Ouch - this is no way to pimp your library!

 

A Sept. 12, 2007 article in Information Today offers a summary of the American Library Association's 2007 report, Public Library Funding & Technology Access Survey. The actual report is 227 pages. It makes me tired to even think about reading the entire thing, but here's a quote from the Info Today article (you can read the article here if you're interested: http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805936 )

 

Here's a neat article about a library in Illinois that is beginning a video game collection to entice teens into the library:

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=43270 

They are starting with a collection of 60 video games which is A LOT -- but you can start small. At our library we just bought 7 video games to start with, and they are going out like hotcakes. It's surprising to me that a lot of the excitement about the video games is coming from the mothers, who seem very relieved that they can check out video games instead of having to fork over the cash to Game Stop to buy 'em for the kids.

I guess I must have been living under a rock or something, because I had no idea that September is National Library Card Sign-up Month until I was flipping through this week's Entertainment Weekly last night, and on page 66 there's a big full-page ad with Ben Roethlisberger holding a copy of The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

 

I have no idea who Ben Roethlisberger is but I am assuming, from his attire, that he's a football guy.

 

I think it's definitely cool that ALA is advertising in places like Entertainment Weekly. And thanks to this ad, I just added an announcement at the bottom of our web page saying that September is national library card sign-up month. Thanks to GALCO (Get a Library Card Online) from the NJ state library, I was also able to provide a link for anyone who wants to apply online.