Another pop up cafe in a shipping container from Design studio
http://designstudiomodern.typepad.com/blog/

This has got to be the best self documented container home build I have seen, step by step how they turn 4 x 40' x 8' shipping containers into an incredible home in a Forrest over looking a river.

http://8747house.blogspot.com/

The Container Guest House is the first of several projects by Poteet Architects we will be featuring. As a national award-winning firm, Poteet Architects is best known for their sensitive adaptive reuse of existing buildings and a fresh, rigorous approach to modern interior design. This project originated from client’s wish to experiment with shipping containers.
http://www.archdaily.com/127570/container-guest-house-poteet-architects/

The rooms are minimalist, making parents must think creatively to design a house. Sometimes parents prefer a design that saves space. Thus, the chosen angular Kids Bedroom Layouts for their children. 5 Stylish Angular Kids Bedroom Layouts From Tumidei is a design that saves a lot of storage space. This design is suitable for both men and women.

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Developing and managing e-book collections on a budget 8th July 2011


A recent report in The Guardian on the popularity of e-books points out that both Waterstone’s and Amazon in the UK say that sales of e-books outstrips the sale of hardback books while in the USA Amazon sells 105 e-books for every 100 print books.

In April The Guardian looked at the growth of e-book lending by UK public libraries. Phil Bradley, vice president of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip), was reported as saying: "It's a 24/7 service; you don't have to physically look after the books; you're able to get books to people who can't get to the library, such as shift workers and those who live in rural areas; the readers can choose the size of the font, which helps the visually impaired; it's flexible and it helps to outreach library service."

As part of our Preparing for the Future programme, SINTO is offering an course to help your library service prepare for the impact of e-books.

Developing and managing e-book collections on a budget: an introduction is designed to support libraries in any sector that are beginning to set up e-book collections. The course will also facilitate consideration of the new opportunities e-books offer for libraries and users in academic, public and special library and information services, and will explore some of the significant collection management and promotional issues which challenge information and library staff.

Further information here.

Seth Godin is an author, speaker and marketing guru with an interest in libraries.


Seth Godin's blog The future of the Library: what is a public library for? explores the changing role of libraries. According to Seth the role has changed from "The library as warehouse for books worth sharing" to "The library is a house for the librarian". The future according to Seth is built around e-books and electronic information. He concludes

"There are one thousand things that could be done in a place like this [the library], all built around one mission: take the world of data, combine it with the people in this community and create value".

He also suggests that "Librarians that are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario".

This resonates with the new SINTO training programme Preparing for the future. We have identified two linked themes. The first "Impact" looks at the fundamental question "What is the library for?" The SINTO Members' Day will look at one aspect of this. The second theme is technology and how that will affect libraries. We are running a course on e-book collections. Incidentally, this course may well look at "clever e-book lending solutions"! I am not convinced that we are missing the point here but it is an interesting issue for debate.

But how concerned are librarians with "The Future"? Inevitably many librarians are focused on the present. The financial year end is the future that we are most concerned with. But we all know in our hearts that there are times when we have to get out of the office and take the longer term view. The SINTO training programme is designed to help you achieve that.

The sixth Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP6) takes place 27-30 June 2011 at the University of Salford.

As part of a LISRC sponsored session, Val Skelton will take part in a panel session entitled 'Meet the Editors' on 30 June. Other journals featuring alongside BIR on the panel include Education for Information and Journal of Documentation.

The session aims to encourage as may professionals as possible to write, contribute or act as a peer reviewer for professioanl publications.

More details of the conference are available here.