Category: Just for Fun    

Check out the full posting here: I Love My Librarian 2010

Here’s a clip of some text from the page:
“Nominate your librarian for the third year of the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award!
Nominations for 2010 stay open through September 20.
Nominate a librarian in a:
School Library
Public Library
College, Community College, University Library

There are nearly 123,000 libraries nationwide, and librarians touch the lives of the people they serve every day. The award encourages library users like you to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, school, college, community college, or university librarians. We want to hear how you think your librarian is improving the lives of the people in your school, campus or community.
Up to ten winners will be selected this year and receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque and $500 travel stipend to attend an awards reception in New York hosted by The New York Times. In addition, a plaque will be given to each award winner’s library.
The award is administered by the American Library Association with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The New York Times.”

Share the word with the public and other library staff!
Let’s recognize all the great library impact work happening in our district!

Has your library been trying to serve community needs through your website? What website statistics are most important? Are users on internet explorer or firefox or another browser? Is traffic to your website coming from search engines, email messages, or direct referral?

Libraries are great places for people to access the internet, but how does the internet and all of its search engines know your library? Have you tried to search for your library on Google, Bing, or Yahoo like some potential library users might? Do you get the results you want? Is all of the information listed complete and accurate? What does your library’s profile look like? Have you read your user reviews? How do customers find your website?

How do local media websites list your library? Have you searched PennLive http://businessfinder.pennlive.com/PA-Harrisburg-17101?s=library

How do users know the content on your website? Do they know you have databases and other great information? How do you get traffic to your website? Here’s one idea: http://www.google.com/grants/new/index.html

Do you have other ideas? Please share them. There are a lot of questions.

Do you ever catch yourself saying I have no idea how technology works somedays?
Check out this awesome graphic that helps you understand:
Via: Online Schools

Thanks to Stephen Abram’s Lighthouse blog for bringing it to our attention.

And, if this post was interesting to you, dig into the information to understand library technology even deeper at webjunction. Read, discuss, and share for free. Attend $5 classes when you sign up to join the PA community. Ask your district consultant if you have questions.

Are there lots of patrons on the waiting list for the latest Stephanie Meyer novella: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (in the Twilight Saga) at your library?

Did you know that it is also available FREE online for people to read on their screen for a limited time at: http://breetannerbook.libredigital.com/index.html

I wonder how many will read it on a computer screen or mobile device with a capable internet browser in this format.

Will the fact that it is available right now, free to all who have an internet browser mean that your library buys less copies of it?

Do you have a method for getting information about ebooks to your readers? Could you add a temporary catalog record directing users who want it while it’s brand new to the website to read the digital copy?

Note that it says this: Please keep in mind that you can only read the book here – you won’t be able to download it to your e-reader or phone. And you can’t print it out.

Fredricksen Library Book Cart Drill Team 2008

Check out this great presentation of Fredricksen Library’s ability to market themselves and libraries as a whole. Think about the great message they are sending! Thanks Fredricksen for showing the power of a great promotion!

Note: For those working in libraries without access to YouTube, take a minute at home to enjoy this. It’s worth it.
To know this is done by one of the libraries in our district makes me smile.

Check out these new products for added value in library catalogs:
Library Thing for Libraries
Bibliocommons

Better than Novelist? Integrated into your catalog? If you think your library might be interested or you want to talk about this technology, post your comments here.

This is a list of free YouTube videos for librarians:
100 YouTube Videos for Librarians
Thanks to Jonelle for sharing the link.

Save time, let someone else stress for you or share this with your colleagues to let them know how you really feel:
http://people.ambrosiasw.com/~andrew/funny/piggy.swf
Click on the pig’s nose.