From the new Information Today (May 2005), a piece called “In the Beginning, there was Content” that features some cool folks discussing presence and the Web — as well as adapting to the rapid pace of change in our professional lives. Roy Tennant discusses content, creation and change: “In this world of ubiquitous and fluid content creation and distribution opportunities, only the flexible will survive. Those who can effectively use new modes of communication will be the primary creators of content…and librarians who can make sense of it all on behalf of their clientele will remain treasured assets to society. […]
Yearly Archives: 2005
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3 Public Library Websites that ROCK my World For the INCOLSA workshops I’m presenting with Sharon and Dan Wiseman, I’ve been looking at some of the best user-centered, community-centric, forward thinking PL web sites there are. If you asked me to name a couple today, out of many many excellent sites, I might mention: Kansas City Public Library Hennepin County Public Library And guess what? At NE-ASIST, three speakers: Megan Fox, Jenny Levine and I, all mentioned these libraries in our presentations as on the cutting edge of what PLs can do with web presence without consulting with each other. […]
Friday I’m talking about Presence at the Indiana Online User’s group in Indy. Coolest thing is Glenn Peterson will be there keynoting about the totally cool Hennepin CO PL site!! While we are pondering presence, I think it’s important for librarians to be seen out and about in the thriving virtual communities we know and love. For example, librarian’s desks at flickr: http://flickr.com/groups/librariansdesks/ Here’s mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/347976/ Flickr friends…feel free to tag away!
I spoke today at a meeting of the Northern Indiana Library Computer Consortium. It was picked up via video to Columbia City, IN and Indianapolis as well. Here’s the bibliography: Download file
Here’s the big library in TC courtesy of Jeff, my library chum up there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jefoto/13733201/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/sets/330252/ It makes me feel I’m on the right track when I see the cool presentations Jessamyn gives about technology and libraries: http://www.librarian.net/stax/1298 I said in an IM Tuesday to her “We sing a lot of the same tune…” Check out the “Robots” presentation.
Thanks David! Good stuff… (I’m getting caught up after being on the road…) http://daweed.blogspot.com/2005/05/15-things-you-can-do-with-rss.html
Nice chat with Ken Smith Tuesday about our community, blogging, RSS and “not getting blogging.” Thanks Ken!
Dan is talking about levels of change and prerequisites for sustained change in libraries: “If you are just looking at what is happening at the top of the organization, you may be missing what’s happening on the people level. Without a clear vision, mission and leadership strategy, your library may be plagued by low morale and staff resistant to change.”
More in a bit… It’s so nice to be back here…