Monday, January 24, 2011

ALA Midwinter 2011: Straight from the Stacks to the Smartphone

Blazer Library's own Systems Librarian, Benjamin Rawlins, represented Kentucky State University earlier this month at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, CA. Presenting on the topic of his adoption of QR codes within the Library's website, Ben was quoted extensively in the following article in the national library publication Library Journal. Read the article in its entirety here:

ALA Midwinter 2011: Straight from the Stacks to the Smartphone

Way to go, Ben! Blazer Library is proud of your hard work!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Library clears its shelves in protest at closure threat

You don't have to work at a library to be touched by the following story about library users who demonstrated their loyalty to their threatened community library by checking out every last book:

Read more here