Last week Nabil alerted me to the forward thinking, proactive outreach campaign of the Portland area libraries. This week, I’m in the pacific northwest and spotted a fine example of my own in traffic on SE 39th St from the Multnomah County Library. Well done!

Casey tackled the role of art in society last winter, “As the Useful Becomes Useless, It Becomes Art“. Anything that puts “art” and “useless” in the same sentence immediately gets my back up but that doesn’t mean he’s not on to something - perhaps when art becomes commodified, it changes the source of its [...]

I’m psyched that local papers are paying attention to Web 2.0, shifting primary information sources, and how libraries are responding to it to meet user needs even though “the trend has sparked anst-filled discussion for the past several weeks among librarians online.” Marian Peterson of the South Portland Library sums things up nicely:
Librarians need [...]