Resting on Laurels

Well, as you can surely tell, this has been a resounding success what with the depth of my thoughts and the constant nature of my posting.

I did have another post that I started a while back, about censorship and library programming and balancing ideologies, but the internet ate part of it and I decided it just wasn't worth going back through it all. Especially because I changed my mind halfway through so it was basically just a big long block of text wherein I argued myself out of a point I initially made. WHO NEEDS THE CONFUSION?

Anyway, today my goal is simple: Record my takeaways from the Feb. 01, 2011 edition of Library Journal.

• Page 15: An inset about the Consumer Electronics Show which featured many tablets this year, as opposed to the plethora of e-readers featured last year. This is attributed to the lack of an iPad at last year's show. The writer argues that this means that tablets are the wave of the future and that e-readers are already over.
  
  That's premature, in my opinion, because people who love e-readers really seem to LOVE e-readers, and people who want an iPad seem to have an iPad. (Except for me. Sadface. But that's why I got the color nook anyway. Half and half.)
  
  
• Page 17: An essay by Aaron Schmidt about good design and how we should all take stock of the signs in our branches and making sure they are accurate, timely, useful, etc. (Basically not misinformation or extraneous uglification.) Also, simplify signs to the required info. Flowery language is distracting. (That's a lesson I need to learn, think ye not?)
  
  
• Page 24: "The Quiet Plug Crisis" describes the current neet for AS MANY PLUGS AS POSSIBLE OMG in new library buildings, and the troubles old library buildings are having finding places for patrons to plug in and charge up. The article does mention specifically the popularity of tables with pop-up plugs, which we have in my comparitively new library building! Yay! But they don't mention the headache that the cords and cord-covers can cause under the tables. (Ours fall apart because they have heavy metal bases that are attached with plastic pegs to plastic, spinal-column-looking cord covers and the heavy metal bases are always coming unattached and falling to pieces. BAD NEWS BEARS.)
  
  
• Page 28: "Is Your Library Up On Yelp?" Ours is not. Someone should do something about this. This may require the drastic step of an e-mail to management.

And there you have it.

Aren't you happy? At least sanguine?

I dunno. Why does that mean what it means instead of bloody?