Library Revolution

I loved this little video when Martha posted it last week on The Vital Library.

I thought that was so cute… especially the shot of the librarians with their saws.

Sure, it doesn’t have much of a moral lesson to it, as we have had with other LR Film Festival entries, but I thought this was to cute to leave out.

And it reminds me of a library I worked with recently - they were trying like mad to get their in-house OPACs to print out little strips of paper for the patrons with basically just the title, author, and call number on them. You know, so patrons could look up the title they wanted, press print, and have something to take with them to the stacks. Sure, they could get it to print, but it never quite got to be exactly what they wanted. The paper was too big. Then too small. The type wasn’t the right size. It printed out too much info, then too little. One thing after another.

Then they finally got the setup tweaked enough so that it was printing what they wanted. But the patrons still weren’t using them. Not all the signage in the world would prompt the patrons to hit the print key, and they were too impatient to wait for the printout. Turns out all the patrons wanted was a pile of scrap paper and some little pencils. Maybe low-tech is the way to go, sometimes!

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