November 2010
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California Library Under Fire for Black Ops... →
“Libraries have been scrambling to gain the attention of the world’s new technology-focused population, and one effective method they’ve found is to embrace the videogame. Videogames and videogame tournaments are not uncommon to see in public libraries these days, but not everybody is happy that kids are playing games in such close proximity to books.
According to the Sacramento...
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Some Accidental Library Research →
“Looking at the overdue bills for each library for 2009, Harrington charged about $3,500 in overdue fees, while Selbyville charged about $3,900, about 10% more. These fees are generated automatically upon the return of an overdue item, so aren’t dependent on any type of notice being sent. It’s hard to really conclusively say whether this is a very significant difference, if only for the fact...
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Why I Don't Use Libraries for Reference Anymore →
“The libraries near me would probably cite funding as a cause for poor service, but I’m not persuaded. Budget increases would do nothing to discourage consortia from licensing inadequate database products. They would do nothing about library culture that fragments processes to the point that a reference librarian who identifies a source cannot do the transaction to procure it, and the person...
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Two quick links:
Ten Things You Won’t Find On Your LIS Class Syllabus (LISNews)
If You Want to Work in Libraries (Ned Potter via Stephen Abram)
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“Like Daniel Radcliffe and the other stars of the film franchise, a generation of...”
– Growing up ‘Harry Potter’: New York kids come of age with the wizards (NY Daily News via Library Stuff)
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one...”
– Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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Students Are Supposed to Read Books, Not Burn Them →
In 2006, The Dartmouth, the student newspaper of Dartmouth College, a liberal arts college in New Hampshire, published a cartoon showing Nietzsche conversing with a male student. The student was with a very drunk girl after a night of boozing and schmoozing and was wondering whether or not he should have sex with her. ‘Will to power’, Nietzsche tells him. The cartoonist said it was intended as a...
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via billyjane) (via exsouvenir) (via booklover) (via libraryland)
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“[R]eference librarians are both incredibly well-informed about the infoverse AND...”
– Daniel M. Russell - SearchReSearch: Why libraries? (via ahniwa)
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Libraries reinvent themselves as they struggle to... →
Smaller libraries with unique collections are going digital too. At the Conjuring Arts Research Center, a dimly lighted magic library in New York, magician and librarian William Kalush has been working to scan in the entire collection, including 12,000 magic books dating to the 15th century.
“It sounds ridiculous,” he said, “but we want to digitize everything in the magic...
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Will juvie publishing remain a book business as... →
“There is anecdotal testimony that kids can become more interested in a paper book after they’ve been exposed to the character and story through an enhanced ebook or app. We’re finding that out because the enhanced ebooks being made today are starting out from books that already exist. This is a totally sensible way into the business. Why add to the creative challenge by starting from...
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“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer: A Novel (via liquidnight)
