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Interesting way to get some Twitter Stats

Just saw this thing called “You Are What You Tweet” from Visual.ly, which creates a personalized infographic for your Twitter account. I typed in my personal Twitter account (@davidleeking) to see what...

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Content Creation, Media Labs, and Hackerspaces

Skokie Public Library's Digital Media Lab I’ve been thinking about content creation and libraries lately. Right now, we collect content – hence our shelves of stuff. Yes, we do many other things too....

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Social Media as Place

My last post about those billboards reminded me about the difference between a library’s normal forms of content (books, DVDs, music CDs, etc) and social media. What’s that difference? Content – a...

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Vote for Gina Millsap for ALA President

Gina Millsap is my library’s Executive Director. She’s also running for ALA President! Interested in finding out more about Gina and what she’ll do as ALA president? Read about that here and here. You...

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My Computers in Libraries 2012 Presentations

As usual, I had a great time at Computers in Libraries 2012 (#CILDC). I learned some interesting things, and met some really cool people too. I also gave a few presentations (ok – five presentations)....

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What Librarians Wish Publishers Knew: We Build Buzz #BEA

A panel with five people… moderator – from earlyword.com publishers have been talking about libraries as discovery venues Why? Brick & mortar stores are disappearing, so libraries are a great place...

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Enter the Library Market & Drive Sales with Lessons from Patron Profiles #BEA

This is a presentation all about book research and the library market… could be interesting… Rebecca Miller, Editor in Chief, School Library Journal giving an overview/breakdown of public library book...

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Bring Back the Funny – Internet Librarian 2012

Speaker – Jennifer Koerber, Boston Public Library Bringing humor back to your job can relieve tension, make work fun, etc. Mostly work is serious …. but let’s not take ourselves too seriously!...

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Reinventing Spaces & Places – Internet Librarian 2012

This was the closing keynote, and had some really cool ideas on reinventing libraries. Speakers – Erik Boekesteijn, Jaap Van De Geer, Paul Pival, and Jeff Wisniewski Grand pronouncement: We cannot save...

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Commit, Already

I attended a vendor presentation last week, and one of the reps said something very interesting about getting a library to 100% self-check. Here’s what he said: “100% self-check is really easy to get...

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Ebooks in Libraries – #BEA2013

Before I give you my two cents on this particular session, here are links to two articles that describe the session pretty well: BEA Panel Suggests Publishers Still Clueless about Library E-Books and...

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Libraries and Tumblr – last one from #BEA2013

I attended a session on Tumblr and libraries, mainly because I have to admit – I don’t get Tumblr. I use it personally as a blog, but it is HUGE as more of a discovery tool for content, especially...

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Social Media Skills for Librarians

Last week, I gave a presentation at McGill’s Web2PointU Symposium – a cool conference run by students of the School of Information Studies at McGill University. During that presentation (you can find...

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Nice Chicago Tribune article about Using the Digital Library

I was recently interviewed by Greg Karp at the Chicago Tribune about digital libraries – ebooks, streaming videos, downloadable music, websites, etc. Karp’s angle with the story is that a modern...

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Forbes Wants to Close Libraries

I just read Close the Libraries and Buy Everyone An Amazon Kindle Unlimited Subscription, a Forbes article written by Tim Worstall. It’s a poorly-researched opinion piece about … well … what the title...

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Why Do you Love Your Library? – Advocacy Video

My library’s Foundation held a fun after-hours event, and I helped by making a video. I asked people to answer a simple question: I love my library because [fill in the blank.]. Then I had them share...

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Check out Green Libraries 4 Hope!

Someone emailed me about the Green Libraries 4 Hope project, and I thought it was pretty cool. So – here’s more information about it. Please share! “Green Libraries 4 hope is a project that provides...

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3 Takeaways from Computers in Libraries 2016

I have finally caught up, rested up, and thought a bit about the fun that was Computers in Libraries 2016. I learned stuff! Here are my 3 major takeaways from the conference (there were many more...

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It’s #FollowALibrary Day on Twitter!

Promoting your library is never a bad thing – why not do it today? Today is #FollowALibrary day on Twitter. How do you participate? Pretty simple – post something on Twitter, and include the...

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Check out the New Pew Report on Libraries

The newest Pew Research report on libraries is out. As usual, it’s filled with some great, useful statistics and insights about how Americans are using their public libraries. Here are some highlights...

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