This one is one my bookshelf…waiting… but this description at NEASIST is most cool, I wish I could attend: On Ambient Findability: “At the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet, the user experience is out of control, and findability is the real story. Access changes the game. We can select our sources and choose our news. We can find who and what we need, when and where we want. As society shifts from push to pull, findability shapes who we trust, how we learn, and where we go. In this cyberspace safari, Peter Morville explores the future present in […]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
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I’ve been reading I Shush lately from Woody E, a Librarian from Texas, and this caught my eye: This all leads to reader participation in the organization of information. Librarians no longer have a monopoly on this. Computers and people are finding new, sexier ways to it for themselves. For librarians to stay in the game, we’ve got to incorporate self-organizing, bottom-up, grassroots, folksonomies into the very careful and rather inert records we create. We need moveable records (or, to clarify: portions of records) that make library materials dynamic for our users. iBistro is a step toward Amazon, but we’ve […]
A comment posted for Libraries Using Multiple Weblogs Well I started with two blogs for our library: one for news about our digital collection and daily messages about in-house matters, the other one for tools, nice websites and other things like that. The management could not agree on the first one because they did not want the staff to feel obliged to visit a weblog. I thought it was an opportunity to get them all moving to online information gathering. I was wrong :-/ Edwin Edwin – I am very sorry about this. What if the staff was trained to […]
Via LibraryGarden: As a librarian and professor, I joined Facebook last year when I found out that the students in my public speaking class were communicating with each other via that tool, instead of our university’s email system. It was amazing how much more open and willing the students were to sharing information about each other and their individual and group projects in our class, via Facebook. They were thrilled that I was willing to join Facebook, and they loved that I used it to find out and celebrate their birthdays, for instance, as they came up during the semester. […]
Via OPL Plus: http://yalibrarian.com/ About This Blog: This Blog is updated by two librarians who work with teens. It includes viewpoints about serving teens, as well as day-to-day commentary on what the librarians are learning and experiencing. Good stuff! This blog will be useful to many librarians working and planning with teens, who might want to add it to their aggregator!
From comment on the OPAL Links post: Did you mention something about individual library branches having their own blogs? Do you know of any library systems doing this right now? This question came up at PLA as well. Can you, readers, help me out? Is anyone using multiple blogs for each branch library or department? I like the idea especially if aggregated into a central page. It would certainly be something to explore. Please comment, e-mail me at mstephens7 (at) mac.com or IM me at mstephens7mac.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/124453103/ Michael Sauers reports: 10 April 2006: This sign is no longer hanging in the library. It has been removed and no one in the department would admit to posting the sign in the first place. Oh! To cleanse the pallet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/56709973@N00/120136808/
http://www.wtmx.com/podcast/20060411-Eric_and_Kathy_-_WTMX-FM_Chicago.mp3 WTMX talked to the SJCPL Branch Librarian who had a turkey fly into the branch window! Use the link above to hear the podcast of the interview (it’s about halfway through the ‘cast.).
http://michaelgolrick.blogspot.com/2006/04/ala-blogger-round-table.html#links Michael Golrick has a GREAT idea! Form a Blogger’s RT at ALA. I’m in! Pass the word!
“…right now most libraries are letting some truly invaluable people slip right through the cracks.” http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2006/04/11/a_liminal_followup.html ” Ask yourself what your library is doing to value your top staff (all of them, not just the traditional, stereotypical functionaries), to create a collaborative environment (especially between generations and between various job roles), and to let your employees color outside the lines a little in order to draw the big picture.” http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2006/04/10/the_taking_issue_with_absolutes_librarian.html To me, that’s letting go of that micro-management control some librarians use and letting librarians dream, innovate and plan without red tape, endless meetings and barriers disguised as “baby steps.”