Perkins Library Has Done it Again

Last year, I griped about American Libraries Direct’s habit of extolling the virtues of library promotions and projects that are creative and fun, but do little to engage the patrons they’re meant to reach out to.  I took out my frustration on Perkins Library of Hasting College and their National Library Week YouTube video contest, [...]

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100 Million Creative Commons Licensed Images in Flickr

http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/100-million-cc-licensed-images-on-flickr/
…but I’m still having trouble finding photos of whispering that don’t involve cats.  No matter, our student workers are always game for hiding, whispering, shushing, and looking stern. New Library Secrets posters will be circulating soon!

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ChiPubLib, I’m loving you

I think they’re getting the hang of this over at Chicago Public Library.
(via Tame the Web)

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Out of the way, I’m a Shover & a Maker

I’m getting good at this self-promotion stuff.  So good, in fact, I just gave myself an award for it.  Check out my Shovers & Makers blurb and then give yourself a little reward by declaring yourself a Shover & Maker, too.
Library Secrets: A Secret No More Thanks to Jenn Kelley

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What you’re doing is awesome. Tell me about it, please.

Are you successfully using or successfully trying to use new technology/social software/web 2.0 tools to collaborate with or otherwise engage your faculty?
Well have I got a deal for you! If you tell me what you’re doing, how you’re doing it and how it’s changing the world (or engaging your faculty, either way), I’ll share [...]

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Picture Your Library, the sequel

I just couldn’t wait until February, so this year we’re holding our second annual Picture Your Library event during Fall semester– now to be exact!
Last year we had a brand new Flickr page for the Library with nothing in it but pictures for our virtual tour.  So boring.  In order to get some fun content [...]

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Banned Books and All-Around Enthusiasms

Early this week, my dean sent a message to myself and our webmaster asking whether or not the Library had anything planned for Banned Books Week (I’m not quite sure why we were the two singled out (doubled out?) for this question apart from my Publicity Committee role…).  The webmaster and I discussed this briefly [...]

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BTW, CWYL, OK?

It’s not Welsh, it’s our Library’s theme for the 2008-2009 academic year and yesterday, to kick things off, we had our first dedicated Library-staff inservice day in two years. For the first week and a half of classes (which, OMG!, start next week) we’ll have staff running around being awesome in these shirts we [...]

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Another thing to worry about: Creepy treehouses

Now, every time I do something I’ll have to ask myself, is this totally creepy treehouse?
(via ARCLog)
Oh, and I’m introducing a corollary term: monkey bars. Monkey bars takes creepy treehouse to that additional level. Sure, monkey bars seem like a good idea, not creepy at all, but they’re totally a sinister [...]

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ACRL 2009

I’m definitely going to ACRL next year in Seattle and although I probably don’t need to, I’m determined to justify my attendance by presenting there. To that end, I just submitted a poster proposal! I had thought about proposing a full-out session, but as the deadline (May 12) crept closer I was feeling [...]

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