Times are tough. Library funding is down, library use is up, and people are asking more and more questions demanding more and more time from their public library staff. In response to these increasing demands on library resources, Library Development staff at the Washington State Library have been c...

It isn't often that we see brightly colored golf balls rolling through the mysteries, past the investment table, and down the stairs at a library, but that is just what we saw on Sunday at the Downers Grove Public Library. Bonnie and I were among the people who played an unusual and quite challengin...

AALL has made available four archived Webinars presented October 2008 - January 2009 in the Members Only Section of AALLNET: Twenty Essentials for the Effective Speaker ($25) How to Train Without Showing Up ($25) Law Firm Library Budgeting for Hard......

There has been a conflation of blog posts and news stories that have really set my brain on fire this week, starting with an amazing post and comment discussion over at Walking Paper by Aaron Schmidt.  Then there was a quick email conversation with Michael Porter about the future of libraries if we...

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......

  VIA THE MODERN MATERIALIST: Being a massive word nerd, I'll admit I have an affinity for the sexy librarian fantasy. That said, I tend to overthink the whole sex in the library part of it. Would it really be all that comfortable? What if someone walked in on the scene? Don't you have ...

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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. ...

What would be some good music with a theme of circles for pi day (3/14)? I'm a high school librarian and we are having a celebration in our library on Friday 3/13 for 3/14 (pi day). We're looking for some music that has a circular theme or pie (pi) theme. Our list so far is: Ring of Fire - Johnny Ca...

By Holly Olson. In Part Three of my series, I discuss the benefits of relocating the library to downtown Wheaton, both in terms of the redevelopment effort as well as the community. But first, some background information on how we got to this point. In 2008, the International Downtown Association pu...