Flickr user Shinyville mashed up my photo of talking books at the Oregon State Library. Nice!
Monthly Archives: February 2008
you hear the darndest things in library meetings
22 Feb 08 – 2:29 pm
I’m posting these quotes as a continuation of my thinking process about what I see as a developing reactionary movement in librarianship. Not that there hasn’t always been a “let’s do it the old way” contingent in libraries, but I think it is perhaps more unified than in the past. I hate to [...]
new blog: No Shelf Required
22 Feb 08 – 10:59 am
Do you have a list of people you wish would blog about what they’re doing in their libraries? Sue Polenka, Head of Reference at Wright State University’s Paul Laurence Dunbar Library was on my such list. She emailed to tell me I can erase her name. She’s started a blog called No [...]
all sorts of goodness from Vancouver Public Library
19 Feb 08 – 10:54 pm
How are Canadians so cool? Not only does the Vancouver Public Library have a beautiful, entirely usable website that features library users on the front page, they also have a neat set of programs coming up. Here’s a bit of the press release:
SPEAK UP 2008: MY VIRTUAL WORLD LIBRARY DIALOGUE SERIES EXAMINES E-WORLD
(Vancouver, [...]
walking paper scraps
19 Feb 08 – 9:36 pm
→ Format war (final!) update: Toshiba quits HD DVD, Sony’s Blu-Ray (already in over 10.5 million PS3s) wins. Change your libraries’ orders now! Blu-Ray could be the last removable, physical media. Wow. Does that amaze anyone else?
→ A group in Portland is trying to change the name of NE 42nd [...]
walking paper scraps
11 Feb 08 – 10:48 pm
→ Ditch Binders and go with Chicago Screws
Oh my, I do love office supplies.
→ How to kill an elephant path
Social pressure and user desires
→ Is text-messaging the new word processor?
Cellphone novels in Japan
→ Another nail in HD-DVD’s coffin
Blu-Ray might be aroud for a little bit, but I still think that the move to consumer HD [...]
(some) free wifi from starbucks
11 Feb 08 – 11:09 am
If Starbucks junkies want wifi they have to pay T-Mobile a usurious fee, but not for too much longer. Starbucks is ditching T-Mobile and partnering with AT&T which creates a nice little Starbucks, iTunes Music Store, AT&T, iPhone niche. A result of this switch is 2 free hours of wifi per day for [...]
who are these people?
10 Feb 08 – 9:53 pm
After posting about the WCCLS website I decided to take a look at the Multnomah County Library Website to see what was going on there. They have 67 really nice pictures that randomly display on the homepage. No, I didn’t keep hitting refresh to find the exact number. I got curious and [...]
WCCLS Photo Contest
10 Feb 08 – 9:14 pm
Hey, the powers of RSS. It is just after 9pm PST on the 10th of February and I just got a news release from the future. I guess it just passed midnight on their server.
Anyway, I really like this WCCLS Photo Content. What a great way to let WCCLS customers [...]
