UPDATE: What a great time that was! Thanks to all at OPAL!! Here’s the presentation. Here are some extra links as resources: Cluetrain Netvibes Open Source Software at TechEssence ALA on DRM & DRM Guide for Librarians Librarians Who IM Future of Music Using Bloglines! The Internet is Entering its LEGO era Libraries with MySpace accounts Tennant and Pace on the Future of Catalogues from Panlibus Rainie on Millennials from SELCO iPods in Action at Georgia College and State University Using Evidence to Support our Libraries from Stephen Abram OCLC Perceptions
Yearly Archives: 2006
717 posts
From the Dead Tech Panel and via “What I Learned Today:” We have to be Digital read/write participants We have to learn with others We have to be facilitators for relationships We need to have our intercultural antennae up – not everyone is from your default point of view We have to be tolerant of ambiguity – it’s okay to not be in control We have to LEARN THE TOOLS!! (emphasis added by me!) We have to be self aware
http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/ I am enjoying Library Garden… I like the tone, the focus and the information. Give it a try, especially this post: Use Your Good Judgement Think about that for a minute. One rule, “use your good judgment” (note, they don’t say “best judgment”; they give employees credit for having good judgment right from day one.) One rule, followed by the encouragement to do anything that the low-level, inexperienced employee deems appropriate to give good customer service. That’s employee empowerment, and it’s that foundation of trust that naturally gives rise to the famous Nordstrom culture of customer service. Now think […]
Will Richardson posts about his ongoing reinvetion and points to some words by Stephen Downes, and as I feel the need to head Up North soon, his words resonate with me: I’m trying to find that place, you know, where I can have a meaningful life, where I can be completely engaged and committed and passionate, where I can matter and be important. These pictures will always be special to me, because they will always remind me that I can and sometimes do dare to hope and dream of being something more, and that there are, absolutely, some things worth […]
http://www.flickr.com/groups/readposters/pool/ Jessamyn turned me on to the project here. And AL used her image in their mailing! This is most cool… I hope a lot of librarians click through and make their own poster! And what a great thing to put on the library blog — giving the library a human face!
http://techessence.info/ Meredith points to TechEssence where she is writing with some ultra-hot library folk! I heart group blogging! Take a look because from what I’ve seen this will be a valuable resource for evidence-based decision-making.
Just some links… Courtesy Please! Library Fortune Cookie Project Do You IM?
Via Constance in Kentucky: http://www.faulkner.edu/jsl/library.asp What a nice bit of text – and check out the poster image! The library staff welcomes you to our library, which is designed to meet your legal information needs through a growing collection of electronic and print resources, value-added services such as research assistance and small-group workshops, and study space for individuals and groups. Even when not physically present in the library, you may take advantage of our website to search our many databases, read library publications, or contact us with a reference question or inter-library loan request. The website has links and information […]
Yesterday, I spent three hours with some cool folks from around the Metropolitan Library System talking about Library 2.0. It was a great group and the session had a “workshop” feel – the perfect way to get ready for similar talks in Minnesota this May. First, I did some background on Web 2.0 and the offspring of the 2.0 meme. This article was a good starting point! Dion Hinchcliffe allowed me to use his cool graphic. Then, I asked Michael Casey and John Blyberg to give me their definitions and I matched those up with my own and those from […]
Rachel Singer Gordon, most cool library author and my writing partner for Computers in Libraries’ “Tech Tips for Every Librarian,” has started a blog! Take a look and add her to your aggregator! I am very happy she is adding her voiuce to the collective voice of the biblioblogosphere! I look forward to her insight and thoughts! She’s definitely a “cool kid” in my book. The Liminal Librarian Rachel writes: I’m mindful of the temptation to start a blog, then all but abandon it for lack of time, energy, or “something to say” — one reason I’ve held off this […]