This week I had my regular Monday night LIS701 class and have 2 guest lectures scheduled as well. I’m talking Web 2.0/L2 and one of my points, of course, is that LIS students need an aggregator and some feeds. Starting in school sets the stage for using tools such as RSS to stay in the know. This morning, into my Safari-flavored aggregator comes this ultra hot post from Library Clips: http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/11/29/rss-smarts/ I’ve found RSS is addictive, sometimes you have to let go and drop feeds, you can’t be aware of everything. I’ve found RSS content is overwhelming, sometimes you have […]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
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Allen County PL is incredible! Checkout the phone training video! What a long way we’ve come from the days of pulling everyone into a library training room for step-by-step instructions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EramdKlwzS4
A couple of days ago I posted about my dissertation chair’s new blog, and last night I get an email note from the non-UNT member of my committee, Dr. Jude Lewandowski at Indiana University South Bend. She has started a blog as well! I guess I’ll have to be on my toes now that my committee members are bloggers and will be evaluating my blogger research. Jude teaches instructional technology in the education program at IUSB. Take a look at her fledgling blog. There’s a nice link post to a “lifelong learning” vido here.
Last night in my LIS701 class, I presented Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and we had some discussion. A couple of folks mentioned a recent newspaper piece about “blawgs.” I asked for the link and Lauren and Michael followed through! Thanks! http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0611070249nov07,0,7074178.story?coll=chi-business-hed The marketing potential, whether explicit or not, of law-related blogs–or “blawgs” as some attorneys have come to call their online journals–is raising some tricky ethical questions for the profession, which regulates lawyer advertising. Those issues have come to the forefront in recent months, after ethics monitors in Kentucky found lawyer-written blogs to be advertising and subjected them to increased […]
File this under “Using Wiki Software for Training & Reference.” http://askacpl.pbwiki.com/
As usual, Jenny Levine has a way with words. I heart this comment she left on this post at TTW: While I am often the first one to get upset about folks talking loudly on their cell phones, I have just as big a problem with parents who let their screaming children scream. So I don’t understand how libraries can single out cell phones, especially when I can sit quietly in the corner and text folks without bothering anyone. If you’re going to ban cell phones because of the noise potential, then you’d better also ban kids, computers, reference staff […]
“Society has determined what the library of the past has been, and it is society that will determine what the library of the future shall be.” Jesse Shera, The Foundations of Education for Librarianship, 1972. Wiley-Becker and Hayes, p 135. During the Q&A at the Student Symposium last week at the University of Arizona, Jana Bradley, the director of the program, shared this quote from Jesse Shera. It really falls in line with my thinking about libraries as social spaces online and in physical space. For more about Shera: http://wiki.case.edu/Jesse_Hauk_Shera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Shera
Dr. O’Connor, my dissertation chair and professor at UNT, and I have had some cool talks about blogs (of course), flickr and tags over the lst couple of years. I was pleased to see he has launched a blog called “Hypotheses non fingo” where you’ll find discussions of visual representations, photocutionary acts, and ultra high resolution images. http://memestate.typepad.com/hypothesis_non_fingo/ I did have to look up what the title means! “Hypotheses non fingo” : “I feign no hypotheses” — Isaac Newton
Joel Husenits, Managing Editor at the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN), writes: The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) is using Google Co-op to power a search engine that searches all 251 Ohio public library websites. You can check it out at www.oplin.org/fal (we folded it into our existing “Find an Ohio Library” site). We thought other states and/or library systems might be interested in examples of localized custom search tools. Thanks Joel. I did some sample searches, including the above for “blogs.” Seems fluid and friendly. Nice! Have other libraries adopted this technology?
I like the heart Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Could we say that personalized tastemaker-style services encourage people’s hearts? I know comment conversations can for sure. Something about this graphic really touched me after an evening of lecture and discussion with my incredible LIS701 class.