Good Morning! For almost 2 weeks I have been busy- in DC for CIL 2005, downstate for Indiana Library Federation, teaching at IUSB and doing some online collaboration. Today, however, I’m hitting the road for Traverse City to see how things are going Up North. See you in a couple of days!
Monthly Archives: March 2005
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Apple is selling these now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/185371/
Even as I post this, David King, Chad and Blake and I are co-browsing the Web! We all downloaded and installed JYBE and joined the same session. Suddenly, we were watching as David took us around the KCPL site! There is a built in chat room at the bottom of the page! We were chatting within the browser! WOWZA! Thanks to the fellow who posed the question to Aaron and I at our CIL IM presentation: “Have you tried Jybe?” And thanks to Chris Jowaisis who told me about it when it launched in January. Think of the implications for […]
Summer 2005 IMLS Distance Ph.D. Program in Library Science: School Library Division: Douglas Achterman Gayle Bogel Vivian Cisneros Richard Hasenyager Wendy Stephens Public Library Division: Shannon Bomar Sara Jones Brian Kenney Jeanne Puacz David Scott Congrats to all!!
That shufflecasting is hot right now friends… I am chatting for a minute with Chris (who sent this) and he just told me the coolest thing: Chris: “We want to offer audiobooks on iPod to the public, but along with them we would attach the library’s monthly podcast of library happenings, book reviews, music, movies, etc.” Me: “Chris, that’s HOT HOT HOT!” Chris: “Yeah.”
Hi Michael, We’ve been using iTunes here in the Chelmsford Public Library for over two years, since version 3 of iTunes. We run two iMac kiosks in the main library, one near the CD’s and one for the Young Adult area and then a standalone eMac in our branch library. The main library kiosks tap into an MP3 server in my office. I purchase the CD’s and rip everything I buy to MP3. Since there’s actually only one MP3 around, I think I’m within our legal rights. I’m probably going to expand the iTunes idea to the PC’s in the […]
A user walks into your library with a 40GB iPod intent on downloading all the PDFs needed for a research reprt, can he or she do that in your library?
(Shaking hands) Me: Mr. Gorman, I’m Michael Stephens. I write the Tame the Web Blog for Libraries and technology. I wrote a response to your piece, I hope you got to read it or will. Gorman: Ahh, some of those people were so thin-skinned. I hope you’re not. Me: No, sir, I am not thin-skinned. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Take a look at my blog sometime. Marydee blogs Gorman’s talk here: http://www.onlineinsider.net/2005/03/gawking-at-gorman.html
I’m about to do my “Technolust/Planning” talk here in Indianapolis..