Beverly Cleary is turning 90. Her publisher, Harper Collins, is declaring her birthday Drop Everything and Read Day. More information is on the ALA’s Association for Library Services to Children division’s page. They are just one of the many project partners. [rcb]
Michael Stephens leaves and things go to hell
Hot tempers at the library board meeting. “You are bound and determined you are going to build in German Township. I can see it in your gray hair and eyes,” one St. Joseph County Public Library [IN] board member told the library director. When you’re faced with an underperforming branch in a poor community and you’ve already started the planning process on a new branch in a more affluent community, how do you fold that into your long range plan? And what do you tell the public?
blog: crime in the library
I’m not sure how I missed this for the whole time it’s been up, but the Crime in the Library blog is the sort of thing that RSS readers were made for. My only wish is that they had categories on their posts so that I could subscribe to only the “exposure” feed, for example. [thanks richard]
“Am I really that much of a techie or are my coworkers techno-dinosaurs?”
Another techie librarian hits the blogosphere. The Rock and Roll Librarian shares some podcasting tips among other things.
READ posters, please make your own
Unlike the Springfield Public Library or the Librarian Trading Cards, there isn’t currently a tool to do this, but this LISNews post encourages librarians, and anyone I guess, to make their own READ posters and add them to this group pool. A good fun project while you’re unpacking and dealing with conference re-entry.