So, you may be sitting in a planning meeting and an idea comes up to add or change a service at your library. One of my key points in planning for technology, and one I think applies to all types of services in libraries is to make sure you are being user-centered. For example, use this checklist to tell if you are proceeding down the wrong path: Does it place a barrier between the user and the service? Is it librarian-centered or user-centered in conception, i.e. is it born from complaints from librarians about users? Does it add more rules […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
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I wish I could have stayed! There is some great stuff happening down in San Antonio. Try these on for size: http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/01/21/innovative-users-group/: LibraryWebChic blogs the Innovative User Group meeting. http://litablog.org/?p=175: Karen Schneider discusses trends, librarians kicking “booty” and Library 2.0. http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2006/01/20/20060120_oclc_symposium_extreme_makeover_rebranding_an_industry.html: Jenny’s HOT HOT HOT Coverage of the OCLC Extreme makeover Symposium. WHY did I not change my ticket??? http://www.plablog.org/2006/01/linda-braun-three-cs-of-teens.html: Beth Gallaway on “The Three C’s of Teens” via the PLA Blog. Hotness abounds here. Folks, it’s about CONTENT!
Thursday, February 2, 2006 Faculty of Information Studies Invited Speakers Series Friday, February 3, 2006, Ontario Library Association Superconference, “Technology And Education: Are Library Schools Doing An Adequate Job?” with Jenny Levine and Mary Cavanagh and “The Blog People: Librarians Generating Content And Communication.” Friday, February 10, 2006, “Conversation, Community, Connections, and Collaboration: Practical, New Technologies for User-centered Services” Social Software & Libraries Workshop with Jenny Levine, Metropolitan Library System, Burr Ridge, IL. Wednesday, February 15, 2006, SirsiDynix Webinar: Libraries & Weblogs. Tuesday, February 21, 2006, Education Institute, “Best Practices for Library Weblogs.” Online seminar. Wednesday, February 22, 2006, SirsiDynix […]
http://clioinstitute.info/blog/2006/01/interactive_website_features.php Nice post at the Clio Institute Blog about interactive features. Lots of user-centered stuff here and an eye toward usability. These will make good discussion points for a meeting!
I spent three days at the Association of Library and Information Science Educators conference listening to talks, meeting other students and faculty, a discussing some of my interests with various folks. Here are some highlights and quotable quotes: A meet-up with Jonathan Furner, Assistant Editor, Dewey Decimal Classification for OCLC who writes the Dewey Blog and has the following personal interests, according to his “About Me” page: 306.42 709.04062 782.421660941 796.3340942615 840.9110904 901 “What happens if we do things ina whole new way? What do we need to do to create flexible propfessionals?” Dr. Randall Bass, Keynote A HOT conversation […]
Chris Deweese listens to Moby and gets reflective in a great post at Clam Chowder. He discusses how important buy in is for technology projects, especially administrative buy in! One thing I can tell you is that I had (have) a director that supported and encouraged my creativity and staff that understand the value of the web. I think you could have all the talent in the world, but if you don’t have the support of people you work with and if they are not on board with where you want to go, then your talent will not reach it’s […]
http://www.alise.org/conferences/2006_Conference/2006_keynote.html The Difference that Inquiry Makes: Fostering a Scholarship of Teaching and a Culture of Learning Bass spoke to a an audience of library and information science educators about how education is changing. He showed a video a student made on civil rights (content creation!) and discussed what learning came from it. I finally had to say “Amen” at the end! Educators should ask: “what happens if I try this a whole new way?” We should be teaching for understanding. Understanding = flexible performance capability We should strive to educate flexible professionals.
June 2004 – First Weekend Institute January 2006 – ALISE Conference, last scheduled cohort meeting
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/01/on-the-l2-train.html I’d suggest that librarians not shut themselves off to the discussions taking place. “Library 2.0″ may be a buzz word, but it’s not a weightless one. There is actual work and intelligent discussion that accompanies it. L2 is certainly not about exclusion—quite the opposite. You will do yourself and your organization a great disservice is you embed yourself in a semantic quagmire.
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