ProfDev 21/02/06
Coping with email
For those of us who would like to bring order to a chaotic inbox, here are some links to some great tips on managing your email. All from the very useful personal productivity site 43 folders.
five fast email productivity tips
quick tips on processing your email inbox
writing sensible email messages
'five email tics i'd love for you to lose'
Libraries fear digital lockdown
Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future.
Tales of the City
John Walsh asks 'Amid the kerfuffle about which books children should read by the time they leave school ... Whatever happened to the [personal] library?'
Teenagers are eager readers - of the right books
Letter from a sixth-form librarian who says she spends her lunchtimes working in a library that is always 'lively and busy' and 'it would be nice if columnists ... would take a moment to look at the eagerness with which secondary school students are reading, before launching another attack on the lack of literacy in young people'.
Open to all?
The Designing Libraries database has created a new gallery to showcase how libraries have addressed accessibility issues.
Minister threatens to step in to halt library closures
Culture Minister David Lammy has urged councils to reconsider plans to close community libraries, reminding them that he has the power to take over the running of their libraries if library authorities are not providing an adequate service. Guy Daines, CILIP's Head of Policy and Governance, added the warning that dwindling book stocks and reduced opening hours will be the hidden consequence of budget cuts.
See also: Defiant villagers draw up rescue plans.
Never mind the DVDs, where are all the books?
Letters in response to the article in the Guardian on January 25, by Marcel Berlins . In one letter Laura Swaffield argues 'Berlin's anger would be better directed at the situation where libraries have been bled white for so long that they will use their (considerable) ingenuity to grab funding to revamp their crumbling buildings or make the most of their potential...'. Philip Pettifor of Libri is author of one of the other letters.
Trust in libraries?
Sarah Houghton discusses trust in libraries (fines, personal details, overdues etc)
Quote "Phrasing "Don't" and "No" signs in libraries a bit more positively is something simple we can all do." And a really good example of how not to do it can be found here.
Home delivery of items, USA style.
"My dream," said the LiB, "is to see a day where someone can do from home anything he or she could do in a physical library. That is my dream," she said as she lowered her eyes in reverance of serving the remote user as considerately as the in-person user.
Librarian in Black discusses.
5 Factors for User Centered Services
Michael Stephens states that "One of my key points in planning for technology, and one I think applies to all types of services in libraries is to make sure you are being user-centered. For example, use this checklist to tell if you are proceeding down the wrong path"
“library dating.”
300 librarians across Brussels and Flanders have been trained to host library dating sessions where they offer participants wine, books and a good opportunity to meet other single bookworms.
Get the most of your local library — online
Article in Lifehacker about how great libraries are :-)
City history database goes online
Georgian newspapers detailing life in 18th Century Bath have been made electronically available to the public.
Shortlist for the 2006 CILIP / LiS Libraries Change Lives Award Announced.
Library services working with vulnerable young people, excluded children and teenagers, and guest workers new to the UK are shortlisted.
Library design as marketing:the Swedish experience.
Inspirational use of space is an expression of vision and provides a great marketing opportunity, says Angela Dove. (pdf 344k) It is in their attention to details that matter to their users that Swedish designs for public libraries are at their most impressive.
Frank Cottrell Boyce in interview.
Last year, Frank Cottrell Boyce won the Carnegie Medal for his first novel. His second was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. Here he talks to Elspeth Hyams about his comic treatment of the way children deal with bereavement, temptation and the consumer society.
Making your library site findable on the web.
Tips on making your libary website more visible.
'...libraries need to think about their presence _and_ visibility on the web. Not just whether or not the library has a visually appealing, well-functioning, feature-full site, but is the site findable?'
Huddersfield PDA Project
The Smart Library Project is looking at ways of enhancing and encouraging academic library usage via implementing smart and interactive technologies in existing library spaces.
Images of the project are discussed on a recent Panlibus post.
More discussion of developments at the University of Huddersfield here.
The OPAC is not an end in itself.
Whats the future for OPACS?
“the darling in all this is the data”
This post is from the increasingly essential Panlibus blog written by TALIS staff on current library technology issues. For a welcome UK perspective on where we may be heading in the future visit and read regularly!
For those of us who would like to bring order to a chaotic inbox, here are some links to some great tips on managing your email. All from the very useful personal productivity site 43 folders.
five fast email productivity tips
quick tips on processing your email inbox
writing sensible email messages
'five email tics i'd love for you to lose'
Libraries fear digital lockdown
Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future.
Tales of the City
John Walsh asks 'Amid the kerfuffle about which books children should read by the time they leave school ... Whatever happened to the [personal] library?'
Teenagers are eager readers - of the right books
Letter from a sixth-form librarian who says she spends her lunchtimes working in a library that is always 'lively and busy' and 'it would be nice if columnists ... would take a moment to look at the eagerness with which secondary school students are reading, before launching another attack on the lack of literacy in young people'.
Open to all?
The Designing Libraries database has created a new gallery to showcase how libraries have addressed accessibility issues.
Minister threatens to step in to halt library closures
Culture Minister David Lammy has urged councils to reconsider plans to close community libraries, reminding them that he has the power to take over the running of their libraries if library authorities are not providing an adequate service. Guy Daines, CILIP's Head of Policy and Governance, added the warning that dwindling book stocks and reduced opening hours will be the hidden consequence of budget cuts.
See also: Defiant villagers draw up rescue plans.
Never mind the DVDs, where are all the books?
Letters in response to the article in the Guardian on January 25, by Marcel Berlins . In one letter Laura Swaffield argues 'Berlin's anger would be better directed at the situation where libraries have been bled white for so long that they will use their (considerable) ingenuity to grab funding to revamp their crumbling buildings or make the most of their potential...'. Philip Pettifor of Libri is author of one of the other letters.
Trust in libraries?
Sarah Houghton discusses trust in libraries (fines, personal details, overdues etc)
Quote "Phrasing "Don't" and "No" signs in libraries a bit more positively is something simple we can all do." And a really good example of how not to do it can be found here.
Home delivery of items, USA style.
"My dream," said the LiB, "is to see a day where someone can do from home anything he or she could do in a physical library. That is my dream," she said as she lowered her eyes in reverance of serving the remote user as considerately as the in-person user.
Librarian in Black discusses.
5 Factors for User Centered Services
Michael Stephens states that "One of my key points in planning for technology, and one I think applies to all types of services in libraries is to make sure you are being user-centered. For example, use this checklist to tell if you are proceeding down the wrong path"
“library dating.”
300 librarians across Brussels and Flanders have been trained to host library dating sessions where they offer participants wine, books and a good opportunity to meet other single bookworms.
Get the most of your local library — online
Article in Lifehacker about how great libraries are :-)
City history database goes online
Georgian newspapers detailing life in 18th Century Bath have been made electronically available to the public.
Shortlist for the 2006 CILIP / LiS Libraries Change Lives Award Announced.
Library services working with vulnerable young people, excluded children and teenagers, and guest workers new to the UK are shortlisted.
Library design as marketing:the Swedish experience.
Inspirational use of space is an expression of vision and provides a great marketing opportunity, says Angela Dove. (pdf 344k) It is in their attention to details that matter to their users that Swedish designs for public libraries are at their most impressive.
Frank Cottrell Boyce in interview.
Last year, Frank Cottrell Boyce won the Carnegie Medal for his first novel. His second was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. Here he talks to Elspeth Hyams about his comic treatment of the way children deal with bereavement, temptation and the consumer society.
Making your library site findable on the web.
Tips on making your libary website more visible.
'...libraries need to think about their presence _and_ visibility on the web. Not just whether or not the library has a visually appealing, well-functioning, feature-full site, but is the site findable?'
Huddersfield PDA Project
The Smart Library Project is looking at ways of enhancing and encouraging academic library usage via implementing smart and interactive technologies in existing library spaces.
Images of the project are discussed on a recent Panlibus post.
More discussion of developments at the University of Huddersfield here.
The OPAC is not an end in itself.
Whats the future for OPACS?
“the darling in all this is the data”
This post is from the increasingly essential Panlibus blog written by TALIS staff on current library technology issues. For a welcome UK perspective on where we may be heading in the future visit and read regularly!
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