I was happy to see Helene Blowers and a contingent from the Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County at the South Carolina State Library program this week. Helene’s work with learning 2.0 as a free, open, “steal this idea” learning program for 2.0 tools should be adopted by any and all libraries that want to get a handle on the shift we’re riding. Helene posted about the TechExpress day… http://libtechbytes.blogspot.com/2006/09/sc-tech-express.html …and notes my use of the word control: “Librarian 2.0 controls Technolust” This quote was a part of Michael Stephens excellent presentation and although I very much agree with what […]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
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South Carolia Public library Tech Day, Columbia, SC 9-13-06 Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Thanks to Levine and Abram and everyone at the South Carolina State Library for such a wonderful experience!
From Joy, one of my summer session students, comes this link: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/gaming/ Great resource for those interested in gaming in libraries and the News area has an RSS feed. Personally, I am eagerly awaiting the October release of Jenny Levine’s Library Technology Report “Gaming and Libraries: Intersection of Services.” Jenny’s take on gaming in libraries is most insightful and I believe her future view is most clear. Be ready folks, for more and more gaming in libraries.
Take a look at this great post from Rachel! http://www.lisjobs.com/liminal/2006/09/ten-dos-and-donts-for-conference.html This one rules: DO sweat the small stuff. If your presenter is coming from out of state, who will pick her up at the airport? Or, should she take a cab? Will your organization reimburse her for cabs? Who will make and pay for the travel and lodging arrangements? Is there a luncheon/dinner/reception to which you can wrangle her an invitation? If not, do you have some time free to join her for dinner/lunch/breakfast? (This is a nice touch, especially when dealing with an out-of-state speaker who may not know […]
Marie Palmer, at a new-to-me blog called “Library Stuff…” writes this week about reading Casey & Savastinuk’s article in LJ , and ponders how smaller libraries can get involved: A lot of libraries have always aimed to be “Library 2.0?. What’s new now is the abundance of technologies that help libraries further this aim. I work with a lot of small public libraries and though they may wish to keep up with these technologies, they very often don’t have the funding or resources to do so. They’re also usually far from highly populated centres that tend to attract techno-savvy librarians. […]
These are the books I’ve chosen as the contextual readings for my LIS701 class. 5 students will read each book and then late in the semester we will have a book discussion. We’ll look at how each book relates to themes we’ve studied and the LIS profession as a whole. Anderson, Chris. (2006) The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is selling Less of More. Hyperion. Beck, John and Wade, Mitchell. (2004) Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is reshaping Business Forever. HBS Press. Friedman, Thomas. (2005). The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Farrar, […]
In 2 weeks I’ll be at the Kentucky Library Association conference speaking and working with their newly forming conference blog team. What an excellent resources this will be: http://hyku.com/blog/archives/001253.html
Curtis Rogers posts more video: Stephen Abram Jenny Levine
…the future of the AV Department: “Show me your streaming video plan.” …getting out from behind the reference desk: “If you have staff who have butts in seats and they are ust sitting…show me a retail operation that would let people sit.” … games: “Most of them are really complicated things that kids learn from.” …the library: “It’s not about the library! It is about five very specific user spaces, communities: Neighbourhood/Community, Entertainment/Culture, Learning, Research, and Workplace.” …on the future: “We need to manage experience NOT collections.”
Finding the Future: Library 2.0 Originally uploaded by Michael Casey. Abram finds the future. Patti Butcher, State Library Director, opened the day with a charge for the 300 folks assembled to put aside their fear of change and think about what’s presented today. (Dr. Curtis Rogers videoblogged a bit of her talk.) Then she quoted this: The heart of Library 2.0 is user-centered change. It is a model for library service that encourages constant and purposeful change, inviting user participation in the creation of both the physical and the virtual services they want, supported by consistently evaluating services. Curtis & […]