In class on Sunday, we were discussing what we liked about different library Web sites to pave the way for my students designing their own small library-related Web site. We happened upon Oak Park Public Library’s Teen Page, which featured “Battle of the Bands.” It was nice synchronicity because I had just shown them slides of “Rock the Shelves” at flickr. ( I love turning the students on to flickr and we’ll do more at our next weekend.) Oak Park shares photos on their own page while “Rock the Shelves” was thrown into the great pool. I think both are […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
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http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/archives/2006/02/being_truly_tee.html We need to ask ourselves which of our policies really are not working for us and which one’s need to be made positive and friendly. Let’s make sure we don’t extend our authority control issues with information to authoritarian control foci with users. Not good. Then let’s run our policies through a discussion with our teen advisors. Adventurous and visionary libraries know the value of this through experience.
Into the TTW Comment hopper comes this: “I know that a lot of schools prohibit blogging. They even cancel student’s library admission cards if reveal that they use internet for that. What is the reason? Can’t we do what we want in our spare time?” And then I log into flickr, and see this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrichard/100494147/ Hopefully, soon we’ll have more of the latter (detailed here) than the former. Just sayin ‘. Thanks Will!
Allow me to point you to an amazing presentation by Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, entitled “IT Services: Help Or Hindrance?” at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ucisa-2006/ I laughed out loud at the wonderful Little Britain”reference — and realized it makes so much sense: The computer says No — not any more folks, a neither does Web 2.0 IT says No — I’ve heard that song before. Take a look at Brian’s PPT and watch for the pointers to how IT may want to shift to a “2.0” perspective. Libray IT 2.0 doesn’t say no…. Thanks Brian for some welcome insight this morning…
Via Michael Sauers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/99868083/ With this and these two examples so far (and I’m sure there are many more) that point to barriers created by librarians when, for example, across the pond, the word is CONVERGENCE. Let me know if more pics like this go up on flickr. Can we use a tag? “NotLibrary2.0”?
Will Richardson posted a few days about about reinventing himself — about quitting his job — and today I can announce the same thing. I’m stunned …really… This morning I was offered and accepted a full time tenure-track teaching position at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. I will begin my official teaching duties there in August of this year. My title will be Instructor and when I finish the UNT program, I’ll be an Assistant Professor. I spent time with the incredible faculty at Dominican and I know this is […]
For those folks in Canada at OLA or FIS, here’s a link to the materials from my presentations: https://tametheweb.com/blogpeople Thanks to Jessamyn who coded the pages for me whilst I was on the road last week.
Allison writes: I love that you blogged the iTunes podcasts. We just added my library a couple of days ago and are so jazzed about podcasting. We’ve gotten permission from authors who are coming to KPL this spring to podcast their programs *and* I just emailed an author today (Sue Monk Kidd) and she’s agreed to have a phone interview with me and is allowing us to podcast it. So many possibilities! Allison Beasley Head of Adult Services Kankakee Public Library Kankakee, IL Thanks Allison! Take a look at their podcast pages and give the Sue Monk Kidd interview a […]
Take a look at this incredible day-long workshop at Metropolitan Library System. I know where I will be! The chance to hear Abram, Alane and the Superpatron on one all-star bill is just too cool! What do we know about how users perceive and use libraries? How can we expand our understanding of user perceptions in order to design responsive library services? JOIN Stephen Abram (SIRSI/Dynix), Alane Wilson (OCLC), and Ed Vielmetti (SuperPatron) in this day of learning and exploration of library user perceptions and expectations. Hope to see you there!
Thanks Jessamyn for an incredible essay this am! If libraries can make more people feel like I do, that seems like a pretty good thing. http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/06/feb.shtml#13