Monthly Archives: May 2006

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Tame the North

Stephensshirt Originally uploaded by mbsam. They suprised me with SHIRTS! We’ll be giving away shirts and copies of OCLC’s Perceptions report at all 5 stops!! Mary Beth made the shirt design and it rocks! I nearly fell off my chair! On the back, like a concert shirt, it lists the dates and cities of the “tour!” Thanks Minnesota librarians!

Greetings from Minnesota!

Tonight I had dinner with some librarians (and their spouses) from SELCO. Barbara, the Multytype Librarian, Mary Beth, the Newlyminted Librarian, Aurora, SuperTurbo, Ann, who blogs at the SELCO blog, and I had a great conversation. Barbara even asked what the tag was going to be for the week of presentations. We agreed it would be TTWMN! Tomorrow, I present, and then Mary Beth & I take off for our next stop. More tomorrow!

Off To Minnesota

Greetings! I am heading North today, not to TC, but to Minnesota and five presentations in five cities in five days! I’ll be reporting from the road and posting pictures at Flickr. I am really excited to meet a bunch of Minnesota librarians. If you are attending any of the session, please say HI! http://www.selco.lib.mn.us/apps/training/courseDescription.cfm?courseID=10226

Second Life Library 2.0 Introduction

(Michael stumbles around in the Library…) http://secondlifelibrary.blogspot.com/2006/05/introduction-to-alliance-second-life.html Alliance Library System/OPAL will provide an introduction to the Alliance Second Life Library 2.0 in the OPAL auditorium on Wednesday, May 31, at 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Speakers will include Greg Schwartz, Tom Peters, Lori Bell, Kelly Czarnecki, Jami Lynn Schwarzwalder, and other librarians involved in the project. They will explain what they are doing, show you what is happening and answer questions about the project. Book discussions, training sessions, and other programs are currently being offered to current virtual residents. The goal of the project is to promote the real library […]

Dear Leslie… (Updated — More Yawping)

….you can’t get to ALA soon enough! At LISNews, Blake points to Karen’s post and says: Some interesting comments including one from David King who sums up my reason for not being part of ALA: “Honestly, one of the reasons I’m not a member of ALA is because of people like Gorman.” Check out the Librarian in Black’s thoughts and the comments as well: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/05/michael_gorman_.html Steve Lawson too: http://library.coloradocollege.edu/steve/archives/2006/05/barbaric_yawp.html