WLS Learns!

Well, I am once again participating in a web 2.0 project to expand my mind and learn. (Yippeee!)
When I did this same thing with other librarians two years ago, I was very successful, and really enjoy my blog, Roseann-the-librarian.blogspot.com; and
going on FLickr to see pictures from our Riverfront Programs:
(Just Google us, for instance, Yonkers Library); contacting teens
via MySpace about our AniManga Club (See:URL: myspace.com/animangaypl);
and working in Wikipedia to create the Yonkers Public Library Page, with John Favareau, the local Historian.
Hope everyopone enjoys this program. I found it very useful.
We also created Wikis at our library to keep track of favorite websites for Ready Reference and frequently-asked-for webpage documents, like hard to locate tax forms. The sky's the limit!
Just have fun.

GOODREADS.Com totally Rocks for Librarians!

Hello faithful readers!
I have been an active Member of Goodreads.com for several months now, and I am very happy to report that is has exceeded by expectations.
Not only do I have a great record of what I have read, but I have emailed with authors (even famous ones like Neil Gaiman), I have befriended new librarians in other states, and I have kept track of what my crazy friends are reading.
Finally, I have entered and finally won a free ARC copy of a new book to review for Goodreads audience members.
Please check out Goodreads, a social networking, email, bragging, hard-reading and fun website for those not afraid to read!
Enjoy www.GoodReads.com

Games to play @ your library!

I just stumbled across a page of awesome internet games to while away the time between patron questions @ the library!
Check out: http://librarianwoes.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/favorite-games/
I am totally addicted to PUKI and his little exploding vampire head! Bleh! He-he!!

Teen Programming Woes@yourlibrary

Yes, we tried and failed again at getting teens interested in creating their very own web e-zine with help from the library....for free!! After four months of trying to recruit teens to contribute content (poetry, art, gossip, cd reviews, movie reviews, etc) we got NADA!
BUT...as I learned last night, one darling teen told her Parents she was @thelibrary at our Teen e-zine meetings every Thursday from 4-6pm--however, we stopped having meetings last October....needless to say, she used our library to dupe her parents! Who knew the poor library could be part of a teen conspiracy!

Batgirl is a Librarian!

Holy Batgirl, Batman !
This apparently un-aired episode of the Batman TV show from the 60s shows a lovely Barbara Gordon transform into none other than Batgirl! Go Librarians!
go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDnlrfq5tQE

Desperate Librarians ?

According to Tom Kertscher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal online (JSOnlinecom), six library administrators from the Waupaca, Wisconsin-area library system apparently had thought that a book-sale fundraiser was insufficient, so taking a hint from the Helen Mirren movie "Calendar Girls," they have put together a calendar and - you guessed it- in which the librarians appear nude behind strategically-placed books! Now, if this is not a "Hipper Crowd of Shushers", I don't know what is!!

A Hipper Crowd of Shushers

This NY Times article by KARA JESELLA, published July 8, 2007, has caused some controversy among the current internet librarian set....specifically because, once again, we are "fighting the librarian stereotypes." It is almost embarrassing how long society has been milking this one, and I think it's just about time that we accept that there are lots of young, hip, intelligent, savvy, trendy, and beer-drinking librarians around, who are NOT the exception to the rule..... We've been around a while....

FASHION & STYLE | July 8, 2007 A Hipper Crowd of Shushers By KARA JESELLA A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.