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Have you been invited to “check out my stuff on Pinterest” yet? It’s a social media tool based on recommendations and works like a virtual pinboard. You can aggregate a ton of visuals to tell your story and users browse your pinboard. (Just today I was saying that libraries need to redefine the word “browsing ”.) [...]
IT’S THE MUSEUM DIRECTOR’S conundrum. She has six brief seconds to grab the visitor’s attention as they walk past each exhibit. Once they pass the exhibit, they’re gone for good. That thought went through my mind as I stood talking with a museum administrator at a stammtisch [“regular get-together”] in Berlin in March 2010. Could this brief window of opportunity be maximized by adding a social, participatory component to museum exhibitions?
While I was hesitant to jump out of the library world, I appreciated that my library skills would be utilized in unique ways. I stayed at a law firm a year, effectively using my MLS as a conflicts analyst, and in turn expanding these same skills that I would later apply as a librarian at Cornell University.
No ebook takeover As director of a small, stand-alone library that is not part of a cooperative, I have experienced great difficulty in my quest to obtain ebook access for our patrons (Michael Kelley, Francine Fialkoff, Rebecca Miller, and David Rapp, “The Ebook Opportunity,” LJ 11/15/11, p. 36–37). OverDrive is out of the question, financially, [...]
“An american library horror story with a Happy Ending”: that’s the tagline on the winning application submitted for LJ’s 2012 Best Small Library in America Award. In today’s library world, with shrinking budgets, staff, and hours, we all understand the horror story. It’s the happy ending that’s difficult to envision.
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