Project of the North Suburban Library System, designed to connect librarians with a whole bunch of library blogs.
Stephen's Lighthouse
Friday FunThis is fun – and it might have some use for teaching credulity and information literacy… From Centered Librarian Stephen...Read More about 2 hours ago |
Top Ten (10) Social Media Competencies ...An excellent post from Dean Guistini: Top Ten (10) Social Media Competencies for Librarians…07.26.10 “1. Understand, explain and teach others about the main principles and trends of web 2.0 (and library 2.0) 2. List majo......Read More about 2 hours ago |
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Ebook Sales and Summer BBQ’sOK, this has been an interesting two weeks on th e-book front. If your life is like mine, everyone is asking you, the librarian, for your personal and professional opinion on e-books and e-readers. So, to prepare you for the fam......Read More about 18 hours ago |
The top 20 countries on the InternetThe top 20 countries on the Internet, and what the future might bring “Here are some standout facts and observations that give additional perspective to the Internet usage of the top countries on the Internet. •There ar......Read More about 22 hours ago |
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Around the interwebsDiary of a Wimpy Kid 5 cover and title revealed!! The book is slated to be released November 9. Thanks to Travis of 100 Scope Notes for the link.And speaking of massive book releases, have you seen the Mockingjay book trailer?An......Read More about 3 hours ago |
Forge by Laurie Halse AndersonForge by Laurie Halse Anderson. Grades 5-8. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, October 2010. Reviewed from ARC provided by publisher at BEA.Taking place after the events in Chains, Forge continu......Read More 1 day ago |
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A Day in the Life of a Children's Libra...8:45a - Arrive at work. Turn on computer and put stuff away. Start setting up the room for this morning's program. I print out the words to the rhymes so that I can post them for the parents to read, I collect books for display,......Read More 2 days ago |
Annexed by Sharon DogarAnnexed by Sharon Dogar. Grades 8 and up. Houghton Mifflin, October 2010. Reviewed from ARC snagged at BEA. 320 pages.It's 1942 and Europe is at war. For the Jewish van Pels family, this war means almost-certain death and they h......Read More 3 days ago |
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The Shifted Librarian
July 30th StreamShared Early Evening Splash. Posted Katrinskaya: Screencast on how to mobile-otimize your WordPress blog in 3 min or less… #mobilemedia http://bit.ly/d2PWOW. RT @jpalf......Read More about 4 hours ago |
July 29th StreamPosted katepullinger: Very interesting: RT @Judypiatkus: Does twitter sell books? http://tinyurl.com/23u9l38. wondering when aol email addresses will become retro and hip [shifted] ......Read More 1 day ago |
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July 28th StreamPosted willrich45: “In the Olympics of school systems, we are world champions of educational inertia.” Milton Chen http://amzn.to/dlxxzy Amen.. Posted sophienotemily: I think I’d rather c......Read More 2 days ago |
July 27th StreamShared ǎňňǎ: Forget Overdue Fines! — Oddly Specific — Funny Signs. Posted tvol: I now remember why I stopped following @amlibraries (this is my full Twitter feed) http://flic.kr/p......Read More 3 days ago |
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David Lee King
Meta Social: Online Interactions & ...Meta Social: Online Interactions & how to make them ROCK View more presentations from David King. Here’s my presentation from today’s Handheld Librarian III web conference. It was a fun talk, and a great confere......Read More about 12 hours ago |
Patron-Created … Commercials!Check this out… John Ary, a guy who lives in Topeka, has been making videos talking about why he loves Topeka, KS. Some of his videos have helped with that Google Fiber project thing that many cities have hoped to be a pa......Read More about 24 hours ago |
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Help Others Get PermissionA lot of people read, commented, and tweeted about my last post, Getting Permission. First off – thanks! It’s an important topic, and one with no easy answers. More than one commenter asked a similar question –......Read More 2 days ago |
Getting PermissionLast week, Emily Lloyd at Shelf Check (very funny librarian comic strip and a fine blog, too) posted What would you do if you didn’t need the approval of 15 committees? And mentioned me. Here’s what she said (make su......Read More 7 days ago |
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LISNews: - You're Wrong. No, You're Wrong.
Novelist Anne Rice says she's leaving C...Novelist Anne Rice says she's leaving Christianity Anne Rice has had a religious conversion: She's no longer a Christian. "In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artific......Read More about 12 hours ago |
Study: Libraries Top The Competition In...Study: Libraries Top The Competition In Lending Movies Red boxes, red envelopes and the blue and yellow Blockbuster stores may dominate the movie rental landscape, but according to a recent survey, when Americans want to watch a......Read More about 19 hours ago |
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Washington State Librarian Will Step Do...State librarian Jan Walsh is calling it quits on a long public library career, effective Aug. 31. The Office of the Secretary of State, which has overseen the library since budget cuts earlier in the decade, put out a news rele......Read More about 19 hours ago |
How Libraries Stack UpMeanwhile (awaiting their day in court), OCLC has published a terrific two-page pdf document on "How Libraries Stack Up"....Read More about 20 hours ago |
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The 'M' Word - Marketing Libraries
Who You Gonna Call?So what do 2.7 million people have in common? They all viewed this video produced for NY Public Library by Improv Everywhere as part of the library's "Don't Close the Book on Libraries" advocacy campaign. According to the post o......Read More about 20 hours ago |
C-SPAN Digital Bus TourC-Span's bus is a great way to teach communities about the programs they offer. This concept would be great for libraries that have mobile libraries on the road. You could visit schools , community groups, etc. Great Hands-on ou......Read More 1 day ago |
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More 'Libraries in Pop Culture' Evidenc...Going back to last week's post (and the viral discussion) about the NPR blog post about libraries be poised to be the Next Big Thing in Pop Culture... here's more evidence! Libraries made the "culture" section of Newsweek's Inde......Read More 3 days ago |
NPR: 'Libraries Might Be the Next Big T...OK, I feel the need to comment about this NPR article that's been making the rounds in US library circles. It's called "Why the Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries." I think just about every library-type ......Read More 7 days ago |
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Tame The Web
The Google Translate ExperimentTwo teens from Italy in Portland, ME over the summer. One teen librarian. What the heck is gonna bring them together? It’s not a mind blowing idea. But I will tell you this…it works. Here’s our simple s......Read More about 21 hours ago |
Thanks Region 10, Richardson, Texas!I had a great time at Friday’s workshop with school librarians, technologists and staff from Region 10 in Richardson, TX. I presented a full morning version of “the Hyperlinked School Library.” The slides are ......Read More 1 day ago |
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Internet Librarian International Interv...I was recently interviewed for an email blast for ILI2010. Hope to see you in London in October! Here’s the text: Internet Librarian International continues to provide pertinent resources and support for today’s info......Read More 1 day ago |
Brian and MichaelBrian and Michael, originally uploaded by pelicanwind. I was in Texas last Thursday and Friday. One highlight was driving up to Denton to meet up with my PhD advisor, mentor and friend Dr. Brian O’Connor. We had a ......Read More 2 days ago |
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Lively Librarian
Book Review-Furious LoveMonths ago I read an excerpt in London's The Daily Mail from the new book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century. It intrigued me and I put a hold on the book at my library. A few weeks a......Read More about 22 hours ago |
Flash Back Friday #41Because yesterdays post was a look back at my life in 1989, 1999 and 2009 and a recent Flash Back Friday was music from the 80's, here is a montage of the top hits of 1999. Ya gotta love naughty Lolita schoolgirl Britney Spears ......Read More 7 days ago |
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How Things ChangeAs I approach my 40th birthday in a few months I got to thinking about the past decades in my life and how each 10 year span has been so different. I've definitely lived multiple lives. I'm sure each of you have experienced your......Read More 7 days ago |
Summer BreakYes I am still here. I'm taking a break from life. I spent a few days with friends at their beach cottage on the Michigan shore and now I'm in Colorado with my family, hiding in the mountains for a little while.I will be back ne......Read More 14 days ago |
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Going Green @your library
Seed Lending LibraryHow cool – the Richmond (CA) created a Seed Lending Library! It’s a free urban seed project located in the public library, opened in May of this year,where anyone can borrow seeds but after they harvest, they are to ......Read More 1 day ago |
Cool Recycling Center IdeaOhio University Libraries has this cool new recycle bin option in their library for users to recycle batteries, cell phones, printer ink cartridges and CFL bulbs. Have an old file cabinet lying around? Perhaps you can create one......Read More 4 days ago |
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Green Public Library Publication & ...A new publication is now available called Going Green in North American Public Libraries: A Critical Snapshot of Policy and Practice and it will be presented 10 August 2010 – 15 August 2010 (in Gothenburg, Sweden) at th......Read More 9 days ago |
Eco-Librarian Classes!The U of Wisconsin Madison, School of Library and Information Studies offered an online course in spring 2008 called: Eco-Librarians: Changing Our Communities One Step at a Time (details) not only is the topic green themed but o......Read More 10 days ago |
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BlogJunction Illinois
FY2011 Illinois Public Library Per Capi...The FY2011 Illinois Public Library Per Capita and Equalization Aid Grant application is now available at the Illinois State Library website. Per Capita Grant funding helps ensure that public libraries have some of the resources ......Read More 1 day ago |
Upcoming Webinar: Digitization & Pr...The upcoming WebJunction Webinar Digitization & Preservation Symposium is scheduled for Wednesday 8/25/2010 beginning at 1:00 PM Central Time. WebJunction is hosting a two-hour symposium that will feature four presentations......Read More 2 days ago |
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New WJIL Notification Features for “G...WebJunction has introduced a new feature that will update you through email about what’s happening in the WebJunction groups you have created or joined. You can now opt to receive email alerts when members join the grou......Read More 2 days ago |
New WJIL Course: Online Research Strate...A new course has recently been added to the WebJunction Illinois Course Catalog - Online Research Strategies for Librarians. Following are the description and learning objectives for the course. Course Description Increasingly, ......Read More 2 days ago |
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Archive of TechTrends: ALA Annual 2010 ...The rescheduled TechTrends: Annual 2010 Webinar took place yesterday, and was a smashing success. Thanks to all of our participants and panelists, who helped make it such a great event. We also want to thank Michael Stephens and......Read More 2 days ago |
Michael Stephens Tech Trends from ALA 2...Like Jason, I can’t participate today but I am happy to share my slides and a few words about the trend I was going to explore in my portion of the Webinar. I was only at ALA for 24 hours but the conversations I had with c......Read More 2 days ago |
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Jason Griffey's Tech Trends from ALA 20...I’m not able to participate synchronously with the rescheduled TechSource Trends webinar about ALA Annual, but I wanted to chime in and explain a bit about my somewhat vague set of slides that I put up just after the techn......Read More 3 days ago |
Take Pictures, Tell Stories: Creative ...Creative Commons 101Where U.S. Copyright law dictates how creative work cannot be used, Creative Commons licensing makes it clear how a work may or may not be used. Creative Commons licensing has several attributes, or conditi......Read More 9 days ago |
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Blue Skunk Blog
The 2-page security guideline for teach...We've begun to prepare for new teacher orientation that will start in less than a month. (Anybody else get a little rattled seeing the Back to School ads in last Sunday's paper?). Anyway, I'm in the process of reviewing some mat......Read More 2 days ago |
If you could only have 6...Tim Holt at Unintended Consquences writes: ...the overwhelming volume of [educational technology] causes a “paralysis of choice” where those that are trying to become techno-literate teachers throw up their hands ......Read More 3 days ago |
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Everybody's doin' it, doin' it...My suspicion is that everybody picks his or her nose. Those of us who consider ourselves more "cultured" will do so in private, use a tissue, and not speak of such acts in polite company. Those acts of which we may not necessari......Read More 5 days ago |
Library lunch club postGuusje Moore was asked in a reader's comment about her "Library Lunch Club." She posted this blog entry <http://guusjem.blogspot.com/2010/07/library-lunch-club.html> for anyone interested. Is Guusje a member of your PLN?......Read More 6 days ago |
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Kol Safran קול ספרן
Making ConnectionsOn Sunday my mother asked for some help with her message for the Na'amat year book. As president she needed to write words of greeting, some plans, and hopes for the up coming year. After discussing some of her ideas concerni......Read More 2 days ago |
Out of StateThe expression, "I going out of state” has always bugged me. "Out of state?" has no connection to distance or time traveled. I live in a metropolitan area of two or three states. I am not sure if Wisconsin is part of the metr......Read More 2 days ago |
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Search Engine TestFor years I have been telling students that search engines and data bases are different. Search engines index by machine. They have no ability to figure out words in context.Since language is full of ambiguities including word......Read More 11 days ago |
Creating a podcast IIAfter posting two lectures and an interview prepared for classes I decided I was ready for the next step in podcasting. First I read a book about podcasting and learned more than I thought possible about creating and publicizin......Read More 13 days ago |
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PlainTalk
Take Me Out To The...Reference Desk?We are Cubs fans in our family. Dad grew up on Wood Street in Chicago and while his family had next to nothing, it only cost a few pennies to sit in the bleachers in those days. These days, it's $10.00 for a bratwurst and a Peps......Read More 3 days ago |
Libraries - hotter than cupcakes? coole...Libraries and librarians can't seem to escape the media spotlight these days - who'da thunk it? It seems like only yesterday the media was chasing after Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan and their ilk - now the headline grabbers are f......Read More 7 days ago |
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Let's Give 'Em Something To Talk About....No, sorry, no library gossip here, but some news I hope will get you excited nonetheless. I've said it before, I'll say it again - when I hear from patrons about anything, it's usually, "The library catalog and its 'My Account' ......Read More 13 days ago |
Need To Know?I’m happy to report that most of the stereotypes about reference librarians are misleading. I have never owned a cat, I look terrible with my hair in a bun and worse in eyeglasses and I take no pride in “shushing” people. ......Read More 22 days ago |
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Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan
Win an iPad for your SharePoint, Exchan...Here is an example of freaking brilliant marketing: Give away an iPad for customer stories denigrating your competition! Azaleos, a company that builds server side products competing with Microsoft, is giving away an iPad for ......Read More 6 days ago |
Finding the Simple LifeI’ve been struggling of late to simplify my life — to remove distractions, refocus my time on what is most important, reevaluate my environment to make it calming and relaxing, and in general weed out what isn’......Read More 29 days ago |
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Yahoo Style Guide and Web Content Resou...Yahoo has released a style guide, The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World, in direct competition with the AP Styleguide. It will be in stores (yes, in di......Read More about 1 month ago |
Libraries and eBook Readers: An Illegal...Peter Hirtle wrote a thoughtful post on the LibraryLaw Blog about whether or not libraries can legally lend out eBook readers. While there’s no problem with the hardware, there are legal problems with the eBook software ......Read More about 1 month ago |
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Information Wants To Be Free
Numbers vs. meaningForgive this less-than-well-thought-out post. I’ve been thinking a lot about assessment lately and the librarianly love of numbers in assessment, and I’m a troubled by the way that some academic libraries tend to mea......Read More 8 days ago |
The Social DivideI think it’s fantastic that companies are using social media to promote their brands and communicate more directly with their customers. It’s wild when I write about my favorite wine and the New Zealand winemaker act......Read More 22 days ago |
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History and changeI’ve been thinking a lot lately about finding a balance between honoring history and promoting change. Then I read a post by Kendra entitled “The tension between ‘memory’ and ‘complacency’R......Read More about 1 month ago |
It’s unconference time!Last year, Michelle Boule and I organized what ended up being a FANTASTIC first Unconference at ALA Annual. I was so impressed with the quality of the talks and discussions, and how everyone took on the roles of both teacher and......Read More about 1 month ago |
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Something Different Every Day
ForgetfulnessIn the past few days I have not just looked at but done something with 3 email accounts, two PBWorks wikis, three blogs (this one, the library’s, and my Youth Services dept’s), the Museum Adventure Pass database, ALA......Read More 8 days ago |
Practice what you preachSo, I broke my own rule, again. I’m doing my bedtime storyhour, using the funny new book Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes to do a color-themed program. I decide to use the storytime big book copy of Mouse Paint along ......Read More 11 days ago |
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My new hero: Dr. Patricia KuhlI’m back from ALA, and it was a wonderful conference. Everything I went to that was sponsored by ALSC was beautifully organized and thoughtfully designed. I loved it all. My very favorite thing was at 8 am the morning afte......Read More 29 days ago |
The questions people ask usRecently, I posted about the questions we ask ourselves. Today, I’m sharing some of the questions patrons ask us. A Library Board member asked recently why we hire librarians instead of lower-paid staff to cover our desks.......Read More about 1 month ago |
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Perennial Searcher
Search AlliancePay attention to this development: Search Alliance. In brief, Microsoft and Yahoo! have joined forces. “The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance combines the complementary strengths of Yahoo! and Microsoft to create a com......Read More 9 days ago |
Google ImagesGoogle has taken a cue from Bing and revamped Google Images. According to the Official Google blog, Google Images now indexes more than 10 billion images. Users will see less whitespace in the results page and be able to view ......Read More 9 days ago |
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Foursqaure Dialogs with Major Search Co...Mashable reports that Foursquare, the location-awareness tool for smartphones, is in talks with major search engines. As the post points out, Twitter showed the world what people are talking about and thinking. Foursquare has th......Read More 10 days ago |
Does Searching Make Us Smarter?Eli Goodman over at Search Engine Watch writes about “How Search is Making us Smarter“. Excerpt: “Reference related searches account for 13 percent of the total U.S. monthly search volume (over 3 billion).R......Read More 10 days ago |
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The Unquiet Librarian
Oh, the Places We Hope to Go: Mapping ...Unquiet Library Learning and Program Themes, 2010-11 Once again, I am using Mindomo to help me pull together the swirling mass of ideas for 2010-11 that have been simmering in my mind throughout the summer. You can see the ......Read More 14 days ago |
Is Your Library Making Milkshake Mistak...CC Image via http://bit.ly/cWPWTx One of the most interesting ideas I’ve discovered so far in my reading of Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, is “milkshake......Read More 18 days ago |
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Searching for the “So What?”Twitter / Chris Brogan: There are never too few id … via kwout One of the things I love about social media and my transactions with my personal learning network is the wealth of ide......Read More 20 days ago |
Learn More About The Unquiet Library at...Unquiet Library Has High-Schoolers Geeked | American Libraries Magazine via kwout I’m delighted to share with you this fantastic column by Brian Mathews in American Libraries that puts the sp......Read More 21 days ago |
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Walking Paper
Porter Airlines: A Fantastic Experience...I flew Toronto based Porter Airlines recently and it was an unexpectedly wonderful experience. In no particular order, here’s why. 1. Their in-flight magazine “re:porter” looks great, isn’t filled with ......Read More 29 days ago |
various coordinatesLooks like someone’s CMS was spitting out funny breadcrumbs. I haven’t seen this too much. ...Read More 29 days ago |
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Unusable TablewareMetalwork from David Clarke. [via today and tomorrow] ...Read More about 1 month ago |
Visual Design Libraries Should Be Proud...In response to my post beautiful > ugly Suzanne Chapman just shared some examples of nice looking graphic design from the University of Michigan Library. See her post and the MLibrary Branding & Marketing Materials set o......Read More about 1 month ago |
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The Book's the Thing
Blogus InterruptusSorry for the silence, not to mention the big move from the NSLS site to WordPress, which was totally out of my control. NSLS has gone under, thanks to the State of Illinois. The state stopped funding the library system, so the......Read More about 1 month ago |
Justification for writing in books…April 18, 2010 Scrawled in the Margins, Signs of Twain as a Critic By ALISON LEIGH COWAN By the end of his life, Samuel Langhorne Clemens had achieved fame as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, a globe-trotting lecturer and,......Read More 3 months ago |
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Further proof it’s never too late to ...From: Guardian.co.uk Little-known 90-year-old wins $100,000 poetry award Eleanor Ross Taylor, born in 1920 in North Carolina, has been given the American Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly award With most of her work out o......Read More 3 months ago |
Orange Prize for New Writers – 2010 ...From: Bookinfo.com All first works of fiction, including novels, short story collections and novellas, written in English by a woman of any age or nationality and published as a book in the UK, are eligible. The emphasis of ......Read More 3 months ago |
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Our Libraries by Sarah Long
Geneva's talking book center in danger ...Imagine on the next visit to your local library, you arrive to find the lights turned off and the doors locked. Your first thought is that there must be a power outage, and they had to close for the night. But the sign on the li......Read More 2 months ago |
Why high school library has key to attr...This is a quiz: What attracts teenagers? If you answered food and letting them have their way you would be correct. Lisa Dettling, librarian at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, came to the job about three years......Read More 3 months ago |
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Book says introverts need to shout out ...In 1950s Atlanta, Ga., when I was a child, my mother taught me to be modest and demure. "Don't be a braggart," she would say. And if I got a compliment, "Now don't get too big for your britches!" Or, "Pride goes before a fall."......Read More 4 months ago |
Illinois library community's e-mail cam...Something pretty wonderful happened on Jan. 20. The Illinois library community started an e-mail message campaign and it went viral and it worked! Here's how it happened. The Illinois Regional Library Systems have not received ......Read More 5 months ago |
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LibraryBytes: Helene Blowers
Rotterdam TalksIt's been a great two days in Rotterdam talking with folks at the DB Congres. For those in attendance here are the slides to my keynote and master class:Keynote: Reality Check 2.010: 5 Trends Spacing Libraries & Digital SpaceMa......Read More 4 months ago |
Columbus NeighborhoodsYay! Columbus Neighborhoods is launching today and I couldn’t be more thrilled. It’s amazing to me how a casual lunch with a colleague can spark simple idea and three weeks later you’ve got a 34 page proposal outlining ......Read More 4 months ago |
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Thoughts on rewards of risk ...I jotted this down in my ideas journal the other day ...A risk management philosophy rewards planningA risk taking philosophy rewards ACTIONWhat do you think?2/25 addendum: ... and a risk aversion philosophy rewards avoidance. ......Read More 5 months ago |
Digital Media in a Social World talkOn my way out the door this morning to give my talk at DMSW event at OSU. Finally finished my slides. Here they are:Social Media Edge- Feb 2010View more presentations from hblowers....Read More 5 months ago |
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LibraryNation
Twilight craft follow-upFollowing the directions given (see previous post for links), I came up with this wristwarmer: "Alice Wristwarmer" made on small loom with grey chunky yarn The results were ok, but the wristwarmer is more for show than w......Read More 8 months ago |
Twilight Craft: “Alice Wristwarme...Craft Magazine and Vickie Howell have teamed up for a “Knifty Knitter” loom-a-long of the Alice Wristwarmers worn by the character Alice Cullen (Edward’s sister) in the Twilight New Moon movie. I’ve seen ......Read More 8 months ago |
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A virtual pet for your libraryEver consider a library pet–turtle, fish, gerbil, frog, cat–but don’t have the room or staff power to care for one? You can have a library pet right on your website, blog or social networking page courtesy of ......Read More 9 months ago |
New mobile gadget: Twitter PeekRemember the Peek, the dedicated e-mail device? Now there is the Twitter Peek, a dedicated Twitter device which reportedly will sell for $199 for lifetime service. Will a Facebook Peek follow? Twitter Peek Share on Facebook Tw......Read More 9 months ago |
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Youth Services Librarians Unite!!
Books By Release Date CalendarWant to know when new Teen or YA books are coming out??Teens Read Too has a wonderful website with forthcoming books listed out for you. Check it out!Books-By-Release-Date Calendar...Read More 8 months ago |
Ivy and Bean - at it again!Because Ivy and Bean are just plain WONDERFUL!!...Read More 8 months ago |
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Things we ALL need to Know!Sylvan Dell has a nice list of blogs - might be useful!And their article on fun winter ideas is good too. We can all use some fresh ideas for those cold months!...Read More 8 months ago |
Best of 2009Publisher's Weekly came out with their list!The Best Children's Books of 2009See if you agree!...Read More 8 months ago |
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Ad Lib: Advocacy for Libraries
Get House Support for LSTA Today!ALA has sent out an urgent call to action: Please contact your Representative and ask him or her to sign the “Dear Colleague” letter being circulated by Congressman Raul Grijalva in support of funding for the Libra......Read More about 1 year ago |
CPSIA Pushed Back a YearThere’s been…well, not progress, exactly, but motion on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. From ALA: The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today released an announcement to the Federal Register stay......Read More about 1 year ago |
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Are Libraries Going to Get a PG-13 Rati...Under 12? No going into the library for you! At least, that seems to be the fear: A federal law that will soon go into effect could have some startling consequences, including the possible banning of children from libraries unle......Read More about 1 year ago |
Libraries’ Value in Tough EconomyJust got a great link to information on how libraries can let their communities know of services they have to help folks through tough economic times. While most have seen the video at the link below, look farther down the p......Read More about 1 year ago |
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Illuminated Heritage
Digital Past Now on TwitterThat’s right! Digital Past is now on Twitter as DigitalPast – be sure to follow us for all the latest updates with the program!...Read More about 1 year ago |
It was a dark and stormy night…How many stories start this way? Quite a few I imagine, especially in the horror genre, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today! It certainly was dark and stormy over the weekend up by my house which means I......Read More about 1 year ago |
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New Collection on Digital Past – Amer...Yes, that’s right! Today we celebrate the birth of a new collection on Digital Past! Yeay! The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists History Collection explores the history of the AANA and the nurse anesthesia profe......Read More about 1 year ago |
Digital Past UpdatesFinally a few minutes to stop and let everyone know what’s coming up with Digital Past in the very near term! We’ll be rolling out a fantastic new site and I hope you’ll all stop by and reacquaint yourself with......Read More about 1 year ago |
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