Re: Punk This Library

“What”, asks Sara Brumfield of the blog Steampunk Home, “could be more steampunk than a library?”
Well, yeah, I thought, maybe Sherlock Holmes’s library–a fireplace, a lot of leatherbound books, and some comfortable armchairs–but the modern library? No way. If pressed to describe the decor of my office deep in the bowels of the University of [...]

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Re: Saving Money@Your Library

When the topic of saving money comes up, libraries are always mentioned, but the implication is often that the only reason to use libraries is to save money on your leisure reading and viewing. No mention is made of the many other services that the library offers. With that in mind, here’s the inside scoop [...]

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Re: Link-On Logs

Here are a bunch of links that I discovered courtesy of the Arnor Library Association conference last month, but didn’t get around to posting ’til now:
What to Do With Wikipedia
Rather than refuse to allow students to use Wikipedia, the author recommends that teachers incorporate Wikipedia editing into their courses, turning students into Wikipedia contributors and [...]

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Re: My Own Digital Idaho

Check out this interesting report on young people’s perceptions of Idaho’s public libraries. The report, prepared by Corona Research for the Idaho Commission for Libraries in August 2007, compiled the results of six focus groups conducted with “digital natives”–young people between the ages of 12 and 25 regarding what they thought of and how they [...]

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