It's all about the bling here. Move on up into the 21st century! Make your library the happenin' place for your community. Sure, it's challenging, but you're up to the challenge. So come on -- pimp your library!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
  Interesting segment about libraries on a recent NewsHour program
One of our patrons came in the other day and told me I had to check out a recent segment about libraries on the NewsHour (on PBS). http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june08/libraries_03-13.html
 
The segment was very positive about libraries. It reports on recent findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project which indicate that contrary to popular belief, people STILL use libraries quite a lot.
 
This reminds me a little bit of that scene in Monty Python's The Holy Grail. "We're not dead yet! We don't want to go on the cart!"
  posted by Mary Martin @ 11:49 AM  1 comments links to this post
Sunday, March 02, 2008
  Borrowed Time?
My brother the architect found this photo essay on Slate about the future of public libraries: http://www.slate.com/id/2184927/slideshow/2184934/fs/0//entry/2184936/
 
In the photo essay, they refer to Ross Dawson's Extinction Timeline, which says that libraries will be extinct by 2019.
 
But given how the libraries featured in this photo essay have changed and morphed to meet the needs of an increasingly wired public, I think we might be around for a little longer than 10 years from now. We just have to be willing to change our mission and our viewpoint to encompass the new ways people want to use us, as well as the old ways.
  posted by Mary Martin @ 7:53 PM  1 comments links to this post
"PIMP" Verb
1.) to pimp something out is to *make* it look ghettofab and blingbling
2.) to pimp is to advertise (generally, in an enthusiastic sense) or to call attention in order to bring acclaim to something; to promote.
- Urban Dictionary