The Physical Library in the 21st Century?

From the comments on this post:
“… what happens to the physical library? If Topeka Public mails the holds to patrons and they can drop the returned item at boxes, and the patrons need not come to the physical library… I’m the systems librarian at the Academy Library Budapest and am alarmed by the declining [...]

You-promotion or Me-promotion?

Just saw this on Seth Godin’s blog today, and thought I’d pass it along. Go read it - but here’s the jist:

Seth writes about self-promotion
He explains that 37 Signals doesn’t do self-promotion, because they’re “promoting useful ideas. They’re promoting tactics or products that actually benefit the person they’re reaching out to.”

Then he sums it up [...]

More MeeboMe Ideas

Wow - there have been lots of comments on the MeeboMe widget. Great! Some other libraries are trying it out - check the comments on my original post and on Jenny Levine’s post titled Mashing on the Library, Part I to find them. Others have been emailing me, asking for details.
Now, let’s take this one [...]

Me, MeeboMe, and Shelf Check

Cool! My post on MeeboMe made the the Shelf Check comic strip!