Instead of talking about the presentations, the hot topic at the start of the IFLA conference seemed to be the WIFI access at the conference centre. Many were discussing the fact that they would have to pay €10 for 4 hours WIFI access. The alternative was to either queue for 10 minutes complimentary access in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Librarians’
WIFI at IFLA 2009…
Posted in Conferences, Library 2.0, web 2.0, tagged access, free wifi, IFLA, IFLA 2009, Librarians, libraries, Library 2.0, milan, web 2.0, wireless on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A visit to Toronto Public Library inspires and confuses…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cataloguing, classification, dewey decimal classification, Librarians, libraries, public libraries, toronto public library on August 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
One of my favourite things to do on holiday is to visit public libraries; some people might think that’s a bit sad but I look at it as keeping up to date with everything that’s going on internationally.
On this trip I visited Toronto Public Library’s Central Branch, which occupies a very convenient space on York [...]
Librarians as superheroes!
Posted in public libraries, tagged batgirl, comic books, Librarians, superheroes on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In previous posts I’ve championed librarians as everyday heroes so imagine my joy when I stumbled upon this lovely article via the ALA newsletter.
A self proclaimed superhero junkie and librarian has pulled together a brief overview of ’superhero librarians’, including well known characters such as Batgirl and lesser known heroes such as Xi’an “Shan” Coy Manh and Blok. [...]
Blogging librarians in the UK…
Posted in public libraries, web 2.0, tagged Blogging, Blogs, Librarians, uk librarians, wikis on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, Jennie, a law librarian from the UK began a journey to create the definitive list of UK based librarian bloggers.
Following an initial ‘quick and dirty’ (her words!) search she’s established a wiki featuring everyone she’s found so far. I’ve volunteered, along with Joeyanne Libraryanne, to help Jennie out with visiting all the blogs listed to make [...]
A public librarian from California tells it like it is, for him anyway…
Posted in Books, public libraries, tagged Books, Librarians, public libraries on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas is a memoir about life as a public librarian in Anaheim, California.
Haven’t read it yet but the reviews make for interesting reading; check out this one on One Minute Book Review compared to the one printed in the Scotland on Sunday yesterday.
I’m looking forward to [...]
CILIP celebrates the best in children’s books
Posted in Books, public libraries, tagged Books, carnegie medal, children's books, CILIP, illustrations, kate greenaway medal, Librarians, libraries on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The shortlist for the 2008 Carnegie Medal for outstanding children’s writing and the Kate Greenaway Medal for exceptionally illustrated children’s books has just been announced.
The Carnegie Medal is one of the few awards that I actually look forward to. Each year the shortlist and eventual winners are always of such a high quality that their work rivals the recipients of many of [...]
To love or loathe Wikipedia?
Posted in web 2.0, tagged Librarians, web 2.0, Wikipedia on April 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Librarians versus Wikipedia, the debate rages on. There appears to be two predominant camps; those who love it and those who loathe it. I make this assumption based on the amount of messages I receive daily via the library mailing list I subscribe to.
I won’t go into the pros and cons of user [...]
Community of Librarian Bloggers
Posted in Library 2.0, tagged Blogging, Blogs, Librarians, UK on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Casually flicking through the most recent edition of Library and Information Update I came across an interesting piece of research carried out by Jennie Law, self proclaimed “Library Monkey”, wondering “Where are the UK Librarian Blogs?”.
Curious to locate these blogs myself, I followed the link to Jennie’s page, thinking that as a new blogger I really should [...]
