People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/taxonomy/term/30/all en How Much Will Elvis Presley's Library Card Bring This Time? http://lisnews.org/how_much_will_elvis_presleys_library_card_bring_this_time <p>From the <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/check-this-out-elviss-library-card-up-for-auction/" rel="nofollow">New York Times</a> Arts Beat:</p> <p>Elvis Presley’s earliest known signature – on a library card he signed as a 13-year-old student in Tupelo, Miss. – is one of the main draws in an auction of Elvis memorabilia to be held at Graceland, the singer’s palatial headquarters, in Memphis on Aug. 14.</p> <p>In 2012, the card was sold for <a href="http://rt.com/art-and-culture/elvis-presley-library-auction-748/" rel="nofollow">$7500 – a bargain, you would think </a>.</p> http://lisnews.org/how_much_will_elvis_presleys_library_card_bring_this_time#comments Friday Time Killers People N Patrons Public Libraries http://lisnews.org/crss/node/43000 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:06:48 +0000 birdie 43000 at http://lisnews.org A Love Letter to Public Libraries http://lisnews.org/a_love_letter_to_public_libraries <p><a href="http://huff.to/1A1jgiw" rel="nofollow">From Huffington Post Books</a>.</p> http://lisnews.org/a_love_letter_to_public_libraries#comments People N Patrons Public Libraries http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42994 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:02:31 +0000 birdie 42994 at http://lisnews.org Zinesters Take Over a New York City F Train (Peacefully), Will Move on Today to Staten Island Ferry http://lisnews.org/zinesters_take_over_a_new_york_city_f_train_peacefully_will_move_on_today_to_staten_island_ferry <p>From <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/arts/design/zine-makers-grab-their-metrocards-and-go-to-work.html?module=Search&amp;mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C{%222%22%3A%22RI%3A14%22}&amp;_r=0" rel="nofollow">The New York Times</a>: </p> <p>The two-day event, called the <a href="http://zines.barnard.edu/blogs/mta-zine-residency" rel="nofollow">MTA Zine Residency</a>, had been organized by a librarian and an archivist at the Barnard College library, which they said has the largest circulating collection of zines in an academic library. After producing zines on the F train, the group was planning to reconvene Monday on the Staten Island Ferry to put the finishing touches on their creations. The organizers of the residency said they hoped that the participants would sell or donate copies of their completed zines to the Barnard collection.<br /> <img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/07/14/arts/ZINE02/ZINE02-articleLarge.jpg" /></p> <p>Jenna Freedman, the zine librarian at Barnard, said that the relative quiet and lack of phone and Internet connections made the subway a natural place to compose zines.</p> <p>“There really is a pleasure to writing while you’re in motion,” she said. “I’ve always felt that time is most my own.”</p> http://lisnews.org/zinesters_take_over_a_new_york_city_f_train_peacefully_will_move_on_today_to_staten_island_ferry#comments Academic Libraries Art Libraries Journals & Magazines Librarians People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42979 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:53:33 +0000 birdie 42979 at http://lisnews.org PA Librarians Receive Mental Health Sensitivity Training http://lisnews.org/pa_librarians_receive_mental_health_sensitivity_training <p>Here's the <a href="http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2014/06/lehigh_valley_librarians_recei.html" rel="nofollow">story</a> from the Lehigh Valley Times. </p> <p>NHS Human Services' Bushkill Township office provides regular mental health sensitivity training at Recovery Partnership but last week was the first time the group ever worked with librarians, said Andrew Grossman, a program director. Most of the people who receive the group's training work directly in the mental health field, he said. Grossman said he thought it was a good idea for librarians to receive the training, as many local mental health group homes send their residents to libraries on a regular basis for socialization.</p> <p>"I think it's great they'll get a better understanding of the folks who are coming into their facility," he said. "I think a lot of times they don't fully understand the people in the library." The training Grossman provided the librarians is the same NHS provides for mental health workers. Grossman talked about the stigma of mental health and explained many different diagnoses.</p> <p>Did you receive any training regarding this issue as a LIS student?</p> http://lisnews.org/pa_librarians_receive_mental_health_sensitivity_training#comments Librarians People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42936 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:34:23 +0000 birdie 42936 at http://lisnews.org Teen Makes Robotic Hand for Younger Friend on Library's 3D Printer http://lisnews.org/teen_makes_robotic_hand_for_younger_friend_on_librarys_3d_printer <p>Feel good story via <a href="http://americanprofile.com/articles/give-him-a-hand/" rel="nofollow">American Profile.</a></p> <p><img src="http://pgoaamericanprofile2.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/give-him-a-hand.jpg?w=487&amp;h=292&amp;crop=1" /><br /> Matthew Shields flashes a smile and high-fives Mason Wilde with the prosthetic on his right hand. Born without fingers on that hand, Matthew, 9, now uses his Robohand to open doors, carry books and catch a ball—thanks to Mason, 17, who made the device with a 3-D printer at the <a href="www.jocolibrary.org/?" rel="nofollow">Johnson County Library</a> in Overland Park, Kan.</p> <p>“It definitely made me proud,” says Mason, a junior at Louisburg (Kan.) High School. Matthew’s mother, Jennifer Shields, noticed last fall that her son’s birth defect was making the third-grader self-conscious and affecting him socially. But even with health insurance, the single mother knew she couldn’t afford a professionally made prosthetic.</p> <p>Researching online, Jennifer found Robohand, the mechanical hand invented by South African carpenter Richard van As, who lost four fingers in a circular saw accident, and theatrical props maker Ivan Owen, in Bellingham, Wash. The pair posted the free digital design last year on <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/" rel="nofollow">thingiverse.com</a>. “I looked at the plans, but had no idea how to do it,” recalls Jennifer, 43.</p> <p>Her teenaged son Mason, however, eagerly accepted the challenge. A straight-A student who aspires to be an engineer, he previously had read about three-dimensional printer technology. “I downloaded all the files and spent about three hours scaling the hand to fit Matthew,” Mason says.</p> http://lisnews.org/teen_makes_robotic_hand_for_younger_friend_on_librarys_3d_printer#comments Libraries People N Patrons Public Libraries Technology http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42828 Fri, 02 May 2014 19:37:46 +0000 birdie 42828 at http://lisnews.org ...and More Happy Librarians & Patrons...in Gastonia, NC http://lisnews.org/and_more_happy_librarians_patronsin_gastonia_nc <p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/20gSINkfjtI?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" width="640" height="360"></iframe></p> <p>I'm on a mission to find all librarian &amp; patron "Happy" videos...suggestions?&nbsp;</p> <p>Check out the boogey-ing cop.</p> http://lisnews.org/and_more_happy_librarians_patronsin_gastonia_nc#comments Librarians People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42818 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:08:48 +0000 birdie 42818 at http://lisnews.org Observations on Marginalia in Library Books http://lisnews.org/observations_on_marginalia_in_library_books <p>MADISON, N.J. — THE graduate student thrust the library book toward me as though brandishing a sword. “This has got to stop,” she said. “It isn’t fair. How can I work on my dissertation with this mess?” As she marched out of my office, leaving the disfigured volume behind, her words stung — for the code of civility on which libraries depend had been violated. She was the third Ph.D. student in less than a year to bring me a similarly damaged volume, and each had expected me as the library director to turn sleuth, solve the mystery, and end the vandalism.<br /> <img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/02/02/opinion/02marginalia-yellow/02marginalia-yellow-tmagSF-v4.png" /><br /> Someone had been defacing modern books containing translations of 16th-century texts. With garish strokes, the perpetrator had crossed out lines, then written alternate text in the margins. It did not take a Sherlock Holmes to observe that it was the work of a single hand, a hand wielding a fountain pen spewing green ink. The colorful alterations were not limited to a few pages but crept like a mold, page after page.</p> <p>Some months later, in a faculty meeting, I noticed that the colleague sitting next to me was taking notes with a fountain pen. And the ink was telltale green. </p> <p>More from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/scribbling-in-the-margins.html" rel="nofollow">The New York Times</a>.</p> http://lisnews.org/observations_on_marginalia_in_library_books#comments Books Libraries People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42801 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:12:13 +0000 birdie 42801 at http://lisnews.org Are Your Patrons in Need of "Digital Detox"? http://lisnews.org/are_your_patrons_in_need_of_digital_detox <p>News story via <a href="http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/state-librarian-looks-to-future-and-past-urges-libraries-to/article_aab44af4-c656-11e3-89f9-0017a43b2370.html" rel="nofollow">Lancaster Online</a>, about State Librarian Stacey Aldrich's address to Pennsylvania librarians about modifying the focus away from technology in libraries. </p> <p>Last year, she spoke mostly the future — advancing technology, and the changing ways that libraries can store information and provide it in new ways to patrons. This year, Aldrich was more reflective. She talked a lot about her travels — to libraries around the state as well as other countries — and she took the group on a visual tour of State Library of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.</p> <p>She still had a few things to say about technology, though — including the way many people are looking for ways to get away from electronics, even if it’s only for a short break. “A lot of people are looking for ways to disconnect to reconnect,” she said. “They’re turning off the electronics.”</p> <p>Libraries, which have been scrambling to go high-tech with advanced computer and Wi-Fi options, are also trying to meet the need for patrons to decompress sometimes, Aldrich said. Sometimes, that means sponsoring “digital detox” nights, she said — hosting board games, for instance, and providing opportunities for conversation.</p> <p>“Look around you. See what people are doing in your community,” she urged.</p> http://lisnews.org/are_your_patrons_in_need_of_digital_detox#comments Librarians Libraries People N Patrons State Libraries http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42778 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:35:57 +0000 birdie 42778 at http://lisnews.org The Most Complained-About Library Book of 2013 Was… http://lisnews.org/the_most_complainedabout_library_book_of_2013_was <p>Same as last year's...Captain Underpants.</p> <p>Just as in 2012, the potty humor of the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey brought the books to the top of the list. Other repeat offenders in the top ten included Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James and Looking for Alaska by John Green. The newcomers to the top ten were:</p> <p> The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (second place)<br /> The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins<br /> A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone<br /> The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky<br /> Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya<br /> Bone (series), by Jeff Smith</p> <p>The list was excerpted by <a href="http://time.com/61552/most-challenged-library-book-2013/" rel="nofollow">Time Magazine</a> from the <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ala-releases-2014-state-of-americas-libraries-report-255108311.html" rel="nofollow">State of America's Libraries Report 2014</a> [ALA].</p> http://lisnews.org/the_most_complainedabout_library_book_of_2013_was#comments Books Censorship People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42774 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:29:13 +0000 birdie 42774 at http://lisnews.org St. Paul Public Library's Workplace Program http://lisnews.org/st_paul_public_librarys_workplace_program <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWbgQLjXPIk&amp;feature=player_detailpage">Check out this amazing video</a> from the St. Paul MN Public Library about their Mobile Workplace program. Libraries have a long history of serving their communities by providing access to resources and information. When the St. Paul Public Library saw a growing need for computer and job search skills, it created a new way to bring its community the tools and access they were searching for. The program primarily caters to newcomers of the Somali, Hmong and Karen (Burmese) populations. Hat tip to Stephen Abram <a href="http://stephenslighthouse.com/2014/03/25/a-fantastic-video-from-st-paul-pl-about-their-strategies-for-immigrant-and-refugee-communities-inspiring/">Stephen's Lighthouse</a>. <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tWbgQLjXPIk?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" width="640" height="360"></iframe></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://lisnews.org/st_paul_public_librarys_workplace_program#comments Activities In Libraries People N Patrons Public Libraries http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42712 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:22:00 +0000 birdie 42712 at http://lisnews.org The Generousity of a New Yorker Who Loved to Read http://lisnews.org/the_generousity_of_a_new_yorker_who_loved_to_read <p>Simply because she loved to read, <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/avid-reader-leaves-library-6-million-in-her-will/?src=twrhp" rel="nofollow">Lotte Fields bequeathed $6 million to the New York Public Library</a> after her death, the library announced on Wednesday.</p> <p>Mrs. Fields, a New Yorker who died last summer at 89, inherited her wealth from her husband’s family, who were wool merchants.</p> <p>“One of her great joys was spending the weekend reading with her husband,” said Irwin Cantor, Ms. Fields’s executor, in a statement. “Her donation shows just how much Lotte loved books and how important she felt it was to support her fellow book lovers.” Because Ms. Fields had been a modest – though regular – donor to the library in the past, Tony Marx, the library’s president, said the library was “astounded” by her bequest.</p> <p>“But we are deeply honored to pick up her mantle and promote the joy of reading,” he added. At Ms. Fields’ request, the library will evenly divide the funds between its branch libraries and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street.</p> <p>Let's hope they don't apply the donation to destroying the classic <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sherman-yellen/this-library-lion-roars_b_4875546.html" rel="nofollow">Bryant Park Main Library</a>.</p> http://lisnews.org/the_generousity_of_a_new_yorker_who_loved_to_read#comments Facilities Money Issues People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42687 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:06:31 +0000 birdie 42687 at http://lisnews.org Libraries Participating More in World Book Night http://lisnews.org/libraries_participating_more_in_world_book_night <p>From <a href="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/02/publishing/libraries-expand-support-for-world-book-night/" rel="nofollow">Library Journal</a>:</p> <p>Library participation in <a href="http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/" rel="nofollow">World Book Night</a> US is increasing, with libraries hosting launch events around the country for the fourth iteration of the annual April 23 event, which encourages public reading by distributing about a half-million free books and honors Shakespeare’s birthday.</p> <p>Some libraries and bookstores host a special reception when the books arrive to foster community spirit among the volunteers. Last year, World Book Night US had volunteers in 5,200 towns and cities in all 50 states and a record 1,055 libraries and bookstores participate, program director Carl Lennertz said.</p> <p>The New York Public Library (NYPL) main building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street will host a public talk April 22 with several authors whose books have been selected for 2014 World Book Night US distribution. This is the first time NYPL is holding official World Book Night launch events; prior World Book Night events were held at the Barnes and Noble store in Union Square.</p> <p><img src="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/WBN2014_logo_672x652-300x291.jpg" /></p> <p>The guest list at the main library event includes writers Victoria Bond, Malcolm Gladwell, Garrison Keillor, Walter Dean Myers, Esmeralda Santiago, T.R. Simon, and Tobias Wolff. The talk will take place at 6 p.m. in the 250-seat Edna Barnes Salomon Room, and will also be live-streamed on the Internet.</p> <p>I'm a "giver" for the third time and delighted to be handing out copies of Jamie Ford's "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet." I will be picking up my books at my local branch library in Brooklyn, how about you?</p> http://lisnews.org/libraries_participating_more_in_world_book_night#comments Books Libraries Literacy People N Patrons Publishing http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42640 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:20:07 +0000 birdie 42640 at http://lisnews.org Is The NY Public Library Deceiving the Public? http://lisnews.org/is_the_ny_public_library_deceiving_the_public <p>An <a href="https://www.facebook.com/micahzkellner" rel="nofollow">interesting facebook post by New York State Assemblyman Micah Z. Kellner </a> about the NYPL:</p> <p>I am profoundly disturbed that the leadership of the New York Public Library (NYPL) is using misleading and deceptive language in an attempt to trick New Yorkers into supporting its controversial <a href="http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/capital-projects/42nd-st-renovation" rel="nofollow"> Central Library Plan for the main 42nd Street Branch</a>.</p> <p>While purporting to expand public access to the 42nd Street Library, the Central Library Plan is instead a half-baked real estate deal that will result in the selling off of the largest and most used lending library in New York City, the Mid-Manhattan branch at East 40th Street, and the gutting of the fabled stacks at the NYPL’s Main Branch, which house the world-class collections of books and research materials that make the world's leading free research library truly unique. Millions of volumes currently available on-site in the stacks will be warehoused in New Jersey, lessening public access to a public resource unparalleled anywhere in the Western Hemisphere.</p> <p>By issuing a mass appeal yesterday urging New Yorkers to ‘Support … the daily work of NYPL's network of 88 branches (and) a renovated central branch library that provides longer hours, additional public space, and more resources for children, teens, teachers, and job seekers,” the NYPL is claiming that selling off its largest circulating branch and eviscerating the Main Library’s fabled stacks, at an estimated cost to City taxpayers of $150 million, is improving the NYPL for everyday New Yorkers, when the exact opposite is the case. This is truly an example of Orwellian double-speak. The NYPL’s leadership must harbor serious doubts about the merits and practicality of its Central Library plan to employ such a willfully deceptive appeal.</p> <p>In his campaign, Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed from the steps of the NYPL, "These plans seemed to have been made without any forethought to the building’s historical and cultural integrity. We need to ensure that a detailed financial audit and review is conducted, so that these renovations won’t exceed the $300 million proposed. Before NYPL goes about demolishing stacks and consolidating libraries, they need to ensure that the people they serve aren’t being shortchanged and being disregarded for the bottom line."</p> <p>I know that Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito are dedicated to keeping the New York Public Library an invaluable cultural and educational public resource. I urge them and all New Yorkers not to be fooled by the deceptive and misleading claims being promoted by the New York Public Library, and to fight for this invaluable cultural treasure that helps make New York unique.</p> http://lisnews.org/is_the_ny_public_library_deceiving_the_public#comments Facilities Libraries People N Patrons Public Libraries http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42590 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:01:46 +0000 birdie 42590 at http://lisnews.org Boy saves entire year, donates to library http://lisnews.org/boy_saves_entire_year_donates_to_library <p>Lalo Nunez-al-Faisal decided to use his saved up money from chores to help other children.</p> <p>Read more: <a href="http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/Boy-saves-for-entire-year-to-help-library/-/9357080/23873886/-/y5kutl/-/index.html#ixzz2qKuQALmy" title="http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/Boy-saves-for-entire-year-to-help-library/-/9357080/23873886/-/y5kutl/-/index.html#ixzz2qKuQALmy" rel="nofollow">http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/Boy-saves-for-entire-year-to-help-library/-/9357080/23...</a></p> http://lisnews.org/boy_saves_entire_year_donates_to_library#comments People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42586 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 02:32:46 +0000 Bibliofuture 42586 at http://lisnews.org Peter Scott, Creator of Hytel-net and Publishers Catalogs, Dead at 66 http://lisnews.org/peter_scott_creator_of_hytelnet_and_publishers_catalogs_dead_at_66 <p>According to a posting by family members on Peter's facebook page, Peter died calmly in his sleep at St. Paul's Hospital, Palliative Care Unit in Saskatoon on December 30.</p> <p>He was an important figure in information and library science, beloved by many. </p> <p><img src="https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/p480x480/1533872_10151800874192373_1754855757_n.jpg" /></p> <p>Here are some biographical bits: </p> <p>Peter Scott was born February 14, 1947, in Walthamstow UK and moved to Canada in 1976. He was the Internet Projects Manager in the University of Saskatchewan Library in Saskatoon. Along with another Saskatoon librarian, Darlene Fichter he served as the editor and content developer for many online directories. </p> <p>He was the creator of <a href="http://www.lights.ca/hytelnet/" rel="nofollow">HYTELNET (1991)</a>, the first electronic browser for Internet resources, developed from 1990. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiLq1LGaMec" rel="nofollow">In his 1991 video</a>, Peter demonstrates a later version of HyTelnet, while an archive lists the resources available through the service. Peter wrote a blog, Peter Scott's Library Blog for Credo Reference. Other web creations are: Twitter Compendium, RSS Compendium, Weblogs Compendium, allrecordlabels.com, Blogging The Blues, Peter Scott's Library Blog, Libdex - (Sold in 2005) and <a href="http://www.lights.ca/publisher/" rel="nofollow">Publishers' Catalogues </a>. This reporter (birdie) first met Peter (via internet) when I asked him to add my company to the listing thirteen years ago. In the interim, we remained good virtual friends.</p> <p>He was also also a blues singer and harmonica player, and had the distinction of winning a Juno Award for having his song "TV Preacher" on the album "Saturday Night Blues" which won "Best Roots and Traditional Music Album" in 1992.</p> http://lisnews.org/peter_scott_creator_of_hytelnet_and_publishers_catalogs_dead_at_66#comments Information Science Internet Librarians News People N Patrons http://lisnews.org/crss/node/42565 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:47:33 +0000 birdie 42565 at http://lisnews.org
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