The North Plains Public Library is in a fairly uncommon stage of growth. I don’t have any figures but I bet there aren’t too many public libraries that are just a few years old and have a one year old building. We’re the most recently added member of the Washington County Cooperative Library [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
haunted library
27 Sep 07 – 6:29 pm
The Thomas Ford Memorial Library’s YA department is hosting a haunted house. Nice idea!
Let’s just hope they don’t get in trouble for promoting witchcraft or somesuch.
rousting the sleepers
27 Sep 07 – 9:51 am
SvN just posted Waking up the sleepers which explores how to entice customers that have signed up for services to actually use them. Not that we would ever experience anything about that in libraries, right? Chances are that we all have sleepers. People who’s library cards never see the light of day [...]
quick and dirty webpage creation
27 Sep 07 – 9:04 am
There are a slew of very low barrier to entry webpage creation tools, one even claiming to be a Simple Content Management System. As if blogging weren’t easy enough, here are a few tools that are quick and dirty but might come in handy.
Displaying text on the web doesn’t get [...]
material type = reference, not holdable
26 Sep 07 – 8:12 am
Could your library benefit from an attention getting stunt? A copy of the Magna Carta is going to auction. It might be a neat document for you to have in your collection, but you’ll likely need to hit up your Friends of the Library group. Sotheby’s estimates that it will go for [...]
nintendo DS service stations
13 Sep 07 – 11:37 am
You all are playing around with the Nintendo DS, right? The awesome handheld gaming system that features titles such as (my favs) Brain Age, Cooking Mama, Trauma Unit, and the game that’s practically an interactive eBook – Hotel Dusk? It really is great device, and is, like the Nintendo Wii, fairly multi-generational. [...]
global public library usage statistics
9 Sep 07 – 11:46 am
Via Worldmapper, a “collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.”
The most books borrowed were in the Russian Federation. There were high rates of borrowing in Western Europe, Japan and Eastern Europe. In these regions most territories reported some book borrowing.
In other regions reported [...]
Tapping the Tools of Teen Culture in the LMC
6 Sep 07 – 3:57 pm
I wrote an article for the September edition of Multimedia & Internet@Schools Magazine and I think it is a solid introduction to how Media Specialists can use weblogs, flickr, wikis, and instant messaging. There’s also a bit about dealing with resistance from administration.
Here’s the intro to the article which is available online:
While our students [...]
yet another test
6 Sep 07 – 6:10 am
The nice folks at SLC want to see what blogging looks like.
I’ll even add in a video. How about Lindrider!
