Blogging Librarian

• Publisher Weekly’s Best Books of the Year
  A listing of what Publisher Weekly considers the 100 outstanding books published in the past year. And they have listing of books for both fiction and non-fiction as well as for adults and children. Unfortunately, I’ve not read any of the books listed though I’m tempted to go get Scott McCloud’s Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels and Seth Godin’s Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas.
• Library science examines future tech
  Back on the Web 2.0 bandwagon, Stephen Abram, vice president of innovation for SirisDynix - a company that provides technological solutions for libraries - feels that “Library 2.0 is using Web 2.0 tech innovations to create a library user experience”. We are slowly moving towards Library 2.0 in due time though there are still some mindsets that need to be changed before things can happen.
  (via Library Stuff)
• The Information Literacy Facade
  A post on the importance of information literacy and the need for librarians to communicate what it is all about. I guess the recent sessions conducted by my colleagues to school teachers about what our public libraries can offer in terms of user education sessions is a good start. I heard that we managed to solicit quite a lot of positive feedbacks and requests for more information from the teachers.

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