Lynn's Library Thoughts

New Book review blog at the Anderson County Library.

lfloydlib — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:15:41 +0000

Check out the New Book Review Blog at the Anderson County Library.

http://andersoncountylibrary.wordpress.com

IMLS on Twitter

lfloydlib — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:25:34 +0000

Follow IMLS on Twitter.

http://www.imls.gov/news/2010/040510.shtm

Digital Native’s Demands

lfloydlib — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:37:14 +0000

http://library.blogs.delaware.gov/2010/02/18/a-digital-natives-demands/

1st Annual Evergreen Conference

lfloydlib — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:28:52 +0000

Interesting what happens when you get a bunch of techie librarians and other tech folks together at a conference. Sometimes things happens, like the new Acquisition module for the Evergreen ILS gets hacked out. You learn about cool new toys like Libstats, Munin, and Splunk.

Problems facing the use of Open source software in a library environment are discussed, everyone of us agreed something needs to be done about it, But what?? As most of us are slowly migrating to Open source platforms and programs. Now if we can just start spreading the word.

Data Migration is the name of the game for some of the conference. This really interest me as we are migrating to Evergreen with the SCLends Consortium in December. Data Cleanup is my nemesis right now.

Serials in Evergreen is comming along. Nice new tools are coming out to help, until a full serials module is finished. Yeah. Great explanation on MFHD by David Fiander, now, to explain it to my Serials staff. Now if Evergreen can predict the future using MFHD.

Nice explanation of OpenSRF by Mike Rylander, thought about building an CMS based on OpenSRF. Just a thought.

Templates, toolkits, and auto-widgets were the focus of one session, what do I need that Evergreen does not offer? Maybe in my spare time I can build it. To do this, I will need to build that test system, after all.

Intersting Library

lfloydlib — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:05:04 +0000

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I found the most interesting Library, while in DC recently at the Cherry Blossom Festival. A Tulip Library, done and managed by the National Park Service. Check out the pictures.

Public libraries are engines of economic growth, studies show

lfloydlib — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:25:37 +0000

Check out the report of the “State of American Libraries” at http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/presscentera/piopresskits/2008statereport/2008statehome.cfm

Audiobook review Site

lfloydlib — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:45:28 +0000

I was catching up on some reading and came across this wonderful site for reviews of audiobooks: Books for Ears. There are not a lot of reviews but more and more are coming. Check it out.

Library Ninja

lfloydlib — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:15:53 +0000

Check out what this High School did.

In 1967 this is what 1999 should have been like

lfloydlib — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:32:45 +0000

Check out this video on what the year 1999 should have been like from the year 1967.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/year1999.asp

Library as Place

lfloydlib — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:39:05 +0000

Check out what these library students are saying about designing a library, either signage, policies, physical place, or atomosphere.