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WorldCat.org has been enhanced with a social-networking feature: Users across the Web can now add individual items cataloged in WorldCat to personalized lists. They can group items owned by your library and other WorldCat libraries, and share their lists with friends, colleagues and millions of site users.
Users can add any book, video, article or another [...]

This is not a big surprise to me, but at the same time - it’s ironic. Many library buildings are closing or are losing funding but then others have major construction plans. Maybe it’s just a shift in library services is what is happening. Whatever the case, Librarian made it on the [...]

My flight was supposed to leave at 2:19 pm today and it finally left (the tarmac) at 6:45 pm. I’m in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to teach the last two of the Rural Library Sustainability Workshops here and then another in Alexandria on Wednesday. It’s weird to think that I have been working on [...]

I flew down to Tampa on Thursday to teach a class - “Marketing Your Virtual Library” for a group of awesome librarians at the Ocala Public Library (for NEFLIN). This library used to be a grocery store - much like the library I was in, in Ruston, Louisiana in April. I spoke to [...]