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 [...]
