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The Three Spaces of Libraries


In prepping for a tour for RAs at our college last week I started thinking of libraries in terms of space and realized that libraries are a combination of three distinct spaces: community space, learning space, and virtual space. This was how I ended up framing the tour, and I thought it was pretty helpful.
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Going to the library is like sex


Follow me on this one. It’s a sensational title, but as I was in a library instruction class the professor actually compared going to the library to sex. You can’t get better marketing than this.
We were doing some Q&A towards the end of the session, when the conversation surprisingly turned to libraries and library science [...]

FBML and problem solving


I have risen to a new level of geekdom. The other day, as I was putting together a Facebook page for the library I ran into some problems, so I had to learn some FBML.
We recently switched from Meebo to Digsby for our IM reference widget. I wanted to put that same Digsby widget into [...]