Gaming & Libraries: Intersection of Services by Jenny Levine Jenny’s blog is always a good read and the upcoming Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium sounds like a lot of fun. It’s a good time to be a librarian. 🙂
Saw over at Michael Casey’s blog that his and Laura Savastinuk’s book has a website. Companion website to Library 2.0, the book – LibraryChange
Two of these aren’t published yet and at the moment my book budget is zero so I can only dream. But here’s the list. Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service Michael E. Casey and Laura C. Savastinuk – not yet published, Information Today, Inc. (May 21, 2007) Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and … Read more
Ok, so I didn’t used to be a Harry Potter fan. Stephanie was. I hadn’t even seen any of the movies until Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. So I course the night before I saw it I had to watch the first two with Stephanie. And I liked the three movies but I … Read more
CNN.com – Library board puts Jon Stewart’s book back on shelves Looks like they had some sense after all.
First it was Wal-Mart, now libraries in Mississippi are banning America: The Book. Same reason as Wal-Mart too, naked Supreme Court justices. Wal-Mart can sell whatever they want, that’s their right. But libraries shouldn’t ban an entire book because of one page. And that’s exactly what Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System … Read more
Just thought I would post a few comments on one of my favorite books and the inspiration for the name Library Monk. Canticle tells the story of a post nuclear war United States. People have turned against science and learning and life has reverted to a medieval existence. As they did in the Middle Ages, … Read more
