Category

Rural and Small Libraries




  • Featured Guest Post, Library Services, Online Collaboration, Rural and Small Libraries, Sustainability, Webinar

    Next Rural Webinar: Library as Place

    October 22nd, 2007 | Permalink | 3 Comments

    What does the phrase “library as place” mean to you? How does it differ from “experience library” or “destination library”? What do these concepts have in common? At the next Rural Webinar, we’ll explore these concepts and share our strategies for making our library spaces inviting and useful to our “inhouse” visitors.

    Please join Rural Webinar moderator, Brenda Hough and me, Cindi Hickey on Thursday in Live Space at WebJunction. Here are the meeting details:

    Thursday, October 25, 2007
    11:00 am PT/ 2:00 pm ET
    For
    connection instructions, please visit:
    http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=13377

    Bring your ideas and success stories! We’ll see you there.

    P.S. Want a preview? Check out Library As Place, posted by Peter Bromberg at the Library Garden blog.

    Posted by Cindi Hickey

  • Conferences, Rural and Small Libraries

    Association for Rural and Small Libraries Conference

    October 2nd, 2007 | Permalink | Comment?

    Several of us just returned from the ARSL conference in Columbus, Ohio. A total of 177 participants were in attendance from 28 states, Canada and the Philippines. There were several highlights and these are the ones that stand out at the moment:

    - Getting to interact with every participant. With a conference this size, nobody is off-limits. Everyone is accessible.

    - Keynote by Librarian of the Year, Mary Bykan, and additional addresses by MaintainIT, Stephen Abram, and Rebecca Miller.

    - Great Breakouts Sessions. Handouts and such coming soon. Note to presenters — get us those files.

    - The energy that is building around the Association for Rural and Small Libraries. Last week marked the first meeting of the expanded Board of Directors under the newly approved Bylaws.

    - The most exciting piece is that ARSL entered into a partnership (see press release) with WebJunction to host ARSL’s offerings and information on WJ. ARSL will continue building on the momentum that we’ve generated via the Rural Library Sustainability Project and continue to support and build the community of practice around rural and small libraries.

    - A sampling of pictures from the event can be found here.

    - Next conference is in California, Fall 2008. Dates will be finalized and posted soon.

    To see more about the conference, ARSL, and all of the resources available to rural and small library staff, please visit webjunction.org/arsl.