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Geek the Library

June 23, 2009

Monday OCLC kicked off their Geek the Library campaign with Iowa (my home state!) and Georgia (my current state!). What is Geek the Library? Its a community-based public awareness campaign. The idea is to increase public awareness of libraries and the important role they play and the funding we so desperately need. People can share what they are passionate about using geek as a verb Geek\Verb. To love, to enjoy, to celebrate, to have an intense passion for. To express interest in. To possess a large amount of knowledge in. To promote I love (or is that geek?) the potential of this campaign! When they get the gear up I’ll be first in line for a shirt and coffee cup! Right now they are testing the campaign in Georgia and Iowa, with plans to kick off nationwide in 2010. I’ll be interested to see how it plays out. The site looks slick and being a geek is cool in many circles now, I’m sure it will be a hit with librarian. Will it raise public awareness and more importantly funding for libraries? I hope so. For the public they have show your support page. I do with they had made

Change is coming – a new job for me

April 13, 2009

By Bobbi Newman

There is no way to say this other than to just come out and say it. Effective May 18th I will be the Digital Branch Manager of the Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System. This is a new position they have created for the purpose of planning, building and managing the Digital Branch, its going to be a lot of fun (and hard work!) I’m excited, nervous and about 20 other emotions right now, but most of all I’m really looking forward to it! For those of you looking at your atlas CVRLS is in Columbus, Georgia, which means I will be spending the next couple of weeks packing my things and relocating. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

Back in the game

January 6, 2009

By Bobbi Newman

After taking a week off from week and all things library and we related it’s hard to get back into the game so I’m just going to jump right in. Here are some things that caught my eye as I’ve been playing catch up Stephanie Zimmerman sang the T is for Training theme song Karin Dalziel blogged her thoughts about librarians learning to program, Dorothea Salo responded to Karin, as did Meredith Farkas. My two cents, I lean towards Karin’s side. This article about woman gamers Joshua Neff’s appearance on his local NPR station to talk about libraries It’s time to register for Computers in Libraries if you’re going Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

Looking back – the year in review

December 22, 2008

By Bobbi Newman

The year isn’t even over and I’m already looking forward into 2009, as far forward as April! I thought before I get too caught up in what’s to come, I should take a look back at 2008. This list is more for me than you, sometimes I get so busy I forget what I’ve been up to, so I’m picking one major event from each month to remind myself of all that has happened in 2008 January – Library Learning 2.1 kicked off February – cohosted a two day Web 2.0 workshop for the state library March – attended Kansas Library Camp April – Presented at a conference in England May – the laptops from my grant arrived enabling the library to offer new patron and staff training, starting me on a 6 months journey of patron training June – presented at Mobius (state consortium) July – I successfully start my first library meme – A Day in the Life of a Library …. takes off! August – cohosted a 4 day workshop on Web 2.0 September – I brought this idea back from a vacation in Denver, we’ll be using it during our National Library Week celebrations in April

What DO you wish your patrons knew?

December 12, 2008

By Bobbi Newman

I copied this post from The MLXperience to ask you – What DO you wish your patrons knew? Seattle Books Examiner’s Danielle Dreger-Babbitt took an informal poll of librarians in Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York City, and Portland about what they wish library patrons knew or did. Here’s the shortlist: 1. Use us! 2. We support Intellectual Freedom 3. Be respectful of our library patrons 4. Pay your fines 5. Return your items on time 6. Tell us what you like 7. If possible, check out all materials at once from the circulation desk 8. Please listen to us the first (or even second) time we say something 9. Practice good hygiene 10. Let your librarian know what materials you’d like to see on the shelf 11. The library has almost as many DVD’s as your local video store 12. Hang up your cell phone when you come to the reference desk (or circulation desk) 13. Please be patient with us 14. We like it when you thank us 15. Please respect the desk barrier 16. Come to our programs! 17. Do not leave your child (or children) unattended- for their safety 18. Ask us what we read 19.

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