For You To Borrow, Some Libraries Have To Go Begging. More than 90 percent of Americans say public libraries are important to their communities, according to the Pew Research Center — but the way that love translates into actual financial support varies hugely from state to state. Vermont, for instance, brags it has more libraries per capita than any other U.S. state. And some of them are remarkably quaint. In Ludlow, one library is a white clapboard Victorian, slightly frayed, ringed by lilies and sitting by the side of a brook. The Tyson Library in Ludlow, Vt., is required to support itself independently; public libraries in Vermont receive no state funding. Neda Ulaby / NPR "It's very small," says Julia Bailey, a volunteer with the local Ladies' Aid society — the one and only reason this public library exists, even though it's open just two hours a day, and only in the summer. "No paid librarians," she points out.
As well as legacies. That's not just how this one library in Ludlow works. "It's sort of part of the job. " Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature | Just English. The Classics Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here. Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H.
Textbooks Math and Science Children’s Books Philosophy and Religion Plays. The Birthday Party Pledge | Building a New Generation of Readers. As the world goes digital, libraries adjust their strategies. As colleges continue to adjust to a more digital world, libraries have had to keep up as well. Both public and college libraries have struggled with staying relevant in the digital age. Some public libraries across the nation have even started loaning out unusual items like energy meters and seeds for spring planting. But this doesn’t mean the duties of librarians are becoming extinct – they’re just changing. By Goodshot Not only are more books and journal articles being made available on the Web instead of as paper products, the physical space of libraries are changing.
Cristela Garcia-Spitz, digital library program project manager at the University of California – San Diego, has seen shifts in her job over the years. Not only are more books and journal articles being made available on the Web, the physical space of libraries are changing. No longer just a place to keep maintain store books, libraries are becoming more of a place for people to meet and interact. • Ask a librarian 24/7. A Sign for Libraries. HLWIKI Canada. 6 Terms that Instantly Reveal You as a Librarian. Few professions are as steeped in tradition and esoteric knowledge as librarianship.
We have our own dialect packed with specialized jargon that only others in our vocation would understand. To decipher all of this we even have our own dictionary! And although we do our best to avoid most of these terms in casual conversation, there are times that we just can’t help but use them, and they unequivocally identify us as librarians. What terms and phrase have earned you confused looks? 1) Ephemera 1: Items that are disposable or “short-lived” and usually collected by libraries for their graphic qualities or cultural significance such as menus, tickets, bookmarks, pamphlets, etc. 2: All that paper you’ve been meaning to clean out of your desk!
2) Primary Sources 3) Monograph 1: A book. 4) Provenance 1: One of the battle droids in Star Wars that never made it out of the Battle of Utapau. 2: A protocol used to search remote databases, usually to retrieve cataloging records. 6) Shh! Future of Libraries Issues | During the two day summit last week in Vancouver on the Future of Libraries so many issues emerged, and so many thoughtful responses. I note here some of the issues but guest bloggers will contribute more context and elaboration, even a few answers, over the next few weeks… The future is not what it used to be!
City managers and provosts are seeing less expensive options within their jurisdictions, whether preschool programs in community centers or space in cafeterias. Shared services is shining a spotlight on perceived duplication, and we are expensive. As we move into new areas (learning centers, after school programs, research support, maker spaces) others already occupy much of that space.
As senior staff is reduced, library directors are not immune. It can no longer take two years to make decisions like integrating two desks. More Questions Than Answers? Competition abounds, whether the new Google Help or scribd, or public agencies offering programs. How do we reclaim our brand? The Changing Landscape For Libraries & Librarians In The Digital Age.
The Changing Landscape For Libraries & Librarians In The Digital Age by Frankie Rendon, librarysciencedegree.usc.edu The advent of the Internet has placed the need for libraries, and librarians under scrutiny. Now that everything in print is available online, do we really need physical libraries and librarians anymore? Of course we do…now, more than ever before. According to Luis Herrera, city librarian of San Francisco, “Libraries are more relevant than ever. They are a place for personal growth and reinvention, a place for help in navigating the information age, a gathering place for civic and cultural engagement and a trusted place for preserving culture.” (Herrera, 2012) Over the last decade libraries have kept pace with changing technologies and increased their relevancy even while traditional bookstores are still learning to navigate the digital era. Web-based content and electronic media has changed the dynamics in which libraries operate and manage their mission.
Susan Bernofsky: A Library for the People. Right now I'm in a relatively privileged position: As a professor at Columbia University, I have access to one of the best research libraries in the world. And at other times in my life, I have been able to pursue my work in other world-class libraries like those at Harvard and Princeton. And I can tell you that this is a completely different experience from working at an underfunded library with limited resources. You're reading an article to help with something you're studying or writing about, and it references a book on the subject that you never heard of? No problem, just hop over to the catalog, look it up, and boom, you're reading that other book. When I translated Ludwig's Harig's German-language novel The Trip to Bordeaux, which is chockablock with unattributed quotes from Montaigne's essays, I made simultaneous use of several brilliant reference books available at the wonderful public library in Berlin, Germany: the Staatsbibliothek preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Plout10 | CartoDB. What We Talk About When We Talk About Public Libraries. East Ballarat Library (c/o raaen99 / Flickr) In BriefThe early founders of free public libraries intended them to achieve particular outcomes: a place for working people to access the wisdom of the classics, to socialise and to become more informed and educated citizens and avoid spending their time idling, lonely or drunk. There is, however, little incentive for public librarians to undertake the research required to test whether these outcomes are being achieved. In this article I explore the state of public library research in the Australian and international context by highlighting the low participation rates of public librarians in peer-reviewed article and conference paper publication.
I then consider the incentives and disincentives within public library management structures that inhibit research by public librarians. When you’re a librarian in Melbourne, the figure of Redmond Barry looms large. So the question is – are we meeting these goals, or their modern equivalents? Access. Moving From Data-Driven to Design-Driven Innovation - The Ubiquitous Librarian. I was tweeted into a conversation about assessment and I wanted to take a minute to comment. Elliott Shore (ARL) recently called for a radical change in library assessment—with the gist being a move from descriptive to predictive.
I’d like to push it further into the realm of innovation-generation. I tried to contribute my part to that conversation at last year’s Library Assessment Conference with a paper Too Much Assessment, Not Enough Innovation. I wasn’t booed off the stage, but I definitely felt avant-garde compared to the mainstream assessment crowd. But of all the papers I’ve written recently that’s my favorite one because I enjoyed digging deeply into places like PARC and Bell Labs. Anyway, twitter isn’t ideal for long-thought sharing so I’m dashing this off over lunch. I’ve been reading the October 2012 issue of Fast Company (yes, I’m a bit behind) and it touches on the spirit of this topic. Here are a few quotes from this issue: That’s a taste of it.
A Short, Animated Defense of Toronto’s Great Public Libraries. Support for Digital Literacy in Public Libraries. ALA 2014 Midwinter Preview: The Librarian’s Guide to Paranoid Behavior. Librarians have always been a wee bit paranoid, but for years our distrust pretty much clustered around two obsessions. First, there was the Rodney Dangerfield “we don’t get no respect” issue.
This is the nadir of library paranoia, and it assumes many variations. No one understands what we do. The public doesn’t know we have master’s degrees. Everyone thinks we just read all day, except when we stamp out books. That we are a gendered profession with historically low salaries, the struggle for tenure, and the deprofessionalization of school librarians all relate to the respect problem. Then there was our “image” problem: librarians are almost always portrayed as uptight schoolmarms—bun-coiffed, quick to shush, and frigid (except when she was the flip stereotype—nympho). No One is Hiring New Librarians This issue has been around since the early 2000s, when it became clear that “the great librarian retirement wave” was proving to be a chimera. Hail to the Chief Innovator? Our 15 Minutes? The 7-Eleven library -- creative Fresno owners show they care | Education | FresnoBee. For Brian Morin, 11, an extraordinary gateway to "adventure" lurks within an unusual place: the corner of a room in a central Fresno 7-Eleven convenience store.
Brian usually stops by five days a week to check out books from a children's library inside, created by store owners Sushil Prakash and Josephine Kiran as an incentive to get children in the neighborhood excited about reading. The catch to lure kids? A free Slurpee or hot chocolate for every book read and summarized in a short book report. The public library is far away, and checking out books at the 7-Eleven is a "double treat," Brian said, because he loves reading and Slurpees. "I hope that it lets other people learn that reading is fun, because a lot of people don't like books," he said. "I enjoy the adventure of reading -- it's like an adventure in my mind. " Kiran, an avid reader, came up with the idea for the library -- the first of its kind in 7-Elevens nationwide.
Assembly Member Henry T. An Open Letter to Library Directors. A library director balances the library budget with the needs of the community, and for it is hailed as a hero. There is something wrong with this picture. You're supposed to be doing that! Here's what Jenica Rogers did, working with faculty, administration, and other library staff to reduce dependence on American Chemical Society resources.
Given that there was no apparent ACS-based solution to our budget crunch in the face of what we feel is unsustainable pricing, we went to our Chemistry faculty and discussed all of this with them. This was not our first meeting; we’ve been discussing this since fall 2011 when we clearly understood that ACS pricing would continue to increase, and was pushing at the ceiling of what we could sustain. Along with two librarians – the Collection Development Coordinator, and our subject liaison to Chemistry – I laid all the facts out.
Some analysis, via another library director: "Unthinkable? " What Jenica did only works if others do it. Here's What The Store Of The Future Will Look Like (Hint: Not Amazon) Tidy up your Twitter Followers. By David Lee King I recently went through my library’s Twitter followers and “cleaned up” our follower list. What was I looking for? Mainly, that we are following people living in our service area. Here’s what I did: First off, I used FriendorFollow. Then, I went through our list of Twitter followers, one at a time, and friended these types of a accounts: Do they live in Topeka or Shawnee County? If they met these criteria, I friended them back. I unfriended some accounts, too. If they haven’t tweeted in over a year – that indicates they don’t actively use the accountIf they never tweetedIf their account is privateIf they don’t live in our service area So – I ended up unfriending some libraries, some librarians, some people who had moved out of the area, and some celebrities that we had friended.
What did that achieve? Press Releases Use of Small and Rural Libraries Grows in the Digital Age. September 25, 2013 IMLS Press Contact 202-653-4799 Giuliana Bullard gbullard@imls.gov Use of Small and Rural Libraries Grows in the Digital Age New data provide first federal look at these important community institutions Washington, DC -- Rural and small public libraries in the United States are community anchors, providing critical services and resources to meet a variety of local needs.
The report finds that 6,098 libraries (77.1 percent of all public libraries) are small libraries and that overall 46 million people (15.4 percent of the population) are served by small libraries. “This report is a must read for policymakers who are concerned about the health and vitality of rural America,” said Susan H. For this analysis, IMLS developed definitions for “small” and “rural,” terms that lack widely accepted definitions when applied to public libraries.
The brief’s key findings include the following: Internet Librarian 2013 – The New Library Patron. Internet Librarian 2013 – The New Library Patron Lee Rainie Rainie’s slides are up at Rainie summed up his presentation as 5 points (supported by a veritable butt-ton of statistics from Pew, as we have come to lovingly expect from Rainie). 1. 91% of people say libraries are important to their communities and 76% say libraries are important to them and their families. 2. People don’t know what we have and what we do. 3. Library users are largely women, are not 65+ (Rainie highlighted that seniors are less likely to have been a recent library user, something that runs counter to my own intuition—I want to know more about that…), have completed some college or graduate school, and are parents. 4. The most enthusiastic people for new tech-based services are women, non-internet users, African Americans, Latinos, Spanish-speakers, parents of minors, and urban residents. 5.
These are big numbers! Library Service to the Homeless. Library Service to the Homeless. 11 Mistakes Nonprofits Make On Twitter And How To Avoid Them. Open Access: Which Side Are You On. Via librarian-by-night: The Uni participated at. Why public libraries are glamming up. Categories vs. Tags for Wordpress SEO - Clever Solutions Ltd | Clever Solutions Ltd. Dear Aspiring Librarians (On MLIS Program Placement and Salaries) Home - R. David Lankes - LibGuides at Creighton University Law Library. 'Librarians vs. search engines' in UC Berkeley report. Digital Engagement Framework. 75 Of The Coolest Librarians To Follow On Twitter | LibraryScienceList.com. The Ultimate Who-To-Follow Guide for Tweeting Librarians, Info Pros, and Educators. Alaska public libraries 2013. Gov-info: NARA, NLM, & LOC Gov Resource: Digital... | Turning the Book Wheel. Via thelibraryperson: New NYC Library Curated by.
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Beyond the Bullet Points: Missing the Point and 3D Printing. Mission creep – a 3D printer will not save your library. The Canon and The Archive | all these birds with teeth: this is not about science. Urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-52919: Implementation of Activity Theory in Umeå University Library. The Landscape of Social Login & Sharing: Consumers Want Choice « Gigya's Blog. A lesson in bad customer service: Pottery Barn Kids. Punch's Library Daily. Urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-52919: Implementation of Activity Theory in Umeå University Library. Image Copyright. The Best Uses for Your Local Library (That Aren't Just Books) Why don't you go to the public library? Be brutally honest. : AskReddit. The History of Typography - Animated Short.
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