Posted in Reading on Thursday, April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Julie Andrews served as this year’s National Library Week poster lady. I was tickled to notice that the book she’s holding is illustrated by my countryman Anna-Liisa Hakkarainen. I would guess the inclusion of a Finn in a poster promoting reading is not intentional, but it’s fitting, considering the incredible results Finnish children scored in [...]
Posted in Digital, Reading on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
According to Businesswire.com, ebrary offers free access to library science e-books in honor of National Library Week. There is a caveat: you have to be a student or faculty member at a library science or related program.
Via American Libraries Direct 4/9/2008.
Posted in Reading, Studies on Monday, March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Steven Bell has posted the results of his Academic Librarian Journal Readership Survey at ACRLog. Most of the respondents seem to be ACRL members and read 1-2 articles from their personal copies of magazines, on paper, within one month of receiving it. Steven’s conclusion from the one open-ended question are that
* the articles in these [...]
Posted in Language, Personal, Reading, Solutions, tagged introverts on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve long known I’m an introvert. Over the years I’ve developed a way of coping that I’m mostly satisfied with, but wish to improve.
It hasn’t occurred to me, however, to go looking for literature on how other introverts deal with the extroverted world. Not until this spring, that is, when I stumbled on Marcy Phelps’s [...]
Posted in Links, Reading, tagged literacy on Thursday, January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Book Aid International is a “very worthy charity” according to the Internet Resources Newsletter staff (for issue #158, Jan 2008):
“Book Aid International promotes literacy in developing countries by creating reading and learning opportunities for disadvantaged people, in order to help them realise their potential, and eradicate poverty.”
When I came across this charity, I realized that [...]
Posted in Future, Reading, Tech on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Newsweek reports on the latests electronic reader, the Amazon Kindle. The device has some tempting features: you can search the text and change the font size. It holds about 200 books, more if you get a memory card. It connects to the store: browsing, and reading and posting reviews can be done without a computer. [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Digital, Reading on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Can’t remember how many this makes, and I’m afraid to check, but I added another blog to my feeds: NYPL Labs.
Via Librarian.net.
Posted in Library 2.0, Reading, Reference, Service, Word soup on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
What James Rettig means with stealth information fluency is, roughly, informing library users (or students, in his words) about the library resources and catalog in addition to trustworthy resources online (presumably non-library ones) by using modern interactive tools and library systems.
What he’s basically advocating is user instruction that takes into account the changing times (new [...]
Posted in Clever, Reading, Storage, Usability on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m not a big friend of modern design, but with these two characters I might not mind it (found via librarian.net):
Bookinist – a chair for reading, thinking, moving. Notice the lamp!
Bibliochaise – store your reading literally under your seat!
Posted in Images, Library 2.0, Reading on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
The Illinois State University, Milner Library has created and uploaded to Flickr a series of interesting READ Posters. In addition to this great variety, make sure to look at their other sets of photos. Seems like a very active library!
