Is your library afraid of Flickr, when other libraries like this one are using it to adavantage? Sarah writes: Michael: Recently you posted about Mickey’s 16 cool uses for using Flickr at a library. I’d like to pass on a new example we have at the Johnson County Library. Our Lackman Branch (we have 13 branches! Wow!) created a Flickr account to give everyone a virtual tour of their branch. They even included photos on the staff side! Just wanted to pass on the Flickr goodness! http://www.flickr.com/photos/11329886@N00/sets/72157594291410121/ Beta forever, Sarah aka veggienerd.wordpress.com Thanks sarah. Nice to see uses such as […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
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http://www.library.ohiou.edu/newsblog/?p=152 Via Eric in my LIS701 Class: The library now has a new way for students to learn about the library. You can now borrow our iPod to take an audio tour around Alden. Simply stop by the Learning Commons Desk on the second floor of Alden to check out our iPod. The tour of all seven floors covers the basics of the library, and will take about 30 minutes to complete. If you already own an iPod or MP3 player, you can download the tour by following one of the links below. We currently have two versions of the […]
I was reminded of this incredible service at Cherry Hill Public Library in new Jersey when I came across John Blyberg’s recent post on iTunes sharing: http://www.blyberg.net/2006/09/12/sharing-music-with-itunes-and-mt-daapd/ I appreciate John’s take and his “how to do it” hints. I don’t know much about MT DAAPD but I do know offering your library users access to your entire CD collection via library computers is darn user-centered and just plain FUN! LISTEN BEFORE YOU BORROW! Like John, I like to hear from folks about how this is going for them if they’ve tried it. Cherry hill? Others?
Over lunch in the Dining Hall at Dominican, I read a few articles in MIT’s Technology Review. “10 Ways to Think about Innovation” by Jason Pontin really got me going! Pontin presents a top ten list for folks interested in innovating. For example: (7) Real innovators delight in giving us what we want: solutions to our difficulties and expansive alternatives to our established ways. (8) They are, it is true, sometimes perplexed by our ignorance of our own needs. “You have to solve a problem that people actually have,” says Joshua Schachter, the founder of del.icio.us (now a division of […]
Have something to say about social software in libraries? Submit a proposal: http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/cfp/ HOT URL too! The planning committee (Michelle Boule, Karen Coombs, Amanda Etches-Johnson, Meredith Farkas, Ellyssa Kroski, Dorothea Salo), a group of phenomenal librarians, are waiting to hear from you!
Paul Miller posts about innovation, Abram and the Cluetrain: http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2006/09/usercentric_inn.php I trust that our fellow vendors must (by now!) just about be sufficiently Participation Age-aware to read at least one of Panlibus or Stephen’s Lighthouse. Here’s hoping, for the sake of their customers, that they find Patty’s post via one of those routes, have a read, and get re-imagining their business and its interaction with the world around it. Oh, and while I’ve got their attention… have you finished Cluetrain yet? A few months ago,I asked III to read the Cluetrain as well. Maybe it’s time for ILS customers to […]
Via David Warlick at http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/09/18/listening-to-student-voices/: Ian Jukes, just sent me a link to a study that was published last year by Education|Evolving, a joint venture between the Center for Policy Studies and Hamline University in Minnesota. The report, Listening to Student Voices — on Technology (pdf), describes 15 findings, culled from various literature. The findings are mostly not surprising, but worth noting again: Computer and internet use is growing Students are sophisticated users Technology is important to students in education Technology is not an extra In-school access to technology is limited Home use dominates In-school use is not integrated Computers […]
Are you wrestling with Flickr at your library? Did recent scare tactics by anonymous emailers put your admin into a tizzy? Save or print this..and pass it on! From NEKLS Tech Day August 10, 2006, by Mickey Coalwell (mcoalwell (at) nekls.org) who gave me permission to post it here. He and Joshua Neff did a great program on Flickr education for a standing room only crowd. This would be a great thing to do at your next staff meeting or staff lunch time learning session. Thanks Mickey. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16 Ways To Use flickr @ Your Library 1. Publicize EVENTS at […]
Via the OPLS Blog: “12 Really Necessary Things to Learn” I’ll share this with my LIS701 Class tonight. http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_things_to_l.html From Guy Kawasaki: 1. How to talk to your boss. 2. How to survive a meeting that’s poorly run. 3. How to run a meeting. 4. How to figure out anything on your own. 5. How to negotiate. 6. How to have a conversation. 7. How to explain something in thirty seconds. 8. How to write a one-page report. 9. How to write a five-sentence email. 10. How to get along with co-workers. 11. How to use PowerPoint. 12. How to […]
As I posted a few days ago, I am eagerly awaiting Jenny Levine’s Library Technology Report on Gaming in Libraries. Until then, read her insightful post “How Do we Measure gaming…”: Or do we somehow try to measure participation, like we do for the summer reading program or the teen advisory committee? Is there a way to equate the literacy of the number of books a kid reads in the reading program versus the literacy a kid needs to advance playing a video game? We don’t measure the actual literacy of the kids participating in the summer reading program, just […]