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Hulking out in the library!

capofirstfret wrote 1 hour ago: The Incredible Hulk may be the last person you’d want inside your public library, but one Chic … more →

Tags: crowdsourcing, Incredible Hulk, Northlake Public Library

CIL 2013 - Becoming TechCentral

nlsm wrote 2 hours ago: Presenters: Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz, Knowledge Manager; CJ Lyne, TechCentral Manager and Olivia Hoge … more →

Tags: Conferences, technology, Cleveland Public Library, Public access computers, TechCentral

eBooks: The Content Divide by Two Public Library Leaders from Ohio

bluesyemre wrote 9 hours ago: Patrick Losinski, CEO of the Columbus Metropolitan Library and Kim Fender, Director of the Cincinnat … more →

Tags: E-Books, cincinnati and hamilton county public library, Columbus Metropolitan Library, eBooks, Hamilton County Public Library, Ohio Library Council, public libraries

GORDONVALE'S TRISH RICHARDS - QUEENSLAND'S MOST POPULAR LIBRARIAN

rdontheroad wrote 12 hours ago: Queensland’s most popular librarian Trish Richards (R) with regular library user Wendy Maddock … more →

Tags: Far North Queensland, cairns queensland, Arts & Culture, People, fnq, ABC Far North, Phil Staley, Cairns, Cairns Regional Council

Osama Manzar on digitising district libraries to revive them.

Dandin wrote 16 hours ago: In LiveMint There are 28 state-level libraries in India with 80% coverage. In the districts, the cov … more →

Tags: Archives, Museums, Libraries

In Wonderland8 comments

Ronnie Hughes wrote 2 days ago: A library opens. Rare enough in these days of enforced ‘austerity’ when branch libraries … more →

Tags: Liverpool, Reading, Books, defend every library, History, John James Audubon, Literature, Liverpool Central Library, Local History

"Big Library Read" ebook project from Overdrive

Sam King wrote 3 days ago: OverDrive and Sourcebooks to Launch Ambitious Ebook Data Experiment By Michael Kelley on May 3, 2013 … more →

Tags: E-Books

BMC's lost public libraries fight for survival

Dandin wrote 3 days ago: Link MUMBAI: The Haji Yusuf Ismail Khatri Free Reading Room at Pydhonie is lost. Amid imitation jewe … more →

Tags: Archives, Museums, Libraries

Welsh librarian of the year winners!

alysontyler wrote 3 days ago: Last night at the CILIP Cymru Wales conference in Cardiff, the winners of the inaugural Welsh librar … more →

Tags: Academic Libraries (2), Awards, CILIP, Conferences, Wales, Bethan Hughes, CILIP Cynru, Lori Harvard

News From Google’s Developer’s Conference & iTunes Gets An Update

Linda Reimer wrote 3 days ago: News From Google’s Developer’s Conference: Google is hosting its annual developer’s conference this … more →

Tags: Corning, free tech assistance, Google, Google glass, iTunes, NY, Southeast Steuben County Library

Developing an Information Literacy Programme

sarahkennedy3 wrote 4 days ago: This is an IL programme entitled ‘College Preparation for Irish Teenagers,’ I completed … more →

Tags: competencies, Assignments, information literacy, Teenagers

Lost and Found7 comments

Ronnie Hughes wrote 4 days ago: A story of a place lost and one about to be found again. Mourning somewhere gone, with photographs f … more →

Tags: Liverpool, Reading, Liverpool housing, liverpool 8, Liverpool Housing Trust, social housing, empty homes, telling stories, one street at a time

NAPLE's Annual Assembly, 2013. Presentations

napleblog wrote 4 days ago: NAPLE’s Annual Assembly has taken place in Milan. In the next weeks we’ll be posting the presentatio … more →

Tags: Europe, Netherlands, Conference

Massive Open Opportunity: Supporting MOOCs in Public and Academic Libraries By Meredith Schwartz

bluesyemre wrote 6 days ago: If you’re an academic librarian,you’re probably already awash, at least peripherally, in news about … more →

Tags: Academic Libraries, E-learning, Online Education, public libraries, Academic Libraries (2), mooc

Planning for Harry Potter- not a computer spreadsheet in sight!

coolteenreads wrote 6 days ago: Image sourced via Flavorwire article (http://tinyurl.com/czqqzk7) This, my friends, is an image of J … more →

Tags: Books 2, Authors, Reading 2, Childrens Fiction, Art, Reading, flavorwire, Harry Potter, JK Rowling

Get Caught Reading Program Ideas

Liz Osisek wrote 6 days ago: In honor of Get Caught Reading Month, I’ve introduced a program this May in which the libraria … more →

Tags: Libraries, Reading, summer reading program, Library, Friends of the Library, Raffle, Summer Reading, Program Ideas, get caught reading month

Speed History – and the 1893 Shoreditch Public Library Opening Ceremony

mljohansen wrote 1 week ago: Inspired by the concept of speed dating, writer Alan Gilbey is pioneering a ‘speed history’ approach … more →

Tags: Library history, shoreditch, librarians, Victorian, Books, Learning, East End

Truly reimagining: less focus on "efficiency" more on vision

Librarians Association wrote 1 week ago: From the Library and Information Technology blog piece by Christina Neigel, “What Keeps Me Up … more →

Tags: What's New, librarians, Buffalo New York, Education, neoliberalism

Programming Idea: Storytime Yoga

sepahl wrote 1 week ago: I work as an adult services librarian for selection of library materials but one benefit of working … more →

Tags: Programming Ideas, Programming, Children, storytime


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