Friday, April 03, 2009

ramblings

next week i'll be in dallas at the sirsidynix user group conference you'll hear from me from there, maybe more on flickr than here

here are nuggets to chew on while I'm gone:

More than Books: http://morethanbooks.ning.com/
This group created a community for midwest librarians with Ning.
They used the Ning Network help pages and community pointers to build the site. They also outlined what worked, what didn’t and what they learned. They want to encourage use of the Ning beyond class and will continue to work on it.

http://www.popgadget.net/2009/03/turn_your_words.php
love this idea, soundfiles into bracelets. say what you want

st john's county uses bookletters to do patron reviews...
http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/bookletter/showlist.html?sid=5003&list=CNL20

funny
http://www.libgig.com/node/1105

ROI from DLK
http://www.davidleeking.com/2009/04/01/cil2009-what-is-the-return-on-investment-for-your-library/
Guy Dobson:
He is figuring total value by mining SIRSI records on borrowing use and an averaged item price. Nice. Some patron’s library cards are worth more than $10,000 per year, because they check out so much!


the future of libraries, take it from the good folks at Darien:
http://www.blyberg.net/2009/04/03/the-darien-statements-on-the-library-and-librarians/



bhe-bye!

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