WML Tech Updates

Michelle Boule shared this with me via Twitter. Thought you guys would find this entertaining, especially since we now have compact shelving/movable stacks here in our own library.

This video called The L-Team, which I first saw on the BiblioTech blog and is now floating around on all the various library blogs, is very cute. I could see us doing something like this here in WML. The Owen students aren’t THAT serious of a group.

This sign from Boise State University Library shows to the patrons that they have a sense of humor. Not sure how that would fly with our Owen students, but this sign really made me laugh, so I thought I would share.

Laura suggested I post this from Merriam-Webster’s December 6, 2006 Word of the Day:

cybrarian \sye-BRAIR-ee-un\ noun : a person whose job is to find, collect, and manage information that is available on the World Wide Web

Example sentence
The library provided an e-mail address to submit inquiries to the cybrarian.

Did you know?
We’ve been using “librarian” for the people who manage libraries since at least the beginning of the 18th century, and the word was used for scribes and copyists even earlier than that. “Cybrarian,” on the other hand, is much newer; its earliest documented use is from 1992. “Librarian” combines “library” (itself from “liber,” the Latin word for book) and the noun suffix “-an,” meaning “one specializing in.” When people wanted a word for a person who performed duties similar to those of a librarian by using information from the Internet, they went a step further and combined “cyber-,” meaning “of, relating to, or involving computers or a computer network,” with “librarian” to produce the new “cybrarian.”

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

I saw this the other day and wanted to capture it here since it made me smile and will surely make you smile too. It’s the “Betty Glover Library Workout Tape”, a fun video from 1987 about what libraries were like (sort of).