I was perusing academic library websites again and was struck by the website of the Yavapai College Library. Yavapai College is a two-year college of unusual size (there are 5 campuses in Arizona with the two main campuses located in Prescott and Verde Valley (Clarkdale)). The library website is visually very appealing and features its videos very prominently to promote library services. So for [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Videos Promoting Library Services
Posted in Libraries, tagged Promoting Library Services on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Publish or Perish? This Guy Will Live Forever
Posted in News, Publishing, Weird news, tagged Vanity publishing on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history of the planet.” And he makes money doing it. ” The New York Times reports; link via Library Link of the Day for April [...]
This is Very Cool, I Think!
Posted in Doings on other blogs, Library blogs, News, tagged Library blogs on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are a lot of library-related blogs in the blogosphere. I came across yet another interesting one here on WordPress called Closed Stacks and in its blogroll I came across the intriguingly named Library Link of the Day. It proved to be the case that those are very interesting links, indeed.
On March 13th this year, the site linked [...]
Library Week Happenings
Posted in Libraries, News, tagged Library week on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology has Library Week featured on its Library News sidebar. Clicking on it takes one to the library’s blog where, among other things, readers are invited to nominate the “Best Book Ever” . Most of the novels chosen are likely to be familiar to all of us [...]
Cheap New Books via PDF?
Posted in Books and reading, News, tagged PDF books, SUNY Press on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“SUNY press has announced an initiative to sell .pdf files of new books for only $20.00 for a title that costs $75.00 in hardcover. And you can browse the first two pages of every chapter absolutely free! What a daring initiative! ” Read more at the ACRLog
IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums and the Internet
Posted in Libraries, tagged IMLS, Internet on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Researchers have completed the “IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums and the Internet,” a study that delves into the use of libraries, museums and the Internet. The study concludes that “the amount of use of the Internet is positively correlated with the number of in-person visits to museums and has a positive [...]
Have We Told Our Two Year Colleges Lately That We Love Them?
Posted in Libraries, News, tagged Two year colleges on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks back I waxed lyrical about the blogs on the the GSU web site. I got to thinking today that it would be fun to look for other libraries doing things that are worth noting. I chose to look in Montana, just because. Just because it is so far away and I don’t think [...]
