Category: libraries

University of Hawai’i library experiments with 24 hour access. [thanks brandon]

The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco. Look at it. Read about it. I find myself almost stupidly hopeful for this building and this library. maybe we can learn a lesson about the perpetual perfunctoriness of many of our spaces and learn that just because it’s uberfunctional, it doesn’t need to be staid. [nyt, thanks bookofjoe]

Librarybug is just a fancy front end to this dataset circa 2001 from the National Center for Education Statistics. Check out the number of ways you can search it. Looks like there’s just over a thousand public libraries that have a service population of 1,000 or less. Interesting. [thanks rteeter]

Incidentally, when I was looking for a link for the Wallingford library, I found this new source of US public library demographic data: librarybug.org. The entry for our library is a little out of date, but mostly correct, and they even have our micro-library that I use here in town. Oddly, doing a whois search for the domain turns up nothing. It’s registered to some company that prefers to remain anonymous, but also owns collegebug.org

Seattle Public Library is opening May 23rd and sneak peek pictures are showing up everywhere: Arcspace, technobiblio, reluct & Pac NW Magazine [thanks all]