From the monthly archives: December 2011
This past week, prompted by continuing research efforts to find ways to respond to budget belt tightening, this series of questions directed to public libraries already charging nonresident fees appeared on CALIX:
1. How much do you charge?
2. Is it a one time or annual fee?
3. When and why did you implement the fee?
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For this installment of “George and Joan Thinking Out Loud,” Joan was unable to make the recording session, so George interviews a veteran librarian.
George makes reference to this site and to this site during the podcast.
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In partnership with Califa, Infopeople is happy to announce the third annual Edgy Librarian, a web conference on new technologies and “edgy” activities in the library world. It will be held online (so no travel required, yay!) on Feb 1, 2012 from 10am-3pm.
The keynote will be Gina Millsap, Executive Director of the Topeka and [...]
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In the past week, two important assessments of how many Americans continue to be left out of the technology enabled information loop, and why that matters, have surfaced online. In her address to the Kansas University School of Journalism Diversity Summit, librarian Jessamyn West shared hard hitting statistics about the number of Americans [...]
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In this podcast, Infopeople’s resident book maven Michael Cart offers an original twist to this podcast reading a holiday chapter from his novel in progress. Happy Holidays!
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In this podcast, Michael Cart reflects on the writing of the late Anne McCaffrey, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Switching topics, he then discusses who really wrote the Shakespeare canon, along with some other interesting tidbits.
Other books and articles mentioned in this podcast:
A recent Tweet from a librarian acquaintance came off sounding and feeling surprisingly old fashioned as it passed along my screen. Her 140-character message in effect asserted that “all librarians want to get folks into the library.” Well, no, not so much. Times and technology have changed. The presentation to prospective users of Library as [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss an article that George recently read in the magazine Fast Company, The Great Tech War of 2012. The article predicts an upcoming battle for supremacy among Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook in the markets for smartphones, [...]
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Stephen Colbert’s pointed neologism comes to mind as the US Census Bureau enlists increasingly sophisticated data sorts to give us a deeper view of numbers collected during the last decennial census. Not that the Bureau is asserting opinion as fact, but the fact is, statistics, by nature, can provide insight only on matters we think [...]
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In this podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart discusses the digital future for books. Hint: He’s not happy.
Mentioned:
Bosman, Julie. “E-Book Revolution Upends a Course,” New York Times, July 17, 2011.
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