenville Community Public Library (IL) is using its blog to post new booklists each week (author and title only), as well as entries for ‘author of the week,’ ‘book of the week,’ and some discussion of books.
Recent booklist topics: urban fantasy; apocalyptic stories; fiction about knitting, quilting and embroidery; mysteries that […]
Filed under: readers advisory, booklists, fiction, libraries on September 24th, 2007 | No Comments »