In June, I’ll be doing some programs for OPAL on social software and libraries so I thought I’d gather some data, as I did with the IM Survey before CIL. Please take a couple of minutes and take the survey! Please pass it on as well! Click here to take survey
Yearly Archives: 2006
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Love the term! “Textcasting” http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/05/textcasting_the.html Heck yeah! I’m in. Great idea!
A blog to watch…fascinating: Put simply: Instead of trying to make your library seem cool, be a librarian and do cool things. This concept developed out of my experiments with blogs. I was using LiveJournal to communicate with friends and discovered the journals of several students. By “be-friending” them and following their lives, I was able to find a natural and meaningful channel to help them. This process was later streamlined and evolved into: The Ubiquitous Reference Model. I am trying to push this concept further in both the physical and virtual context. This blog asks you to rethink the […]
Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a refereed journal published by The Haworth Press Inc., invites proposals for a special issue focusing on social software and libraries. The issue (12/3) will tentatively be published in Winter 2007, edited by Michael Stephens, Instructor, Dominican University and blogger at tametheweb.com. We hope the issue will cover a wide range of topics pertaining to implementations and uses of various Web 2.0 tools in library settings of all types. For the purposes of this issue, social software or Web 2.0 will be defined as the next incarnation of the World Wide Web, where digital tools allow […]
Great gem of a post from Dayna’s Blog at ALA L2 I like to believe that library 2.0 skills will become basic skill sets, but I think some of us may have a longer lag time and with new services being offered at the regional, state and higher levels some of our users who can see beyond the limits of the old framework may become frustrated with our inability to quickly make changes. This might be the time when they decide how relevant the local small library is and what purpose it serves in their lives.
This is a model for all state associations to think seriously about! http://blog.njla.org/archives/2006/05/index.html#a000059
Meeting with St. Catherine’s LIS Students Originally uploaded by mstephens7. One of the many. many highlights of the TTW goes North tour of Minnesota was meeting up with this group of St. Catherine’s SLIS students. Leah, in the blue jacket, was in my LIS753 class at Dominican. She arranged the gathering. We went to a nearby Caribou Coffee and talked about libraries. You know what fires me up? These four ladies are gearing up to make a difference in libraries! We were all over the board in our talk: L2, barriers, next generation librarianship, etc. Leah wrote the talk up […]
The advance information for IL2006 is up! Don’t miss these useful sites: www.infotoday.com/il2006 http://il2006.pbwiki.com/ Note that there is going to be a podcast studio as well! And, for public librarians and others interested folks (because this stuff translates well to almost any library!), don’t miss our PL Futures track on Monday, October 23, 2006: Track B: Public Libraries’ Futures This track focuses on planning, people, and participation. It explores the shift toward patron involvement, librarians building resources for collaboration and communication, and how public libraries (PLs) are changing to meet the needs of the plugged-in, socially networked user. Organized and […]
LJ Printed the Five Phrases! Originally uploaded by mstephens7. I didn’t even know this was in the 5/1/2006 issue! Thanks LJ! Here’s the original post: https://tametheweb.com/2006/04/ten_phrases_i_hope_i_never_hea.html
Wooohoo… take a look and comment if you’d like! http://heleneblowers.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/5/23/1978472.html