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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The following is from a summary of The Kids & Family Reading Report (www.scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/news/readingreport.htm) . A study of 501children ages 5 - 17 reveals that 75% of those studied love technology, and 62% of them prefer reading printed books to downloadable books. Further, after age eight, high frequency Internet users are more likely to read [...]
Keeping current
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Word has trickled back to me that this blog should be more up-to-date. I agree. The library administration is two full-time staff (the account clerk and me) with 2 part-time assistants. So there are times when the blog slips to the bottom of the priority list. That said, I’ll try to keep current.
There will be [...]
Youth, the Internet and libraries
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Catching up on my professional reading, I’ve come across 2 articles of note about under-25s and Internet resources in Library Hotline. The first article (1/14/08) summarizes an Idaho report “Perceptions of Idaho’s Digital Natives in Libraries” (for the full report visit libraries.idaho.gov/files/default/2007-digital-native-rpt.pdf ). Research on the habits of Idaho’s under 25 population (those raised [...]
News from Colorado
Monday, April 14th, 2008Library Board president Patty Garnett is vacationing in Colorado. Like most library lovers, she includes libraries in her itinerary and her reading matter. She recently sent me an article from Durango Magazine -”A New ‘Heart’ for Durango” by Indiana Reed. Durango is a city of under 14,000 in LaPlata County. The article states:
“By the end [...]
And now it’s November
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007They tell me that when you keep a blog you need to update it regularly. That’s not so easy to do when you pause for a breath and notice that suddenly it’s November! Since July, when we presented a conceptual drawing for the new building we have been working steadily towards presenting a referendum in [...]
Who uses the library?
Thursday, March 1st, 2007I recently finished our annual report for the state, detailing library use for our fiscal year July 2005 to June 2006. The numbers tell the story of how busy to bursting our library is.
141,535 items: books, audiobooks, videos, DVDs and music CDs were checked out. We borrowed 21,824 items from other libraries for our patrons, [...]
Why does the community need a new library when it has amazon.com and Netflix?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007The public library is often referred to as the People’s university. In 1852, in a report to the City Council, trustees of the Boston Public Library “noted that the role of the public library extended far beyond the support of formal education when they stated that the library ‘was also seen to be the next [...]
A library is…
Monday, December 11th, 2006In April 1992 there was an article in American Libraries titled “Ten Ways to Look at a Library.” [author Joe Rizzo of the Hillier Group, Princeton, NJ architectural firm]. His premise is that as your library’s mission is to serve everyone in the community regardless of age, ethnicity, profession, economic circumstances, religion, political affiliation (have [...]
Paying the Piper
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006The local papers are focused on the story of Goshen’s new sewer treatment plant. $23 million over 30 years with village water bills going from $100 per year to $400 per year. Planning for a new sewage treatment plant began 11 years ago. “What’s that got to do with the library?” you ask.
Nothing. Yet [...]
Summer Scramble
Thursday, July 13th, 2006The Summer Reading club is in full swing. If you’ve been in the library in the afternoons when program sessions have ended and Goshen’s children are reporting on their reading, you know just how hectic it is. It’s wonderful to see so many famiies in the library. It’s also a little scarey because [...]
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