Teens are a tough crowd at the library. Libraries have been having some successes in bringing kids in to the library and keeping them there. Here’s a few ideas culled from recent emails: Shannon is compiling tips for starting a teen knitting group, the Carnegie Library in Pittsburg has a Dance Dance revolution session on Friday afternoons, find some more suggestions on YALSA’s programming for teens pages
Author: jessamyn
endangered libraries
Michael has started an Endangered Library List on his blog. Let him know if you have additions.
users don’t care that we’re experts
A good point to remember from a panel discussion that Stephanie attended, discussing Google Scholar. “Users don’t care. They want quick, they want cheap, they want easy….As much as we want them to enjoy finding information, they don’t.”
who do you vaguely know? networking
Priscilla from LIScareer has a great article up on Free Pint about establishing and maintaining an online presence and how that all meshes with the complicated world of networking.
hi – 27jan
Hi. I’m messing with my feeds today and starting to move more towards using the XML version of the feed instead of the RDF. In any case, Bloglines has been reporting some versions of this feed [they have several] as unreachable. However, this feed is very much alive, poke around til you find another one.