Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
From the category archives:
(via Unshelved)
Today’s (yesterday’s if you are in Asia or Australia) *Unshelved* comic strips talks about the manager trying to avoid meeting a patron because the patron was trying to make a complaint to her.
I’ve got similar ‘adventures’ when I was a librarian. It was definitely not fun, particularly when the patron is fuming […]
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Some quick links:
- A fantastic video promotion of the New York Public Library.
{via [The ‘M’ World - Marketing Libraries](http://themwordblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/great-video-series-by-nypl.html)}
- [Brilliantly Bookish: 15 Dazzling Library Designs](http://weburbanist.com/2008/12/10/clever-creative-modern-library-architecture-designs/)
A wonderful list of 15 wonderful looking designs of library buildings around the world. Some are still in the design stage while others are already operating. Unfortunately, the NLB Building is […]
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Merry Christmas to all the readers of Blogging Librarian!
Sorry that the blog hasn’t been updated for quite some time … nearly 2 whole months. Have been a little busy with moving the whole family to Adelaide, Australia. Have settled in a little and will definitely continue blogging about libraries, librarians and the wonderful stuff happening […]
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Meet EA’s cellphone librarian, Jackie Lin. The librarian keeps track of up to 15,000 different cellphones that aids EA develop and test new mobile games. In addition, he has to take care of all the chargers for the different cellphones. And he gets to see the latest cellphones before they are even available in the […]
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A tongue-in-cheek picture of what the Future of Librarianship holds from the Speak Quietly blog by Scott Douglas.
(via LISNews)
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- Found in BooksI’ve found money, bank passbook, a cash cheque, wedding photo, and other sentimental stuff in the books that are returned to us. The people most likely used those items as a bookmark, but forgot about removing it before returning the books. But I guess the one that beat all that in the […]
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Robert Darnton recently wrote in the New York Review of Books (12 June issue) about “The Library in the New Age”. It is definitely a very intriguing read. In the first chapter, he asked the question of “what will become of research libraries in the face of the technological marvels such as Google?”
Talking about libraries, […]
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- Teachers ‘Not Reading Children’s Books’Research by the Centre for Literacy and Primary Education (CLPE) in the States has found that many teachers do not regularly read children’s literature. In addition, they tend to choose books from a narrow band of authors. I wonder if it’s true for teachers in Singapore as well.(via LISNews)
- Report: […]
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