Libraries are free, but books aren’t

Mon 18 May 2009, 2:27 pm

Send a book to the Louisville Free Public Library from their Amazon wish list.

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Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library

Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:33 am

Check out David Lee King and Michael Porter’s fun video, “Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Libraries.” Is it off-putting to have the same librarians’ faces (including mine) appearing time and again in photos and videos?

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Creepy is as creepy does

Tue 20 May 2008, 10:15 am

Is it creepy to try to reach students via Facebook? I don’t think so.

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Discover Douglas County Libraries PSA

Mon 5 Nov 2007, 12:59 pm

I enjoyed this public service announcement video (i.e., advertisement) for Douglas County Libraries.

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Facebook Flyer: Tutt Library is Open Late

Thu 11 Oct 2007, 4:54 pm

Nothing says “library” like a cymbal-playing monkey.

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Lolcatvertisements

Thu 14 Jun 2007, 10:03 am

Time for lolcats in advertising? Before lolcats there was “in ur base.” Presenting an ad Tutt Library ran in the student paper late last year.

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Facebook flyers for the library

Fri 8 Sep 2006, 1:41 pm

I admit this is a pretty “Web 1.0″ concept–buying banner ads on web pages–but it is an interesting idea that I wanted to share with other academic librarians.

Facebook sells advertising “flyers” on the site. They appear in the left-hand sidebar below the navigation links, alternating with the more corporate ad banners. Generally they only show [...]

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Shiny happy signs

Fri 25 Aug 2006, 4:24 pm

Sorry I can’t talk right now; I’m in the library!

Chas says… Tutt Library keeps you afloat in a flood of homework!

If my parents call, I’m at the Library!

I don’t know that I have written about it here, [...]

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Helping students. It’s what we do.

Fri 25 Aug 2006, 12:09 pm

I just got back from a quick talk to upper-class students who are leading New Student Orientation trips. They will be in charge of small groups of first-year students, taking them either out into the Southwest to do community service, or on camping trips in the Rockies. It is the kind of thing that would [...]

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No skateboarding

Tue 27 Jun 2006, 3:35 pm

“Sorry guys, but you can’t skate here” sez me to the two kids skateboarding outside our modernist concrete skater’s paradise of a library.

Them: “Aw, why not?”

Me: “Because we don’t want your parents to sue us when you break your neck, and because you are making too much noise for the people inside studying.”

Them: “Man, our [...]

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One-on-one signage

Mon 26 Jun 2006, 11:07 pm

A few months back, there were a fair number of biblioblogospherical posts about signage in libraries, most of it showing negative examples, and much of it around signs regarding cell phone use in the library.

At my library, we have a “no cell phones” policy, but it isn’t all that effective (you are shocked, I can [...]

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Buy nothing @ your library!

Mon 28 Nov 2005, 4:37 pm

Well, I am three days late and a dollar short on this one (and Jessamyn West has already posted on this topic), but here goes: I would think that public libraries and Buy Nothing Day should go hand in hand.

The idea behind Buy Nothing Day is to opt out of the post-Thanksgiving capitalist orgy, and, [...]

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