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PLA 2010 Virtual Conference Registration Opens
Registration for the PLA 2010 Virtual Conference is now open. On March 25-26, 2010 the Public Library Association (PLA) will share a condensed, live, and online PLA 13th National Conference with public librarians and public library workers who can’t make the trip to Portland. The Virtual Conference will include many familiar elements of the live [...]
Museum as Hub, Library as Hub
I was drawn into the New Museum on New York’s lower east side this morning, because I was curious to see “Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context”. I’m starting a new job on Monday as a Web Librarian at San Jose Public Library (yes!!!) and I was curious to see what kind of [...]
Deconstructivist Architecture: Would it Work at Your Library?
Librarians are all familiar with Rem Koolhaas’s groundbreaking deconstructivist masterpiece library in Seattle. While in Boston for ALA Midwinter meeting, I decided to take a look at another piece of deconstructivist architecture that got a lot of press in recent years. I visited the Frank Gehry structure known as the Stata Center or ‘Building 32′ [...]
Behind the Clock at Boston Public Library
I just got a great tour behind-the-scenes at Boston Public Library. Here’s a few less frequently shared photos of the fun stuff hiding back in the dark and dusty corners. First, have a Hudsucker Proxy moment and take a looksee behind the clock in the courtyard. When young patrons misbehave, I’m told they are stuck [...]
Edgar Allan Poe in Boston @ BPL
If you’re in Boston for ALA Midwinter Meeting, swing by the Boston Public Library in Copley Square and check out “The Raven in the Frog Pond – Edgar Allan Poe and The City of Boston,” an exhibition that uses items from the library’s collection, the American Antiquarian Society, Susan Jaffe Tane, and M. Thomas Inge, [...]
The Chinatown Storefront Library
It has been quite a first day at ALA Midwinter Meeting. I just saw Bill Clinton and Martha Coakley in my hotel (entirely by accident- quite a surprise), I managed to see a really fun holography exhibit at the MIT Museum, and I walked a very, very long way around Boston on an unseasonably mild [...]
Build your library identity around knowledge- not books
Just arrived in Boston today for the ALA Midwinter Meeting 2010. I picked up a great book on the way here, a book that will keep me thinking as I wander around ‘all things library’ for the next few days. My new book is about Geigy, a chemical company based in Switzerland and the story [...]
LibraryThing iPhone App
Found via the CALIX listeserv, and via the LA Times article “Can Local Books iPhone app be a literary UrbanSpoon?”, check out the new LibraryThing iPhone app.
Write to the PLA Blog during ALA Midwinter Meeting!
Its conference time again, folks! The ALA Midwinter Meeting is going on Boston, MA from January 15-19th. This is a great opportunity for you to do some writing for your favorite blog: The PLA Blog! We would love to have you share your conference stories, pictures and videos here. Send us a message or a [...]
Social Web Involvement – on a global scale
Here’s an interesting infographic about social web involvement on a global scale from the Global Web Index. I recently read an interesting article in Exhibitionist by Nina Simon of Museum 2.0. She quotes a Forrester Research Technographics survey that divides social web users into six categories, and it offers a breakdown by percentage in the [...]
