At the BayNet Annual Meeting on May 6 at the San Francisco Public Library, Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project discussed the latest research findings of the Project about how Americans use the Internet and cell phones. He described how libraries can be actors in building and participating in social networks through their use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogging and through delivering their time-tested — and trusted — services to their patrons.

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The Story of the Digital Book

Millions of books from the UC Libraries have been digitized, but how? Go behind the scenes to learn about the UC Libraries’ digitization process and see several ways you can use these newly digital books. “The Story of the Digital Book” explains how their books make their way from the shelf to the screen, the possibilities they bring to users, and how they’re preserved for the long term.

“Millions of books from the UC Libraries have been digitized, but how?  Go behind the scenes to learn about the UC Libraries’ digitization process and see several ways you can use these newly digital books.  ‘The Story of the Digital Book’ explains how our books make their way from the shelf to the screen, the possibilities they bring to users, and how they’re preserved for the long term.”

Produced by Jason Colman and Amy Rogers (BayNet Webmaster)

Him Mark Lai is a scholar of Chinese America and a key representative of the Chinese Historical Society of America.

The show stopper was cutting one of the Library staff in half — although given all the cuts to the Library I’m sure that the Library director wishes she could do the same to all her staff, immediate doubling! — check out the particularly excited young lady in the front row: