Library Science

In response to Laura's post, I agree that learning more about what Library Science is and what Librarians learn in school would help a lot with programming. I know from working with people who are going through the Simmons program currently and in the recent past the course work is moving to a lot of online media posting through Wiki's and many libraries are now using Flickr pages to show new books and link visually to books in their collection as well as show some works in their collection digitally online. Our library here at the BAC has a wiki page for staff as well as a flickr page which links from the catalog as well as our own digital image database. These are just a few ways Libraries are transforming their practices to adapt to new technologies.

Here is an article about the digital art display of library statistics at the Seattle Library. (http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=about_news_detail&cid=1126554289343 ) I agree with the following quote; "People tend to gaze at it for minutes at a time," Hoetzlein said. "They seem to be mesmerized. Some people are really excited that it's real data." When I visited there was a group of people just watching the data change on screen. I am pretty certain that library statistics have ever been exciting before this installation.