Week 3 Thing #5, 6 & 7

As you may have noticed, I really enjoyed the Flickr site and even got caught up in another site that helped me to put together a slideshow with photos from my library. Now, I am trying to figure out how to upload it to my webpage at Hulstrom which is proving to be difficult.

I attended Librarian Days at Metro State recently and one of the classes that I attended talked about upcoming trends for public and school libraries. They were all technical related trends and were geared toward attracting teenagers to the libraries through audio music and books. The public libraries are beginning to put their music collections on ipods and are developing listening centers with the ipods which can hold many cds at once. They also are downloading their books on tape to the ipods for listening centers. They aren't yet checking out the ipods.

Another trend was the introduction of Playaways. These are essentially books on ipods that hang on a lanyard. They are usually one book and come with earbuds for checkout. The presenter was very impressed with the warrenty which essentially replaces the playaway for almost any reason during the first year. Libraries are having huge success with the checkout and popularity of these playaways. I have ordered some for Hulstrom's Library and am interested to see how they do when they get here!