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StoryTubes 2012, the two-minute or shorter, ”my favorite book” video contest is open as of J
anuary 20, 2012 and accepting English speaking entrants from throughout the world. It is open for kids in grades K – 12.
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Sean Robinson writes: This is a little video I made that pokes fun at the conflict between e-books and paper books. It’s not really real, if you love books you don’t care what format they come in. This was made to lower the anxiety that we all feel about the changes that are occurring within libraries. http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/01/managing-libraries/luis-herrera-ljs-2012-librarian-of-the-year/ “I have a great team. My mentors all said, ‘Surround yourself with good people,’ and I did,” says Herrera. Such humility and kindness is key to Herrera’s success in San Francisco and to winning this award. In short, he got voters to extend SFPL support for 15 years. He employed his participatory management style to create a rare alliance between management and union. He invoked an ability to build strong and effective partnerships with other city departments, while his unusual brand of courage let staff teams make major management and organizational changes and decisions. Herrera is LJ’s 2012 Librarian of the Year because of his joyous spirit and infectious optimism about libraries and his willingness to communicate that optimism to all those involved, especially the citizens of San Francisco. I was very luck to meet Luis at the Salzburg Global Seminar (where we celebrated his birthday!). I am very glad to see him honored for his out standing work.
The rest of the site is currently under construction, but for now you’ll find: Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software (2006) - http://thehyperlinkedlibrary.org/libtechreport1/ Web 2.0 & Libraries: Trends & Technologies (2007) - http://thehyperlinkedlibrary.org/libtechreport2/ Special thanks to my SJSU SLIS grad assistant Patrick Siebold who worked very hard the past few weeks inputting the content. I know the examples from ’06 and ’07 may seem out of date and quaint in some ways, but I’m very proud of the framework we used for the works back then. Conversations, Community, Connections, Collaborations – all those great C words Jenny Levine and I used throughout our early social software roadshows in 2005 & 2006 provide a useful context for looking at Web 2.0. I hope these works are still useful to some of you. Comments are open for adding more to the chapters and I plan on doing some types of updating as time permits. The site will also serve my course Web sites and other items related to my teaching.
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that improve society through knowledge exchange & social action Lifelong learning in & out of formal educational settings The following values permeate these topics:
The Salzburg Global Seminar convenes numerous meetings throughout the year focused on creating solutions for issues on an international level. In October, I was honored to participate in the session co-sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services “Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture.” Representatives from libraries and museums from over 20 countries came together for five intensive days of discussion and deliberations about the future of cultural institutions in a time of hyper-connected social participation. Working groups formed to provide solutions to the many challenges discussed. As part of my role, I was asked to participate, present about emerging technologies and blog the sessions. I joined the working group devoted to building the skills of librarians and museum professionals. Lead by Dr. David Lankes, Syracuse University, our group adopted this mission statement: “The mission of librarians and museum professionals is to foster conversations that improve society through knowledge exchange & social action.” We developed several curricular topics/skills to frame our work: Management for Participation, Asset Management, Cultural Skills, Knowledge/Learning/Innovation, Technology, and Transformative Social Engagement. The framing statements are reproduced above this post. Technology:
The technology focus I recently explored in SJSU SLIS’s Student Research Journal (http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=slissrj )includes the ability to engage and evolve with technology, the ability to impart technology to cross-generational communities, and the ability to create and maintain an effective virtual presence. These should already be part of an LIS student’s educational experience. Evolving as technology does afford information professionals the chance to continuously adapt services, access and collections to the information environments of our constituents. Online presence – what you do, what you say within the professional networks – can carry a lot of weight. See “The Role of Mentoring” for more. Transformative Social Engagement
Another interesting and dynamic section of the proposed curriculum – transformative social engagement – merits further exploration and discussion. Under this banner, our group selected a series of thematic areas future LIS grads should experience as part of their preparation for future professional positions. The forthcoming report from the seminar and IMLS will include further details, and Lankes explores the curriculum as well in an video at his blog (http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=1349). These ideas about transforming communities, however, have already illuminated my planning and content for courses and I wanted to share them. Fluency in critical social analysis, “participating deeply within the community,” as our group defined it, transcends the more simple notions of community outreach and “going where the users are.” Consider the public librarian participating in community planning or development, or the academic librarian housed full time within their assigned liaison department. The potential for enhanced understanding of the needs of those particular communities is enticing. Stressing this need for participation, Lankes posited “Why showcase culture if we are not enabling conversations about that culture?” as part of his remarks during the seminar. Related is understanding and participating in advocacy efforts. As part of my new faculty orientation at SJSU, I spent a day with other new professors touring various service agencies in the Bay Area. We were introduced to various initiatives, community service organizations and supporting entities. At a lunch and presentation at the Health Trust, a Silicon Valley organization promoting wellness, I had a realization – everywhere we visited could benefit from the skills, ethics and knowledge of an information professional as a means to extend, support and sustain the success of these organizations. Both of these areas have something in common: the information professional with these skills may spend more time OUTSIDE library walls than within. This shifting paradigm is one that Lankes illustrates well with his emphasis on a positive future for librarians instead of libraries. I took many good things away from my work at the Salzburg Global Seminar. I have a new appreciation for the work of museum professionals and cultural institutions. The boundary between what we do in libraries and what they do in museums – especially in a technology-enhanced participatory age – has become less blurred. Imagine a mash up library/museum school of the future where transformative social engagement, cultural memory and knowledge creation/curation techniques are cultivated and taught. There’s much more to the proposed curriculum. My hope is this curriculum, began in Salzburg, will inform and guide the evolution of educational programs far and wide. I am off to the ALISE meeting in Dallas today and thought it would be fitting to publish this post on the way. Links Seminar Session: http://www.salzburgglobal.org/current/sessions.cfm?IDSpecial_Event=2961 Full text of the Curriculum: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=1345
January 26, 2012 – Tech Trends 2012, Education Institute & Ontario Library Association, online – for OLA 2012 registrants. February 1, 2012 – Keynote, Information Environments for a Hyperlinked World, Handheld Librarian Conference, online. February 20, 2012 – Staff Development Day, Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, Evansville, Indiana. February 24, 2012 – Faculty Technology Workshop, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California. March 15 & 16, 2012 - Hyperlinked Libraries: Emerging Tech & Emerging Trends, SJSU SLIS Exhibition Space, Public Library Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 13, 2012 – Keynote, ILF District 6 Conference, Lawrenceburg, Indiana. April 18, 2012 – Harvard Library Strategic Conversations program, Harvard Libraries, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Summer 2012; June 4-8 2012 – Keynote, 11th Southern African Online Information Meeting, Sandton, South Africa One of the BEST things I’ve read about e-books in a long time: In this transitional time, public libraries should aim for the future and invest in toolsets and programming that help their communities produce and participate in new digital works, not simply consume them. To make something is to understand something. If you build a radio from parts in your garage, you’ll have a very different relationship with every radio you listen to from that day on. A tomato you grow in your garden will always taste better than the tomato you bought from the grocery store, and you’ll develop a deep understanding of what that tomato is after you’ve nurtured its growth for months. Every time you have tomatoes at a restaurant after you’ve grown your own you’ll have a different understanding of tomatoes; what they are, where they came from, and the potential they hold. To help our communities taste better tomatoes, public libraries need media labs, hacker spaces, coworking spaces, expert staff, and a long term investment in technologies supporting community creativity. Go read the full post by Nate Hill here: http://plablog.org/2012/01/an-ebook-is-not-a-book.html One cool thing I’ve worked on over break are two pathways for study for our students at SLIS: Digital Services: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/classes/careerpathways/digital.htm The Hyperlinked Library & Emerging Technologies: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/classes/careerpathways/emerging.htm Here’s a bit of the description of the second, based on the Hyperlinked Library model and emerging technologies: Based on models of participatory library service and supported by the writings of Buckland, Lankes et al, Weinberger and more, this pathway explores the Hyperlinked Library model and explores the impact of emerging trends and technologies on library and information services. This career pathway concentrates on the theories and supporting techniques related to transparency, participatory service and user-centered approaches and focuses on emerging technologies related to mobile access, evolving library space both physical & virtual, user participation, and learning/new literacies. The pathway includes these thematic areas:
Students in this track will develop practical and theoretical expertise in one or more of the thematic areas as well as an understanding of the societal and cultural implications of emerging technologies. I am excited to keep working on these pathways and assisting our students – and post masters students as well – with these tracks for learning.
I got these two direct messages via Twitter recently from two libraries who were acknowledging that I started following them. They followed me back and then sent these messages. To me, these simple DM’s really warmed my heart and reinforced the idea that customer service is one of the most important things that we can focus on in libraries today. It also acts as a great way to open up the conversation with our patrons. This is something I highly recommend that libraries practice when using Twitter. It really can make our patrons feel welcome. -Post by Justin Hoenke,Tame the Web Contributor |
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