News Archive for January 2008    

In my spare time, I recently came across a website that I found very interesting: http://www.edge.org/.   The site is primarily aimed at scientists, but since librarians are really jacks of all trades with our abilities to navigate information, I spent a bit of time looking at the site and its premise.  Each year, the group asks one question and then compiles the list of responses…

 Since I am a librarian, and this is a library blog, I wanted to pose the same question to us, as professionals in the library world, so I’m limiting the freedom and changing the spirit of Edge’s activity enough so as not interfere with copyright. 

Feel free to respond on the blog.  Anyone with a login can post comments and their own thoughtful response to this:

Since you first started working in libraries, what have you changed your mind about and why? 

Read a recent online article http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071230/us_nm/internet_libraries_dc  that cites the Pew research that 18-30 year olds were the biggest user of libraries.  Many of them are drawn more by computers than by books.

 How can your library capitalize on this?