Michael’s blog makes an ongoing good point about technology which is that it needn’t always be expensive, or horribly complicated. His new list 10 Things A Library Can Do to Boost their Techie Stuff (without breaking the bank) has great tips.
Author: jessamyn
GLBT Book Month, coming up
big and beautiful, take a gander at Seattle’s new library
Seattle Public Library is opening May 23rd and sneak peek pictures are showing up everywhere: Arcspace, technobiblio, reluct & Pac NW Magazine [thanks all]
and now, on the other coast
I’ll have to pay more attention to the news stories, does the new Seattle Public Library have free wireless? Boston Public does, in all their branches. Here are some pictures of that lovely library. [thanks rebecca]
speaking of Seattle public
You know, I never call catalogers “catalog librarians” which is probably an oversight on my part. Seattle Times has a little profile on one of SPLs cataloguing librarians
“My husband would probably tell you I do a little too much thinking about the library after-hours. But it’s not the kind of job where I get paged in the middle of the night for a cataloguing emergency.”