Librarians know stuff
Libraries are green and local.
Librarians know stuff.
Librarians get in fights.
NPR's Linda Holmes weighs in on "
Why The Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries."
ian@monroefreelibrary.org (Ian)
The ultimate archive: LoC
If you liked last week's
post about digitization at the Library of Congress and you're ready to seriously geek out on film preservation:
Ken Weisman, director of the LoC's film preservation program, writes about preserving seriously unstable like nitrate stock and paper (!) film.
ian@monroefreelibrary.org (Ian)
Who wants $175?
The ALA wants you to make, and post, a video (under three minutes long) illustrating why libraries are important.
And they'll give you money for it.
ian@monroefreelibrary.org (Ian)
Digitizing the past and present at the LoC
Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing
has posted a profile of the folks at the Library of Congress in charge of digitizing content.
There are lots of cool little details, like the thirty-nine megapixel camera, and like the research chemist who's handling the Gettysburg Address gingerly because within the next decade, she expects to be able to pull Abraham Lincoln's genetic information out of it. My favorite single detail, though, is that the biggest problem they have (in terms of degradation) is magnetic tape. Books from the fifteenth century are holding up better than videocassettes of
The Empire Strikes Back.
ian@monroefreelibrary.org (Ian)
Growing up with books
Via
The Week magazine: What influences how far a child will advance in her education? The parents' level of education would seem like a strong indicator, but it turns out there's an even more concrete one,
says LiveScience.com: the number of books in the home.
From the LiveScience article:
The results, based on data from 73,249 people living in 27 countries, including the United States, show that having a 500-book library boosted a child's education by 3.2 years on average. . . .
For years, educators have thought the strongest predictor of attaining high levels of education was having parents who were highly educated. But according to the findings, a good-sized book library is just as good as
university-educated parents in terms of increasing education level.
ian@monroefreelibrary.org (Ian)
Stuck!
You might have noticed that it's the thirtieth anniversary of Post-It notes. But did you know that 3M is hosting a
student design contest and wants to give $5,000 to the creator (11 to 18 yrs old) of the best Post-It artwork?
ian@monroefreelibrary.org (Ian)
Over fifty businesses are bringing you discounts and specials in September when you flash your library card.
Here are a few:
