Lav Notes: help for the stalled (pdf) is a one-side library newsletter posted in library bathroom stalls. A colleague of its author mentions a library which posted butcher paper in the bathroom stalls and invited temporary grafitti. Cheaper than repainting!
From Twitter, “New Zealand music month + free performances = [Dunedin Public Library’s] YouTube channel http://bit.ly/7WgU0 enjoy!”
“University of Oregon Library[‘s] faculty unanimously passed a resolution requiring all library faculty-authored scholarly articles to be licensed CC BY-NC-ND.” That is, they retain copyright but authorise anyone to copy, share and use it so long as they attribute its source (BY), use it for non-commercial purposes only (NC), and don’t change it (non-derivative=ND).
Will UC Library be next? 🙂
Notes from a presentation “on the potential use of mobile devices and cell phones for providing library services and resources“.
More and more people have web-enabled cellphones. What would be the technical issues with creating a small mobile-optimised website? It could have eg library hours and locations, phone numbers and other basic info. A course code/keyword catalogue search and/or a link into My Library Account if the resulting interfaces won’t break the phone entirely (a css stylesheet that strips out the banners for mobile devices?); a link to the main website for the brave. Examples of libraries who’ve done this include:
Deborah