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Monthly Archives: May 2006
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Asks Michael Casey at LibraryCrunch: http://www.librarycrunch.com/2006/05/spine_labels_and_dedeweficatio.html Michael addresses some interesting points. I’m fascinated by his thoughs on stickers and labels. Do we really need all the stickers we put on materials? How many colored dots, labels and barcodes does one item need? I’ll be interested to watch the discussions about classification play out. I’d still like to somehow see the library’s collection represented as a Tag Cloud that would show us the way to the materials we want.
http://library2.0.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/5/9/1944906.html I just posted this at the ALA L2 Blog: As we close our week of discussion about Librarian 2.0, let me ask you to ponder this: Cluetrain Manifesto Theses 53, 54, 55 There are two conversations going on. One inside the company. One with the market.In most cases, neither conversation is going very well. Almost invariably, the cause of failure can be traced to obsolete notions of command and control.As policy, these notions are poisonous. As tools, they are broken. Command and control are met with hostility by intranetworked knowledge workers and generate distrust in internetworked markets. I think […]
I posted this yesterday at our ALA L2 Blog: http://library2.0.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/5/6/1936772.html One point here about radical trust: I think letting go of silos in our libraries has a lot to do with embracing radicat trust (RT). How often do we see branches, departments, units, subject areas etc that exist as their own little kingdom? These are silos. We need to share — and share freely without worrying that someone may outshine us for a second or some other location will get all the glory –across a flatter organizational structure.
WOW! http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6330767.html Although not a librarian himself, Vielmetti has a patron’s appreciation for libraries—actually he’s more of a superpatron, which happens to be the name of his blog (vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron), launched in December 2005. “It’s written from the point of view of a library patron, rather than librarians,” he says. “I felt that there were things librarians may not see if they sit behind a desk that you can when you walk through the door.” I’ll say it again: Every library needs a superpatron! How do we make sure we are fostering them?
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6330755.html Congrats to Chris for a great article. I was lucky enough to get Chris to talk with my for ALATechSource a few months ago. I’m pleased to see that School Library Journal is getting Chris’ thoughts out there. And checkout his article on MySpace. Digitally re-shifting your school library is about harnessing the power of new ideas like Web 2.0 to help fulfill the mission of school libraries. It does not necessarily mean discarding the old, but rather reconsidering what works best in meeting new challenges in a changing educational world. It’s all a part of helping students become […]
Via LibraryGarden: “Leslie is oh so 2.0!” Leslie is Flickr-ing! Winter 2006 046 Originally uploaded by lburger1951. This brought back some nice memoires of our lunch with Leslie! And don’t miss news about the Blogger’s Bash at ALA NOLA!
Fascinating reading at “What I learned Today…” http://www.web2learning.net/archives/332 This was posted on our Intranet by our head of Technical Services: This year during the ILUG @ AALL (July 2006). There will be discussion on the State of the Innovative System. I would like to get your thoughts and present them during this discussion. Things that will be discussed are: How has Millennium worked in your institution? What has it helped? What problems has it raised? Where does the Innovative system fit into the IT environment of your institution? … From the standpoint of you and your institution, where do you […]
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/05/which_users_lif.html Who in your company gets the emails/stories from your users? Too often the good stories are routed to PR/Marketing (the success stories that make for good testimonials) while the rest of us (programmers, customer service, etc.) get all the complaint emails. Yes, we like hearing about how great our product is, especially when we did the work. But it’s the stories about how the company/product/service/cause has changed someone’s life–that matter to those of us doing the actual work. And sometimes the way a user’s life is changed is not at all what we’d expect. Let me tell you a […]
http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/04/library-staff-and-technology-buy-in.html My earlier posts point out the observation that companies that have successfully adopted disruptive technologies did so only when they created a separate organization to deal with the technology. The idea of a group within the library being organized and responsible for investigating emerging and disruptive technology issues fits into the pattern of companies that successfully managed their innovation. The goal of this organization should be to play around with technology and to participate in rapid prototyping, not to create anything practical or plan for implementation. The focus should be on learning and discovery, not action. Think technology group […]