Comments on: Go Online

By: Kent Barnard

Kent Barnard — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:46:29 +0000

I love your stuff! I, too am writing a paper on the future of technology in libraries.

I am very interested in utilizing technology to bring more young people into libraries — then force them to read books! Not really, but I have heard recently at the WLA Conference of Teens reading while waiting for the video game — even joining book groups.

I wonder if you’ve seen the prototypes for the Aarhus, Denmark Interactrive Children’s library? Here is a page that will take you to three YouTube links:

[…]http://www.paloaltansforcommonsense.com/library/articles/pacl_aarhus_libraries.htm.

If you could forward my email address to Amy Choate, I’d like to correspond with her regarding this subject.

Thanks for a great weblog — I found a few others for reference through yours!
Cheers!
Kent

By: william sawyers

william sawyers — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:50:25 +0000

This sounds a lot of fun. From a child author in Concord, Ca

What would you say to this question?
1. What in your opinion is the best way to get out your name as a child author-Via Internet?

thank you, william sawyers

P.S I write for the ages of 3 on up

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:47:18 +0000

Thanks for sharing everyone. I love the Hennepin and PLCMC feeds, but I’m are they being used on external sites to push the libraries’ content off their websites? That’s more what I’m trying to find examples of. I think Edith’s use is probably the most common example of this, so thanks for posting that URL, too!

By: Amy Choate

Amy Choate — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:56:39 +0000

Hello,

In my technical and scientific writing class I am writing a research paper on the future trends in library science. I have found this blog to be interesting and helpful in some was, but was wondering if anyone here had any information they would like to share on the topic? I plan to focus on the architecture, but other information would be greatly appreciated! Good luck at the conference!

Amy Choate

By: Edith Speller

Edith Speller — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:25:45 +0000

My library, Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts at Trinity College of Music, use RSS feeds to populate our Facebook page with recently acquired items, however it’s all a little clunky (not least because the SimplyRSS facebook app is broken so I have to manually refresh the feeds every few days!). If you’re interested the links are

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=21740454632
http://sirsi3.tcm.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/TRINITY/0/1/179/X?new_gateway_db=ALL&user_id=all&password=
(sorry for the horrific URL — the joy of OPACs…)

Edith

By: Patrice Ebert

Patrice Ebert — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:24:33 +0000

From the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County:

Our program-related and holdings-related RSS feeds are all collected together on this one page — all built in-house. We’ve also got some on Reader’s Club.

http://www.plcmc.org/Programs/rsslist.asp
http://www.plcmc.org/readers_club/rss.asp

I know that our Arts and Science pulls information for their weekly email “CulturePicks.”

Patrice Ebert

By: marcus lowry

marcus lowry — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:44:27 +0000

Hello Jenny,

Hennepin Co library in MN has many RSS available http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/RSS.cfm. I’m trying to convince my system to do the same but their are worried about increasing the request list too much witha feed for items on order.

Thanks,
Marcus Lowry