Category Archives: Communication

Academic, Communication, Public

Learn about RUSA at this webinar!

Do you do reference work or user services? Would you like to chat with other people who do this too?? RUSA is your answer! We are passing on some information about a RUSA webinar where you can find out more about them, and see how they can help you.

“Are you in reference or user services? At RUSA, we do what you do. See how you can get involved in the Reference and User Services Association by attending our RUSA 101 webinar. Here are the details: Continue reading Learn about RUSA at this webinar! →

Communication, General

Resources to fight fake news!

We are library people, and our jobs are all about finding and sharing good information sources! Here is an infographic you can use, and share with your patrons, to help fight fake news. (Or, as we have called it for years now in library work: Information Literacy.) The more we can spread this information, the better skilled our communities will be!

From the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA):

“With Wikipedia’s #1lib1ref (One Librarian, One Reference) campaign going on – the theme of last week being fake news – IFLA posted an How to Spot Fake News infographic on Facebook and Twitter. We also published a blog about the topic, exploring some of the ways libraries help battle alternative facts and fake news.

Discussions about fake news has led to a new focus on media literacy more broadly, and the role of libraries and other education institutions in providing this. When Oxford Dictionaries announce post-truth is Word of the Year 2016, we as librarians realize action is needed to educate and advocate for critical thinking – a crucial skill when navigating the information society.

The fake news infographic shows eight simple steps (based on FactCheck.org’s 2016 article How to Spot Fake News) to discover the verifiability of a given news-piece in front of you. Download, print, translate, and share – at home, at your library, in your local community, and in social media networks. The more we crowdsource our wisdom, the wiser the world becomes.”

(Go to the IFLA site to download this infographic!)

 

Books, Communication

Seattle Public library circulation data

2009-0604-19-SeattleCentralLibraryFrom the latest “Data is Plural” newsletter:

“A decade-plus of Seattle library checkouts. Last month, the Seattle Public Library released a dataset tracking the total number of checkouts for each title by year and month from April 2005 to December 2016 (so far). The dataset isn’t limited to physical books; it also includes e-books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, and more. Last year, the three most popular physical books were Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train (2,355 checkouts), Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies (2,151 checkouts), and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2,134 checkouts).”

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Communication, General

The university library cat

Libraries and cats go together in good partnerships. Finding cats in libraries is not uncommon, but this cat has moved herself into a university library on her own!

“Her name is Fräulein Sinner. This tabby-and-white girl should, in theory, be expert in fields such as child care, environmental issues, languages, democratic social networks, and artists’ roles in political change.

Why? Well, when biologists, educational specialists, or sociopolitical researchers at Hildesheim University in Germany are teaching, this campus cat will roam the hallways and join the human students. Her favorite place? The cozy armchair in front of lecture hall three, where she secretly learns and listens to everything that is being taught.”

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Communication, Public

Sign up for ECRL or GRRL newsletters!

CMLE members, did you know that your public library system has a newsletter? Libraries are all about sharing information, and it’s always exciting to see what is happening at your local library!

If you are part of the GRRL system, sign up for their newsletter here.

 

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