This week the lucky children of Madison made snowglobes as a Summer Reading Program activity. But not just any snow globe, oh no, a snowglobe to showcase our beloved Madison Boulder. Civic pride swells.

They used crushed egg shells to make the snow! What a terrifically fun idea!

The issue of restricting or regulating access to library content is not a new one. But Brian’s recent experience has put it on my mind again:
The mother was angry that her child could have checked out such a movie, and didn’t understand why the library wasn’t enforcing the MPAA movie ratings.
For some reason the [...]

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. [...]

In this morning’s email from Liz Liddy:
I am very, very sad to report that Ray has passed away. Ray suffered 3 cardiac arrests today, and succumbed about 1 hour ago at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. It is so hard to believe.
It was Dean von Dran who greeted our class when I started at SU. He [...]

I’ve been known to be critical of academia for often being largely uninformed about what is actually happening in libraries beyond their sphere of influence and in the wider world in general. There have been a few proud, shining exceptions to this in my own field, but from my front row seat (okay, perhaps [...]

Tamworth is a town of 2500 in the rural white mountains of NH. Yet, TheGoodPeasant, tamworth resident, took a video of the Cook Library’s 4th of July float and posted it on YouTube.
It’s not just kids or geeks. People in all types of places are using social tools online and they’re doing so [...]