GreenLibraries.Org

green libraries
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Want to know more about making your library a green library? Here's a great web site to find out more.

A website dedicated to documenting the greening of libraries in the United States and beyond. This site is frequently being updated. Check back to see the growing list of  libraries that are creating more environmental friendly and sustainable institutions.  This site also contains a list of green resources for assisting libraries who are interested in becoming green.

What makes a Library Green? There are numerous things libraries can do to  become greener. Some examples are:

• Use renewable energy resources such as solar, wind and geothermal
  
• Conserve non-renewable energy and scarce materials
  
• Reduce human exposure to hazardous materials
  
• Implement pedestrian friendly design elements
  
• Support access to alternative transportation like mass transit and bicycles
  

my flickr session attendees

my flickr session attendees
Originally uploaded by curtis rogers

Well, there was one very excited attendee at my Flickr training session at the LIBRIS conference yesterday! The sessions were great and I was very impressed with the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing & Technology. It was an amazing facility and the 3D demo was truly fascinating. It was very high tech!!!

Group photo with Lindsey Graham

Group photo with Lindsey Graham
Originally uploaded by curtis rogers

Well today was the full day on the hill meeting with SC's politicians! We were able to briefly meet with Lindsay Graham and tell him about the importance of libraries in SC. Overall, I think we had some great meetings (but mostly with staff members) and conveyed important messages about LSTA funding, School Libraries, E-Rate and Broadband, and other hot topics. For more information about NLLD, visit http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washevents/nlld/nlld2008.cfm.

NLLD Day 1

lunch day 1
Originally uploaded by curtis rogers

We went to a yucky irish pub that had NO vegetarian options! a 1st for me in 7 years! had to settle on a bowl of steamed broccoli... went to starbucks after and they were even out of fruit n cheese plates and had to have a deviled egg sandwich... argh!

anyway, we all got our packets and picked up some pointers for tomorrow when we visit with our legislators from SC (or their staffers which will more likely be the case...) my job will be to talk about LSTA reauthorization so i better read up tonight!

National Library Legislative Day 2008

National Library Legislative Day 2008
Originally uploaded by ALA Washington Office

Well, it's Saturday morning and I'm at the Columbia, SC airport heading out to DC for NLLD 2008! We have ten people from SC headed up to DC ! I hope we're able to make an impact on our political representatives about the need for more funding for SC libraries!

Put the word Really OUT there!

sochilswingbrd
Originally uploaded by sochilllibrary

I love how this library advertises! Makes it easy to understand what's going on at the library!

iRex launches new iLiad Book Edition e-book reader - Engadget

iRex launches new iLiad Book Edition e-book reader - Engadget

YOUR LIBRARY'S URL

presentation slide
Originally uploaded by curtis rogers

This is SUCH an important thing for libraries to understand. Patrons just THINK of your web site address... kind of like they do for other things... if you are going out looking for your local library, wouldn't you think like this too? Why is this so difficult for people to understand? Let's try and make it easy for folks to fund us, not difficult...

Poll on Child Porn in the Library

15 minute PC
Originally uploaded by curtis rogers

Well, my last poll wasn't being responded to - probably too long and too boring. Here's a new one. If you're reading this on a RSS reader, visit my blog and see the new poll on the right and vote. Also feel free to comment on what YOU think a library staff member should do when they happen to see a patron accessing child porn on the library's public internet workstation.

Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008

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Dewey Decimal?

Dewey Decimal
Originally uploaded by Gexydaf

During my April poll of visitors to my blog I posed the question, Should public libraries do away with DEWEY? Not too surprisingly, 17% of respondents said YES, and 82% said NO. This was out of a total of 63 votes. So, visitors to my blog think that libraries should keep the Dewey Decimal system! I'm actually kind of surprised that so many voted to do away with Dewey as I figured more would want to keep Dewey in libraries. According to Wikipedia, the Dewey Decimal system was revised in 2004 but is it a good classification system compared to LC or others? Did you know there is a Belgian Universal Classification system, and a Nippon and Chinese classification system? Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification and comment on what you think about classification systems for libraries. Is a browsing collection better for your patrons?

Ask a Librarian - Talking to SLIS students about Web 2.0

VR-slippers-sm
Originally uploaded by K.Jane

I had a wonderful time this past Saturday at Dr. Linda Walling's SLIS class, Humanities Reference! There were some very interested students who voiced their opinions about Web 2.0 and asked lots of questions. This is one of my favorite library signage images I have seen in Flickr.

Here are all of the links we reviewed and discussed:

What is Web 2.0?
What do you already know?
How does it relate to humanities and research?

Define Web 2.0
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Resources


Flickr.com
o K Jane http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjane/sets/1436299/

YouTube.com
o http://www.youtube.com/user/scstatelibrary for promotion/training
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS28qydjfsg&feature=related OTIS library

Librarything.com
o http://www.librarything.com/groups/librarianswholibrar

Meebo.com, Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/), KoolIM.com, etc.
o http://www.lander.edu/library/
o http://www.infodepot.org/zUsing/AskLibIM.asp
o http://liswiki.org/wiki/Chat_reference_libraries

Text reference
o http://www.library.yale.edu/science/textmsg.html

Facebook.com
o Search on University Library
§ Creating a Facebook application
§ Blending RSS feeds: http://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Carolina-State-Library/7093302003?ref=s

MySpace.com
o http://www.myspace.com/gtlibrary

Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, etc.
o http://leecountypubliclibrary.blogspot.com/
o http://www.dancohen.org/
o http://lawlit.blogspot.com/
o http://www.readwriteweb.com/
o http://www.bloglines.com/
o http://tametheweb.com/
o http://librarybytes.com/
o http://librarycrunch.com/

Also there was a great article I shared titled, "Managing Social Network Tools" in ONLINE May/Jun 2008.

Fairfield Read-In 2008

K-12 students, teachers, and librarians gather together at the Old Armory in Winnsboro, South Carolina, for the 12th annual Fairfield County Read-In celebrating reading!

Ed Madden, Ray McManus, and Susan Meyers

poets discuss their prize winning books at the SC Center for the Book.

Celebrating National Poetry Month

Here's a little animoto promotional video I created for the three SC Poetry Prize winners who spoke recently at the SC Center for the Book.