Category Archives: Librarianship

Citizen Libraries Are The New Home For The Printed Word | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

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For book lovers dismayed at the disintegration of a reading culture, however, there is no going gently into that dark night. All it takes to start a library, people are discovering, is a few books, shelves, and a belief that reading and sharing books is a profoundly powerful experience for many people.

One of those new spaces is Ourshelves, a San Francisco lending library open to everyone, no matter how little they can pay, or where they live, says Kristina Kearns, its bibliophile founder. “I wanted to create a space where everyone was welcome, and there was no one who would not be able to afford it,” she says about Ourshelves, housed in a tiny room at the back of an antiques shop, Viracocha, in the San Francisco’s Mission district. “Anyone can engage with books, however they would like.” via Citizen Libraries Are The New Home For The Printed Word | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation.

17 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in April [2013] | iLibrarian

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17 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in April | iLibrarian. Unfortunately, this link is now dead at the OEDB. There is a replication of the content at the Dilliard University Library Blog.

Musings about librarianship: More good library related video that spoofs movies or tv

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Musings about librarianship: More good library related video that spoofs movies or tv

Eight are listed. My personal favourite is The Science Network – A Social Network Parody with Pubmed instead of Facebook.

There is also some link love for more videos.

There Are No Free Libraries | American Libraries Magazine

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Quotable: “Libraries, as we know, do not exist for free. They cost their communities—whether composed of taxpayers, tuition-payers, donors, or a combination—a substantial amount of money. It’s well-intentioned to emphasize that libraries provide materials and services without exacting immediate payment from users for each transaction. But today it is at best a mistake and at worst self-destructive to underrepresent the considerable ongoing investment that the members of a community make to have library collections, technology, personnel, and facilities available to them.”

via There Are No Free Libraries | American Libraries Magazine.

Having a Library Card? Priceless

LEGOs in the Library – Stephen’s Lighthouse

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Very cool!

LEGOs in the Library – Stephen’s Lighthouse.

10 of the Coolest Librarians Alive – Flavorwire

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10 of the Coolest Librarians Alive – Flavorwire.

DMCA chilling effects: How copyright law hurts security research. – Slate Magazine

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An informative exposition on the DMCA and security research. I thought the article interesting and a reminder of the power of political and lobbying bodies in the US. In Canada, we are weathering our own struggle against the muzzling of our scientific researchers and librarians by the PMO.

“The outdated copyright law doesn’t just hurt consumers—it cripples researchers.” via DMCA chilling effects: How copyright law hurts security research. – Slate Magazine.

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5 Innovations That Show Libraries Don’t Have To Die | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

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5 Innovations That Show Libraries Don’t Have To Die | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

The 5 innovations this article examines are:

  • The Bookless Library
  • Libraries as Schools
  • Libraries as Maker Spaces
  • Pop-Up Libraries
  • The Occupy Wall Street Library

Innovations the article fails to highlight sufficiently include libraries as community centers for local information, employment services, guest speakers and gathering places, libraries collaborating to provide services as a cooperative and libraries as preservers of digital content.

The Immersive Information Professional – Next Steps | The Search Principle

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“The challenge in this whole virtual continuum is assessing whether any of these trends are worth our time and intellectual energies.”

via The Immersive Information Professional – Next Steps | The Search Principle

Information Security: The future workforce | TechRepublic

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Information Security: The future workforce | TechRepublic