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The innovative Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) web site recently received a Swap ‘N Shop award from ALA recognizing the website as the best public library web site for libraries with budgets of $6 million or more.
What’s so special about AADL’s site? Not only does it have a clean and elegant design that allows patrons […]

I was grateful for the opportunity to be in New Orleans. The conference programs I attended were wonderful and the locals were appreciative of our faith in the city for holding a conference of this scale there.
Although the Super Dome received most of the media attention during Katrina, the Convention Center was another big […]

Why go to New Orleans when you can sit in RI and enjoy the same humid weather and soggy conditions in the comfort of your home state? For those of you in the Big Easy, it’s actually more humid here than down there, but it is a little cooler here. But enough about […]

I write from the Internet Cafe at the ALA meetings in New Orleans. Today, as part of the Libraries Build Communities program sponsored by ALA and numerous vendors, I went into Jefferson Parish with 20 other ALA attendees. We started off from the Morial convention Center, we were then bussed out to all the libraries, […]

The Library of Congress (LC) documents its web preservation efforts at its new Web Capture site. LC began its efforts to preserve websites of historical importance in 2000. The collection includes both the 2000 and 2002 elections and the September 11 Web Archive. Projects underway include the 2002 Olympics and Hurricane Katrina, […]

Here is an example of how a library involves teen to build community. Learn how teens in Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (NC) promote their teen summer reading and other library programs through videos and inter-actives. You also want to check out the library’s teen web site “Library Loft.”
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Hacking Flickr: Searchenginewatch (SEW) reviews Flickr Hacks, by Paul Bausch and Jim Bumgardner. It’s another in O’Reilly Media’s “Hacks” series, providing tips about how to maximize your use of Flickr, the free online photo storage service from Yahoo!. According to SEW, the book is written in a straighforward manner and provides lots of […]

The House of Representatives rejected an amendment to ensure equal access to online content to all customers—the so-called network neutrality provision. During ALA Legislative Day training, the Washington Office exhorted participants to bring amendment (H.R. 5273), sponsored by Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), that would prevent internet firms from setting up a two-tiered system of […]

Thinking of getting a new Windows-based computer? Check out David Pogue’s post New Windows, New Requirements. Microsoft aims to release the latest version of Windows (dubbed Vista) in January 2007. If you buy a new Windows-based computer in the next few months that doesn’t have the muscle to run this new […]

Books for Babies, a national literacy program, offers Books for Babies kits in Spanish and English. Visit the Books for Babies page on the Friends of Libraries U.S.A. web site for more information and order forms.