Some light reading

It's ages since I posted an 'Unshelved' strip, so here is one for Dewey fans of all ages!

A passing fad?

It is clearly time for another Unshelved post.
We haven't moved on from the vampires yet, zombies are still to take over!
 

It's only money

Looking at spending the last of the budget before the end of June, knowing I'm not buying one of everything.

Stranger things have happened

Best to click on the picture to obtain a clear image.

And isn't that the truth

This is the ongoing balancing act - bestseller versus classic literature - which, how much, and how quickly.

Books - in any format

Unshelved serendipity

I've posted before about the people at 'Unshelved' having a hot-line into our organisation, now someone from outside has recognised it too and emailled me the following - "You know when the car went through the wall. Maybe some talked...They are so close to truth its hard to believe. They have good sources for things that happen in libraries."

Collection management

We are having a push on weeding at present.

Collecting & discarding

Just when we are discussing weeding, along comes this gem

Aahh Library school

To all the ex-students still maintaining the rage

Uncalculable

Celebrating the book

Command crisis

In response to the Secret's out comment - today's Unshelved - Paula is away till Wednesday.

The secret's out

A little 'Noah Wyle', but a lovely idea.

Loan strategy

Strangely true, want to get loans on a book - just place it on the Returns trolley and someone will choose it.

OH&S

Ahh! getting our priorities in order.

#51 Libraries & the social web

Starting with Learning 2.0, libraries and librarians have been investigating ways they could use the "new" Internet - the social web. The subject has had a good deal of thought and attention, with information and ideas that bear thinking about eg:

• The Library of Congress decided to find out how people would react to their historical photos on Flickr
• a list of 25 social networking tools libraries should think about (found - aNobii: a site for book lovers is a place to share reviews and recommendations.). (Bit worried about
  lib.rario.us: another social cataloguing site, you can put media such as books, CDs, and journals on display for easy access and tracking though).

Exercise:
To look at the latest developments concerning libraries and the social web, and any practical experience either interacting with library patrons through social media or helping them use other components of Web 2.0.

I've just had the philosophical discussion of what is a library but a place to read, and what differentiates them from a book or video shop etc. so we still have a way to go in introducing Web 2.0 and 2.1.
I'm still confounded by YouTube it can be a boon for all types of uses and it can be a huge waste of time, space and energy.
LC's photostream - wow - check out the photochroms (richly colored images look like photographs but are actually ink-based photolithographs), this one is from Norway.

Unshelved & holds

#38 Comic relief

This Thing revolves around having some fun with our work and play, making comic strips. There are a lot of online comic strip makers and some you can even upload your own pictures. Shelf Check, is series of Library comics available on ToonDoo
For this exercise we needed to find a couple library related comics you like, and create our own comic.
I always enjoy the Unshelved strips, as they seem to have an uncanny idea of what is happening in our own library (that there could be a spy in the organisation supplying them with fodder), here's an inspirational role of librarianship one.
I then used ToonDoo to create a strip using photos.

Yet another Unshelved

Reading this I immediately thought Dewey was paraphasing the old Luther Ingram song