Those of you who get AL Direct delivered to your email may have noticed a familiar face--our own Karen Hyman was noted for her talk, "The Customer-Centered Library: How to Stop Tweaking and Start Doing It with 12 New Steps", which she delivered recently at the PLA Spring Symposium in San Jose.
The blurb links out to a longer, and quite positive posting at the PLA blog. Take a look!
By way of the New Jersey State Library...
A new challenge has been posted for everyone who loves libraries….
Create a stir... a movement... an advocacy campaign as easy as 1,2,3.
Tell the world three reasons why you love your library and you might change way the world looks at libraries.
The New Jersey State Library has put together a video with some clips from people who love libraries to get us started.
Go to: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZeQI25n8qPQ
Take a look, but most importantly leave a comment with YOUR three reasons. Then tag five people who you know also love libraries and ask them to visit the video and leave their three reasons.
The goal is to make a "library video" not only the most viewed, but to break the record for the most comments ever posted to one video on YouTube. Why? Because we have all heard the argument that with Internet there is no need for libraries, so where better to dispel that myth than online on the ever-popular YouTube?
(Thanks to Nancy Dowd, NJ State Library, for this one!)
Cast a ballot for the New Jersey Hall of Fame
Who should be the first class inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame? Will it be Einstein or Springsteen; Forbes or Morrison? State Librarian Norma Blake was selected along with New Jersey's most prominent individuals and organizations to select the nominees in each of the five Hall of Fame categories.
You are invited to cast your ballot for your choice to be inducted. It's fun and easy to vote, and three people will be randomly selected to win the New Jersey Fantasy Package prizes.
The deadline is February 28, 2007.
Vote online for your favorite New Jersey Hall of Fame nominees: http://www.njhalloffame.com/index.htm
See the Commercial: http://www.njhalloffame.com/Presentation/Commercial/Commercial.html
You may have seen this making the rounds in the library blogosphere. Michael Stephens and a few co-workers put this together for a Staff Day celebration at Saint Joseph County Public Library a few years ago. Why is it only seeing the light of day now, more than three years later? Because Warner Brothers just signed a licensing deal with YouTube allowing them to host videos that use copyrighted Warner Bros. content.
Enjoy!
Thanks to Ralph Bingham, Gloucester County Library, for sending in this cool quote from James Turner (creator of Rex Libris)
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From an interview at comicreaders.com -
http://www.comicreaders.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1540
What do you personally like about libraries? And in what ways have your feelings toward libraries influenced this particular piece of work.
I like being able to go in and read books for free, without the staff glaring at me or throwing me out. A good library system is to be treasured, as it gives you access to tens of thousands of books. The sum of human knowledge available at our finger tips. The work of academics, poets, artists, philosophers, scientists... all at our beck and call.
It's amazing. We sit atop a mountain of knowledge. It seems a pity to ignore it. Almost anything you want to know you can find. Information in the Twentieth century, under liberal democratic government, is more accessible and open than at any other point in human history, in many ways thanks to the modern library. It gives equal access to both the poor and the rich. It provides social opportunity, as Amartya Sen might say, which is one of the essential ingredients in the development of a prosperous human society. We just have to take advantage of it. As Andrew Carnegie said, "It is the mind that makes the body rich." He believed education was vital, and while I can't help build 1,700 libraries as he did, I can certainly help promote them.
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