“I went to my own public library the other day with my 11-year-old daughter and was horrified to see a television monitor running videos in the children’s section – not a kid in the stacks and all the rest lined up to play games at the computers. It was a library that had gotten everything . . . → Read More: Restoring the “Noble Purpose” of Libraries
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June 17, 2009, 1-2 pm MDT InfoPeople of California is offering a free webinar. Pre-registration is not required. To participate go to Your library has been creating content for websites and blogs for years, and now it’s moving into adding sounds, songs and video. You know just what type of clip you want, but have an uneasy . . . → Read More: Free Webinar: Finding (Legally Safe) Music and Videos for Presentations, Blogs and Podcasts Kanab City Library was filled with fond memories and tributes to Marolynn Watson at their Tenth Anniversary Open House on May 16th 2009. The Library Board and staff had gone all out to show off many highlights of the past ten years. There were displays showing library accomplishments and artifacts of the library in days . . . → Read More: Kanab City Library celebrates 10 years in its new building Not to ignore the classic Friends book sales, but don’t forget that there is often a market for that stuff (books, cds, dvds) if you get it in front of a larger audience. Putting it on Amazon and / or Ebay and other online sources can get more money for some items. Not necessarily those . . . → Read More: Friends Sell Stuff on Amazon, Ebay |
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Tools of engagement
As Clay Shirky said in his 2008 keynote at Web 2.0 Expo, media is a triathalon: people like to consume, produce, and share it. Media that is targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth watching. We might ask ourselves, in what ways are we engaging our audiences? How well do libraries . . . → Read More: Tools of engagement