I had a great time speaking at Marlboro College and meeting the librarians, students and other folks that came out for the evening. What a nice bunch of happy engaging people! The slides for my talk Librarian Eye for the Tech Buy: thinking about technology and libraries and Vermont all at once are online [HTML format, whee!]. They’re pretty similar to the slides for my UNC talk but, not suprisingly, the talk was a lot different. I’m heading down to New Jersey to give a Ten Tech Tips type talk.
Author: jessamyn
who says bloggers don’t make money?
Now that Library Stuff is published by Information Today, I noticed it has a rate sheet up.
NYPL sells art to raise money for books, sort of
I rarely get my news, library or otherwise, from the Drudge Report. But when the headline blares NYC PUBLIC LIBRARY TO SELL ARTWORKS; MONEY FOR BOOKS… I just had to click that link.
“We’re not a museum,” [NYPL president Paul LeClerc] said. “We don’t have a staff devoted to paintings and sculptures. One of the thrills of running a great library is keeping up with the explosion of information. If we don’t grow, we cannot maintain the claim that we are one of the greatest libraries in the world.”
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tattooed libarians survey
One of the first little bits of original content I put online was a tiny tattooed librarians page. Gails’ modified librarians page remains the standard online reference. Now the Curmudgeony Librarian has done a survey of tattooed librarians, sadly without photos, asking whether we are tatooed, and where.
ebrary + ALA, member benefit?
Rochelle shares a few more observations about ebrary’s “opt out” policies with regards to sharing information that you decide to give them. Is this really an ALA member benefit, or is it available to anyone who goes to this URL? I know I didn’t have to log in anyplace.