LibraryTechie

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 [...]

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 [...]

On Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at the Pittsford Barnes & Noble, the R-Spec group features a discussion of foreign fiction. This is admittedly more low-tech than most things I post here, but it should be a very interesting evening.
Join us as Ruhan Zhao, Gabriel Prajitura and David Pascal discuss science fiction in China, Romania, and [...]

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I can’t help but wonder how much it would cost to have some pads of sticky notes printed up and distributed to county libraries. It would be a great campaign to get the public thinking about libraries and what they hope their library will be in 10 years, and get them to provide feedback in a [...]

It’s been forever since I’ve blogged. Holidays came and went; I got the kids back to college; I took a week of vacation. Whew! Time flies by.
The website redesign is coming along nicely. I’ve worked out many of the underlying questions I was wrestling with: What is the purpose of the website? Who is my [...]