You’ve had a computer for years and know how to use the old clunky one, but now you’ve purchased a new laptop and can’t figure out how to turn it on! You took tons of pictures on your vacation with your new smart phone and want to share them with friends, but can’t figure out how.
New Exhibits: The Game of Life: Inspiration and the Artist Book
Introduction from exhibit curator, Katie Christensen: It was a joy to curate the Laramie County Library System’s Inspiration and the Artist Book exhibition and see it grow in its second year. Each year, the theme is connected to the Library’s Summer Reading Celebration theme. For 2016, the exhibit’s title, The Game of Life, compliments Exercise Your Mind: READ!
Press Release: Deputy Director Position Filled @ LCLS
Laramie County Library System is pleased to announce Jeff Collins has accepted the position of Deputy Director of Public Service. He will start work on Monday, July 11, 2016. The Deputy Director of Public Service is responsible for the four public service divisions in the library: Reference/Collection Services Computer Center/Cataloging Services Youth/Outreach Services Circulation/Branch Services. Most recently, Collins has been the director …
Blog Post: From Here to There: Shelvers + Sort Machine
700,000 items – that is a lot of stuff to move in and out in a year. For those in the library, these items are what you take off library shelves and carry home (movies, video games, books, memory kits, book club kits, and more!). After you’ve gotten the story, the entertainment, or the prize of discovering something new, you …
Blog Post: The Mystery of Why a Book is Shelved in Mystery Volume 3
READ VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2 So you’ve found an author or read a book you really like and want more of the same. What to do? Ask at the Ask Here Desk. We have training and experience in reader’s advisory. As you might imagine, reader’s advisory is the skill (or is it an art?) of recommending books. One way we …
Blog Post: The Mystery of Why a Book is Shelved in Mystery: Volume 2
Read Volume 1 here So, what makes a mystery, and what makes a book something else? There are at least a dozen genres and sub-genres, but we only use four categories to classify adult fiction: mystery, sci-fi (which includes fantasy as well as science fiction), westerns and for everything else–fiction.
Blog Post: Memory Kits at LCLS
The changing of the seasons makes me nostalgic. I think of times gone by, holidays, birthdays, and many more occasions. Memories form the people we are today. What if you didn’t have any memories or struggled to remember your past? This can be a real challenge for some, especially as we age.
Blog Post: The Mystery of Why a Book is Shelved in Mystery: Volume 1
Cataloging fiction used to be simple. These days, with a proliferation of fiction genres and sub-genres, it can be a challenge to decide where to shelve books in the library. Take mysteries for example. Besides the classic mystery story, we now have suspense, thrillers and crime fiction, all of which share some aspects of a mystery but not all of …
Blog Post: Gravitate to the Library – Change for Charity
One important aspect of an employee’s job at Laramie County Library System is being a “Greeter.” The Greeter Desk is positioned at the entrance to the library near the gates. Chances are, when you’ve entered the library previously, you’ve seen someone standing there. Each employee serves in this role; it is our pleasure to interact with our patrons and be …
Library Lingo: Test Your Library Snuff!
Have you ever conversed with a librarian? Searched for titles with our shelvers? Ordered a beverage from the café with a side of caf-half-foam-whip-mocha-java (stirred, not shaken)?