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The hyperlinked school library: engage, explore, celebrate

Dr Michael Stephens delivered the Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Keynote Address at the ASLA XXI Biennial Conference, held in Perth, Western Australia, from 29 September to 2 October 2009.

Reprinted with permission from the Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) Access 2010 24(1): 5.

The evolving Web is an open and social place. The [...]

Mobile Devices & Libraries Experts Speak at ALA

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6670421.html

Libraries had better prepare for an explosion in the capacity of mobile devices as well as the transformative increase in user capacity and expectations. This was the message conveyed by a panel yesterday at [...]

Adding Links to the Hyperlinked Library

Just some things of note:

Library of Congress embraces YouTube, iTunes: “Our broad strategy is to ‘fish where the fish are,’ and to use the sites that give our content added value — in the case of iTunes, ubiquity, portability, etc.,” Raymond said in an e-mail.

Pupils to Study Twitter and Blogs: Children to leave [...]

Associations Using Twitter: CILIP’s “Epic FAIL” & Playing Nice

Do not miss this intriguing discussion that really speaks to the sea change were in.

Star here, with this post from Bob McKee, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP): (emphasis in bold mine)

http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/cesdesk/archive/2009/02/18/all-of-a-twitter.aspx

There’s some twittering at present about whether CILIP has (or should have) any “official” presence on [...]

Thanks ILA Trustees!

This past Saturday I spoke to the Illinois Library Association Trustee Forum. It was a full morning of a customized version of  “The Hyperlinked Library” and it left me fired up. I really enjoy talking to the folks who make decisions for their libraries. Thanks ILA!

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The Hyperlinked Library Updated

For last week’s talk at the University of North Texas Libraries and for this week at Web 2.You in Montreal, I’ve updated The Hyperlinked Library.

Download the 224 MB file here.

The Hyperlinked Library by Michael Stephens is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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Designing Experiences or Resources?

http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/creating-products-not-experiences/

This comes via David Armano’s Twitter feed. I will be seeing him speak at this year’s IDEA Conference – I can’t wait.

The Kicker Studio piece is good food for thought:

Although Kicker does some of the activities that in a lot of circles would be called “User Experience” or “Experience Design,” it’s my [...]

On the Learning/Information Commons

I’ve become fascinated with the idea and implementation of the Commons in academic libraries of late. It’s very much part of what I call The Hyperlinked Library. These past few months, I’ve wrote about the commons at ALA TechSource blog. Please take a look if you are interested.

The Space Had to Say WOW: Indiana [...]

The Hyperlinked Library Updated

 

Click here to download the 174MB file: StephensHyperlinkedMasterFall2008.pdf

Reference Desks Galore!

 

 

Help Desks March 6, originally uploaded by thehubatwts.

Don’t miss the Reference Desks Pool:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/referencedesks/pool/

How does your desk stack up? Have you added photos of your desk?