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Big Science Read - The Winner is Announced!
The Big Science Read promotion, featured in larger Surrey libraries during August & September, has now finished. The promotion was very popular with science books flying off the shelves. Big Scien… more →
Surrey Libraries Science Festival Blog
SLIS Students Publish Article in BRASS
usfslisnews wrote 1 day ago: Two of our own SLIS students, Marilyn Hart and Dave Davisson, co-authored the latest edition of BRAS … more →
Applying Social Media Tools to Public Library Reference Service | Library Links
Heidi wrote 2 days ago: Here’s a list of thirteen annotated sources worth reading for those interested in learning mor … more →
Weeding the Books
IvanaJoy wrote 2 days ago: Yesterday, I was finally assigned to the Adult Services Desk for a few hours. Most of the time I hav … more →
That helpful reference staff
msgreene1 wrote 3 days ago: So let’s say you can’t figure out how to focus your research topic or you don’t understand how to us … more →
SLIS Student Mary Barrett Featured in The Ledger
usfslisnews wrote 3 days ago: SLIS Student Mary Ellin Barrett The SLIS Department would like to recognize Mary Ellin Barrett for a … more →
Milwaukee Public Library has it all
Camila wrote 4 days ago: I was in Milwaukee a few weeks ago at an advocacy workshop sponsored by the heads of Marquette Unive … more →
The Importance of Being Earnest
dannevirkelibrarian wrote 4 days ago: Or more importantly, the importance of Public Libraries. Some more light reading came across my desk … more →
This bookshelf is not your blog
edgaracrook wrote 4 days ago: Photo lifted from LIS News , note it’s from a bookshop not a Library. But would public librar … more →
Librarians can tag anything
librarycat501 wrote 4 days ago: For several years in the early 1990s, Strathmore Municipal Library, in Strathmore, Alberta was home … more →
OPAC 2.0 at last?
librarycat501 wrote 4 days ago: Some public libraries open the door even further and allow user-supplied tags directly in their own … more →
A step towards OPAC 2.0?
librarycat501 wrote 4 days ago: Some public libraries have tried to follow the example of Amazon and other Internet merchants and in … more →
NYPL Children’s Rooms: Bloomingdale Branch Library
slowcitymom wrote 4 days ago: The Bloomingdale Branch of the New York Public Library can be tricky to find. First, it is not near … more →
ALIA seeks feedback on a national vision and framework for public libraries
edgaracrook wrote 5 days ago: We would like to hear your views about this approach to creating a shared vision and nat … more →
Harry Potter and the Cloud of Tags
librarycat501 wrote 5 days ago: LibraryThing is a web-site that describes itself as “A home for your books / A community of 90 … more →
The case for social bookmarking (in a nutshell)
librarycat501 wrote 5 days ago: Our story thus far: If I can summarize the arguments of the TwoPointOpians, the single most compelli … more →
Displaying Branch Events
libraryfancy wrote 6 days ago: One colorful table with all event flyers. Makes it easy on customers, and on staff. Here's how w … more →
Dispatches from a Public Librarian
jacobpedia wrote 1 week ago: I realized about halfway through this post that I have written about columns from McSweeney’s … more →
BBC discussion about use of libraries ...
melonh12 wrote 1 week ago: On the BBC’s Have you Say board yesterday there was a discussion entitled “Do you still … more →
The future of public libraries in the UK
Jo wrote 1 week ago: The UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport released its highly anticipated document, … more →
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