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LIS768 CSC Group Projects

I’m taught my last weekend of LIS768 in St. Paul at the College of St. Catherine last week. The final Saturday of class is always group project day. Take a look:

One group developed a Ning for librarians: The Library Lounge. They also gave a presentation of background info and their findings from theexperience.

Another group developed a [...]

Taming Technolust: Planning in a Hyperlinked World

I am particularly enjoying this slide this morning.

Here are the slides as PDF from the original keynote file.

Links for the presentation today:

Technoplans Vs Technolust at Library Journal 2004

Taming Technolust article at RUSQ: http://www.rusq.org/2008/08/18/taming-technolust/

Links:

ACRL Changing Roles

“Let Go of Control” Cell Phone Sign: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/1924719853

Brian Herzog’s [...]

LIS768 Context Book Reports

The first wave of Context Book Reports are coming in via the LIS768ers up in Minnesota. I have policy of not pointing to individual student work during the semester, but if you are curious about what students thought of various books take a look:

http://classes.tametheweb.com/768news/2008/09/13/roster-of-lis768-csc-blogs/

Thanks to the authors who replied to student emails for [...]

Students aren’t so web-savvy…

Nicole writes:

This is an interesting interview:

Eszter Hargittai, an assistant professor in Northwestern University’s sociology department, has discovered that students aren’t nearly as Web-savvy as they, or their elders, assume.

Ms. Hargittai studies the technological fluency of college freshmen. She found that they lack a basic understanding of such terms as BCC (blind copy on [...]

Flickr Images in “The Hyperlinked Library 2008″

I wanted to give as much credit as possible to the incredible folks who share their photos on Flickr and offer use vi the Creative Commons. All of these images are used in the new version of The Hyperlinked Library.

Intro:

The Library of the Past: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/533005659/

Web 2.0 Logos: http://flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/

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Links in “The Hyperlinked Library 2008″

Citations & Links Noted in the Hyperlinked Library Presentations

Introduction

Singapore Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/snapsg

Singapore Flickr 2: http://www.aarontanlive.com/2008/06/singapores-national-library-on-flickr.html

These Things are Opportunities:

Google’s Share: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080715-152041

Laying the Foundation

“Social Machines” – Continuous Computing: http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/14664/?a=f

What is Web 2.0?: http://tinyurl.com/743r5

Generators: http://www.customsigngenerator.com/

2.0 Memes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dionh/83654635/’

Library 2.0: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html

OCLC Perceptions: http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm

New World of Librarianship

Sharpen these skills for Librarian 2.0

One of the principles I would add to the Library 2.0 meme is that “the Library is human” because it makes the library a social and emotionally engaging center for learning and experience. Librarian 2.0, then, is the “strategy guide” for helping users find information, gather knowledge and [...]

Book Discussion: Student Orientation

Henry Jenkins posts about new CMS graduate student orientation at MIT, including a book discussion!

Another highlight of today’s events will be our book discussion. Each year, we choose a recent book in the field of media studies (or a sampler of recent articles) which we ask all of the students to read over the [...]

Thanks Steve! Thanks Apple

& [...]

The Naked Library (or Radical Transparency for LJ)

Michael Casey and I are writing our next column for LJ’s The Transparent Library and we realized what a perfect place to discuss the recent Wired piece “The Naked CEO” by Clive Thompson. Thompson blogged about the article while writing the piece and asked for input.

At his blog, Thompson sums up so much [...]