Postcards from the Cracker Coast

One of my favorite sessions from Monday was by Sarah Houghton-Jan from San Jose Public Library. She gave a great presentation on how to help underfunded libraries use 2.0 web services.  You can check out her whole presentation on (www.librarianinblack.net).  Here are a list of tools I thought would be very useful for some our members.
www.EngagedPatrons.org  – They [...]

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Well I am sitting here listening to Lee Ranie doing the opening Keynote for Computers in Libraries 2009.  He can be very fast speaker, but full of useful of information if you can keep up.  He open up with a funny story about someone at a different conference telling him if he wants to get [...]

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David Lee King in a recent post cites several articles about the restructuring of our economy. He opines that it’s time for libraries to think about restructuring too. As your budgets get cut, what services do you cut? Do you keep doing the same old thing? As the hours of your [...]

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Come celebrate National Library Week April 12-18
Bay County Public Library
April 14 @ 3:30pm
The Curious Case of the Three Little PigsÂ
As Told By A. Wolf
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Come prepared to laugh out loud @ your library.
Join the Youth Services Department for stories & crafts and bring your favorite joke to share.
For More Information:
Bay County Public Library
898 W. 11th [...]

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Bay County Public Library hosted a Gaming Tournament on March 8.  40 participants and parents enjoyed the afternoon playing or watching Mario Kart Double Dash on the Nintendo Game Cube.Â
Check out their blog Bay County Public Library Teen Zone.

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Planet eBook, the home of free classic literature, offers an assortment of classic novels and books in electronic form (PDF) which you are free give to anyone! Great resource for teachers and students.

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