MAKERSPACES IN LIBRARIES
What is the Maker Movement ? At the Fayetteville Free Library, we encourage our patrons to be Makers. But what does that mean? When I...
Library Innovation: Championing Change in Communities
Last week, the White House honored 12 museum and library representatives as Champions of Change in a program that "recognizes...
What is Entrepreneurial Librarianship?
“There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.’ Realizing that anyone can do it...
TEXT MINING: MAKING SENSE OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA
Text mining, which is sometimes referred to “text analytics” is one way to make qualitative or “unstructured” data useable by a computer....
Spaces + Places Unconference
Our story begins… "September 2012, [when] four graduate graduate students came together and decided to organize an unconference. They had...
SPACES + PLACES ON STORIFY
Check out the Twitter stream from today’s Spaces + Places Unconference via this Storify. You can find the participant created schedule...
DIAGRAMS VS. INFO VISUALIZATION
I was poking around on Brain Pickings today, when I ran across a really interesting post entitled “100 Diagrams that Changed the World.”...
THROUGH THE TERMINAL…
As you may know, I graduated from a small liberal arts college with a degree in English literature, so the elements of computer science...
EASYBIB & SOCIAL RESEARCHING
EasyBib & Social Researching I Repost from InfoSpace Last week I wrote a post for the iSchool’s blog, Information Space, about the...
RELENTLESS INNOVATION
Today was the 3rd Annual Staff Development Day at the Fayetteville Free Library, where staff gathered to share their thoughts around a...
