BlogJunction Maine
A weblog for the WebJunction Maine library community
Andrew Keen, in his new book The cult of the amateur, ruminates on the blizzard of blogs and other user-generated free content on the Internet. Everything from Wikipedia, YouTube, and MySpace fall under Keen’s scathing polemic.
The author is no Luddite. He is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has written for paper and online resources. He [...]
I live in the Bangor Daily News ciruclation area and am always impressed at the amount of news from and about libraries that appears each week. Here are two recent examples from the BDN:
The Stewart Public Library in Corinna is offering a series of concerts this summer on the library lawn starting on June 14 [...]
Does your library’s physical environment reflect the needs and wants of your community? Is it making a good impression? If you can’t say yes to both questions, maybe you need an SPA – Sensory Perception Audit.
Julia Cooper, a consultant to bookstores and libraries and a librarian herself, offers a terrific guide to evaluating your library inside [...]
This article originally published in Wisconsin in 2004 still rings true and comes highly recommended from the Maine regional library consultants. Its key point is that nothing hurts the public image of a library more than overt disputes between the Director and the Board. The author offers preventive measures and advice on what to do when the [...]
With great regret, blended with humor and fond memories, the Maine Library world wished Karl Beiser, first InfoNet CEO, a well-deserved retirement. An excellent dinner at the Spectacular Events Center in Bangor was followed by comments full of appropriate accolades from Gary Nichols, State Librarian. Gary referred to Karl’s authorship of a book about cross country [...]