“Below you will see my 13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology.”
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“How much are your skills worth? I’ll break this out by job category and description.“
Come to Library School! Just Don’t Expect a Job! – Annoyed Librarian – Blog on Library Journal.
Oct 192009
Does the Brain Like E-Books? – Room for Debate Blog – NYTimes.com. “Show me one person who has made a serendipitous discovery while wandering the library stacks, and I will show you a thousand whose eyes glazed over at the sheer anomie, inefficiency, and meaninglessness of it all” “To a great extent, the computer’s usefulness [...]
Oct 092009
The Future is Now – Annoyed Librarian – Blog on Library Journal. But for the reference librarian there has to be something a little humiliating about being replaced by a coffee machine. The only saving grace is that it’s a really expensive coffee machine. We know from all the stereotype-defying articles that librarians are changing [...]
Oct 042009
Print Management in libraries: friend of foe? | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan. “I am a proponent for eliminating all charges in libraries whenever possible, including late fines, print charges, copy charges, and not investing in expensive systems to track these minor charges and alienate our customers in doing so. ” …a well [...]
The Guardian. Pioneering system will allow users to borrow books from almost anywhere in the UK, using their existing membership card From today, more than 4,000 libraries across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be open to any member of the public no matter where they live, thanks to a new scheme introduced by top [...]
BC OneCard — BCLibrary A library card from your home public library opens the door to public libraries wherever you travel – or stay – in British Columbia.
Stanford’s Virtual Archives contains a small, but growing, subset of some of our collections. Patrons can open virtual manuscript boxes and a sampling of scanned documents from the real life box will appear along with a link to that collection’s online finding aid.
The Internet and Civic Engagement | Pew Internet & American Life Project. ….internet is not changing the fundamental socio-economic character of civic engagement in America. … Still, there are hints that the new forms of civic engagement anchored in blogs and social networking sites could alter long-standing patterns. Some 19% of internet users have posted [...]
