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Top five TED talks for librarians
Inspired by the brilliant Library blog Agnostic, maybe who made a list of top five TED talks that librarians should watch, I wanted to make my own list. Why don´t you do to? 1. Temple Grandin – The...
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Why did you become a librarian?
“I love to read!” Is the most common answer to the question of why you became a librarian. Sometimes longtime librarians sigh a little at this and start going on about how libraries are about so much...
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iPad in my library
I’m lucky enough to be working in a great library. Last June the library director, Marit Gro Berge, approved a project to give an iPad to all librarians working the reference desk. I was given the...
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The library card is a barrier to library use
I just came back from London and the Internet Librarian International conference. (The twitter stream is the best way to get an impression). The conference was one of the best I have ever been to....
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What, me worry? Or the Amazon “Library”
I am about as worried about the Amazon Kindle Lending Library as I would be if a guy set up a box of worn paperbacks outside the library entrance and offered to lend them to people for $ 1 as they...
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The future of the book, and libraries
It is really hard to think about the future of the book and not link it to the future of libraries. But increasingly it seems that this is something we must do. The nature of the book will change in...
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Coding in libraries – a new service?
There are so many things happening around in libraries these days. I love how some libraries are becoming makerspaces, and other libraries are connecting to their communities in new and creative ways....
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A crowdfunded library?
I´m an enthusiastic supporter of crowdfunding and use Kickstarter.com as much as I can. Just yesterday a new crowdfunding proposal appeared on my radar. LIBRII is an attempt to make a template for a...
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A touch interface for library use
Of the many things I want to fix in this world the library digital services interface is among the top five. The interface for searching that works on a computer screen where you can use a mouse or...
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The librarian smartphone
The XKCD phone Seeing as everybody and their dog is launching a smartphone these days I thought we should have a librarian smartphone, or since librarian and smart are just synonyms, we’ll call it the...
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