Librarians Do Gaga
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(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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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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- The 25 Modern Libraries in the WorldA listing of libraries that shows libraries are no longer like the libraries of old. Libraries are now at the cutting edge of information management as well as design and web technology. Unfortunately, MPOW is not listed as one of them. (via kottke.org) - Future-Proof Your LibrarySome wonderful […]
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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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- Gaming for a bookInteresting article on the use of games to draw teens to the library. Although most of the teens were more interested in playing the games, the aim is to bring the teens INTO the library and then introduce them to the different books in the library.(via LISNews) - Students not as […]
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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 […]
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