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, 14th April 2010

Why Neil Gaiman Loves Libraries (Radio Interview, Listen Online): National Library Week

"Libraries are More Relevant Than Ever."
-- Neil Gaiman

After an interview like this one, we think Mr. Gaiman was an excellent choice to be honorary NLW chairman.

Btw, after listening to all of the segments, segment one (runs about 4 minutes) edits down material from segments two and three.

As you can see below, Gaiman and interviewer, Euan Kerr, touch on MANY topics. Some of them (in no specific order) are:

+ As a kid Neil was dropped off at the library and spent they day there
+ "I am completely certain I would not be who I am or where I am where it not for libraries, so always support them."
+ Lots of Google results but a librarian can point you to the right one.
+ Libraries as a place for all to access the Internet
+ The library as a place for literacy programs
+ The library as a community hub
+ eBooks are better at certain things. Encyclopedias are an example
+ The hardback book is a, "wonderful thing." You "commune" with it. In many cases dropping it doesn't break it.
+ 100 years ago, info was scarce. Librarians had access and they could lead people to it.
+ We have gone from "famine to plenty." "Too much plenty."
+ Too much info? A librarian comes into their own. Questions like, Where do I look? What am I looking for? Where is this thing? And they know where to find it.
+ Sandman comics
+ The joy of books
+ Twitter? Anything that causes you to read is a good thing. Twitter "fascinates" him. For the people who use it, wonderful source of instantaneous info. Being evil with Twitter would be much to easy.
+ He has crashed systems with his tweets
+ Library of the future will still have librarians

All three segments are linked on this page with a brief text intro. Direct links follow:

1) Why Neil Love Libraries
This is the feature audio. Runs 4:14.

2) Neil Gaiman tells Euan Kerr why he loves libraries
Runs 7:27.

3) Neil Gaiman talks about the influence of Sandman, Twitter... and libraries
Runs 9:57.

Source: Minnesota Public Radio (via Twitter)


Category:

Views: 938




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 »