My Mom and I went to the Edible Book Festival at the Albany Institute of History and Art in New York today. Our entry didn’t win any awards, but seemed pretty well received. You can see all the entries I took pictures of.
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more NJLA, what do we do about the non-dynamic library?
I arrived too late at NJLA to catch the pre-conference from George at It’s All Good. He sums up his thoughts when asked about the future of non-dynamic libaries and Meredith shares her thoughts about what will happen to libraries that are resistant to change and wither, and those that embrace change and thrive.
I feel for librarians who are full of ideas for improving services to patrons but are stymied at every turn by either their colleagues or the powers that be. I think it is probably the biggest problem libraries have in retaining young/new librarians (with pay being a close second). And more than losing passionate, tech-savvy new-ish librarians, these libraries are alienating entire generations of potential library users – people who believe that libraries are dinosaurs of the pre-digital era, because those are the only libraries they’ve known.
IM in public libraries, Michael makes a module
One of the big topics in the chat after my talk was IM in libraries. Anyone from NJLA who is reading this, you will love what Michael Stephens has been working on: a training module for using IM in public libraries. Great timing.
NJLA talk: Ten Tech Tools
I had a really nice large audience for my talk today at NJLA. We had some lively discussion in the informal tech talk afterwards and I learned some things myself. Here is the link to my talk from today: Ten Tech Tools for Librarians: making technology work for your library not vice versa
Mary Minow’s talks at NJLA
Mary Minow was also at NJLA and she has put her four presentations up on the LibraryLaw Blog which I am spending some time reading this evening. I’m especially enjoying her talk on the legality of copying graphics for use on web pages.