Just linking: http://www.flickr.com/photos/february28/110135754/ IM in Libraries! http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/109337168/ Albert Einstein on Library 2.0
Monthly Archives: March 2006
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Wowza but there’s a HOT (OVERDUE?) post from John Blyberg this am about librarians and IT fol;ks getting together. Thanks John! ?http://www.blyberg.net/2006/03/08/from-tech-to-tome-spanning-the-gulf/
I’m heading up to Minnesota this May to talk about Library 2.0. If you’re going to be at one of the sessions, please say HI! I just got word that the Southeastern Libraries Cooperating group (SELCO) has started a blog. Take a look: http://www.selco.info/blog/. It’s nice to see more library consortia and systems blogging for their members.
John Blyberg posts: http://www.blyberg.net/2006/03/07/2006-library-camp-a-library-20-unconference/ Mark April 14th on your calendars. Superpatron Ed Vielmetti has been quietly assembling a fantastic group of people to attend the first ever Library Camp–an “unconference” which follows open-space guidelines. There is no registration as it operates on the premise that whomever shows up belongs there (though an optional wiki sign-up gives us a good idea of how many/who is coming). I will be there with bells on! I’m fascinated by this type of planning for an unconference.* Who knows how the time will play out but I can’t wait to hear some of the folks […]
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=11437432&src=rss/technologyNews AOL gets it that opening up their IM platform may prove very succesful as social networks grow. Will we see AIM built in to new Web 2.0 sites, services, etc? “It’s a dramatic turnaround for AOL,” said Joe Wilcox, an analyst at Jupiter Research, who called the move shrewd and well timed. AOL is “opening up to other companies, some of whom can create products to compete with AIM,” he added. Communicating by typing messages, making phone calls or video-calls and the ability to see if recipients are online at the same time are seen as integral to successful […]
http://tinyurl.com/nd33u I’ve used the lii.org site for many years in public instruction, reference work and as an example of human-edited subject guides that ROCK! Take the survey and help the folks at LII with decisions about funding. (The survey is open until March 16, 2006)
A week ago Wednesday I spent three hours with the folks at ALA Headquarters. Jenny was under the weather so I went on without her! (Jenny – you were missed at the big conference table!) I presented Jenny’s modules and my modules of the roadshow, with a slant toward “association” thinking and a what could ALA be doing with the some of the social software tools. This was prep for the upcoming online course I wrote about at TechSource. I just received my ALA membership card (yes I’m a card-carrying, conference going member) and on the back of the card […]
…the thoughts are broken… points to a blog by a candidate for ALA president. Guess what? No comments enabled! And Mark can’t find an e-mail. http://bookmark.typepad.com/the_thoughts_are_broken/2006/03/which_required_.html I would have commented at her blog, but they don’t seem to be allowed. Nice way to engage the constituency. I would have sent her an email, but I couldn’t find an email address on the blog anywhere. I may well have missed it as I do get blind on occasion. But I spent at least 5 minutes over 2 separate occasions today looking for such an animal on her blog. So if it […]
Pattyy Uttaro reports to TTW: I’m waiting on an order of 5 iPod shuffles that we’re going to circ pre-loaded with recorded books. This summer, we’ll be circing iPods (want video, may settle for nano) from our new branch in a restored trolley depot on the Erie Canal. Those iPods will serve a couple purposes. Some will be pre-loaded with a recorded (or video) tour of our village that visitors can use to find things like good coffee, tasty food, parks, etc. Other iPods will be loaned to people traveling along the Erie Canal by boat or bike. They’ll get […]
…that you were Dreaming “This next generation will challenge libraries in ways undreamt of today…” Stephen Abram & Judy Luther “Born with the Chip” Library Journal, May 2004 I’m pulling together some slides for a talk on “Web 2.0 Changing Reference Services” I’m presenting to a SLIS class tonight, and the above quote jumped out at me from a PPT I did for a staff retreat back in’04!