Great post at “What I Learned Today” about a recent SirsiDynix Webinar on Library Conflict Management. How many of us have these folks working closeby? Stopped Learning You all know where I stand on this one – never stop learning!! This is the kind of person who exempts themselves from classes and has no new goals. The cure? Update their job description to include required education and make them accountable for their actions. Loss of Respect This person has developed a “benign contempt” for the people they work with, they no longer respect their colleagues or supervisors. They will make […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
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New ways of thinking about work. New priorities. New additions to the family. How does your library’s adminstration repsond to NextGen employees? In Priorities & Professionalism in the new LJ, Sophie Brookover ponders how libraries might encourage and embrace the work-life balance of employees: Ask your employees what they need. Work with them to make the changes that work best for the organization as a whole. You probably can’t give your employees everything they want, but the mere act of asking them what they need is important. A staff that is empowered to share its needs is a happy staff, […]
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/09/16/teaching-responsibility-use-of-social-technology/ Via David Warlick: First of all, this gets my vote for the best education acronym of the decade — TRUST. The guys at EdTechTalk have created a web site/community site designed to give us a play to offer alternatives to the DOPA law. Here’s a quote from the About Us page. Social Technology (or social networking) is changing many aspects of society and has tremendous potential in education, both inside and outside of the classroom. This site is designed as a resource for educators interested in using social technology, but concerned about how to do so appropriately and address […]
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 […]
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