Two Blogs to Help You

Just a quick note on two blogs I just came across.

Designing Better Libraries: "Exploring the application of design innovation and new media to create better libraries and user experiences." With this cast of contributors it has to be great: Steven Bell [Temple University] Brian Mathews [Georgia Tech University], John Shank [Pennsylvania State University], Jill Stover [Virginia Commonwealth University] Jeff Trzeciak [Mc Master University] and Michael Giralo [Princeton University].
URL: http://dbl.lishost.org/

For My Information: I couldn't find out the author, he/she writes "This blog helps me keep a record of the tools I use to teach my patrons - lawyers, legal assistants and other legal professionals - about the sites, sources and techniques used to conduct research...'for my information.'" Lot of good links here.
URL: http://resevoir.wordpress.com/

GREAT POST ABOUT WHAT LIBRARY BRANCHES COULD/SHOULD BE

Jenni Fry, my wonderful editor at ALA Editions, posted comments and photos of bank branch (ING) in Chicago (Illinois, USA) that would be a great model for a branch library—or even for a small library in a corporate setting. It is bright (orange), has coffee and healthy snacks, well-trained staff, free meeting space, free wifi, ten terminals, free newspapers and financial magazines, branded merchandise, and a buy four-coffees-get-one-free promotion to encourage return customers. And they don’t even require you to be a customer to use the facilities. What a super idea! Thanks, Jenni, for calling our attention to it!

URL: http://blog.alaeditions.org/2007/08/23/104/