2010 Joseph F. Shubert Excellence Award

The Regents Advisory Council on Libraries has announced that the applications are now available for the 2010 Joseph F. Shubert Library Excellence Award.  The Award recognizes the achievements of small, medium and large libraries, as well as  library consortia of New York State by recognizing achievements that improve the quality of library service to their users.  This year’s award includes a gift of $1,000 donated by The Friends of the New York State Library.  The deadline for application submission is July 30, 2010.

For more information, please go to the Regents Advisory Council on Libraries website at http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/adviscns/rac/award/index.html .

Basic Online Reference Tools

The blog,” Speak Quietly: Ramblings about libraries, writing and everything in between”, written by Scott Douglas had a very interesting entry on ways to reach our community members.    Here are some of his thoughts and supporting data  (combined with some of mine) regarding ways to reach people through technology.  More and more people are using hand held devices to access information.  How do we reach parts of our population who want information to come to them, rather than having them come into our physical spaces?

His discussion touches upon texting reference questions, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Podcasting, iphone applications, Meebo. 

What do you think?  Which of these tools are you using now or would considering using in the near future?

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