Comments on: Getting deeply local at our libraries

By: 21st century Library by Everything Library - Pearltrees

21st century Library by Everything Library - Pearltrees — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:10:23 +0000

[...] Partnerships with other local groups or institutions, like the Health Bags in Topeka Shawnee County Public Library in partnership with a local hospital. Online initiatives to promote local discussion of reading, like the Yarra Plenty Reads blog or the Mosman Readers Ning Job clubs that help locals support each other in finding information and upgrading skills to find jobs Projects like Kete Horowhenua that allows community members to create an online repository of locally produced content important to the community Getting deeply local at our libraries » Librarians Matter [...]

By: Semantic Library » The future of public libraries – local, connected, innovative

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:06:14 +0000

[...] When I was in library school, local meant that the library provided a local history service. Generally, a stack of books about the surrounding area, and perhaps a few oral histories of notable residents. Not particularly exciting. The DOK in Delft, Netherlands have taken this to the next level by creating amazing interactive applications that tell the history of streets, people and places in Delft (Youtube video) and an entire interactive wall that tells stories about the town. Kathryn Greenhill also has a post and presentation on “getting deeply local at your library“. [...]

By: Now More Than Ever – 7 Imperatives for Library Leadership | 21st Century Library Blog

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:00:35 +0000

[...] In June 2009 Librarians Matter Blogger Kathryn Greenhill of Australia posted some valuable and intriguing ideas about “Getting deeply local at our libraries”. [...]

By: 21st Century Libraries are More: Customized « 21st Century Library Blog

21st Century Libraries are More: Customized « 21st Century Library Blog — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:17:56 +0000

[...] for your community, or school, or university, or organization, or whomever you serve. (Re-read Getting deeply local at our libraries 2009 June 24 – Librarians Matter Blog by Kathryn Greenhill) In library history, the means of [...]

By: 10 things to keep in mind when prioritising library projects | Librarians Matter

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:28:11 +0000

[...] identify what we offer that users cannot get online, in other libraries, or elsewhere – the deeply local – and use this to guide where we put our [...]

By: Getting local data to the world, and still being funded | Librarians Matter

Getting local data to the world, and still being funded | Librarians Matter — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:37:11 +0000

[...] my second last post, Getting Deeply Local at our libraries, I suggested that libraries should focus on their deep human knowledge of their local communities [...]

By: This is just to say… « La de da

This is just to say… « La de da — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:47:14 +0000

[...] Getting deeply local at our libraries [...]

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:28:13 +0000

What a wonderful post! Thank you so much for sharing your insight. This is valuable not just to the public arena but all libraries. The best kind of information

By: Joann Ransom

Joann Ransom — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:54:32 +0000

Hi Kathryn,

Great post on a topic I am thinking more and more about too. I am moving to a position where its seems a much better use of our limited staff to focus on the local; look after the stuff that only we know and care about. Let National Library cataloguers and contracted book selectors look after all the general stuff, the 80% of the stuff that is common among most public libraries, and let us look after the critical balance, the local stuff, which makes our community ours.

cheers Jo.