Library 2.0 Summit at Mississippi State Originally uploaded by mstephens7. http://library.msstate.edu/mslibrarysummit/index.html This Summit is for everyone who wants libraries to matter in a web-savvy world. If your library is already using wikis, blogs, podcasting, folksonomies, social networking, or other Internet media, this Summit is for you. And if you’re not certain what some of those words mean, this summit will be invaluable! Is your library blogging, using Instant Messenger, promoting services through Flickr and Facebook, or using a customized OPAC complete with user reviews and electronic book bags? Or would you just like to learn the vocabulary, pick up practical […]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
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http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleid=CA6430408 Jessamyn weighs in on preserving our digital history, especially blogs: Librarians get it: the content we steward is shifting from print to digital. Our libraries require more hard drive space in addition to more shelf space. Patrons need to know how to click and type as well as how to read. And, yet, what of posterity? How will our paths and trackings through the digital realm be accumulated, organized, even archived? This question becomes further complicated by the webby-ness of our online interactions and content production. Content is still being generated in static letter, essay, and book formats, but […]
Excellent CIL2007 conference blogging from Nicole Engard: http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988 First up: Tim Spaulding on how to make the catalog FUN: Allow inbound links! links into our catalogs are always timed out when you find them in search results. People want to link into this information and they assume it will always be there. One way to solve this is to provide a permalink – like Google maps – but I’d argue that this isn’t enough either!! Allow links outwardsThe more you link outwards the more people will come to you. This includes links out of your catalog. Tim said that some […]
Leonard Kniffel responds to Brian Kenney’s editorial I blogged about here. “What Have You Done for Me Lately?” The first thing I did after reading Kenney’s article was to look at the March 2007 issue with these objections in mind. March was the issue, after all, that made some school librarians go ballistic because there were no school-librarian bloggers interviewed for the cover feature. In the ALA news section, there were: “Target to Sponsor El Dia de los Ninos,” “School Libraries Count! Survey Begins,” “Army Librarian Creates Story Time Program,” and a piece about children’s author Ilene Cooper winning the […]
Librarians 1.0 Originally uploaded by agsaandjsmom. Winner for Most Humourous in the National Library Week Day in the Life of South Carolina Libraries Contest! On Monday the Lee County Librarians dressed up as Library 1.0 types. The patrons loved it and so did we. The entire day was filled with laughter.
http://lisnews.org/articles/07/04/20/136247.shtml Why waste your time trying to be a “21st Century Librarian” when you’re just going to retire in a few years? You’re perfect just the way you are! Stick with the same ol’ thing you’ve been doing since you started working 27 years ago (and hey, don’t be afraid to remind everyone of just how long it’s been!). To raise the awareness of those around you, here’s a list of traits for the 20th Century Librarian. Fear and loathe change Leave technology to others Librarian-centered focus Be completely ignorant of any/all trends beyond 1975 Use only phones and email […]
This was on the wall as part of the ground rules in the large meeting room for the RRS Comnference. Works for me! 🙂 http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org Yesterday I spoke at the Rethinking Resource Sharing Conference outside of Chicago. This group is doing some darn cool stuff and their Web page sums up their goal nicely: Creating a new global service framework that allows individuals to obtain what they want based on factors such as cost, time, format, and delivery. This framework will encompass promoting and exposing library services in a variety of environments. I stayed to see a presentation about their […]
The crisis in library systems arose because the people who build them and those who pay for them couldn’t imagine them in any other way. Open, remixable systems will allow patrons of tomorrow the opportunity to build the information solutions we can’t now imagine. http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11614/#usability-findability-and-remixability-especially-remixability I’m keynoting the Rethinking Resource Sharing Conference this morning just outside of Chicago. I’ll be using the quote above to illustrate how important it is to look toward sharing and opening our data. Please read Casey Bisson’s excellent post about the the usability, findability ans remixability of our content.
New report from Pew: Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks: How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of MySpace The majority of teens actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they believe is most sensitive away from the unwanted gaze of strangers, parents and other adults. While many teens post their first name and photos on their profiles, they rarely post information on public profiles they believe would help strangers actually locate them such as their full name, home phone number or cell phone number. At the same time, nearly two-thirds of teens […]
Warlick: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/04/17/first-impressions-of-second-life/ I visited again this morning, and am sure that there are buildings there that weren’t there yesterday — big ones. I must admit a real sense of space there, and I’ve already made some friends, most of whom I have no idea who they are in RL (that’s real life). I did meet one guy (I guess) who admitted to being a principal in Vermont. He wouldn’t share his name, however, for fear of my thinking that all principals in Vermont have nothing better to do than wonder around, zombie like, in Second Life. http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/04/18/the-stolen-flame/ Anyway, as I […]