The Importance of the Non-Techie or How I Learned to Stop Pulling Out My Hair and Love my Luddite by: Mick Jacobsen My wife mocks Twitter thoroughly, “You don’t even know these people,” she repeats. She thinks Facebook/MySpace is weird. She considers online gaming to be silly.  Sh...

PVLD is in the process of developing a new strategic plan which is forcing us to both take a hard look at what we currently do and how we do it, and to think about what we want the library......

When introducing my Advanced Internet class I struggle, at times, to describe Web 2.0 to the uninitiated. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google provides a nice summary: Through the first decade of its existence… the World Wide Web was a fairly prosaic place for most of us. ...

Do not miss this intriguing discussion that really speaks to the sea change were in. Star here, with this post from Bob McKee, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP): (emphasis in bold mine) http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/cesdesk/archive/2...

It's called "The Boy Book," and it has some North Texas parents steaming mad. Despite racy titles and content, some say it is too adult for young eyes. Yet a Keller Independent School District student managed to get a copy of it from her middle school library. "The Boy Book" - with its cute little p...

There are days when it’s really tough living on the front end of the bell curve, and clearly Dave Lankes had one of those last week. But instead of letting it get him down, it caused him to redouble his efforts and even write an inspirational post for the rest of us. (Emphasis below is mine.) ...

Breaking News from the Action 3 News Team, Nebraska's top Action News Team for the past 2 years: "Some librarians play games in the library. Are you as shocked as we are? We bet you are!" Apparently some Nebraska librarians bought a Sony PlayStation for their library and shot a video while they play...

A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...

Unshelved is a webcomic by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes about the staff of a public library. It’s a focal point of librarian subculture as it’s written from an insider point of view. Every year for the past three years, Unshelved has hosted a contest called “Pimp My Bookcart”,...

From Walter Olson, writing in the City Journal: The New Book BanningChildren’s books burn, courtesy of the federal government.12 February 2009 It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has no...