E-mail Review!

OK, I obviously stink at keeping up with things.

So I'm going to try again with the keeping it simple. (Simpler.)

This is going to be the things that caught my eye while reading magazines/e-mails about library stuff. It helps me to actually remember/absorb things if I do more than glance at them. Eidetic my memory is not.

ENJOY!

American Libraries Direct e-mail, 06/15/2011

• Charlotte Mecklenburg libraries get a reprieve - While the article doesn't say everything will be all better forever, it in fact indicates that this will only last a year, but maybe this is part of a bigger trend of people actually evaluating the place they want to live and thinking that a library is important to their idea of that place. (Freedom! Information! USA! USA!) And I can only imagine the relief for the employees (only some of them, unfortunately) that got their dismissal slips rescinded.
  
  
• Social Search - It rubs me the wrong way, a little bit too circular, but at the same time I acknowledge that life works that way even WITHOUT the internet so...that's that.
  
  
• Most Americans are not for book banning - Hooray. I mean, that's a pretty low bar, but I'll take it.
  
  
• ACLU vs. Gwinnnett Co. - Looking at the comments on the story in the local paper will make you cry. Just...really? Anyway, I'm for freedom of information, and even if you have to block stuff deemed inappropriate, it's a pretty bold cultural statement these days to say that a site about homosexuality is inherently inappropriate.
  
  
• DigitalLiteracy.goc - New site to help Americans get basics of digital literacy. Pretty interesting, but I think the first step will still be teaching them how to navigate the site.
  
  
• Is the MLIS worth it? - Interesting chart, which points out that most MLIS holders asked would reccomend people following the path, but the younger/newer the holder the more likely they'd be do dissuade someone from following the path.
  
  
• Blue Bins for Book Donations - This is interesting for me because my library doesn't do a book sale, but sends books to an online service that sells them, and we also let them put book donation bins at the branches for people who come in asking to donate books (which we generally don't accept).
  
  
• Library Blog awards - To find people who DO have the capacity to keep up with something like this.

And there you go.

NEXT TIME: Things I saw in Magazines!

(I'm not kidding...)