Jessamyn blogs her recent visit to the Chicago-based Newberry Library: guard: “Do you have some RESEARCH you’d like to do?” (clearly the emphais on the word, to me, implies “hey dumbass, it’s the most obvious password in the book. Here, I’m giving it to you”) me: “No, I just wanted to look at the reading room, but I think I’ll go home instead.” I really try to not use this space to complain about customer service incidents unless I think they can somehow be useful teaching tools, but I just was floored here. I had done my homework and read […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
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Meta shot Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. Sadly, a string events, and my own human error, resulted in the loss of my camera — and all the picturtes from the trip — as well as my Sidekick 3 during our trip to Holland. I was corresponding with a few folks via the phone address at tmail.com so please write to me at mstephens @ mac.com!
WooooHoooo! http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/08/27/davids-new-job/ David reports: I have accepted a new job! Starting in October, I will be the Digital Branch & Services Manager (read the job ad, if you’re interested) at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. I’ll be in charge of all things digital – including the website (and building a new, extremely cool library 2.0 site – stay tuned on that one) and the IT department. What did I like about this job? Listen to this: ” … lead a lighly skilled cross-disciplined staff in using new technologies to translate traditional library services into a digital, Library 2.0 […]
Don’t miss: http://blogaboutlibraries.com/2006/08/signs_17.html and Michael Sauers’ Library Signage group at Flickr! I’m glad to see so much discussion about signs and the stories they tell — and the excellent examples of good signs showing up at Flickr! Take a look at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtisrogers/223146313/ as well! Update: Don’t miss Steve lawson’s “Shiny Happy Signs!”
L2 Motivation Originally uploaded by Muggie42. Well done!
http://queequegs.blogspot.com/2006/08/comment-about-culture-of-no.html Erica Reynolds posts about my talk at Northeast Kansas Library System Tech day a couple of weeks ago and the “culture of No:” Many of my colleagues were at NEKLS Tech Day, and they were probably all snickering each time Michael Stephens talked about how important it is to battle the so-called culture of no, because lately, I’ve totally been on the “no” train at work. I’ve had “no” plastered on my laptop, my office door, etc…Because I’ve had to launch a campaign to limit our new projects until we entirely rebuild out Web world from the ground up. […]
Greetings TICER Participants! For class today we’ll use various recources, including: Download and share a PDF File:Search your favorite database, Web site, or just download the Pew American IM Report Download and share a Flickr picture: Flickr ((Use this picture if you’d like!) Search your library’s catalog or use this one: KB-catalogue of books and journals
The programme is in full swing! Last night, at the Welcome Dinner I got to meet many of the participants as well as the lecturers for the conference. One fellow I got to meet was Guus Van Den Brekel, who blogs at digicmb.blogspot.com and does some most cool work with Second Life and his library’s toolbar. Today, Jenny and I are prepping our presentations and exercises as well as heading out for a blogger’s dinner tonight, arranged by Rob Coers! We’ll have pictures for sure!
Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Digital Libraries Ala Carte: Hands-on: Hands-on: Library 2.0 Technologies to Reach out to the Customer: IM in Libraries. http://www.ticer.nl/06carte/program/4.htm Tilburg University, the Netherlands. (Speaker Bios here) Wednesday, September 13, 2006. South Carolina Public Library Technology Institute with Jenny Levine and Stephen Abram. Carolina Conference Center, Columbia, SC. Wednesday September 27, 2006. Preconference: Blogging Workshop. Kentucky Library Association, Louisville, KY. Thursday September 28, 2006. Session: Toward Library 2.0. Kentucky Library Association, Louisville, KY. Friday October 6, 2006. Keynote, “Surveying the Library Technology Landscape” Polaris Users Group Conference, Syracuse, NY. Monday, October 9, 2006 Library & Information Association […]
Greetings from O’Hare and my Sidekick 3. Jenny Levine and I leave in just a few hours for the Netherlands to present at the University of Tilburg TICER Library 2.0 event. Armed with iPod, digicam and a travel guide, I am sans MacBook Pro, so I’ll return top blogging and email in 8 days! Have a good week!