After a significant budget veto, Florida’s five regional multi-type library cooperatives (MLCs) are looking to raise awareness of how their work impacts services provided by the state’s libraries.
Boston Public Library not Alone in Requiring Parent Signatures for Online Accounts
March 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
BPL says it’s just following rules in preventing kids 13 years old and younger from signing up online for a library card.
Highlights of Highpoint (Public and University Library)
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The morning after Charlotte we drove over to Highpoint and visited both the University and Public Libraries. We took way too many videos than we could ever have time to edit and publish but these are some of our favorites. High Point Public library This library has a great teen space called the Teen Garage. [...]
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Video Narrative
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It turns out, that recording, editing, and posting videos while on the road is a lot more intense then we originally thought. The first library we visited was the most difficult because we were just starting to learn about the technology that we were using and the most efficient ways to use it. Because of [...]
Michael Lambert, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, and SMCL
March 11, 2012 By 3 Comments
I (PC Sweeney) Interviewed my new deputy director who just happens to come from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Before going to Charlotte, he worked in San Mateo County Library as the manager of the library branch that I am now the manager of. He spent about 5 years in Charlotte so he knows all about [...]
Meetups on the Roadshow
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
OCLC Unveils Website for Small Libraries Beta Project
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On February 14, OCLC announced a new beta cloud-based service, Website for Small Libraries (WSSL), with which libraries with fewer than 20,000 items in their collections may construct a low-cost, simple but dynamic website. Features include basic patron and inventory management, including checkouts, returns, holds, and renewals, among other functions.
Q&A: SirsiDynix CEO Bill Davison on Social Networking, Self-service, Mashups, and Ebooks in Libraries
February 9, 2012 By 2 Comments
At LJ’s Virtual Tech Summit, “Power to the Patron: From Systems to Services,” held on December 8, librarians and tech experts took on an array of topics facing libraries, including social networking, self-service, mashups using application programming interfaces (APIs), and the future of integrated library systems (ILSs). Library automation company SirsiDynix was a platinum sponsor of the summit, and LJ asked its CEO, Bill Davison, to weigh in on the issues.
