Purely for fun… Have you seen the Smell of Books http://smellofbooks.com/ website? Hilariously silly! I’ll have to buy myself a can of the ‘Eau You Have Cats” spray!
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What Should I Read Next?
Have you checked out the all new “What Should I Read Next?” http://whatshouldireadnext.com site? Fresh for fall 2012, this is a fun way to get your reading list in order for all that cozy reading time you’re planning! Type in the title or author of your choice (preferably one you loved!) and up pops a list of suggested titles. The list of suggested titles populates from user’s favorites lists – and the more times the titles appear together on user’s lists, the higher the title moves up on the recommendation list. Pretty nifty… but, will never beat reader’s advisory or book talks! 😉 Use it with your patrons and students, too!
11 Amazing Librarian Tattoos
Wow, take a short break and view what some very brave librarians have had inked on their bodies as part of the Brand Yourself a Librarian project. Certainly not part of the job description, but a true show of passion!
Happy New Year
As we near the end of 2011 and approach the beginning of 2012, it might be a good time to get thoughtful, or at the very least intentional. We all need to work hard to change how libraries are viewed by our communities. Change is happening so very fast, and we need to be willing to change how we have been operating over the years. Change is hard but necessary.
Roy Tennant’s blog post at http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2011/12/ebooks/the-longest-night/ reminds us that “Libraries are a societal good” and “ Access to information is not ubiquitous, nor equal, nor (still) as easy as it can or should be.”
It is a short read and well worth your time. Happy New Year everyone!
Love the smell of books?
How’s this for quirky? A Senior Library Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York City began her performance of “Smelling the Books” in early 2010. She started with the first LC call number in their collection, and has now been recording the call number, title, and smell of each book she picks up. So far she’s smelled around 150 books out of MoMA’s collection of 300,000. Her intention “…is to foster a discussion of the future of print media, the ways we read, methods of classification, and the way in which smell is entwined with memory”. Check it out here http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/03/07/smelling-the-books/
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theogeo/2513621945/ by theogeo