SLA just launched a new blog called Future Ready 365. It will contain daily blog posts throughout 2011 to show how SLA members are “an adaptable, resilient, future ready force of information professionals.” The blog is part of SLA president Cindy Romaine’s Future Ready initiative. The posts already published are thought-provoking while having the distinct [...]

Admission: I am an ALA member but have never attended the Annual Conference nor the Midwinter meetings. The ALA offices have submitted a white paper on the future on the Midwinter Meeting. It’s interesting to see how this meeting has greatly developed over the years, reaching up to 13,000 in attendance in recent years. That’s [...]

Tonight, I’m doing my first Pecha Kucha presentation for Lakeland’s Platform Art organization. I hesitated between two topics but the library side won. My tour du monde en 6 minutes 40 secondes (♥ RBO) will try to demonstrate how libraries are absolutely still useful and relevant. It will be mostly about public libraries but I’ll [...]

If you haven’t seen it already, the library spoof on the Old Spice commercial:  New Spice | Study like a scholar, scholar. This video was prepared in about 9 hours by the multimedia department at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library. Love it!

A simple but effective idea from the Georgia Tech Libraries: give Flip cameras to members of their library student advisory board and have them record in small groups their experience using the library. They discovered issues with how their service desk was organized, graffiti issues in the carrels and unhelpful signage. Definitely an idea to keep in mind as, [...]

On March 4th, I participated in a virtual job shadowing project on Twitter organized by the Florida Library Association. The objective was to help recruit new librarians by showing them what librarians did during the day. Also featured were public librarians, a hospital librarian, a trainer/ independent worker and a library cooperative director. You will find below the tweets [...]

From Andrea Duda, ISTL Editor Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (www.istl.org) is an open access journal published by the Science and Technology Section of ACRL.  We are recruiting new members for our panel of referees. ISTL publishes substantive material of interest to science and technology librarians. It serves as a vehicle for sci-tech librarians [...]

The 2009 SLA All Sciences Online Poster Session is starting today, Thursday October 15. The conference features posters originally presented last June at the SLA Annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The divisions sponsoring and participating in this conference are Biomedical & Life Sciences; Chemistry; Engineering; Food, Agriculture & Nutrition; Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics; Science-Technology. The online conference [...]

This sounds like a really interesting event: the STELLA Unconference in Denver will be January 8-9th, 2010 at the University of Denver. This meeting, organized by Joe Kraus from the University of Denver, is for any person interested in scientific, technical and engineering resources. The acronym stands for Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action. Registration [...]

Just a bit of sad news, the University of California – Davis decided to close down its Physical Science and Engineering Library. Budget cuts are said to be the reason behind the decision. 400,000 items will be moved to other campus libraries as well as other institutions. The library will close by 2011. The decision [...]

I’ve been pondering bookplates as a fundraiser for a long while now. The administrative hurdles and my lack of time are enough to not do anything much about it right now. But could virtual bookplates be the solution? Found via the Libology Blog, a program at the University of Florida Smathers Libraries are doing just [...]

The Yale Libraries have debuted the new MyCopy service by Springer. Has your library? Library patrons can now order their personal soft cover books via MyCopy. Following the successful completion of the MyCopy pilot project, Springer has extended this eBook service to all academic libraries in the USA and Canada that have purchased Springer eBook [...]

I have a dream. And it could be easily enough achieved I guess. I would love to have a few ebook readers to loan out to my users. I know of a few libraries that offer Kindles in circulation, like Texas A&M and Princeton. Penn State and Sony recently announced a project where Sony donated [...]

ACRL has just approved the formation of a new Health Science Special Interest Group. The Interest Group will be added to the dues renewal starting in September. However, there is an existing Google Group. There will also be a meeting at ALA Chicago, in the ACRL Suite. If you are interested (even if not a [...]

I linked a few months ago to a flash mob at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. More recently, several hundreds of students tried to enter the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga library during finals week. Two nights ago, it the was the William T. Young Library at the University of Kentucky to be visited by, [...]