http://plablog.org/2009/03/the-changing-role-of-your-public-library.html Official Blog of the Public Library Association Mon, 14 May 2012 15:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://plablog.org/2009/03/the-changing-role-of-your-public-library.html/comment-page-1#comment-7894 Why art in libraries? | at the same time Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:07:26 +0000 http://plablog.org/?p=1323#comment-7894 [...] Technology Product, speaking at the Brooklyn Public Library about empowering people to be “generators of governance rather than consumers of government” during a Brooklyn Public Library food festival that honored culinary skill and the ethnic [...] [...] Technology Product, speaking at the Brooklyn Public Library about empowering people to be “generators of governance rather than consumers of government” during a Brooklyn Public Library food festival that honored culinary skill and the ethnic [...]

]]> http://plablog.org/2009/03/the-changing-role-of-your-public-library.html/comment-page-1#comment-3353 Past, Present, Future of Food: Bushwick, Brooklyn « gabe mcmackin Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:08:28 +0000 http://plablog.org/?p=1323#comment-3353 [...] | Tags: brooklyn, bushwick, Events, food, future, library, past, present Last Saturday, my pal Nate and I put on the Past, Present, Future of Food event, and it really was a tremendous success. We [...] [...] | Tags: brooklyn, bushwick, Events, food, future, library, past, present Last Saturday, my pal Nate and I put on the Past, Present, Future of Food event, and it really was a tremendous success. We [...]

]]> http://plablog.org/2009/03/the-changing-role-of-your-public-library.html/comment-page-1#comment-3347 Rob Banks Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:43:23 +0000 http://plablog.org/?p=1323#comment-3347 Excellent event and point! We should all be doing this and it can happen in any size community. One benefit of having it in a library, beyond those you pointed out, is that if "additional information" or other spur-of-the -moment information is needed, it is at our finger tips. We can "enhance" the topic/conversation by simply being surrounded by all that information. It puts people into a "thinking' atmosphere. Also, we are typically the safe place in the community where difficult or akward discussions can be held with out yelling and screaming. It just feels right! Excellent event and point! We should all be doing this and it can happen in any size community. One benefit of having it in a library, beyond those you pointed out, is that if “additional information” or other spur-of-the -moment information is needed, it is at our finger tips. We can “enhance” the topic/conversation by simply being surrounded by all that information. It puts people into a “thinking’ atmosphere. Also, we are typically the safe place in the community where difficult or akward discussions can be held with out yelling and screaming. It just feels right!

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