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Monthly Archives: April 2007
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“Society has determined what the library of the past has been, and it is society that will determine what the library of the future shall be.” Jesse Shera, The Foundations of Education for Librarianship Via the Social Customer Manifesto: http://www.socialcustomer.com/2007/04/from_transactio.html Interesting piece that supports many of the statements we’ve been discussing. The Social library is a “shop” as well. …a shop which ignores the attributes of 2.0 is a shop with a limited shelf life. Why? 1. Consumers want to co-create. If your shop site doesn’t allow the community of users to share their ideas about what it should sell, […]
Last night was our book discussion in one of my LIS701 classes. The group read one of the following: Anderson, Chris. (2006) The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is selling Less of More. Hyperion. Beck, John and Wade, Mitchell. (2004) Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is reshaping Business Forever. HBS Press. Friedman, Thomas. (2005). The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Godin, Seth, and the Group of 33 (2005). The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable. Portfolio. Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind: Moving […]
Michael Casey and I are writing our next column for LJ’s The Transparent Library and we realized what a perfect place to discuss the recent Wired piece “The Naked CEO” by Clive Thompson. Thompson blogged about the article while writing the piece and asked for input. At his blog, Thompson sums up so much of what we’ve been discussing about the advent of web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the almost-left-the-station Cluetrain: Reputation Is Everything: Google isn’t a search engine. Google is a reputation-managment system. What do we search for, anyway? Mostly people, products, ideas — and what we want to […]
It went well! I got some wonderful feedback, suggestions and ideas about moving forward into the dissertation. Thanks to all of my committee members – Dr. O’Connor (Chair), Drs. Lewandowski, Marek and Scahmber — and to my grad assistant, Brian Want, who took copious notes of the discussion.
I am taking a 5 minute break from prepping for my proposal defense to destress with a bit of Photobooth and Flickr fun. Just a shout out to all in the DC area attending CIL. I wish you a great conference experience!
Texas Library Association 2007 Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Thanks to everyone who attended our session! Download my sections of the presentation here: http://www.tametheweb.com/talks07/Texas2.0.pdf
http://blatant.libraryjournal.com/blog/?p=22 John Berry reports on budget cuts for his home library: Our library is probably the most used public service in Stamford, except perhaps for garbage collection and streets. It is “touched” as one Board member put it, by more citizens than nearly any other city service. The Advocate, local daily paper didn’t even mention the library in its online report of the meeting. One of the two Republicans on the Board of Finance wanted to double the library budget cut, suggesting that the library make it up with private fund raising, and citing a nearby very affluent community as […]
I Was Assaulted By This Man Who Identified Himself as a Police Officer and Refused to Provide Me Identification, Photography is Not a Crime Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk. No, I wasn’t assaulted, but the photographer was. This image and long thread of comments at Flickr fascinates me. Privacy..First Ammendment rights… photography…it all illustrates how the world is changing and that those changes can bring about messy events. At the bottom of the comments, someone proposes a Flash Mob at the site on the one year anniversary of the assault. I hope they do it.
Jeff Trzeciak writes about gaming and libraries: What does this have to do with designing better libraries? Well, quite a bit! All educators – including librarians – need to develop an understanding that technology has had a profound impact on how we act AND how we think. We need to develop systems that reflect how learners learn today. Libraries and library systems have traditionally taken a very linear and very text-based approach to accessing resources. This approach, it turns out, may actually be detrimental to the educational process. The first rule of education is engagement. Games are by their very […]