future of libraries

PBL Symposium 11 - 12 Jun 09 (Part 10): PBL and Public Libraries

[From Part 9]OK, my final post regarding the Three-day PBL symposium. No substantial insights, I've to qualify.As I mentioned in Part 1, I didn't have any specific expectations of the symposium. My...

PBL Symposium, Republic Polytechnic (Part 1): Day 1

I'd like to think that the future of librarianship isn't for librarians to attend only library-related conferences, but to step outside of our industry into other related ones.Which is why I signed...

PBL Symposium, Republic Polytechnic (Day 1)

I'd like to think that the future of librarianship isn't for librarians to attend only library-related conferences, but to step outside of our industry into other related ones.Which is why I signed...

Reading, Libraries and Librarians

Spotted these recent posts in LisNews.org:Librarians in the Scottish community of Edinburgh are being re-styled from "librarians" to "audience development officers".A link to an opinion piece,...

“When they don’t have really good results on YouTube, then I use Google”

This post's title came from words uttered by nine year-old Tyler from California, USA.Reading this New York Times article, I wonder how many Singaporean kids are like Tyler. Perhaps we'll be...

Why Kevin Googles instead of using his library

Kevin wrote about his recent problem in locating a book at his university's library.At first, he couldn't find the book on the shelf even though the OPAC said it was available. After he contacted the...