May 2013
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11 Most Surprising Items You Can Check Out of a... →
Your local library could be the ideal place to check out much more than great books, movies, and CDs, offering many more resources you may not even know about. Many libraries are becoming much more like community centers and in the process have accrued collections of more offbeat and sometimes even unexpected items.
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What Should I Read Next? →
Neat website if you’re stuck on what to choose for your next book. Simply enter in the author or title of a book you like, and you’ll be presented with a list of books and author favorited by other readers that you may enjoy.
Kind of like a very simplistic, stripped down version of Novelist. May be good in a jam though if you’re standing in a bookstore feeling overwhelmed!
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Art left behind, created in downtown Edmonton... →
Ranging from sketches to poetry to abstract creations, art left behind or created in Edmonton’s downtown library is now on display. Produced by visitors to the Stanley A. Milner Library, including many who use the outreach program, the artwork was first found throughout the library by staff, who then began to encourage its creation back in January.
April 2013
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Prison library closed at Saskatchewan Penitentiary... →
Inmates at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert will no longer have access to a regional library service, after federal funding was abruptly cut on a contract that had been going for years.
So disappointing.
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At Toronto Public Library, Interactive Gaming with... →
The Hand Eye Society and Toronto Public Library have teamed up to create an interactive gaming experience based on Farenheit 451.
March 2013
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“First do no harm”: My interview with Amazon and... →
In an interview Thursday, Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon’s VP of Kindle content Russ Grandinetti stressed that Goodreads will not change for the worse following its acquisition by Amazon.
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Penguin Lifts Library Ebook Purchase Embargo →
Penguin Group today announced that it will be changing the terms on its library ebook lending program, and on Tuesday, April 2, will begin allowing libraries to purchase and lend ebook titles the day that hardcover editions are released, according to The Associated Press. Previously, Penguin had placed a six month embargo on new ebooks, requiring libraries to wait half a year before purchasing.
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Goodreads is joining the Amazon family →
libraryjournal:
booksyarnink:
Holy crap.
HOLY CRAP IS RIGHT
Very discouraging news. :c
Amazon hasn’t exactly proven itself to be particularly library-friendly, or even generally book consumer-friendly at that. I’m dismayed to think what Goodreads could potentially turn into with Amazon’s profit-obsessed corporate hands in the pot now.
Examples of alarming decisions...
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Claypso Nash, Librarian, Fired For Harlem Shake... →
Students and politicians alike are calling for an Oxford University librarian to be reinstated after she was fired for the filming of a Harlem Shake video in one of the school’s libraries.
While I don’t really understand the point of Harlem Shake videos or the insane popularity surrounding them, I have a harder time understanding why the librarian would be fired for the filming of...
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“Librarianship is not a set of skills to be learned, or a set of degrees to be...”
– R. David Lankes, Beyond the Bullet Points: Rock Stars (via johnxlibris)
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When I see someone checking out one of my favorite...
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13 Studious Celebs Caught Reading (or "the best... →
Straight eye candy, nothing more.
(And FYI, fellow Benedict Cumberbatch fans, please direct your attention to #7. As George Takai would say, “Oh myyyyyy~”) :3
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Influx Introduces Prefab: A Ready-to-Launch... →
Library user experience consultancy Influx has debuted a new, ready-to-launch library website platform called “Prefab.” The platform uses WordPress-based templates featuring a straightforward, clutter-free design that is tailored to libraries.
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The templates employ responsive web design techniques, and will reorganize and resize content when accessed by devices with smaller screens,...
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I don’t actually own any cardigans, but obviously I need to get on this bandwagon. Or maybe get a second cat to make up for the lack of cardigan-ness?
yup. That’s me.
Okay, we need to dress up a library cat in a cardi & have it read a book. I think librarians across the world would spontaneously combust at the sight.
I like the...
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Publishers Speak Out About Diversity: An Interview... →
Librarians care about diversity in children’s books — quite a lot, it turns out. But they’re not the only ones. Many publishers, authors, readers, and librarians are equally impassioned about the idea of promoting a more diverse body of literature for children and young adults.
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CBC Diversity is excited to start talking with librarians about these tough diversity issues, and their...
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On Discovery, Ebook Formats, and More: Results of... →
A brief summary of some of the interesting results from a recent Goodreads user survey about how readers are finding out about books, where they get them from, and how they’re reading them. The full survey and accompanying slides can be found here. (Note the particularly encouraging stat showing that libraries are the number one source Goodreads users are acquiring their books through!)
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Subway library encourages commuters to read →
With the increasing ubiquity of smartphones and tablets, public transit riders have more options than ever before when it comes to keeping themselves occupied during commutes – until they get on the subway and go underground, that is.
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The “Underground Library,” concepted by Max Pilwat, Keri Tan and Ferdi Rodriguez for a school project, would allow transit riders to download the...
February 2013
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20 Ways Libraries Are Using Pinterest Right Now →
Whether you’re a librarian, student, teacher, or just an avowed bibliophile, Pinterest offers another great way to keep up with creative and cutting-edge ways libraries are engaging with their communities. [Click the link] to learn about some of the many ways libraries are helping spread the word about the resources and services they offer, using this innovative new social media forum.
Lots of...
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Book Themed Cupcakes: 'Life Of Pi' By Yann Martel →
This is the first video in a new feature from HuffPost Books in association with Book Expo America’s blog, Book Bliss. We’re calling it Have Your (Cup)cake And Read It, Too.
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They will choose books to read, and then Cassandra will create a recipe and a cupcake that plays up the themes of each book.
Mmm, love this. Two of my favorite things: books and baked goods....
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One of the reasons I will always prefer print books to e-readers.
Having nothing to read while eating breakfast is a poor way to start a Saturday of more homeworking. :c
So true. Never have to re-charge a print book.
The only thing worse than having to recharge your ebook is finding yourself (as I did last night) in a cafe that was so dark...
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Huh?
I can’t reply to other users on my own posts? Really, Tumblr? REALLY? You’re killing me.
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Hingston: Kill the hardcover, please →
At the beginning of this month, the Canadian penny was retired. By the end of it, the pope will be gone, too.
With any luck, 2013 will see a similarly bold, progressive shakeup for the books world: the year the hardcover finally disappears. By all means, let’s thank it for its many years of service, give it its brass ring, and raise its jersey to the rafters. Then let’s tell it to scram.
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The 10 Commandments of a Righteous Readerly Life →
And lo from the heavens did the God of Literature (who is not, however self-appointed, Jonathan of Franzen) come down from its heavenly cloud made of unreleased Atwood novels and an unpublished fourth book of the Millennium series, and it did tell unto a lowly blogger the Ten Commandments of a righteous readerly life.
10. Thou shalt not spoil.
It is not up to thee to tell unto the people how...
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Well at least I can say I tried.
LibraryFangirl: Who decided to schedule @alcjpl and @Calgaryexpo for the same weekend every year? This is a geek oversight of epic proportions. :c #sadpanda
LibraryFangirl: Many @alcjpl library geeks = @Calgaryexpo geeks. IMO, both events losing out on a valuable chunk of attendees. #protip #dontmakeuschoose
alcjpl: @LibraryFangirl We feel your pain! @alcjpl is committed to that April date going forward though.
LibraryFangirl: @alcjpl Fair enough. I will just have to bribe @Calgaryexpo with chocolate and puppies until they buckle. (Who can say no to a puppy?)
CalgaryExpo: @libraryfangirl @alcjpl we love puppies as much as the next guy, but we're also committed to these dates - maybe you can alternate yrs?
alcjpl: @LibraryFangirl Yeah.. April date = between winter & spring semesters for academics, before spring seeding for rurals, before summer for JPL
LibraryFangirl: @alcjpl Makes sense. Just FYI though, if David Tennant ever shows at @Calgaryexpo, there will be a big flaily Brenna-shaped hole in Jasper.
alcjpl: @LibraryFangirl In that case they might have to find a new Twitter person for @alcjpl as well.
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Catalog by Design | The User Experience →
Aside from paying very little attention to visual design and not caring about the impact of horrible typography, the big problem with library catalogs is that they are not designed to help people accomplish library tasks. Instead, they’re designed to expose catalog records.
Exploring the idea of a cleaner, simpler, and much more user friendly library OPAC.
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TRYING TO CONVINCE THE BOARD THE LIBRARY NEEDS A...
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I don’t understand how this would be a hard sell.
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Hopefully I don't get mauled by angry bears.
Officially registered for ALC 2013! :B Any other Canuck librarians or fellow librarians-to-be out there heading to Jasper this April for the Alberta Library Conference?
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“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross the threshold, that...”
– President Barack Obama (then Senator Obama)
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The Vancouver Tool Library →
I didn’t know Vancouver had one of these! This is a link to the actual website for the VTL itself, so it gives a little more insight on how tool libraries work, and what their inventory and borrowing policies are like.
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Library Project Two: The Dewey Decimal System
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The newest instalment in being my mother’s graphic design “servant,” I illustrated a series of posters that organise sections of the library according to the dewey decimal system.
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The design was originally based off a Dewey set made by Susanna Ryan but needing different colour co-ordination and some illustration changes, we got permission to remake it. The original:
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