Blogs

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at some ideas from libraries that are ahead of the curve in developing new cash flows in tough times. You'll be amazed at the ideas!

Have you found and explored the Google Search Education website? I was lucky enough to have reference maven Carole Leita remind me today that not only is it still out there, but it's been beefed up to include lesson plans (shared under the Creative Commons licensing that allows reuse and local editing as long as there is correct attribution).

In his latest podcast, Infopeople's book guy Michael Cart discusses the art (or is it a science?) of biography.

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A popular library rallying cry in these defunded times calls for developing methods  "supporters" can use to advocate for "our" institutions. I see it in the way we want to draw attention to "values" we provide through readers' advisory promotions, collection maintenance directions, and programming targeting youth. We want to demonstrate how thoroughly we learned the marketing lessons we taught ourselves across the past decade.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss (in their own inimitable way) and article that appeared in Time magazine on March 17, 10 Ideas That Will Change the World.

As one librarian/information specialist/trainer to another, I'm curious to hear what and how you are thinking about the breaking news from Google on the "refreshment" of search responses.  If you're a public library administrator, you've been working with staff to develop their understanding of how to be effective and efficient professional researchers.

In this eclectic podcast, Infopeople's bookmeister Michael Cart talks about hip hop lit (aka street lit or urban lit) then segues to, among other things, graphic novels and the always controversial topic of the world of ebook publishing and pricing.

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In this podcast, Infopeople's book guy Michael Cart reports on the appointment of America's new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Walter Dean Myers. He also looks at some new words and phrases that entered our vocabulary in 2011, and talks about the great mystery writer Agatha Christie!

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Yesterday's Edgy Librarian conference brought several refreshing ideas into focus for me: the ever-increasing requirement that libraries and library staff forego developing expertise for developing flexibility, the role of libraries in making the National Information Standards Organization's theoretical decisions both practical and forward-looking, and the teamwork approach taken to make expenditure of an LSTA grant to circulate