Monthly Archives: March 2007

46 posts
Emerging Technology

Ten Tech Trends Translated

http://fiksz.klog.hu/?p=70 Adam Paszternak emailed a few days ago to get my permission to translate the Ten Tech trends for Librarians post into Hungarian. Translation is always fine by me but I appreciate Adam’s courtesy. He writes: I’ve made some changes – not in the meaning, I just left out Michael’s personal experiences and added some of mine. Oooh! Now I need a translation back to read Adam’s experiences. 🙂 Thanks Adam! Update: Another translation here: http://marlenescorner.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/03/15/biblio-tendances-printemps-2007.html

Blogging News & Life Updates

Rumours? *

Dave Pattern posts a cryptic message on his blog: Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you that something major is about to happen, but you really don’t want to repeat it because it might not be true and you’d just be spreading unfounded gossip. But, then again, it’s so absolutely huuuuuuge that you can’t find a hat big enough to keep it under? Anyway, something may (or may not) be about to happen that could rock your world. Let’s sit back, fasten our seatbelts, and see what happens in the next 48 hours in LibraryLand… And he tags […]

Social Media

Flickr Plans…and Convergence

From a Macworld chat with Flickr co-founder and general manager Stewart Butterfield: http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/09/flickr/index.php IDGNS: If you’re the eyes of the world, do you foresee Flickr getting a news component? Butterfield: Yes, we already allow for that and it already happens but it’s not surfaced nor packaged up very well. But almost every day, Flickr is used as a source for photos that either don’t exist anywhere else or that there’s just a bigger variety on Flickr. A good example is when the New York Yankee player’s plane crashed into a [Manhattan] building. A text bulletin went out on the wires […]

Gaming & Gamification

Hunter Class… Tauren…Librarian

Jeff Trzeciak the McMaster University Librarian writes: I had a great time presenting to our Board of Governors on Thursday. I spoke about gaming and its impact on students today. It was a radical departure from the type of presentation they had received in the past. They seemed to enjoy it and asked lots of questions. View or download the PDF: http://ulatmac.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/presentation1.pdf Don’t miss the Four Pillars of Transformation, data about games and gamers, insight into the student’s media rich lives and Jeff’s WoW vitals! 🙂

Blogging

Have you seen the SLJ Blogs?

I was glad to discover some new (to me) biblioblogs this weekend. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blogs.html Check out Bowllan’s Blog by Amy Bowllan, Brian Unbound by Brian Kenney, Digital Reshift by Chris Harris and Practically Paradise by Diane Chen. It’s nice to see more school librarian voices joining the conversation. There’s also more new features (like some smoking HOT podcasts) to discover as well at SLJ!

Emerging Technology

Ten Tech Trends for Librarians 2007

I wanted this post to be out on the day I spoke at the Ontario Library Association with Amanda Etches-Johnson and John Blyberg at the OLITA Top Tech Trends panel, but my dissertation, teaching and life intervene. Each year about this time, TTW looks at “Ten Techie Things for Librarians.” You’ll find 2006 and 2005 in the archives. So here’s this year’s list, with a new name: “Trends” instead of “Things.” Sure it puts a finer point on it but it also recognizes the changes in my thinking about the essential duties of librarians: Learn to Learn Adapt to Change […]

Presentations

Upcoming Presentations

March 15, 2007. Library 2.0 & Emerging Technologies, Skokie Public Library Staff Workshop, Skokie, Illinois. March 23, 2007. Library 2.0: Planning, People & Participation. Workshop for Capital Area Library Directors. Williamsburg, Virginia. April 12, 2007. Library 2.0 with Jenny Levine. Texas Library Association. San Antonio, Texas. April 26, 2007. Southwest Florida Library Network Technology Day. Toward Library 2.0. Naples, Florida. April 27, 2007. Charleston Public Library Staff Day, Charleston, SC. May 4, 2007. Massachusetts Library Association. Blog’s Eye View:Three Industry Bloggers Talk about Library Trends, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. May 7, 2007. Rural Libraries 2.0 Conference Keynote with Jenny Levine. Traverse City, […]