Listen up!

Prompted by a request from David Lee King, who is writing about Community-Focused Digital Experience, Michael Stephens, over at Tame the Web, has shared how telling stories has been a theme in his writing and speaking engagements.
Do read his post (go ahead – you can come back). His examples are thought provoking, maybe [...]

Inspiration in Brooklyn

I just found through LIS News a link to the article “They’re community centers, says chief who bans hushing at libraries”. Brooklyn Public Library Executive Director Dionne Mack-Harvin views libraries as busy community centers where people “can find a place for themselves” and “talk to each other, not sit in silence”. But more than just [...]

Today’s Old News

I have been trying not to write this post. I had even pulled back from reading other posts on the topic. But it’s been sort of like pretending I’m above Brad and Angelina gossip, but picking the longest line in the grocery store so I have more time to read the magazine that I would [...]

Prisons and Library Services

Last week I read Rory Litwin’s Library Juice post No intellectual freedom in U.S. prison chapel libraries and it got me wondering about how much professional discussion there was out there on outreach to, or services in prisons. I was particularly looking for Canadian material.
A very quick search found:
Canadian Federal Prison Libraries: A National [...]

Pointing to a point that points

Be patient. I’m not even going to try to elaborate on these posts. You are going to have to click on them and follow the points.
Enough to say the first point is from Steven M. Cohen at About LibraryStuff.net in the post Help Others Better Their Lives. That post takes us to Second Life [...]