A different kind of Iraqi library story. [thanks ken]
Author: jessamyn
RFID from another angle
Are libraries looking at RFID implementation in other industries? The Ska Librarian, who is now also an agribusiness librarian, sends this link to a 2005 RFID survey from Beef Magazine.
“We wish that our library will help educate people. “
Small private libraries in Iraq.
ALIA highlights: eli, meteors
Two small highlights of my trip. One, seeing Eli’s smiling face on the projection screen at the ALIA dinner. Apparently the ALIA New Graduate’s group had borrowed a powerpoint presentation from ALA’s New Members Round Table with some headshots and little quotes from people about being a new librarian. I looked up from my drink, halfway around the world, and saw Eli and nearly sprayed soda on my tablemates saying “I know her!” Second highlight, flying home and catching some of the Geminid meteor shower from the window of the plane.
library outreach: pub trivia
Andrea and I were chatting outreach options recently. She may not have known that during my freelance lirbarian times, I actually did run a trivia night at a local pub run by a pal of mine from library school. The question lists I created are, naturally, online.