The latest Pew Internet report – Mobile Connections to Libraries – gives us some info about the critical tasks for library websites. 82% of them searched the library catalog for books (including audiobooks and e-books), CDs, and DVDs. 72% got basic library information such as the hours of operation, location of branches, or directions. 62% …
Read MoreThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro just launched the Journal of Learning Spaces. It is an open access journal so the full text is available for all to read freely. Though the focus – at least of this first issue – is on classroom and not other learning spaces like libraries, there’s plenty …
Read MoreI’m in the middle of digging though a content audit of a large library website and the more I do them the more convinced I am of their utility. Assessing every page (and other pieces of content) on a website is a granular task that can expose some big problems force people to think about …
Read More“Fall 2010 carries on Dear Creatures’ panache for all things nostalgic and narrative. A collection inspired by Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, the clothing reflects curious girls’and guys’ instinct for smart and timeless fashion, the same instincts they assign to their crime solving adventures.”
Read MoreLooks like someone’s CMS was spitting out funny breadcrumbs. I haven’t seen this too much.
Read MoreMetalwork from David Clarke. [via today and tomorrow]
Read MoreI am way into this program from the Baltimore City Health Department and the Enoch Free Public Library: On a bright spring morning in Baltimore, retiree Gwen Tates goes over her weekly grocery list — oatmeal, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, pea soup. But it’s where she’s shopping that might surprise you: at the …
Read MoreI visited some great places as part of my participation in the Gates Foundation’s 2010 Global Libraries Peer Learning Meeting. The libraries I saw have overcome their addiction to circulating content. Now they’re all about doing, making, publishing, working, and experiences revolving around content. People are still getting print books and CDs for the library, …
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