Daily Thoughts 5/11/2010

All Over the World Library, Clifton Johnson

Daily Thoughts 5/11/2010

I printed some more signage for the shelves, and checked for duplicates in the storage area. I have another big shifting to project to work on as well. I am also getting ready for my ordering meeting tomorrow.

I am getting ready for a webinar this afternoon from Bookletters. They create widgets for library websites. It is not that hard to get the code done. A lot of it is bestseller lists and award lists. The New York Times Bestseller List and the Indienext Bestseller list are available as widgets as well as numerous awards like the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen/Falkner Awards, the Caldecott awards and others.

The webinar on Bookletters was quite interesting. Their images for books are used on many different libraries. The two libraries which were most interesting to look at were http://www.kclibrary.org/ which uses Drupal as its system for managing content and http://www.parispubliclibrary.org/ . I am probably going to have to do some work with the content management system which is a new thing for me to try.

I also took some time to look for books for the Book Mobile tomorrow which is going to the senior citizens center.

Daily Thoughts 12/2/2009

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova made about 1750-1755 by his brother Francesco Casanova, who was a famous painter (Gosudarstvennyj Istoriceskij Muzej of Moskow).

Daily Thoughts 12/2/2009

Today was a day for working on signage. We put up a sign for our current events book table which says "Current Events and People in the News" as well as two clip on signs for our small display tables with the words, "These books are ready to take out." We are also working on creating a new sign for the New Arrivals section.

I also refreshed a few displays, taking out the holiday display and putting in a book display on gardening and flowers. We have a fairly large section with oversize or quarto books and they make excellent display items.

I started on designing a flyer for the graphic novels club, we are going to start with Neil Gaiman, Sandman as an opener. We are getting a new library card for the graphic novel club.

I spent some time ordering books as well. It has been a nice steady day. This evening, I am going through Powell's Review A Day, and various reviews from Library Journals online reviews to pick out a few more books.