Tag Archives: Summer Fun Library Tour

Advocacy, Communication

Day Twenty Six of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

I absolutely love the library profession! There is such a range of ideas, things to do, and interests and skills across the profession – it’s great to see!!

This video is a few years old now, but it makes me smile every time I see it. Whether or not Lady Gaga, or singing library people, are your personal interest – use this as a springboard for your own creativity! What can you do in your library to make it more fun, to show people what you do, or just to have something to talk about with other library people who will be interested in your ideas and projects? Dive in and try something new!! We are all about fun experiments here at CMLE HQ!!

Librarians Do Gaga

“Students and faculty from the University of Washington’s Information School get their groove on.

Directed, edited, and produced by Sarah Wachter.
Lyrics by Sarah Wachter.
Lyrics available here: http://www.athenasbanquet.net/2010/05…
More info available here: http://www.athenasbanquet.net/2010/05…
Now captioned for the Deaf and hearing impaired.

Vocals and sound editing by Laura Mielenhausen.”

Communication, Services

Day Twenty Five of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

Candle flame (1)

Need to relax? Take a break for meditation

Hopefully most days you are happy in your job; but even in such a lovely profession as libraries, things get pretty stressful.

If you are feeling a little overwhelmed today, take a couple of minutes now to watch this nice video from the Mayo Clinic, do some breathing, and just  let some of that stress melt away.

And you want to explore a little more on stress management in the workplace, listen to our podcast episode on this topic, or read through some of our collected material.

 

 

Books, Communication, Resources

Day Twenty Four of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

Image result for choose your own adventure

Do you read these as a kid? My brother and I were VERY into these books! I had a bunch of them, and read a lot at the library; but have not looked at them in many years now.

I had no idea people were mapping the books and helping other enjoy all kinds of different adventures!

“For years, fans have been creating visualizations of the forking structures of “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. Often, they’re interested in the types of outcomes at the end of each path. One map labels each ending as “new life, return home, or death,” and another separates them into “cliffhanger, solution, or death.” Christian Swinehart’s extensive graphical analysis of the books labels the endings as “great, favorable, mediocre, disappointing, or catastrophic.””

Read through this entire article to get more information, and to see all the very cool charts included!

Books

Day Twenty Three of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

Old books

Wouldn’t it be great to find something old, rare, and valuable in your library? It happens!

“A librarian in England has stumbled upon a rare page from the early days of book printing.

The 540-year-old leaf comes from a medieval priests’ handbook that had been printed by William Caxton, who introduced the printing press to England, according to a statement from the University of Reading.

“I suspected it was special as soon as I saw it,” said Erika Delbecque, a special collections librarian at the University of Reading, who found the paper hidden in an archive. “It is incredibly rare to find an unknown Caxton leaf, and astonishing that it has been under our noses for so long.”

The double-sided page has black-letter typeface and red paragraph marks that gave it away as an early western European printing, according to the university.

“The leaf had previously been pasted into another book for the undignified purpose of reinforcing its spine,” Delbecque said in the statement. Delbecque and her colleagues figured out that in 1820 a librarian at the University of Cambridge saved the page from the book spine but apparently didn’t realize its worth. The 15th-century leaf then ended up in a private collection that was purchased by the University of Reading 20 years ago. ”

Read the rest of this article here!

Books

Day Twenty Two of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures, by Library of Congress (Compiler), Carla Hayden (Foreword)

 

As library people, we no longer use the paper card catalog – and are thankful for the ease of online catalogs that provide much more information! But of course we  probably all miss the lovely old card catalog holders many libraries had, as well as the hand-written cards. (Good handwriting used to be a requirement to work in libraries! I’m grateful we can just type now.)

“The Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than 200 full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and photographs from the library’s magnificent archives, this collection is a visual celebration of the rarely seen treasures in one of the world’s most famous libraries and the brilliant catalog system that has kept it organized for hundreds of years. Packed with engaging facts on literary classics—from Ulysses to The Cat in the Hat to Shakespeare’s First Folio to The Catcher in the Rye—this package is an ode to the enduring magic and importance of books.”