Solutions for 21st century libraries
What would the library of the future look like? What would some of the very best features be? The blog Just Ten Books recently pondered that question and decided that BranchAnywhere would definitely be a part of the library of the future.
Read more at http://justtenbooks.blogspot.com/2010/04/five-reasons-i-want-to-go-to-library-of.html
As many of you know, we’ve recently released BranchAnywere – our automated materials vending solution. BranchAnywhere is powered by a robot arm that helps move materials within the machine and deliver them to library patrons. The robot arm is unique and serves as the heart of the machine.
Here at the Indianapolis office, we were looking at the robot arm one day and decided that it needed a name. All great robots have had names…Marvin the Paranoid Android, R2D2, The Terminator, Johnny 5….
So, we want to know: what do you think we should name the robot? We’ve considered MARC, Robrarian, and others, but we bet you’ve got some ideas too.
Share them on our survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/robotname
We’ll keep updating you on ideas folks are sharing…can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
We’re stepping away from regularly scheduled Evanced blogging to bring up the topic of all public tweets being acquired by the Library of Congress. This news came to us via our Twitter feed (and you know that is the source of all important news 
) But it’s an interesting thing for libraries, I think. Not necessarily the tweets themselves, just the cool idea that as librarians we’re handling information and data in formats we never dreamed possible…not even five years ago.
I just keep thinking, how do you catalog a tweet??? Are there even cataloging rules for that yet? Does the metadata have to be in 140 characters or less? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Just sharing and wondering…
Christine
Coordinator of Customer Experience
Evanced Solutions
- cayar@evancedsolutions.com