A week ago Wednesday I spent three hours with the folks at ALA Headquarters. Jenny was under the weather so I went on without her! (Jenny – you were missed at the big conference table!) I presented Jenny’s modules and my modules of the roadshow, with a slant toward “association” thinking and a what could ALA be doing with the some of the social software tools. This was prep for the upcoming online course I wrote about at TechSource. I just received my ALA membership card (yes I’m a card-carrying, conference going member) and on the back of the card […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
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…the thoughts are broken… points to a blog by a candidate for ALA president. Guess what? No comments enabled! And Mark can’t find an e-mail. http://bookmark.typepad.com/the_thoughts_are_broken/2006/03/which_required_.html I would have commented at her blog, but they don’t seem to be allowed. Nice way to engage the constituency. I would have sent her an email, but I couldn’t find an email address on the blog anywhere. I may well have missed it as I do get blind on occasion. But I spent at least 5 minutes over 2 separate occasions today looking for such an animal on her blog. So if it […]
Pattyy Uttaro reports to TTW: I’m waiting on an order of 5 iPod shuffles that we’re going to circ pre-loaded with recorded books. This summer, we’ll be circing iPods (want video, may settle for nano) from our new branch in a restored trolley depot on the Erie Canal. Those iPods will serve a couple purposes. Some will be pre-loaded with a recorded (or video) tour of our village that visitors can use to find things like good coffee, tasty food, parks, etc. Other iPods will be loaned to people traveling along the Erie Canal by boat or bike. They’ll get […]
…that you were Dreaming “This next generation will challenge libraries in ways undreamt of today…” Stephen Abram & Judy Luther “Born with the Chip” Library Journal, May 2004 I’m pulling together some slides for a talk on “Web 2.0 Changing Reference Services” I’m presenting to a SLIS class tonight, and the above quote jumped out at me from a PPT I did for a staff retreat back in’04!
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/02/28/flickr-article-in-usatoday-yahoo-kept-promotion-low-key/ points to a nice article in USAToday about flickr at http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-02-27-flickr_x.htm http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/03/04/huge-directory-of-web-2-0-sites/ points to this list by category of Web 2.0 sites & services at http://www.econsultant.com/web2/index.html
The deadline to propose a talk at Internet Librarian International is March 31st. Have you pondered presenting in London? It’s a great conference! http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml/
Good reading at ALA Techsource: http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/the-monster-mashup.html I think I need to say that THIS is OVERDUE! It may be time for our profession to seriously reconsider the value of the traditional conference, where a conference planning committee asks for conference proposals twelve to eighteen months in advance of the conference. How can library and information conferences—gatherings, happenings, bashes, mashupcamps—better aid and abet quality growth in the library and information science ecosystem? I feel the urge to utter a manifesto coming on: A conference should try to actually foster and facilitate the discipline, movement, or ecosystem it represents. It should be […]
Nice post from Don Yarman who works in Ohio: http://yarmando.blogspot.com/2006/02/librarian-20.html Especially this bit about iTunes: If I ran a library, I would be looking to see what I could do with this. Not just following the Shifted Librarian’s suggestion to buy some iPod shuffles to circulate. How about a public iTunes download station? Let library users set up their ‘pods on the station and download a title or two to their own devices? The library could even rip their own CD’s to the public iTunes station. Look, you know that iPod owners check out the CD’s and rip them to […]
Wowza! Libby at SJCPL does a nice twist on the Meme of Four and relates it to what the library offers. Check it out and adapt it for your library blog! http://www.libraryforlife.org/blogs/lifeline/?p=527 Let me know if you do! Update: The LiB reports: I did this for our library blog a while back and tagged other library blogs, though to my knowledge none of them picked it up: http://marincountyfreelibrary.blogspot.com/archives/2006_02_01_marincountyfreelibrary_archive.html#113891940102245290
Congratulations to Sarah – ourLibrarian in Black – who just got a new job! http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/03/walking_in_the_.html WoooHooo!