I blogged about LibraryThing a couple of years ago as a great tool for readers. But it’s also a great tool for libraries.
One of the very popular programs presented at the library where I work is a series called Brown Bag Book Reviews. Staff members review some of their latest finds while the audience snacks [...]
Tonight: Wednesday, May 21 at 7 p.m.
Webster Public Library
980 Ridge Road West
Webster, NY 14580
This evening of lively discussion features three wonderful speakers on the topic of banned books and censorship. This program will be an intriguing look at thought control appropriate for adults and teens.
Red Star: Science Fiction Under Soviet Dictatorship
Censorship usually means destroying books [...]
This came in my email today:
Announcing the One Big Library Unconference
http://onebiglibrary.yorku.ca/
E-mail: onebig@yorku.ca
When: Friday 27 June 2008, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Where: The Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“It seems like there are lot of different kinds of libraries:
public libraries, school libraries, university libraries, college
libraries, law libraries, medical [...]
Recently, librarians Rosa Diaz from the Lincoln Branch of Rochester Public Library and Marcia Thor from the Maplewood Branch of RPL came up with a fantastic new library service.
They brought video cameras out to Fairport Public Library to record the “Babies Love Books” story time which is a program for newborns through 18 months (and [...]
Lori Bell from Alliance Library System forwarded this notice to the SL Library groups today. Rachel Singer Gordon has created an online community for librarians and other library staff. Here’s the post:
LISjobs.com Launches Online Community
New discussion forums now open
LISjobs.com, the largest free library career portal on the Internet, is pleased to announce the launch of [...]
As expected, Stephen Abram’s talk today was informative and stimulating. He’s an extremely dynamic speaker and a guy who has his finger on the pulse of what’s happening in libraries, sciences, and society in general. He’s very sharp, quite good at predicting trends, knows where his research needs to be, and has a great sense [...]
I attended a pre-conference dinner tonight at the Rochester Hyatt. Tomorrow the Special Libraries Association will present a talk given by Stephen Abram on Library 2.0. I heard him speak last October and my entire outlook on my job as library IT person was changed. I’m very excited about the direction libraries are headed.
Tonight’s dinner [...]
Tonight I’ll be giving a presentation for Rochester Regional Library Council on social networking. I’m really looking forward to this, as there is so much potential for creating new ways to reach library patrons. Static websites are great for storing information, but as tools progress we need to use them to improve communication and interaction [...]
I just got back from the first meeting of the newly formed Library Webmasters Group held at Rochester Regional Library Council. There was a good-sized group of us from a number of different libraries, both public and academic. The group formation was the brainchild of Linda Hacker, webmaster for the Drake Library at SUNY Brockport, [...]
I attended an extremely invigorating seminar yesterday! The Monroe County Library System presented it’s Technology Leadership Institute in downtown Rochester. The presenters — Stephen Abram, Michael Stephens, and Ed Vielmetti — were excellent. It was a great opportunity to hear about what others are doing to take advantage of new technology to provide better library [...]
I’ve added a few blogs to my blogroll today.
I will be attending the Technology Leadership Institute presented by the Monroe County Library System in a few weeks. They’ve put up a blog of their own:
http://mcls.wordpress.com/
with links to the blogs of the presenters:
http://tametheweb.com/
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/
I’ve added those blogs to my site for those of you who may be [...]