YAY for libraries in the mainstream! This cam across my LifeHacker feed today.:

CNET reports that the best place to get free books, music, movies and photos isn’t BitTorrent - it’s your public library.

thanks to CNet.

Gary Price knows what’s up:

The bottom line is people can’t use what they don’t know about. It’s not just search. It’s everything. Libraries need to do a better job of promoting themselves.

This means using the tools that the civilians are! I feel like a broken record, but gosh! I’m a librarian, I KNOW what a library can do for me, yet, I haven’t gotten a library card even though I moved way back in March. Why? In short, because I can’t apply for the card online. Might sound like a small thing, but it’s just enough to have kept me from doing it. And if I haven’t done it, how can we expect non-librarians to make that effort? Library services shouldn’t be more convenient for the library than they are for the patron.

We DO have services to provide in this information landscape, we just have to work harder to provide them.

Tags: cnet, information, Libraries, Services, and Librarians, lifehacker

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