role of the library

Library of Congress Shares Nation’s Treasures on YouTube

From LibraryJournal.com (1 Apr 09):The Library of Congress (LC) has begun distributing portions of its vast audio and video collections—including 100-year-old films from the Thomas Edison studio—on...

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...

Kankakee Public Library asks "How Wiki should our Wiki be?"

I've mentioned before how the folks at Kankakee Public Library (Chicago, Illinois) have consistently impressed me with their Web 2.0. forays like blogs and podcasts.And now they (specifically Steve)...

"Molly", the NLB Mobile Library Bus

Meet "Molly", NLB's Mobile Library Bus. Conceived about two years ago and launched today, on 3 Apr 2008. Check out this time-lapse video of Molly's refurbishment (it's a 14-year old public...

RICE 2008, 10 & 11 March (part 6, or "Ideas for School & Public Library community-based lear

[From PART 5]I'd intended my previous post to be the last of my RICE 2008 series. Somehow it felt something was missing.Then Siva hit the nail on the head when he emailed me that the post lacked...

RICE 2008, 10 & 11 March (part 5)

[From Part 4]Public Libraries= 'Other Organisations'?On Day-one, I heard a teacher use a chart to explain his school's workflow for identifying, selecting, partnering and evaluating community...

RICE 2008, 10 & 11 March (part 2)

[From Part 1]I had an epiphany of sorts from Day-one:Education is about instructing students. And also about inspiring students to learn on their own.What is 'Education'?Professor Deborah Eyre,...

RICE 2008, 10 & 11 March (part 1)

I wasn't quite sure what to expect from the conference.RICE 2008 - Raffles International Conference on Education. The "Raffles" part being the name of the Junior College organising the two-day event...

Speaking at USF (Part 11): Learning the Basics (or, "Why libraries should support Digital Literacy")

[From Part 10]The ability to use modern amenities is a skill.I see these appliances being used on American TV shows. But they stumped me when faced with actually using them (they were in the...