Three Libraries win awards for programs with cutting edge technology

Contra Costa's program is interesting? Like Redbox for libraries. Take the self-service machines popping up in libraries and putting them in other settings like grocery stores and big box stores, etc. It reaches people who don't usually come into the library.

I thought this article was a nice read and tied into what we are doing and learning in class.

http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2010/march2010/cuttingedge_wo.cfm


The Winners

Library-a-Go-Go, Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, Calif.

The Library-a-Go-Go service uses fully automated touchscreen materials-lending machines to provide stand-alone library services in non-library environments. For more information: http://ccclib.org/locations/libraryagogo.html

Course Views [Library Tools] Project, North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries, Raleigh, N.C.

The NCSU Libraries implemented a cutting-edge service in response to the difficulty of creating and maintaining enough “course pages” – recommended resources for specific courses and assignments – to meet students’ needs. The Course Views system provides pages for all 6,000 courses offered by over 150 departments at NCSU. For more information: www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/courseviews.

Digital Amherst, a project of the Jones Library, Amherst, Mass.

Digital Amherst provides digital historical and cultural materials—photographs and other images, articles, lectures and multimedia presentations—to Amherst locals, scholars and tourists. For more information: www.digitalamherst.org/.

As a side note .. I found this interesting news article about an upset patron over library weeding. All the comments after the article from librarians are the best part

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/92/2010/april/26/library-books-end-up-in-trash.html