Care about my library type stuff?

Hi All,
From my WordPress stats, I can see that this blog gets somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 hits a month. So some people are reading and some of you *might* be wondering what I’m doing with myself since I haven’t posted anything here since May 11th.  I’ve actually been doing a good bit of [...]

WorldCat Powered Recommendation RSS

If you come to the blog to view my entries, you might have noticed a new feature in the right-hand column. It’s called “Good Reads/Views.” It’s generated from the RSS Feed of a list I’ve created on Open WorldCat called Books and More Worth a Look. Every time I add to this list over at [...]

Japanese Libraries in the 1930s: No Maps for You!

The book North Pacific: Japan Siberia, Alaska, Canada by Edward Weber Allen has an entertaining story of the author’s visits to several libraries in Japan back in the 1930s. The chapter is called “libraries” and appears from pages 232 to 236. One part that struck me was the author’s inability to view maps of Japan [...]

In Flew Enza

In Flew Enza is the title of an article in the December 2007 issue of American Libraries. The article by Nora J. Quinlan appears on page 50 and is a “look both ways” type of article. Ms. Quinlan looks back to the 1918 flu epidemic and forward to towards a future flu pandemic and how [...]

A Beacon Level Error and the McLaughlin Group

I was listening to episode 23 of Uncontrolled Vocabulary this morning and learned a new phrase - “A Beacon Level Error.” This phrase was used by Greg and several guests to describe the possible outcome of Google’s new Knoll initiative. For those totally unengaged in social networking, Beacon was a very bad idea by Facebook [...]

TBLC PSA - Ask a Librarian

Friendly video promoting Florida’s Ask a Librarian’s service. I’ve found a few more on YouTube.

Wyoming Libraries Mudflap and Idea Judo

The non-librarian authors of Made to Stick have some interesting commentary on the recent Wyoming Libraries Mudflap campaign:

Wyoming Libraries Mudflap and Idea Judo
Check out this very clever campaign for Wyoming’s libraries. (One bumper sticker offers a more literate twist on a classic: “You can have my book when you pry it from my cold dead [...]

Promotion driven changes

In various online outlets I’ve hinted that I’ve received some “big news.” Now that the official public announcement has been made, I can tell you.
I have been promoted to Head of Information Services at my library. It’s sort of but not quite like being a branch manager. What it does mean is that for the [...]

Another good holiday/collection connection - Newspaper Gems: Labor Day, 1894

See how the Washington State Library tied its collection of newspapers to the Labor Day holiday:

Newspaper Gems: Labor Day, 1894

“The first national Labor Day was celebrated in Washington on September 3, 1894. Ordinarily a parade would mark this day of rest for Union workers, but Seattle opted to forgo the parade and replace it [...]

How one library ties its collection to a holiday

I think the Ketchikan Public Library does a great job of tying even minor holidays to its collection. I’ve just quoted the first paragraph out of deference to copyright, but you should pop over to their blog and see what books “Rainbird Librarian” chose to highlight.
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Labor Day

via Ketchikan Public Library by Rainbird librarian on Sep [...]