I have 43 subscriptions in my “Information + Libraries” folder in GoogleReader. Over the past few weeks I have been thinking about dropping a few as I am finding that more and more the unread items are building up. I’m sure I can cut it down simply by taking out a few that are no longer being updated but that doesn’t sort out the mountain of unread items. So the actual number of subscriptions doesn’t matter it’s the frequency at which they are updated. Should I then just drop the prolific authors? Surely not if the content they’re posting is [...]
December, 2009:
What makes a library a library?
Earlier this week Sarah Houghton-Jan wrote a post on her blog Librarian in Black about the new staffless library in King County. In this post she raised the question “What makes a library a library?” Yesterday Buffy Hamilton posted her response to this question. She took her camera and asked the users of her library at Creekview High School for their thoughts. The result is this video: I find it interesting to hear the atmosphere of the library constantly referred to. Here the image of that library atmosphere is projected as somewhere safe, comfortable and engaging to be to meet [...]
