Incidentally, one of the things I took away from the DNC was the importance of stressing the importance of voting, especially local voting. While I’m pretty critical of the ALA’s register to vote @ your library campaign — which should be called the “print out and mail this form at your own expense but only if you have an email address, otherwise you’re completely SOL @ your library” campaign — there are local elections where voting makes a huge difference and apathy can cost you money, no two ways about it. Pop Goes the Library has some good program ideas for mixing pop culture and democracy at your library.
Author: jessamyn
prose and cons – a directory of prison libraries
This directory of state prison librarians [and libraries] is an essential resource for anyone concerned with library service in correctional institutions.
Obama on reading and anti-intellectualism
Another observation stemming from the DNC. Obama’s speech [which you can read it its entirety here] disussing anti-intellectualism, further discussed by the New York Times. Librarians take note.
summer reading program dares getting out of hand
Librarian starts her cross-Iowa bicycle ride to raise awareness of the public library funding crisis.
Google tutorial
Google Guide is a site that helps nvoice and experienced users learn more about how to effectively use Google. The author has written How to do Everything with Google and has released this tutorial site under a Creative Commons license. Apparently she did some serious research on Google Answers to prepare.