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Improving the Librarian Image (ALA 2008)
I decided to attend a session (which had people standing all the way out in the hall to listen–125 was the number I overheard on the way out) at ALA on Improving the Librarian Image because I am always...
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Amazon Video Reviews
I am not sure when Amazon started doing this but now you can post a video review of an item instead of just typing in text. Awesome.
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Food in the Library
Last Friday our library staff went on a tour of some of the libraries in our area. The newest one on our trip, Utah Valley University‘s new library, had a cafe on the first floor and a food-anywhere...
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Yelp Listens, So Can Libraries
I started on Yelp for fun a few months ago. I would have posted several more reviews except there was no way to save a review so you could go back to it later. I emailed Yelp about it two months ago...
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Rethinking Resource Sharing (NWILL 2008)
The North Western Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference at the Portland Community College–Sylvania campus this year had about 200 people; I was pleasantly surprised how big it was. I heard...
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Marriott Hotels and “Yes”
I have been thinking a lot about how to say “yes” instead of “no in library policy interpretation. Certainly we have great reasons for many of the policies we have in libraries but is there not a way...
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Library Names
Dan Maas writes at the Littleton Public School’s blog about a possible name change for libraries and librarians (thanks to Tame the Web for the link). Maas utilizes the ever-popular etymological...
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Life as a Library Patron
Brian Herzog at Swiss Army Librarian has come up with an interesting concept: Work Like a Patron Day. Basically, Herzog recommends doing as much as possible the way a patron does things, including...
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Usability Testing in Libraries
A group in our library has been reading Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think over the past few weeks. It is an excellent resource for anyone considering building or redesigning a website. Anyhow, we just...
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How Virtual Trumps Face-to-face Everytime {humor}
I have been out with laryngitis for a few days but I decided to come into work today, anyway. Although I can’t really get much done on the phone or in person, I can communicate just fine on facebook,...
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“Library Instruction is Boring”
How can we liven up our library instruction/info literacy sessions so our students really internalize the extremely valuable information we try convey?
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Library Newsletters
Brian Mathews at Ubiquitous Librarian has a really interesting post about what male and female students expect and want to find in a newsletter put out by their library. Here is his list of responses:...
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Food in Our Local Library
I have discussed food in the library before, but I just found out last week that the Harold B. Lee Library is considering adding a cafe and eating area. I must admit I was pretty excited. It will take...
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Review of 2008
Top three posts of the year were: Publishing in Library Science Improving the Librarian Image Lincoln Dounglas Debates My favorite posts of the year were: Facebook Free “Library Instruction is Boring”...
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LibraryThing’s Will You Like It?
Tim Spalding, founder of LibraryThing, just came out with a new recommendation tool for LT: Will You Like It? Essentially the tool looks at your library and decides based on other readers’ ratings and...
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Libraries Loaning Kindles
I have been looking into the possibility of libraries using the Kindle to support circulation and Interlibrary Loan now for about 6 months. Now that Amazon has released their second version of the...
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“I Don’t Want to Leave My House for Library Books”
To @drewlaplante and any others out there who would love to have the library in their home: we are getting closer and closer everyday. Of course what I am talking about is electronic journal access...
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