- Library Architecture Slideshow
Posted February 29, 2008
Watch the show, "Borrowed Time: How Do You Build a Library in the Age of
Google?" at Slate.
Found via LISNews.
- Another Public Library Staff Blog Debuts
Posted February 27, 2008
Employees of the New York Public Library now have their own
blog.
Found via
PhiloBiblos via Jessamyn West's
Librarian.net.
- Contest Underway: Oddest Book Title of the Year
Posted February 27, 2008
Such a difficult choice! Although finalists have been determined for the
30th annual prize, new nominations continue to pour in at
Bookseller.com. The winning title will be announced late next month.
Found via
Fade Theory via
PhiloBiblos.
- Dewey? Schmewey! Different Ways to Arrange - or At Least Display - Books
Posted February 14, 2008
While a few libraries may be experimenting with non-Dewey-based shelving of
their stock (or parts of it), individual booklovers have been experimenting
for years with various methods of arranging/storing/displaying their
own book collections.
Besides the popular just-stick-it-anywhere-you-can-wedge-the-next-one-in
approach, some people put a lot of thought into it.
For example,
Freshome re-posted from Flikr a color-coding scheme:
One of the dozens of people who commented on this arrangement posted a link to an
interesting 2001
PublishingTrends.com article that describes other creative (and not-so-creative) ways of taming the
wild beast of a runaway personal book collection.
Found via LISNews,
where an alert reader links to this other book-storage idea previously
posted at Freshome:
Click here to read all Booklover Alerts
- Selector/Booklover Alert: Another Book about Books
Posted February 12, 2008
Another academic has weighed in with recommedations about the "essential"
books for, well, the well-read booklover. Book Smart: Your Essential
Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days by Jane Mallison
(McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0071482717) is the unfortunate title of the new book,
and Chicago-based Jessa Crispin's Bookslut has posted Elizabeth Bachner's helpful (and hilarious) review.
Found via LISNews, which included Bookslut among its recent list of
non-library-related blogs readers nominated as their faves.
Click here to read all Booklover Alerts
- Now Online: Architectural Details of the Library of Congress
Posted February 12, 2008
 Even if you've visited the Library of Congress more than once, we bet there
are plenty of details about this heavily-embellished building that you
overlooked. Here's
a series of over 400 images to insert into your brain so you can
pay better attention next time you're in D.C. and wander over for that next
visit to LC.
Found via LISNews.
- "LitLovers" - Another Online Resource for Book Clubs
Posted February 12, 2008
For anyone working at an AFPL facility whose in touch with book club members,
there's a resource you might want to mention to them sometime (or to add
to any handout your library has created for local book clubs, or to include
in any display you might create one day highlighting books for book club
members or someone wanting to start a club). The resource is a website
called LitLovers, and it's full of organizing tips, reading guides,
gifts for booklovers, and more.
Found via the
Librarian in Black via
Sites and Soundbytes
- Another Public Library Posts Its ROI Figures
Posted February 8, 2008
ROI = Return on Investment: the dollar amount of value that a local
citizen gets for each tax dollar invested in his/her local library.
The most recent library system to do this as a way of extolling in its
publicity the excellent cost/benefit characteristic of public libraries
is
the library system in San Francisco.
[Found via the
Librarian in Black.]
As we've said before, we think AFPL should do a similar ROI analysis,
and spread the good news - assuming it is good news - very widely. In fact,
we can't think of better seeds to sow for rallying the public's support
the hoped-for bond referendum this coming November aimed at getting
approval for the financing for some new libraries and for refurbishing some
existing ones.
- Two More Formats Familiar to Libraries Fading Away?
Posted February 7, 2008
LISNews recently posted links to two news stories about the growing reluctance of many
librarians to continue stocking two types of items a lot of money has been
spent on in previous decades:
printed reference books and cassette tapes.
- Six Year Old Sexually Assaulted in Massachusetts Library
Posted February 4, 2008
A sex offender released from prison raped a child in New Bedford's public library.
The town's mayor insists that his town's library needs security
cameras, ID door checks, and an ordinance forbidding convicted sex offenders
from using the town's libraries and parks.
The Boston Herald published
a few more details.
Found via LISNews.
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