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Friday, March 7, 2014

The 'M' Word - Marketing Libraries Marketing tips and trends for libraries and non-profits Thursday, March 06, 2014 Great Posters, for Free

Do you sometimes see images online and wish you could print them out for your own library? It's often hard to tell who created the images or what the copyright status is.

Well, here are 2 great posters that promote librarians (note: not "libraries," but the humans who make them work!). I've gotten permission from the source to share them with you.

The publisher Springer has some wonderful images, and its marketing department will send you the high-resolution PDFs, for free, so you can print as many posters as you like. If you want either of these, simply send an email to libraryrelations@springer.com to request them. Put "2600 BC" or "Keep Calm" in the subject line of your email to request your PDFs. (And the low-res versions I used above make for great social media posts.)

Thanks to the marketing-savvy staff at Springer for helping librarians show their value! I hope that many of you will take advantage of this generous offer.

Letter: Disappearing librarians one more blow to human interaction

Reader says replacing librarians with self-serve machines isolates people.

Photograph by: Calgary Herald

Saturday was a sad day for me. My local library has gone self-serve. In the
exact location where the librarians used to stand, I now stare at a self-serve machine. This was so upsetting to me, that I actually forgot the last four digits of my phone number.

In the past, when they suggested I use the optional self-serve machine, I always refused,
thinking, "I have a 21st century, sit-in-front-of-thecomputer-type-job.
What I really want is to be able to talk to you. I want the possibility of hearing you say, 'Oh, that book looks interesting' or 'I've heard about this book'." Read more...

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Libraries and librarians are more relevant than ever in the digital age

Harold Washington library in Chicago.

The need for libraries, and librarians has been placed under scrutiny due to the advent of the internet. Everything in print is now available online. So do we really need physical libraries and librarians anymore? Of course we do…now, more than ever before.

NOTE: To learn more about the future of libraries, check out some of the columns by Futurist Thomas Frey. Read more....

Monday, October 21, 2013

Librarians in the 21st Century: Designing a Career Strategy for Evolving Roles and Opportunities by Lisa Chow

Librarians in the 21st Century: Designing a Career Strategy for Evolving Roles and Opportunities

by Lisa Chow, People-Centered Design Advocate and Librarian at People Interact Consultancy on Oct 17, 2013

Librarians in the 21st Century: Designing a Career Strategy for Evolving Roles and Opportunities from Lisa Chow

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Christian Zabriskie: Libraries in New York City: Why We Give a Damn and Why You Should Too

Libraries and librarians play unique roles in the cultural fabric of New York City.

We are, in our small neighborhood libraries, a kind of secular clergy, a trusted ear and an unbiased source of information and support to anyone who walks in the door. This is the compact we have at the deeper levels of our engagement with our communities past the bestsellers and free internet. There is a web of trust. Our users know, or should know, that they can come to us with issues and concerns and that we will leverage our best abilities to their ends. No matter what crazy crap is going on in your life the librarian will figure it out and set you up with at least some better understanding and a direction to go in.

If this all sounds a lot like hyperbole to you then you are probably middle class, college educated, and white. Read more...

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Library Careers: Information Organization and Retrieval, Customer Service and More

Library Careers: Information Organization and Retrieval, Customer Service and More
by Miranda J. McDermott, Grand Concourse February 14, 2013

Like most people, I never thought I would be a librarian while I was growing up. I tossed around a few ideas periodically: horse trainer, accountant, or psychologist, but I ultimately switched to library science while I was in graduate school. Why? I like working with people, but I do not necessarily want to be a clinical psychologist. I love working in a large urban public library system, providing services to those who need it most. I love working with kids, doing story times, and working at a research library on Sunday. I enjoy blogging and the excellent literary programs that NYPL staff and visiting presenters produce. I have been a librarian since 2003, and I have met a few people who are in library school or who have library degrees and were searching for jobs. This is a blog post for them. Read article...

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

Meredith Farkas

Librarian, writer, teacher, techie and mother.

Introduction

Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized. That's what we're trying to do.
If you've done something at your library that you consider a success, please write about it in the wiki or provide a link to outside coverage. If you have materials that would be helpful to other librarians, add them to the wiki. And if you know of a librarian or a library that is doing something great, feel free to include information or links to it. Basically, if you know of anything that might be useful to other librarians (including useful websites), this is the place to put it. I hope this wiki will be a venue where people can share ideas with one another, and where librarians can learn to replicate the successes of other libraries.

This wiki is not run by any commercial entity and does not represent any commercial interests. For those wishing to use content in the wiki, the wiki itself (and all the content contained herein) is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Please familiarize yourself with the license before using any of the content on your own site.

Anyone who wants to add to or edit topics on the wiki can do it. You don't need to ask before making a change -- this wiki belongs to the community of librarians who use it. If you have any technical questions about the wiki, please contact its creator, Meredith Farkas. Questions about specific content in the wiki should be directed to that individual author.

If you are going to link to this wiki, please use the following URL:
http://www.libsuccess.org/
Read more...http://www.libsuccess.org

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Library is Now Open: Lending a Hand at Queens Library’s Howard Beach Branch « The Magpie Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Modern Life and Etiquette

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Welcoming Words to the Latest Class of Library Science Students (Now Get Crackin’) « Agnostic, Maybe

Welcoming Words to the Latest Class of Library Science Students (Now Get Crackin’) « Agnostic, Maybe August 27, 2012 by Andy

Right now across the country, there are new graduate student arriving in the classroom (both real and virtual) to start their academic journey towards a Master’s degree in Library Science. It’s hard for me to believe that I only graduated six years ago and have only been on the job in a librarian capacity for five years (this September will be my fifth year anniversary). It certainly has been a roller coaster ride for me in those five years and has taken me in directions that I didn’t think I would be ending up. After struggling with a previous career in commercial horticulture and a misfire by way of a year in law school, it is been a relief to finally find my niche in the world.
As such, I’d to offer advice to the incoming MLS class in the form that most commonly unsolicited counsel takes these days: a blog post from a peer in the profession. So, without further ado, here’s what I advise the newest and latest class of librarians. Read article.

Friday, August 10, 2012

I’m breaking up with eBooks (and you can too) | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Should Libraries Get Out of the eBook Business? | Librarian by Day

Should Libraries Get Out of the eBook Business? | Librarian by Day Bobbi Newman

Friday, November 4, 2011

No Shelf Required — A moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers.

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Kindle Lending Library launches with 5,000 titles

November 3rd, 2011 · by spolanka · No Comments

The rumored news of Kindle offering a lending library has come to fruition. Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy from INFODocket shared this post this morning and gave me permission to repost in full. INFODocket posts all type of in-depth industry news and reports, so check them out for more than eBooks. @INFODocket