Librarian by Day Bobbi Newman | I'm not that kind of librarian

I feel I need to make a clarification on yesterday's post title How to Talk to Your Patrons About Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to Libraries - Penguin did NOT stop doing business with libraries. They stopped doing business with OverDrive. As Publisher's Lunch Points out: As we have reported multiple times, but does not seem to have seeped out into general reports or public consciousness, multiple publishers have told us that Overdrive's implementation of their Kindle library lending--in which library patrons are sent to a commercial, third-party retailer, in this case Amazon--is Read more [...]

[edited 2/11/2012] I feel I need to clarify that Penguin did not stop doing business with libraries, they stopped doing business with OverDrive, read more here. And how to get them to talk to the Publishers. I've had this post in my drafts for a long time. I originally planned to include it in my November post Penguin Pulls eBooks From Public Libraries Dropping it Down to 1 of the Big 6 Publishers Playing Nice With Libraries, but cut it at the last minute.  Thanks to Sarah's post about Penguin's decision to end it's contract with OverDrive. I'm digging it out and polishing it off. In Read more [...]

Wow! Hard to believe when this all started I could read all the posts by all the bloggers. Now I couldn't if I wanted to, never mind the tweets. Some numbers from Round 8 of the Library Day in the Life Project, Twitter has made it increasingly hard to get data from Tweets by closing access for services such as WhattheHashTag and TwapperKeeper, so I don't have the numbers from Twitter like I have in the past.  My best estimate is that there were over 1,000 people tweeting with the #libday8 hashtag. From the wiki: 350 people have registers 20 Countries including: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Read more [...]

Ok not really. At least I don't think so. Based on how many people I talked with at MidWinter who didn't know about the election process or what Executive Board does it might be. :-) Several people contacted me and asked me to elaborate on the Executive Board process and experience I mentioned in my MidWinter reflections post. It does seem odd to me that there isn't more information out there about the process, especially from past candidates. No one said I couldn't talk about it and since I have been very transparent over the years about most, if not all, of my professional endeavors I thought Read more [...]

This year has brought many changes, one of them is less blogging. It is hard to believe there was a point when I blogged everyday, now I spend my 5am-6am time studying. At the beginning of 2010 I decide to try something new and each week pick the top ten, the best of the best of the links I'd shared on Twitter that week. I still share a lot on Twitter (though not as much) and I still think that those links are important, so I'm torn about the Top Ten Links posts. I think there is still value in them, though I guess the more important question is - Do you? If I do continue posting them I'm Read more [...]