- Celebrating Libraries
An opportunity for everyone to share how the library has helped changed their life. The National Library Board has just launched a ‘Celebrating Libraries‘ campaign to solicit your views and thoughts on how libraries have a positive impact on the users’ lives. These will then be compiled into a book. You can also get a chance to win some attractive prizes, such as hotel stays, an iPod Nano and a 3G Phone.
(via National Library Board) - Library subject guide used as newspaper article reference
An Oklahoma newspaper has used the Kansas City Public Library History subject guide as a basis for a newspaper article. This is really cool. Maybe our genre guides, booklists and resource guides might eventually be used by our local newspapers as a basis of their articles since we are publishing quite a number of them. However, not many of them are available online at the moment.
(via LibrarianInBlack) - Teaching Remote Users How to Use Electronic Information Resources
An article by Karen Wielhorski that was published in The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 4 (1994): 5-20. Even though the article is a little old, the points raised in the article is still very relevant to how we teach our remote users how to use the electronic information resources available to them from the NLB portal (such as electronic databases and OPACs) as well as the Internet.
(via The Information Literacy Land of Confusion)
Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
