The Future of Reading By Tom Peters - 11/01/2009
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for learning, for work, and for pleasure may be slowly dying out as a widespread social practice. Only at living history farms will we see people reading.
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Drawing First-Year Students By Michelle Boulé - 11/01/2009
Each new school year, academic librarians are given a fresh crop of students and faculty to entice through the doors, both physical and virtual. Librarians create clever marketing that appeals to their students' intelligence. They devise games to highlight services. They foster a sense of ownership, offer exemplary service that makes their users' lives easier, lend devices their users crave, a...
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Your Campus Just Shut Down. Now What? | From the Bell Tower Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA - 10/29/2009
Now is a good time, says Steven Bell, to contemplate how your institution would continue to serve students if your school had to close due to disaster or pandemic—the show must go on.
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Tennant: Digital Libraries Roy Tennant, Senior Program Manager, OCLC Programs and Research October 13, 2008 Hathi Hatches the Egg
I've posted so much about the Hathi Trust that I'm thinking I should just lay off alr... More
Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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