Category: Libraries & Librarians

Memorial Library on the UW–Madison campus has recently installed an outside book drop at the top of their loading dock area. Now patrons can temporarily park in the loading dock (on the corner of Langdon and Lake Street), walk up a small flight of stairs, and return their items without having to worry about finding …

I’ll be heading to New Orleans later this week for the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting. One of the things on my calendar is presenting at a TS-SIS program entitled, Blogging and Beyond: New Communication Streams for Technical Services Librarians. I’ll be talking about blogs and RSS – specifically how they can be …

There were two interesting articles about librarians in my in-box today. Both are about how technology has changed the profession. One focuses on how technology has attracted a new generation of hip librarians and other other about how it has changed library staffing models. A Hipper Crowd of Shushers (New York Times, July 8, 2007) …

I recently learned about a new librarian cartoon called Shelf Check. And, of course, there is always Unshelved. And it looks like Rex Libris, the graphic novel featuring a librarian-superhero, has been picked up by Warner Bros. and is headed to the big screen.

Did you know you could generate RSS feeds for new products from Amazon? The feeds are based on tags which users can assign to items. See, for example, the “law” tag. Notice that there is a link to a RSS feed for that tag at the bottom right. There are lots of other, more specific, …

SirsiDynix is offering a series of free Webinars for information professionals. There are two particularly interesting ones coming up: Writing for the Library Profession Date : Jul 10, 2007 Start Time : 11 a.m. Eastern Length : 01:00:00 Free your content! RSS for Libraries Date : Aug 07, 2007 Start Time : 11 a.m. Eastern …

While I was away on vacation last week, the Capital Times ran an article on social networking in libraries. The UW Law Library was one of the libraries featured, along with Wendt Library and the South Central Library System. From the article: Libraries have long struggled with a stuffy reputation, but on the UW–Madison campus …

Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May, for passing on this YouTube video of Mr Bean’s visit to the library, posted on Law Librarian Blog. Hilarious.

There is a good article in the Capital Times extolling the virtues of the Madison Public Library’s (the South Central Library System’s actually) hold system. Maybe it’s not as fast or convenient as Netflix, but the Madison Public Library allows its users to go online and put holds on movies, but also TV series, books, …