Comments on: ALA Happy Mutants rejoice – Library Boing Boing is coming!

By: Last Year, This Year, and the Next Couple Years are Going to be Awesome. | PC Sweeney's Blog

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:27:28 +0000

[...] things that are already starting this year. The first of which was created by Jenny Levine and is Library Boing Boing. There’s going to be another epic set of conferences and I’m excited that I will be presenting [...]

By: Nominate a librarian | Ink and Vellum

Nominate a librarian | Ink and Vellum — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:32:21 +0000

[...] cash incentive to librarians who write articles for non-librarian publications. Jenny Levine formed Library Boing-Boing, an effort to bring together librarians and the readers of the popular BB site to raise interest in [...]

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:28:02 +0000

Hi, Sheilah –

Actually, Library Boing Boing isn’t U.S.-centric at all. We’re already talking to folks at CILIP and IFLA about posting info about international libraries, and we’re open to collaborating with other library organizations. If you’re a member of one and would like to discuss how to get involved, feel free to email me at jlevine [at] ala.org.

Best,
Jenny

By: Sheilah

Sheilah — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:46:49 +0000

Love the idea. Sorry it is so U.S. centric though. Not every librarian lives in the U.S. and is a member of ALA.

By: LibraryLab – Library Boing Boing is up and Running! | PC Sweeney's Blog

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:26:10 +0000

[...] ALA Happy Mutants Rejoice! Library Boing Boing is here with its inaugural post! This is something that I’m very excited about, but haven’t had a chance to be as involved in as I originally would have liked (sorry Jenny and Jason). Basically, the amazing and wonderful Jenny Levine from ALA put together an opportunity to post to the great website boingboing.net using the name Librarylab. The content will be based around libraries and exposing all of the amazing things that libraries do for people on a non-library based forum (which you know I support). [...]

By: LibraryLab is up – check it out! | David Lee King

LibraryLab is up – check it out! | David Lee King — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:01:00 +0000

[...] On the other hand, Library Boing Boing: The Group has its own goals to help happy mutants in local communities connect with their happy mutant librarians to do good, work together on our shared interests, and make the world more better.” (from the ALA Marginalia blog). [...]

By: Abigail M. Wickes - Two Cool Things

Abigail M. Wickes - Two Cool Things — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:38:39 +0000

[...] Marginalia and Boing Boing have announced … an ALA Boing Boing collaboration! This is just the push I need to finally join ALA (especially since I will soon no longer be a [...]

By: Abigail

Abigail — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:19:49 +0000

This is just the push I needed to finally join ALA!

By: Sally J.

Sally J. — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:34:18 +0000

I SECOND WHAT @ANDROMEDA SAID!!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:48:44 +0000

I’m totally psyched about this, in case you can’t tell, but I’ll need your help to pull this off so I appreciate your support.

To answer Cheryl’s question about what laypeople can do to help, we’ll have a form up soon where you can submit story suggestions for Boing Boing. That’s the major startup piece so that we can build a flow of new content to post.

Then do the “dream big” part over in the Connect community so that we can hit the ground running with ideas. I know there’s a lot more we can do than just the ideas that I’ve posted there.

Lisa, if you’ll be at Midwinter, the LBB meetup will totally be drinks and gamestorming, but the virtual version is the Connect community.

Jenny