Receive the weekly sampler of posts and "Resource of the Week".
Subscribe »

Enter your
email address:

My Account »


Bookmark and Share

Testimonial?
If you find ResourceShelf useful, please supply a testimonial »








Home > ResourceBlog > Article

« All ResourceBlog Articles

 

Bookmark and Share   Feed

Wednesday, 17th February 2010

Magazine Shares Stories of Libraries Helping in Tough Economic Times

From the Announcement:

Woman’s Day magazine’s March issue profiles four women who used the resources at their libraries to save money and accessed library resources to cope with economic tough times. The article marks the beginning of the ninth year Woman’s Day magazine and the American Library Association’s (ALA) Campaign for America’s Libraries have partnered to highlight the value of libraries.

Featured in the magazine is the story of Karen Schmidt of Camano Island, Wash., who uses the resources and programs at her library to help homeschool her son.

“The library has made homeschooling completely doable on a single wage-earner’s income,” wrote Schmidt.

All four stories are featured on womansday.com/library. The online article highlights Tammy Thomas of Stuarts Draft, Va., who used interlibrary loan to check out college textbooks; Stefanie Schmidt of Las Vegas, who used the library’s free resources to find her place in a new community; and Cassandra Robbers of Almond, N.Y., who learned how renovate her 1880s home with books from the library.

Woman’s Day magazine has a readership of 22 million, and more than 1.5 million unique visits to womansday.com per month.

Source: ALA


Category:

Views: 537




blog comments powered by Disqus

« All ResourceBlog Articles

 

Read about the FreePint FamilyFreePint Family

A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »


FeedLatest Family Articles:


Click to view the article Quilting big data threads
Thursday, 24th May 2012

Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.


Click to view the article The fallacy of information overload
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012

A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?


Click to view the article Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure?
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012

Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.


Click to view the article Newsdesk: tracking millions of pieces of information a day
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?


Click to view the article Alacra Compliance adds managerial oversight
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).


All Family Articles »
Family Articles by Category »


Tell us what you're working on,
and we'll talk to you about how FreePint can help »


FreePint Family Testimonials

"Fabulous resource to learn of unique tools and insights. Very useful." Manager, Futures and Forecasting, Virginia, USA

More testimonials »






Subscribe

Subscribe to the ResourceShelf Newsletter and receive the weekly sampler of posts and Resource of the Week.

Find out more »

ResourceShelf sponsored by:

Article Categories

All Article Categories »

Archive

All Archives »