Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Meme: What Dewey Decimal Number are You?




Emily's Dewey Decimal Section:

078 Newspapers in Scandinavia

Emily's birthday: 9/5/1983 = 95+1983 = 2078


Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works


Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.



What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Monday, October 20, 2008

To do:

Make a manual of what to do if there was an issue and a request for preservation was issued.

PLI NOTES: Library Governance

310: No tax given to them
470: People vote to give money to library
710: People petitioned to give tax money to library


Do we have copyright law posted by the copy machine? We used to.

173.060 – Board must meet once a month.
173.040 – Missing four monthly meetings means automatic resignation.
173.040 – Library board is volunteer.
Trustee terms are 4 years each. People can serve two terms consecutively.
OMA – Board meetings must be open. Unless buying/selling land, discussing litigation, discussing appointment/discipline/dismissal of employee.
61.825 – Special meetings must abide by specific rules.
ORA – all records are open for inspection. NOT individual circ records. We can charge (up to .10 per page) to print out these records.

After being appointed/elected to public office in KY, you cannot fight a duel.

Fiscal Year July 1- June 30, by state law.
Boards have 5 members, also by state law. (Some with 7 have extenuating circumstances.)

Library board has one employee – the director.
Citizen visitors to board meetings do not have to identify themselves, unless they plan to speak.

Staff should not show up at the board meeting with a complaint, go through your director first please.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Hmmm.

Do you know your library's mission statement? “The Nelson County Public Library strives to anticipate and serve the changing needs of its growing community.” That's what is on our website, anyway.

Why don't we post our minutes on the webpage?

PLI NOTES: Library history

Library History

1638- Harvard Research Library founded. Oldest Library in the country.
Ben Franklin founded the first Lending library. Membership by subscription.
Library of congress begun to assist congress to create policy. Destroyed in 1812, Thomas Jefferson sold his personal collection to them to help rebuild.
Boston had the first public library in 1848.
“In a public library, men could at least share cultural opportunities on a basis of equality.” --Carnegie.
Seven Carnegie libraries still operating in KY. Four in Louisville.
Packhorse Librarians – Took books to Eastern KY by horseback, donated by Western KY patrons. Like early bookmobiles.
Trueviewers were distributed by libraries.
First bookmobiles were converted hearses and ambulances.
There are two KY counties with no library service. Carter & McLean. Why?
Now we are getting support from Bill and Melinda Gates, Laura Bush.
SELA Southeastern Library Association
KDLA
ALA
KLA
KPLA
ilovelibraries.org

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Beth Galloway is awesome, part 2

Etools for DND. Auto leveling, stats.

Teen Gaming interest group

Games: goals.
Tools
Learning
Second chances
Goals: winning, shiny things, levels

LEET on wikipedia.

Carol has never been to game night in a public library. How long has she been around?

http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/

Use games for readers advisory
Be a strategy guide - not a level boss
Embrace your inner techno geek
Embrace change!!
Immerse in pop culture


The adventures of Blue Avenger

Teen Tech Week March 2009

Gamingwithchildren.com
videogame librarian.com
mediafamily.org (take with grain of salt?)

Handheld Program: cellphone clinic
PSP gamefest
DS party

Guitar Hero Tournament (red octane.com)

Library wish list online?

Overdrive will be offering video games soon?

Offering games from one console, but allow donations from other consoles.

Helen McGraw gaming check out policy looks good. $35 cap, means no new games? Buy used games from gamestop? Promised to work.

aadl.org (Eli has made their leaderboard available for libraries.

aadl.org/aadlgt

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

MyFacebook and Beyond: Beth Galloway

web 2.0 – web as platform (sims onstage)
collective intelligence (wikispaces)
data driven (slideshare)
everything is in beta (meebo)
simple programming (facebook)
cross platform (twitter)
rich user experience

assumptions:
everything meant to be shared
everything is meant to be critiqued.
everything is meant to be remixed.

programming
slideshow of teen pages. “This is my page” and why.
pimp your myspace
lecture/demo for parents?

author connections
biographical myspace
career mentoring
author connections

Links:
http://www.zinch.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/informationgoddess29
http://usernamecheck.com/
http://thesimsonstage.ea.com/index.html
http://www.gcast.com/?nr=1&&s=107261189

Monday, August 18, 2008

Book Rec: The Wednesday Wars

Schmidt, Gary D.
THE WEDNESDAY WARS
New York: Clarion, 2007.

Holling Hoodhood is pretty sure that his teacher hates his guts. Between trying to have eighth graders assassinate him at recess and forcing him to read Shakespeare during their Wednesday private lessons, Holling doesn't have much hope of surviving the seventh grade. But when Mrs. Baker's "plot" to bore Holling with Shakespeare fails, Holling discovers that maybe there is much more to himself than just being "The Boy Who Will Inheirit Hoodhood And Associates". Maybe Shakespeare (with a little help from Mrs. Baker) can help him survive seventh grade afterall.



(By the end of the book, I was so intensely proud of Holling, I cried. <3)