- Man Sentenced to 140 Days in Jail for Attacking Librarian
Posted February 16, 2010
Details from the local television station's
website about the upshot (for the perpetrator) of
an incident last December in a Houston, Texas public library.
According to these news reports, it was other patrons who finally stopped the brutal attack.
Found via LISNews.
- "10 Technology Ideas Your Library Can Introduce Next Week"
Posted February 16, 2010
Suggestions from American Libraries.
Wouldn't it be grand if there was someone on AFPL's payroll whose job it was to
weigh the pros and cons of ideas like these, and implement the ones most likely to
enhance the user experiences of AFPL's existing patrons - and possibly increase the
total number of AFPL's techno-savvy patrons?
- Library Quote du Jour
Posted February 16, 2010
"Every time librarians create a bookmark, decide to house a collection in a new spot, or figure out how a new service might
work, they're making design decisions. This is what I like to call design by neglect or unintentional design. Whether
library employees wear name tags is a design decision. The length of loan periods and whether or not you charge fines is a
design decision. Anytime you choose how people will interact with your library, you're making a design decision. All of
these decisions add up to create an experience, good or bad, for your patrons."
Source: The first installment of Aaron Schmidt's new column for Library Journal,
The User Experience.
Found via Librarian.net via the
Librarian in Black.
- Unemployment in the United States, 2000-2009
Posted February 16, 2010
A sobering series of graphs and maps posted recently at
Stephen's Lighthouse.
- Dept. of Library-Related Statistical Factoids: Daily Internet Traffic
Posted February 16, 2010
Various graphics displaying various stupefying indexes of Internet activity, posted recently at
Stephen's Lighthouse.
The undeniably central role of Internet use in public libraries should have resulted by now in fully-functional,
fully-supported Internet workstations being a priority for public library administrators. Alas, such is not the case
in Fulton County, Georgia, and never has been. The latest round of county budget cuts and hiring freezes don't lead
one to hope things will get better in the so-called "foreseeable future."
Perhaps the best we can hope for in terms of public libraries acknowledging the routine use of Internet in the lives of
many library users is that we will start setting aside more - and more comfortable - space for citizens who own laptops to
use them - instead of library-owned PCs - inside libraries?
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