Today’s stories include: checkout slips, mobile phone use, word of mouth marketing, and more.

New Zealand

• Have any libraries tried this?: Using hairdressers for word of mouth marketing | @AlisonWnz. (BoK2)
• Are you a qualified librarian interested in electronic resources? Check out this opportunity with @Auckland_Libs. (BoK9)

Worldwide

• Today the real competition for booksellers, publishers and libraries is NOT READING via @librarianbyday. (BoK1)
• Issues of compatibility and longevity: An Inconvenient Truth About E-books via @LibraryRenewal. (BoK7)
• Consider the Checkout Slip (from a user experience perspective) via   @librarianbyday. (BoK3)
• Projects Aims to Build Online Hub for Archival Materials via @initiatives_lib. (BoK8)
• Ask your users because they are not like you: Libraries and the Myth of Mobile Phone Use via @HughRundle. (BoK3)