The Delft Public Library (yes, in Holland) has joined the flickr group “Public Libraries.”
Side note: Check out the openbare bibliotheek delft website. It has an RSS feed, it has a great color scheme, I’ve seen no other library website look so hip (tho it is a bit broken in firefox). [...]
Thursday I attended a presentation by Jenny, see the title above. I brought by laptop and blogged a play-by-play of the action, but haven’t posted it because her presentation will be online as soon as she recovers from the nasty bug that seems to be going around the Chicagoland area.
Instead, I think [...]
When I started library school I thought that the “reference interview” was something librarians made up so they’d have something to write articles about. Was I ever wrong!
I really enjoy seeing the way reference transactions unfold. The neat thing about doing reference via IM is that you’re left with a record of [...]
Brian didn’t give me permission to publish a portion of his email, but I’m so excited about it I’m going to throw caution into the wind. He wrote [emphasis mine]:
Rule number 1: Don’t send out IM reference fliers to every middle school and jr. high classroom on the same day!
Had to have [...]
[update: welcome MeFi, especially other members of the MeFi Librarian Posse. you might have seen my posts under the name ArcAm. cheers!]
It is true that being available through IM will impact your workflow, just like adding telephone and email reference did. Take a look at this post I saw from our internal staff communication blog:
Sunday afternoon
At one point this afternoon, I had had 3 walkup, 3 phone, and 3 IM reference questions.
Some might say, “That’s [...]
This evening, I was approached with an interesting reference question. The patron asked, “How can I send an SMS to a mobile phone in Norway?”
Consider yourself warned: As SMS increases in popularity in the United States (it has already become fully integrated into the continents of Europe, Asia, and Australia) our patrons will [...]
In, the February 2005 Cites & Insights Walt has a number of interesting comments responding to some of my posts here. I’m extra glad he quoted an earlier post of mine where I said “More on that later.” It is nice to have reminders!
The issue at hand is the role of libraries in [...]
