Thought for the day.

At one health fair, where I was exhibiting our consumer health information service that we offer for free to all our state's residents, an attendee listened to the information about the services, and replied, "No thank you, I don't need your service. I have a computer of my own." I wanted to respond to the attendee, "Yes, but please consider this: I have a hammer, wood, and nails at my home, but that doesn't mean I can expertly build a chair if I needed one."

Patron-Focused/Service-Oriented: A goal for libraries by Teresa Hartman, The Majors Report for Medical Librarians, Winter 2007



In other news, I've discovered the tag line for my future campaign for public library support for the city of College Place. If you visit the College Place website, you'll note their slogan College Place, A place to call home - to which I would like to point out as Cicero once expertly did, “A home without books is a body without soul.”.


It will make for excellent campaign posters, bumper stickers, and other such.

Sometimes the quote is credited "A room without books is a body without a soul", but in this instance home works better for obvious reasons..

Gen Y: biggest users of libraries

Of the 53 percent of U.S. adults who said they visited a library in 2007, the biggest users were young adults aged 18 to 30 in the tech-loving group known as Generation Y, the survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said.

Gen Y: biggest users of libraries


These are our students! Clearly they see libraries as a community and a place they can access information! (actually, young adults 18 - 30, that's me too, and I'd have said, well obviously, but then I suppose as a librarian I'm somewhat biased!)

I would be interested in reading more of the study, but what this article reports on does seem to point to the importance of improving power and access to computers in the library (especially as we continue purchasing access to periodicals and other materials online!) as well as the library as space - the community of information & knowledge seekers.