Bill Mcnaught and Dale Cousens talk about librarianship and lifestyle at Puke Ariki, New Plymouth New Zealand.
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Look at this great Shelfari Program for kids at South Library and the amazing gaming area at New Brighton.

After a good night sleep in Bad Blake our RV we find that there is no washroom on this site and only a Dixie toilet that reminds me of the worst I have seen at music festivals after three days of 50.000 people on S D and R ‘n R.
So there is nothing to do [...]

CBC Anchor Evan Solomon talks about libraries during Alberta Library Conference in Jasper.

Bouncedown in Calgary 23rd April - the Wild Rose tour begins.
YES!! We are off. Frank our host has secretly arranged a sort of limo to drive us to the Heathrow as he says: “You guys should leave England as the library rock stars that you are”. Frank you are amazing. Thanks!
Heathrow is very busy, but [...]

Great Expectations - The London Years
It is unbelievable. The word delay has to be given a new meaning. More than a week can no longer be called a delay. Regular attempts to talk with the airline and the travel agent learns that we are really out on our own. “no sir, you have to wait [...]

Stranded in London and swinging along with moodswings, Shanachies live in hope and fear of missing out on this so long awaited tour through Alberta to meet our good friends in Canada. But like all the reactions on Twitter and facebook indicate we will have to make the most of this.
We are so happy with [...]

ShanachieTour 2010
The Wild Rose- A library road trip across West Canada
15th April - An Act of God
We started out so exited!! Jaap and I woke uo early to get to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on time with all our luggage. Camerera, tripod, photo camera, laptops and of course fishing rod and hunting knife….. I mean this [...]

The Wild Rose Shanachie Tour starts april 15th in Calgary.
See the Tour Schedule here:http://www.rdpl.org/shanachietour and follow us on this website.
Questions and remarks on @shanacchietour #WildRoseTour
Trailer made by Robin Slierendregt (www.3komma14.nl)

Shanachies ask Cory Doctorow about Copyright.

After the conference “Computers in Libraries 2009″ in Washington, The Shanachies: Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer, visited the famous Darien Library. John Blyberg gave us a tour of the new building and we talked to some of the wonderful staff members about some of the new services and ideas. So kick back and [...]

13-08-2009 Plakias, Crete, Greece from the most southern public library in Europe I am looking back at our Irish adventure and realize that it is a little more than 2 weeks ago that we were at the most northern point of Ireland. Crazy life we lead sometimes. From the cold Atlantic and the hills of [...]

Shanachies interview Eddie and Georgina Byrne (not related) about libraries and new services in Ireland.

Koen Rotteveel, Interaction Designer and Developer
DOK, Library Concept Center made this incredible application that browses the collection of the local photo archive “Erfgoed Delft” and presents photographs of streets of patrons/users based on their ZIP code.
For more information please contact:
Jaap van de Geer (Head of Innovation), j.vandegeer@dok.info
Koen Rotteveel, k.rotteveel@dok.info

Shanachies are in Chicago to attend the movers and shakers lunch and give a presentation for the LITA President’s Program

Shanachies interview Knud Schulz about new library in Aarhus and the Next Library Unconference. The Libary as a space of desire.
http://www.nextlibrary.net

Scott Nicholson is doing an exciting one month course on Gaming in Libraries at the moment that can be found on http://www.gamesinlibraries.org/course/

Shanachies interview Kathy Dempsey and Helene Blowers at CIL 2009 about the future of libraries and the UGame Ulearn conference.

Shaking and on the last drops of unleaded we reach Sale, Gippsland, Victoria and refuel the Lizzard King. The rain pours down and we are actually getting a bit fed up being the Drought Busters. We get safely to Melbourne and thanks to our Tom Tom we find our camping park at Coburg. Award winning [...]

Marketing at it’s best in a small Australian library.

Shanachies interview Mylee and Ellen

Shanachies return a special book at local library. Surferboy.

We wake up early as we know the traffic in Brisbane gets insane and our Tom Tom is not 100% reliable at times. During breakfast we decide that after the four hour presentation and tour around the library we will try to make it a few hours south away from this disaster area and hope [...]

After our touch of summer and presentation in Perth we left early for the airport with the hotel shuttle. The flue is getting worse and all my muscles ache. The last thing I look forward to is another 5 hour flight, but it has to be done. Sharan Harvey is waiting at the airport of [...]

After amazing food at the local Chinese Duck restaurant, where we find out that people in Australia bring their own beer and wine to the restaurant we go for one big beer at a local pub. This day has been so long and we are so tired that we seem like bewildered eskimos looking at [...]

Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer, DOK Library Concept Center. travel to Chicago (2007) to explore gaming in libraries. Interviews with famous bibliobloggers Jeny Levine, Michael Stephens and Leah White and visits to Kankakee Public Library and Shaumburg Township District Library give us some insights into potential benefits of gaming for communities in this [...]

Friday the 28th we had an early kick off to the Shanachietour visiting one of the most beautiful libraries in the Netherlands: Amsterdam Public Library. In the next couple of days we will publish the travel plans from New York to Monterey.

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 LBI Episode 1 - OBA Amsterdam : Download

Shanachie Tour Trailer
The Shanachie tour Trailer is made by Robin Slierendregt at 3komma14.
Read more about the tour on the “about page”. Please leave us a comment when you know of innovative libraries in between New York and Monterey CA we should visit.

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