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| Still plenty for me (and Michelle McLean) to do at our public libraries |
What is information and what is it we still do in public libraries? Quite a lot according to Michelle McLean, blogging at Connecting Librarian:
“Some of the ways my library provides information as well as access to it include:
- Non-fiction lending collections including DVDs and audio-books
- Magazines
- Daily newspapers
- Internet connectivity, both via PC and WiFi to access the wider world of information (amongst other things)
- Electronic resources
- Short seminars on a wide range of topics
- Library staff, who help people find the information they need, either in our collections or on the Internet
- Library staff who share local knowledge to help people find what they need in the local community
- Local history collection
- Outreach visits, to not only promote the library, but to help those being visited fulfill their needs – with that resource the library has
- School visits to again showcase what they library can do, but to also help with information literacy skills
- Teaching our users information literacy skills
- Teaching our users computer skills
- And much, much more ...”
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