SLA Kentucky Chapter

Generation Gap?

Israel's President Peres says fight anti-Semitism with Facebook.  That is innovative and crosses all kinds of dividing lines.

Leadership Summit Photos

Check out photos of the reception uploaded by one of the attendees.  It looks like people really enjoyed the event.  Good job my fellow volunteers!

We Did It!

Wasn't the Leadership Summit great?  I heard many, MANY compliments from attendees.  Also a few gripes about the weather—but hey, it’s January—isn't it supposed to be cold? ;-)

A big CHEER to James Manasco and his committee, and to everyone who volunteered!  See you on Leap Year Day!

Kentucky Welcomes the Leadership Summit

The Kentucky Chapter is delighted to be the host for the 2008 SLA Leadership Summit in Louisville this week.  A small but vocal chapter, we've called all hands on deck to welcome Leadership Summit attendees to our state.  We've put together a number of resources on our wiki to make the summit more enjoyable.

Update on EPA Libraries

This beSpacifc post discusses the January 15, 2008 press release announcing the Environmental Protection Agencies plans to establish three shared resource centers.  This is related more to human resources but it speaks to the EPA's continued plans for improved efficiency that began the discussion of library closures.  There's also a link to another article related to the EPA Libraries modernization plan.

Arthur Frommer likes libraries

Mainly for monetary reasons, but still ...

Even if you are overseas in a foreign land, you will often find that a local library offers a free-of-charge way to go online by Arthur Frommer on 1/10/08

Following a recent car trip, when I passed through small cities and made use of a free computer in local libraries, I am reminded that the public library is a key to such use not simply within the United States but abroad. Numerous friends have confirmed that on their own recent trips to international places, they sought out a local library and found that it had at least one computer linked to the internet, which they were able to use free-of-charge. And they had no difficulty using it even though they had no library card for that location ..."

Food for Thought

This article discusses the recent release of a Pew Internet study that shows physical library usage is up among the 18-30 year old crowds.