Happy New Year LTAIGers!
While I missed announcing the last meeting- we have had a quick turn around with the meeting minutes from this past Monday. You can find them here: http://www.bcla.bc.ca/LTAIG/default.aspx under the “Meeting Minutes”.
The next LTAIG meeting will be Monday February 21, at 7pm, location and teleconferencing information TBA.
Other things that might interest you:
- From the Winnipeg Free Press: “Canadians surf web, watch YouTube, consult Wikipedia more than any other users“
- From CBC: “Canada ranks last in info access: study“
- From Overdrive: “eBook Checkouts at Libraries Up 200 Percent in 2010“
- The Distruptive Library Technology Jester lets up know about a new OCLC project: “A Web Presence for Small Libraries“
- From Google, the “Teach Parents Tech” website, includes a form to send short, helpful videos to parents, or maybe even patrons! The videos can be seen here: http://www.teachparentstech.org/watch
And I’ll close with a couple of recent library comics:
From "Retail" by Norm Feuti, http://www.retailcomic.com/?p=4564
From "Not Always Right" (http://notalwaysright.com/cutting-remarks-comic/9368) by EvilNessie (http://web.me.com/evilnessie/Design/Home.html)
