Around Valentine’s Day, my local library held an event in conjunction with one of the middle schools where the students got to speed date with books.
Boy do I wish they did this when I was in middle school. At least then I would have had at least one date. [sad trombone].
If your idea of a library is row upon row of nicely shelved hardcovers, then you’ll be in for a surprise when a planned new library in San Antonio opens this fall.
“Think of an Apple store,” Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff says while explaining the layout of the new library, BiblioTech.
In keeping with technological advances, the county will house a library of neatly arranged LCD screens and gadgets instead of the traditional banquet of dog-eared print and paper books. The public library will be one of the first digital-only libraries of its kind.
With 50 computer terminals and a stock of laptops and tablets on-site, the building will also offer an array of preloaded e-readers available for the card-carrying customer to take home.
I will be curious on its success (or lack thereof)..
When the Sauk City Public Library purchased a three-dimensional printer, the library’s director didn’t envision it as just a cool new piece of technology for the small-town library.
I have seen the future and I like what I see.
Fine Amnesty Starts Today!
For the next three weeks, bring back your overdue materials and we will forgive your fines!
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GREAT NEWS! If you live in Chicago and have fines on your library card, now is the time to visit!
Yay! that the libraries will be open again but..
Boo! that in order to do so they are only hiring lower-paid pages and NOT librarians.
You don’t have to be outdoors to have a fun summer. In fact, some of the most gratifying and enriching activities might happen within the four walls of one of our country’s 123,000 public libraries.
It’s easy to see why. Libraries offer an easy, accessible and low cost way to read books and…
You all use your local library, right? Right?!
It’s a book! No, it’s a charger!
For just $50 (or so) it too can be yours…
I'm everywhere and now I am here.
