February/March '09: You Asked For It

February/March '09: You Asked For It
Originally uploaded by hood and hat

New board! The next one will probably be for National Library Week.

ALA Emerging Leaders, 2009

ALA Emerging Leaders, 2009
Originally uploaded by Peter Bromberg

I had no idea you could squish so many people into a photo. My group (L) is studying the recruitment of millennial generation into library-related professional organizations.

plogging in the am

I'm posting about my midwinter experiences over at the PLA Blog. Well, let me rephrase that: so far I have made one post about the
Emerging Leaders program over at the PLA Blog.

Also, due to the two-hour time difference I found myself awake at 5am. Since I have three roommates, I made my way to a Starbucks on 16th Street so I could access the free wi-fi because jerky Marriott charges $12.95 per day per person for Internet access.

I don't have another meeting until 10am. Perhaps it's time for a dip in the hotel pool?

you asked for it

Every so often I run a suggestion box ... the lazy librarian's teen advisory group. My next bulletin board is going to feature Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin (Abe & Chuck), but the following one will be "You Asked For It." I'll list the suggestions and then a response so teens can see they have the power to influence the library. So ... here's what they want:

• Classes, such as how to write a correct essay report (age 12)
• Bleach DVDs**
• Twilight* (age 16)
• The Host**
• Naruto DVDs (age 10)
• Currents in Drama (scripts)
• Watchmen, From Hell, Sin City, V for Vendetta, Tin Tin, Asterix (age 23)
• More A-list and Gossip Girl books (age 14)
• Sports teams (age 12)
• Rebirth manga (age 17)
• Any PSP games. Good ones. Please. (age 12)
• Brave Story
• Hikaru No Go**
• Fullmetal Alchemist volume 16-20. Please. (age 9)
• Shonen Jump issues. New ones! (age 14)
• One Piece volumes 5-14
• Bleach volumes 24 and 25 (age 11)
• One Piece DVDs
• Simpsons books
• Kufu*** DVDs
• Naruto volume 33 (age 11)
• Fruits Basket

I'm thinking of launching a TAG in March. Let them pick stuff to purchase, suggest summer reading programs, etc.

*Apparently 17 copies is not enough.
**Suggested by multiple people.
***Kung Fu?

Winter (December '08 Board)

December '08 Board
Originally uploaded by hood and hat

I tried to be as generically holiday as possible with the blue and the silver, but I'm not even sure I'm fooling myself. The silver is a bit too shiny, but the people of Forest Hills will just have to live with it.

Last year I had the volunteers make paper chains with the titles of all the "best of" books. I guess I'll do that again. I'll post the list once I've compiled it.

right more, write now

It cannot be a good sign that I claimed in my last post, nearly two months ago, that I'd planned to post more. Over the past few months I've been pulling in words, but not pushing them out. I'm hoping that changes as I've got some exciting library things coming up. For Emerging Leaders I'm on "Team L" and we're going to "to study recruitment of millennial generation into library-related professional organizations." I'm also on a couple of other committees. Library, library, library.

Eh, we'll see if the posts come on not.

Ctrl ALT Delete

I haven't posted in a billion years, but that's going to change. I was appointed to a library technology task force for my 'brary system. We had the unfortunate name of Library Applications for Technology Task Force (LATF), but we decided to rename ourselves "ALT" ... here's our logo:

We meet every Friday for two hours and talk about what we'd like to see the library do. We've been joking about making the motto, "Bringing the library into the 21st Century," but decided we didn't really want a motto. Logos are much cooler anyway.