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New Library Leadership Blog from Ken Haycock

Don’t miss Ken Haycock’s new blog focusing on all aspects of library leadership:

http://www.kenhaycock.com/kens-blog.html

Here’s a bit of a recent post on “Building A Better Manager:”

How do you determine what makes a great branch manager? The results would be fairly obvious, I suspect… along the lines of have a clear vision and strategy for [...]

Conversation with Peter Bromberg

Brilliant! Please take a few minutes and watch Peter Bromberg’s video from ACPL. I was honored to take part in this series in 2008: http://www.youtube.com/user/askacpl#p/a/5C3DEAAE3B8A1DBE/0/PzBC8q_hTHY

What Are Words For? from Steven V. Kaszynski

From The Go Librarians,  Steven V. Kaszynski writes:

http://golibrarians.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/what-are-words-for/

Everybody loves ALA’s classic celebrity READ posters. And for good reason. Multi-age, culturally relevant celebrities inspiring multi-age people to read books and get literate. They’re popular and possibly even effective. Still, the READ poster is alone in its work. It wants a family. It needs siblings.

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Active Content Creation & Collecting – A Presentation by Mal Booth

Active Content Creation & Collecting  

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The Underground Economy of Innovation – A TTW Guest Post by Dr. Troy Swanson

There are costs to maintaining and fully supporting technologies. For every dollar of software or hardware that is purchased, there are additional dollars that must be committed to implementation and ongoing support. Most organizations have lists of “supported” technologies and much longer lists of “unsupported” technologies. Yet, we continue to innovate. We continue to utilize [...]

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 [...]

The Hyperlinked Library: A TTW White Paper

Download the paper here: The Hyperlinked Library (PDF) | The Hyperlinked Library (epub) (Coming Soon)

Libraries continue to evolve. As the world has changed with emerging mechanisms for global communication and collaboration, so have some innovative, cutting edge libraries. My model for the Hyperlinked Library is born out of the ongoing evolution of [...]

Tennant: An Open letter to New Librarians

Roy Tennant has a lovely post up at LJ:

http://blog.libraryjournal.com/tennantdigitallibraries/2011/02/18/an-open-letter-to-new-librarians/

Roy offers some advice for success in librarianship, including these that speak to me:

Focus your efforts where you can make a difference. Identify some things that you can do that are within your talents, that deeply interest you, and for which you can envision [...]

DOK Delft takes user generated content to the next level – A TTW Guest Post by Erik Boekesteijn

DOK, the Library Concept Center in the Netherlands and home of the Shanachies has been working on digital storytelling tools for libraries and museums for a number of years now and have come up with new applications for Multi Touch that allow the users to bring their own content to the library.

There [...]

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