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Policies Don’t Do Work – A TTW Guest Post by Dr. Troy swanson

Many technology policies are created out of fear. They are created to protect the organization from its own members. They present a laundry list of illegal activities from copyright infringement, to libel, to harassment, to intellectual property theft, etc. They “protect” the library from lawbreakers and heart breakers.

Of course, policies have never done an [...]

Turkish Library Week Presentations

THE IMPACT AND EFFECT OF LEARNING 2.0 PROGRAMS IN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

Just got the proof from our article in NRAL! Very excited about [...]

The Conundrums of Control and Adaptability – A TTW Guest Post by Dr. Troy Swanson

Administrators face two conundrums with Web 2.0 tools. David Weinberger called the first a “conundrum of control” in his book Everything is Miscellaneous. This conundrum states that organizational leaders have an important interest in ensuring that 2.0 tools are used to further the organization’s mission. However, the more controls that they put in place (such as [...]

Call for Speakers: Internet Librarian International 2011 London!

Navigating the New Normal: Strategies for Success

Information Today invites proposals for presentations at Internet Librarian International 2011, to be held at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London on 27 & 28 October 2011.

We are now in a time best characterised as the “New Normal”. The new normal isn’t just about austere budgets [...]

Have I mentioned this to TTW Readers?

My 4th Year Portfolio (yes, paper, I know…I know…), originally uploaded by mstephens7.

I received notice that my application and portfolio of evidence for my promotion from Assistant Professor has been reviewed by the Committee on Faculty Appointments:

In the fall of 2011, I will be Dr. Michael Stephens, Associate Professor of [...]

Preserving the Community Memory

Rita Londo – Video/Oral History available at the Lester Public Library, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

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Interview with Dr. Troy Swanson – Community College Blogging Research

Via Gordon’s Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Blog comes this interview with Dr. Troy Swanson:

http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/2011/02/community-college-blogging-podcast.html

I’ve know Troy for sometime and was very pleased to watch his research unfold. Here are some details from the post:

On Thursday I had the pleasure of talking with Dr Troy Swanson, an Associate Professor / Teaching and Learning Librarian [...]

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