South Carolina Public Libraries

I love David Lee King's presentations. They're beautiful and full of great content. Here are two recent favourites on SlideShare: Emerging Trends, 2.0 & Libraries Fishing in the Rivers of Change ... While Wearing Your Hipboots I wish I had seen these two in person, and I think he equals me for the number of slides in a short speech. Catch David at the SirsiDynix COSUGI Conference in March. Stephen  

Helene Blowers is suggesting that we review these charts and I agree: Sharing... Responding ... Engaging A comparison of these three charts from ShareThis is very interesting ... Check out the full report here: The Value of Sharing: Social Engagement Libraries have been about sharing things like books and collections and sharing knowledge like answering questions forever. Is sharing muttating? How do we adapt to remain what we...  

Released today: Dec. 22, 2009: Public Library Use, 1997-2007, Per Capita Visits in the US Source: Public Libraries Survey, FY1997-FY2007, IMLS/NCES IMLS Announces New Research Brief: Service Trends in U.S. Public Libraries, 1997-2007 "Washington, DC—The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announces the release of a new research brief, Service Trends in U.S. Public Libraries, 1997-2007. The brief identifies important changes...  

Yep - AccessMyLibrary is mobile! The iPhone/GPS app AccessMyLibrary from Gale will point you to libraries within a 10-mile radius of your location. (libraries that do not subscribe to a Gale product are not shown - which isn't a large number). You can then select a library and obtain access to all its Gale electronic resources. You can also use this app to find the address or to contact libraries in your area. Read Garys god review at...  

I emjoyed this presentation about what the big issues are in acadeic libraries: The Future of Digital Librarianship in Academic Libraries: Trends, Prognostication, and Perhaps a Little Science Fiction by Michael J. Giarlo Just 56 slides. Stephen