iSkills

Read about iSkills

There’s a December 2007 Pew study showing that contrary to popular assumptions, it’s the young African American and Latina women who are among the most “wired”…to their cellphones and pdas at least. One option for libraries is to figure out how to get out helpful information on jobs opportunities, small business, healthcare, childcare, and GED via handhelds and mobiles. An RSS feed on these topics sent directly to a patron’s phone every week for example?

See all the Pew articles and studies about mobile technology

Mobile technology as a “game-changer” for health information

Green libraries

Lake View Terrace Library

HowStuffWorks has an article sustainable buildings, and inlcudes the Lake View Terrace Library in California. Key features: energy from wind turbines, a reading room angled to take advantageof natural light, aerated faucets, and a large amount of recycled building content. No word on how they’re doing on paper consumption from all those printers and copiers though…