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Louise Moulton from the RI Center for the Book invites all to attend a RI Center for the Book Event:
Please come to RI BookLinks Live and join others from the RI book community for a time of refreshments, networking, and conversation. We are eager to meet you and to hear your ideas about how to […]

In California, the statewide initiative to assist public libraries in delivering the best possible services for people with disabilities worked for everyone. Under the program, the 27 participating public libraries received a year of intensive training for three-person teams (front-line librarian, library administrator, and community partner). Key elements of success included training (what’s available, […]

According to a recent Pew Internet & American Life Project study on search engine use
about 60 million American adults are using search engines on a typical day . . . The use of search engines is edging up on email as a primary internet activity on any given day.
Since June 2004, the […]

The Rhode Island Department of Elderly Affairs has just launched a new website. The site contains a section on Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage for Rhode Island.

I subscribe to a volunteer match news feed. In today’s three headlines, two are “Volunteers Needed to Help People with Medicare!” Karen’s post on November 14 warned us to expect an influx of seniors seeking assistance. Looks like that reality is here now. Is it time to call for collaborations between […]

Staff in Thomas Ford Memorial Library recently redesigned the library website. The new site is spectacular! I am particularly fond of its active patron-driven language, the categories on the navigation, three font size choices, and the library catalog search on the home page. The author of the new site, Aaron Schmidt, […]

Cheryl Banick is the manager of the Veterans Hospital Library in Providence. She has written a provocative article on hospital library dilemmas and solutions for Library Journal.

“We’re the government and we’re here to help. What do you mean you can’t use a computer?” so writes Jessamyn West on librarian.net in a post that led me to Online Medicare Registration Nightmare on Tinfoil + Raccoon. The short story: public libraries can expect an influx of seniors seeking assistance […]

It’s all good (OCLC blog) points to an article in Fast Company about companies needing to get Back in the Box. That is, in order to be successful and/or maintain market share, companies need to examine their core brands and values, an idea that easily translates to libraries. Read the Fast Company article […]

Ann Piascik forwards this thought-provoking piece from the DaVinci Institute on the future of libraries. Assuming this vision of libraries actually develops, there are definite implications for how we measure the effectiveness of libraries.