The blog Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room has posted “Ten misperceptions about public libraries” and it’s a generally wonderful list. I first thought was to encourage libraries to print out a nice copy and post it somewhere the public could read it. But then again check out item #4. Maybe that’s not something you’d want to make too public. How about posting “Nine misperceptions about public libraries” and providing the URL of the original (which you should do anyway; always give credit where credit is due) so people can read the complete list if they want to.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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The blog Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room has posted “Ten misperceptions about public libraries” and it’s a generally wonderful list. I first thought was to encourage libraries to print out a nice copy and post it somewhere the public could read it. But then again check out item #4. Maybe that’s not something you’d want to make too public. How about posting “Nine misperceptions about public libraries” and providing the URL of the original (which you should do anyway; always give credit where credit is due) so people can read the complete list if they want to.