Experience Books, Authors and Readers!

Posted by on October 31, 2011

Books, Authors and thousands of readers!  All of the elements necessary for an excellent experience for a Librarian. I attended the 2011 Texas Book Festival. The Festival provided two full days of books and authors.  My daughter and I had a plan and between the two of us, we either heard or talked at book [...]

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We can solve anything!

Posted by on September 23, 2011

I thought the concept in this article was fantastic!  The medical research community had struggled with HIV/AIDS for decades.  Progress was made but was slowed by the physical complexity of the virus.  Someone had the unique idea to partner with game developers to work on it.  By combining talent from around the world, using tools [...]

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You are what you experience.

Posted by on August 9, 2011

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“You are what you experience!” I was so excited.  What a great phrase! I fashioned it after the phrase, “you are what you eat.”  It gets at my thinking about what libraries should be about – The experiences of the members and the staff combine to make us what we are. I just knew Barlett’s [...]

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Get Your Geek On During National Library Week

Posted by on April 12, 2011

Graphic saying "what do you geek?"

Geek/Verb To love, to enjoy, to celebrate, to have an intense passion for. To express interest in. To possess a large amount of knowledge in. To promote During National Library Week, April 10-16, we’re launching the “Geek the Library” campaign, a community-based public awareness campaign designed to highlight the vital role of the public library [...]

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