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To Dewey or Not to Dewey…
There have been a few articles and blog posts written in the past few years about disbanding the children’s collection of materials and rather than using the Dewey Decimal Classification and instead going for a more “bookstore” feel with books separated by subject matter. I’ve been intrigued with this idea, but…
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E-books in Libraries!?!?!?!?!
Did you know that you can (most likely) borrow e-books from your public library? Sadly, in a report done by the Pew Research Center found that only 12% of e-book readers borrowed an e-book from their libraries in the past year. This then begs the question…. Why not? The report goes into the…
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aMAZE me
I first saw this as a Yahoo article – a labyrinth created of over 250,000 books as part of an art installation in London. You can see it for yourself with some of the photographs taken for Yahoo. The walls are 2.5 meters high and the entire maze is 500…
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Childhood Favorites
My brother and sister-in-law came out to visit me for a long weekend and as we were catching up with each other’s lives, my brother turns to me and asks if I remember a certain book from our childhood that my mom read aloud to us. Let me…
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Which Books Should You Read This Summer?
I must really be in to infographics this week. I found this great infographic with 101 book choices for this summer. It was created by teach.com for high school teens as a way to encourage reading for fun this summer. It’s a great big flowchart with both fiction and nonfiction options. Now…
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Are School Librarians Necessary?
YES!!!!! The Colorado State Library has done a number of amazing studies in the field of library science. Recently, I came across an infographic that shows how school librarians have made a difference in the state test scores of Colorado student. Check out the amazing infographic! I never really considered…
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Daniel Rubin Column
Daniel Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer posted an article today entitled “Libraries’ Experts on Call: A Dwindling Breed” about the librarians of the Free Library of Philadelphia that field the general information questions posed by patrons. Within the article Daniel Rubin points out how the 14 in-demand librarians of the…
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Worst Master’s Degrees…(drum roll please)
Last month Forbes Magazine published an article titled The Best and Worst Master’s Degrees for Jobs. Not surprisingly, careers in the medical field are on the rise as are careers in computer science and engineering, economics, and physics. The worst master’s degree to have currently, according to Forbes…. you guessed…
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“Where are the good chapter books?”
As a reference librarian, I am guaranteed to get some people asking me the most interesting, weird, cute, and ridiculous questions known to mankind. Questions (by adults usually) like, “Can you help me find a book? I can’t remember the title or author, but I know the cover was blue and it was…
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Weathering the Storm
As I was trolling other blogs that I try to keep up with, I found this inforgraphic that I felt the need to share. It was very relevant to me, I just finished a summer course in Public Budgeting and Finance where I was required to write an 8 –…