I just submitted a proposal to the 2016 edition of the Collective, so I’m finally getting around to putting screenshots of my baby on here. Our public library collects usage statistics at 19 branches. Staff use our Intranet, or a desktop shortcut to our Google forms, to collect our daily program attendance, visitor count, and reference transactions. … [Read more…]
I’m going to flesh this blog post out in the coming weeks with details about Hoopla usage after an email push….look for a huge influx of content from PGCMLS as I wrap up my work here and process my thoughts (I’m off from work and in the US between August 5-10). I follow a few library-related … [Read more…]
With great sadness, I’ve submitted my resignation at PGCMLS. I received several federal job offers simultaneously, and one cannot control the timing on these things, so, after closing out the fiscal year and annual report for 2015, I’m onto a new position at the US Access Board. First, though, Mr. M and I are going to … [Read more…]
We wrapped up our Emerging Leader year in San Francisco this week. Going to be weird not talking to this crew every other Monday. I really had a good time working with these folks and hope to stay active with ALSC and present more on this work at ALSC Institute next fall. Our final poster (minus … [Read more…]
I’m presenting with Lydia Collins and Christian Minter this coming Monday, June 29 from 1:00-2:30pm in 131 (N) at the Moscone Convention Center. Carrie Banks will be announcing ASCLA’s new Consumer Health Group at the conclusion. Really proud of this one.Public Libraries as Health Literacy First Responders Hope to see you there. Please tell your … [Read more…]
On this trip, I went to 3 art galleries: the Pitti Palace and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the Borghese Gallery in Rome. Of the 3, the Borghese was hands-down the most memorable experience. The collection was much smaller, and for some reason seemed to have more Carravaggio paintings, which I was all about (the … [Read more…]
Came across a really cool study today: Final Report of the Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study “As mandated by the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement of 1993, Inuit knowledge of bowhead whales in Nunavut, Canada was collected by means of 257 individual interviews with 252 Inuit hunters and elders in 18 communities during 1995 and 1996. During … [Read more…]
We visited the Medici Archive Project in Florence. A few odd things stuck out about this: first, they made some comments about Netscape (I can’t possibly have heard correctly that some of their features only work with legacy browsers — someone please correct me), it’s funded by the Mellon Foundation (which reminded a few of … [Read more…]
Action-packed day today: the Visions of Italy crew rolled into the Uffizi Gallery at 8:30 to try to miss peak lines. Keegan and I decided to try to get into the library at the Galileo Museum (which is awesome, see previous post here). In a stroke of luck, we rode in the elevator with an … [Read more…]
![A 1599 map illustrating Rome's 7 Pilgrim Churches [source: Wikipedia]](http://anitalife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Seven_Churches_of_Rome_-_Giacomo_Lauro_-_1599.jpg)
As part of her Eat, Pray, Library project, our friend Heather suggested that we attempt to walk the “Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome.” There is definitely some papal connection to the basilicas featured on this walk, as we saw Il Papa himself, not a week later, at St. John Lateran followed by a procession to … [Read more…]