Running Around the Room Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. What a great crowd! We promised our handouts and some useful links would go up here: HANDOUT: http://www.tametheweb.com/presentations/LevineStephensTLA.pdf Get started with a free Blogger Blog here! The Cluetrain Library 2.0 Reading List Second Life Library 2.0
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Posting from the incredible Texas Library association conference, which I’ll write about soon, but here’s a comment about the NJLA post that must be brought up top. Thanks Sophie! Michael, wow! And thanks for blogging a photo from NJLA’s photostream! The NJ Library Association is now blogging, and to kick off the blog’s unveiling, we blogged this week’s annual conference. Actually, conference blogging is continuing for the next week. We have 4 constant bloggers and 4 event bloggers. (I’m the blog manager.) Podcasting at the conference was a huge, huge hit — over 50 people recorded podcasts on Tuesday, and […]
Before I head out for Texas, one more link: http://www.blyberg.net/2006/04/25/overcoming-the-tech-deficit-and-helping-others-to/ Blyberg blows me away yet again with a well-reasoned essay about libraries that are “tech-depressed.” Give it a read! One of my favorite bits (of many!): Long-term planning I was interested to hear from one individual at Library Camp who was in the middle of a strategic planning initiative. I was thrilled by the fact that she had come to the event as a way to help her hash out some of the ideas she and her institution were working with as they plugged away at their planning. Radical new […]
Via Michael Casey in an IM: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57634636@N00/ Mrs. Cassidy has a flickr account! She must be an elementary teacher somewhere and realized that she could share class images. No details are given so it’s impossible to tell where this class is. But parents can most probably subscribe and see what their kids are up to!
My Avatar In between writing my proposal and Library Technology Report, I’ve spent a bit of time visiting the Second Life Library 2.0. It’s fascinating. My avatar, Stephen Mandelbrot, stumbled around looking for the library until two of my fellow bibliobloggers assisted me. Anyway, it’s surely something to be aware of, and pay special attention to things such as this: From Helene Blowers: Teen Services in SLL2 – Through the RSSvine this morning, I stumbled across this exciting development regarding Second Life – Library 2.0 … my own library (PLCMC) is getting involved and has just recently taken up the […]
A lot of folks have already linked, but allow me to point you to http://engagedpatrons.org/ from Glenn Peterson at Hennepin County PL. And I agree with Sarah: It’s a HUGE deal! From the site: EngagedPatrons.org provides web services for public library websites. We enable you to offer events listings, blogs and more on your website, no programming required! The pages you create on our site “plug into” your existing web site. We do the programming for you; you reap the benefits of being able to offer your users a more engaging and interactive web presence. EP services are designed to […]
IT Section Podcasting Booth IT Section Podcasting Booth Originally uploaded by amy_kearns. I’m enjoying the flickr photos of the New Jersey Library Association meeting, especially the one above. Can someone tell us more about what is happening at NJLA? This is a good lesson for those state level library associations or federations to think about incorporating Web 2.0 tools into the conference. It’s time folks… really, it’s passed time… The Cluetrain is departing! It says BE HEARD http://www.flickr.com/photos/akearns72/135091962/
The reactions from the room were almost aggressive, a few actually got angry. This guy, or so he was told by audience, should enrol in a course on information skills. If he only was ready to spend some time on learning these tools, he would be very pleased with the results and understand what is going on. The library offers great tools, even if the complexities of information delivery cause them to be relatively difficult to handle. The scholar should have worked with us, or at least should have tried to learn the necessary skills, the audience said. I was […]
From one of the L2 Boot Camp blogs, Die Hard: I think we’ve seen this at ALA. We’ve been cut by the leading edge a few times and so we wait. And sometimes, it takes awhile for our efforts at providing more to take hold. I know this sounds like I know who signs my paycheck, but I have to agree with “The Hat” that ALA needs to continuously incoporate new tools and reach out to those who are bleeding on the cutting edge to encourage them as much as to ask their advice. That’s what really got me here, […]
The ALA Library 2.0 Innovation Bootcamp kicked off while Jenny and I were in Washington State doing the Roadshow for the Washington Library Association. The first coiuple of weeks are devoted to pre-work: learning about various tolls, listening to podcasts and reading. Enter Squidoo: We set the Library 2.0 Reading list up as a Squidoo lens: http://www.squidoo.com/library20/ Squidoo allows a “lensmaster” to create a Web page easily, pulling in static content, feeds, and images. Phil Bradley turned me on to it and I see many uses! *with apologies to Phish