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The Houston Public Library just reopened the Central Library after a two-year, $17 million renovation. Amidst the hoopla that involved, a few things were rolled out quietly: a new Web site, a new brand, the Summer Reading Program, the HPL Mobile Express (a computer lab on wheels), and HPL Express Discovery Green (a reading room in the new downtown Houston park, where the library is providing free wifi to the entire 12 acres of the park).

I'm breathing a sigh of relief that the Central Library i… Continue

I tend to hang out with techies in my spare time, and the one comment I get from them quite frequently is how surprised they are at the amount of librarians in social networking. Blogging, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... you name it, you will find librarians (and, because of them, their libraries) represented. Librarians are doing wonderful things with YouTube and SlideShare and other tools. And it's getting noticed.

When I migrated to library-dom, more than five years ago, I don't know wh… Continue