tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140357912024-03-07T11:51:43.893-06:00Leadership and Administration of Public Libraries863XI
School of Library and Information Management
Emporia State University
Emporia, KansasChristie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-66475098040347552912011-06-29T13:41:00.000-05:002011-06-29T13:43:00.665-05:00E-book FAQ<a href="http://librarianbyday.net/2011/06/29/ebook-faqs-36-most-common-questions-answered-by-the-oitp-ebook-task-force/">http://librarianbyday.net/2011/06/29/ebook-faqs-36-most-common-questions-answered-by-the-oitp-ebook-task-force/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-21388150638743676712011-06-06T10:42:00.004-05:002011-06-06T17:24:43.645-05:00Trustee topics<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Teachlibrary"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_logo-a.png" alt="Follow Teachlibrary on Twitter" /></a>The module for week 3 was "who manages the public library?" and the topics was public library boards and their responsibilities and library law. Several students contributed helpful links that I will share here: <div> <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/governance/policymanual/updatedpolicymanual/section2/51fedlegislative.cfm">http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/governance/policymanual/updatedpolicymanual/section2/51fedlegislative.cfm</a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-41674788806474108732011-05-13T14:59:00.004-05:002011-05-13T17:01:11.073-05:00Ethics<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Teachlibrary"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_logo-a.png" alt="Follow Teachlibrary on Twitter" /></a>I had to fail a student this past semester. He faked an interview assignment and did it so well that had I not be familiar with the librarian he interviewed, I would have missed it. I have no idea how many other assignments (attend and review a library program, interview a board member about library issues, etc.) he had faked. <div>This struck me as particularly egregious, because he was a library school student about to enter into the profession of librarianship. And whatever criticism of our profession, one that you rarely -if ever- hear is that we fake the information provided to our patrons. </div><div>What would happen if librarians were slippery with the truth or not quite accurate with the facts? What if sometimes we cut corners and made up the answer rather than research it? In short, our profession - and possibly our libraries- would fail. </div><div>We can be irreverent or we can be too serious....but it's vital that as librarians we are always truthful. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-68488264206381788692011-05-13T14:56:00.000-05:002011-05-13T14:57:55.452-05:00Random interview of a librarian<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Teachlibrary"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_logo-a.png" alt="Follow Teachlibrary on Twitter" /></a>Interesting random interview by Sean Lovelace......<a href="http://htmlgiant.com/random/interview-of-a-librarian-2/">http://htmlgiant.com/random/interview-of-a-librarian-2/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-87678907645077074742011-04-22T17:34:00.000-05:002011-04-22T17:34:35.129-05:00Marcia Mardis Rolls Out MARC in a Minute<a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/890223-312/marcia_mardis_rolls_out_marc.html.csp">Marcia Mardis Rolls Out MARC in a Minute</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Teachlibrary"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_logo-a.png" alt="Follow Teachlibrary on Twitter" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-81851400908381134582011-04-20T19:35:00.001-05:002011-04-20T19:36:42.290-05:00Interesting article on information today....<div>Interesting article about information.....</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/5-Myths-About-the-Information/127105/">http://chronicle.com/article/5-Myths-About-the-Information/127105/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-87868258243369868892011-04-15T06:30:00.002-05:002011-04-15T06:32:07.308-05:00Please autograph my digital book?<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Teachlibrary"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_logo-a.png" alt="Follow Teachlibrary on Twitter" /></a>I just knew someone would figure out how to get an author's autograph on a kindle book!<div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/fashion/14NOTICED.html?_r=2">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/fashion/14NOTICED.html?_r=2</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-17934125985419394422011-04-05T21:13:00.000-05:002011-04-05T21:14:49.612-05:00Find the Future!<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Teachlibrary"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_logo-a.png" alt="Follow Teachlibrary on Twitter" /></a>Interesting idea..<a href="http://game.nypl.org/#/menu">http://game.nypl.org/#/menu</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-70733765801054383382011-04-02T11:36:00.001-05:002011-04-02T11:37:57.038-05:00Tweet this!<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Teachlibrary"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_logo-a.png" alt="Follow Teachlibrary on Twitter" /></a><div><br /></div><div>Tweet me (Librarylover) at Teachlibrary......</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my 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0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.25em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font: normal normal bold 1em/1.5em Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; clear: both; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Library Launches Mobile App</h2><div class="post_body" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; 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padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img src="http://www.tscpl.org/images/uploads/app_screengrab.jpg" alt="image" width="197" height="260" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " /></a></div></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Your library is now more convenient and user-friendly – if that’s possible – when you download the “Topeka Library” mobile application.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Access the latest books, DVDs, music and games; place a hold on desired items; renew your stuff; and find a bookmobile stop and book drop wherever you are. Have our social media pages and a calendar of library events at your fingertips.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">User-friendly and convenient, this app could come in handy for a myriad of reasons.</p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><li style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: left; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">You realize the books in your car are due today. Where is the closest book return? Look it up on the app. It is possible to renew the books you want through the Topeka Library app. The ones that can’t be renewed can be put in the book return.</li><li style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: left; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">You hear about a book on the radio and want to read it. Look it up on the Topeka Library app to see if the library has that title. If they are all checked out, you can place your name on the list for a copy.</li><li style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: left; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Someone asks a question in your carpool group. You can use the Topeka Library app to contact the library to get the answer to the question. </li><li style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: left; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">You are at the bank and want to get cash to pay your late fees at the library. Look at your account on the Topeka Library app to see how much you owe. </li><li style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: left; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Your wife or child has wanted to read a book and can’t recall if she placed a request. You connect to your account on the Topeka Library app and see a list of items your family has on hold. It’s not in the list. You search the catalog, find the title and place it on hold – all in about one minute’s time.</li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Download the library’s app, try it and tell us what you think. You can send feedback via the app in our “What’s Missing?” section.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">This app complements the digital offerings at the library, including our website or Digital Branch. Key parts of tscpl.org’s content are available through the library’s app, providing access in a quick and convenient manner to our website that’s designed to be viewed on a larger screen. If a member needs to use aspects from the full Digital Branch, it is easy to go there.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">“As a local leader in technology and ease-of-use concepts, it simply makes sense for the library to have our own mobile phone app. Not everyone will use this, but for those who do, I predict it will be very popular,” Deputy Director Rob Banks said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The app is free and powered by <a href="http://worldcat.boopsie.com/home/index.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Boopsie</a>. It runs on the following systems: Windows Mobile, palm, BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, Symbian Series 60 3<sup style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">rd</sup>Edition and Java J2ME CLDC/1.1 MIDP/2.0.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is a 21st-century, landmark library, and features the Alice C. Sabatini Art Gallery, the Millennium Café, Chandler Booktique, meeting rooms, and free computer and Internet access and training.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Library hours are Mon. through Fri. 9 am to 9 pm, Sat. 9 am to 6 pm and Sunday 12 pm to 9 pm.</p></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-38447825580104509312011-01-26T11:38:00.000-06:002011-01-26T11:38:45.874-06:00Leave the libraries alone.<a href="http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/save-oxfordshire-libraries-speech-philip-pullman?sms_ss=blogger&at_xt=4d405bffe31a8b61%2C0">Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value. | Blog | False Economy</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-18237499835399615762011-01-18T18:09:00.000-06:002011-01-18T18:10:43.211-06:00Serious renewal notices :)Love this cartoon:<div><br /></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><strong><span><a href="http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2011-01-16/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; "><span>http://comics.com/pearls_befor</span></a></span></strong></span><div class="uiAttachmentTitle" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><strong><span><a href="http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2011-01-16/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; "><wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></span>e_swine/2011-01-16/</a></span></strong></div>comics.com</span><div> <br /><br /><a href="http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2011-01-16/%20comics.com"></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-16492903153750996202011-01-12T09:04:00.000-06:002011-01-12T10:44:46.428-06:00Welcome to LI 863 XI!Welcome to LI863XI: Current Issues in Management of Information Organizations for Spring 2011! <br /><br /> I use this blog to "park" interesting articles or thoughts about the management of public libraries. Feel free to suggest content or to comment on the entries. <br /> <br />I love the idea that the class is asynchronous! The wikipedia definition of asynchronous is a "student-centered teaching method that uses online learning resources to facilitate information sharing outside the constraints of time and place among a network of people"...<br /><br />I'm looking forward to a great class!!<div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-28907986841177661012011-01-01T21:30:00.000-06:002011-01-01T21:50:52.181-06:00Libraries...a little history<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOKb2jW8SNNks5ArUB8W8QIUoHR69H5g2sl4tRu-zfCMHH32tWdZqMxd35ueDc5rab7LT9Ajp8V49gGm_WmaelAY5g216FFX77cqFqfywuWP-M4jr35di8rZitIRYmy_OoQntDA/s1600/library.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOKb2jW8SNNks5ArUB8W8QIUoHR69H5g2sl4tRu-zfCMHH32tWdZqMxd35ueDc5rab7LT9Ajp8V49gGm_WmaelAY5g216FFX77cqFqfywuWP-M4jr35di8rZitIRYmy_OoQntDA/s200/library.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557427770012090530" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Picked up this interesting post to publib from Sara Weissman of the Morris County Library. Thanks, Sara!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Public Card Catalogs<br /></span><br />You know you've been a long time in libraries when:<br />-your childhood catalog was index cards written in copperplate hand, with<br />steel nib pens and ink wells. Colored stars--red, gold, silver,<br />green--indicated collection level (Juv, Ref, Adult, etc.) Typewriters<br />were considered shocking modern technology (far too noisy to disrupt the<br />silence of the library).<br />&<br />Your tech services course in "book school" prepared you to type catalog<br />cards (five rows down, seven spaces over for first entry). Carlyle Frarey<br />taught the class.<br />&<br />Your paraprofessional job was checking the above-the-rod filing of the<br />student employees. Something very satisfying about pulling the rod and<br />dropping/patting those cards into place?!<br />&<br />Your first professional position included filing new cards when subject<br />headings changed, as Rumania to Romania, among others.<br /><br />Many (most?) of our patrons would be delighted to have card catalogs--the<br />visual, tactile experience--back again. There was something about the snap<br />of the card corner under your finger ... They'd just miss the online<br />renewals and holds!<br /><br /><br /> The picture is of a small New England town library, run<br />in the 1950s by "Miss Emily" and "Miss Susan", neither of whom were<br />librarians. Maiden sisters, they lived across the street and the library<br />was open when they felt like it. Often not when it rained, but always when<br />it snowed. Their sister-in-law was Chairman of the Board of Trustees until<br />she was 100 yrs old and had to argue down the younger trustees (those in<br />their 50s), who didn't want audiobooks. "You young people!" Harriet Haynes<br />snapped "don't understand that your elders can't read the way they used<br />to!"<br /> The only sounds you heard in Miss Emily's library were the tick, tick,<br />tick of the grandfather clock and the muffled "thump" of a stamp quietly<br />plonking a return date on a book being checked out. In the 1970s, when a<br />professional librarian was finally in charge, a roof leak required<br />checking the cupola of the building where were found, in their original<br />brown shipping wrappers, the volumes of the official history of the Civil<br />War, authorized by Congress in 1866. A set had been sent to each town that<br />had a significant number of veterans who served. The town Civil War<br />obelisque is just outside the library door.<br /><br />http://<a href="http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/about.cfm">ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/about.cfm</a><br /><br />The Board of Trustees, over some strenuous objections, opted for the future<br />over the past and sold the set to help raise money for the first-ever<br />addition to the library, completed in the late 1980s.<br /> I became a librarian because in this my childhood library reading was<br />reverenced and "nerdy" was very, very cool.<div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-54969996575137686262010-12-29T14:16:00.001-06:002010-12-29T14:17:01.988-06:00Assure library visitors access to the digital ageGood guest editorial written by Sandy Dixon of the State Library of Iowa. <br /><br />To view the contents on www.desmoinesregister.com, go to:<br />http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201012290405/OPINION01/12290326<div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-47784685700453272602010-12-16T08:38:00.000-06:002010-12-16T08:38:00.858-06:00Freedom to Read Foundation Offers Free Memberships to New Library School Graduates | American Libraries Magazine<a href="http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/student-member-blog/freedom-read-foundation-offers-free-memberships-new-library-school-graduates">Freedom to Read Foundation Offers Free Memberships to New Library School Graduates | American Libraries Magazine</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-46159722298645117202010-12-03T07:25:00.000-06:002010-12-03T07:30:04.626-06:00"Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst.""Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst."<br />This is the first line of a new book called <span style="font-style:italic;">Running the Books: Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian. </span> <br />I think I'll have to read it. The scariest and most bizarre libraries I have ever visited have been in prisons. Kudos to those librarians who choose that venue for their work!<br /><br />(Thanks to Katherine Stecher for sharing the book info on FB....)<div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-36249766875962918002010-12-01T20:38:00.000-06:002010-12-01T20:38:38.234-06:00Booking to the Future | American Libraries Magazine<a href="http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/11302010/booking-future">Booking to the Future | American Libraries Magazine</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-26500499430652987282010-11-08T16:41:00.001-06:002010-11-08T16:41:09.674-06:00If you want to work in librariesDo you already know this?<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_5702119"><strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thewikiman/if-you-want-to-work-in-libraries" title="If you want to work in libraries">If you want to work in libraries</a></strong><object id="__sse5702119" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=ifyouwanttoworkinlibraries-101108063640-phpapp02&stripped_title=if-you-want-to-work-in-libraries&userName=thewikiman" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse5702119" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=ifyouwanttoworkinlibraries-101108063640-phpapp02&stripped_title=if-you-want-to-work-in-libraries&userName=thewikiman" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="padding:5px 0 12px">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thewikiman">Ned Potter</a>.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14035791.post-8414287683525967592010-09-14T08:53:00.000-05:002010-09-14T08:57:37.789-05:00Which do students read more: online or print documents?Interesting study done at U of M on use of online resources versus print: <a href="http://www.arl.org/diversity/lcdp/projects/look.shtml">http://www.arl.org/diversity/lcdp/projects/look.shtml</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This is my article footer</div>Christie Brandauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294505785121766080noreply@blogger.com0