SaveOurLibraries.org used to be the domain for the Save America’s Libraries campaign that now has this little page with a crap URL on the ALA site. Now there’s another site at SaveOurLibraries.com that addresses some of the recent issues surrounding the San Francisco Public Library. I see the unlinked acronym RFID there, I’m interested to see where this goes.
Author: jessamyn
kicking patron ass? where do I sign up?
The proprietor of LibrariansHappen.org has invited you to “Kick some patron ass with me.” I enjoyed today’s Open Letter to Microsoft
hi – 23jun
Hi. I’m heading to the wedding this weekend instead of ALA and, as with every conference I miss, it seems like this one will be the conference to end all conferences. Next weekend I’ll be hosting an informal drop-in all-weekend BBQ up at my house in Central Vermont. Anyone who is anyplace nearby and would like to stop in and say hello, please consider yourself warmly invited.
access should be on your MIND before the building project, not after
Seattle Public’s new building has some serious accessibility flaws, say disabled users. While some of these concerns are stylistic, some are quite serious and should have been thought about before the design was finalized. People with disabilities were invited to give their input about the design, but felt that it was ignored. SPL says it is willing to make changes. Similarly today ALA discussed making the ALA web site more friendly to the visually disabled stating [on the Council list] “[T]he Web Advisory Committee and ASCLA are currently working with ITTS on a priority list for implementing accessibility on an application by application basis.” Wouldn’t it have been nicer — and cheaper — if they had made accesibility a priority before they built the site?
who do the vendors work for?
Are vendors really making what libraries want? A look at the e-book “explosion” and Daniel Walter’s recent comments which provoked a vendor response. Walter’s answer: no. Vendors answer: a not-unsurprising “of course”