For Dummies Book Display Originally uploaded by Lansing Public Library, Lansing Illinois. This is incredible – excellent marketing and use of Flickr! http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/04/14/dummies_at_lansing_public_library.html I’ll be using this in presentations! Thanks Kelli and Jenny!
Monthly Archives: April 2007
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The ALA election polls close on April 24. If you have not voted yet, please do. And please vote for Jim rettig for ALA vice-president/president-elect! see this for more: https://tametheweb.com/2007/02/rettig_for_president.html
Jessica down at Williamsburg Regional Library writes to let me know they’ve launched their Blogging for a Good Book blog to augment the library’s Looking for a Good Book readers’ service. From the About page: Read a new review every day, Monday through Friday! The staff of the Williamsburg Regional Library in Virginia bring you short reviews of books, movies, and more! Launched in April of 2007, Blogging for a Good Book is the newest facet of the Looking for a Good Book readers’ service. A different staff member picks favorite reviews for each different week. Subscribe to our RSS […]
I was honored to teach at the 2006 Summer School program at the Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources. Take a look at the roster for this year: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/ David Free & Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe will be presenting “Hands-on: Library 2.0 Technologies to Reach out to the Customer,” while Eric Lease Morgan will be presenting “Hands-on: Open Source Software for Libraries and XML” as part of the hands on component of the institute.
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/03/the-pragmatic-biblioblogger.html This post at ALA techSource a few weeks ago illustrates what will probably become the model for my dissertation. I was trying it out there and since then it’s been cooking in my brain. Try this on for size, as will I, by putting it out here: The Pragmatic Biblioblogger Model describes multiple types of librarians who share similar desires: to comment, to connect, to create community. The pragmatic biblioblogger model describes a librarian who authors a professionally-focused blog beyond the scope of their job to constantly find, share and offer advice to others in the LIS profession. Constantly […]
Via Will Richardson: Edubloggercon2007–This first-ever, international, one-of-a-kind “meetup” of educational bloggers will take place on Saturday, June 23rd, at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta just before the start of NECC. All are invited–whether you yourself blog, are just an educational blog reader, or even just want to hang out with an interesting group of people. The event is free, and you can indicate that you are coming (and see who else will be there) at the Edubloggercon wiki. This event will be unique in that it is going to be organized by the participants in real time at […]
George from http://archdale.blogspot.com writes: Michael, Just wanted to point you to the video editing contest that our Teen Corner is having for National Library Week. We just debuted a Teen area with furniture, shelving and 4 computers with video editing software and dvd burners. http://rcplteencorner.blogspot.com/2007/03/teen-video-contest.html Thanks George! I also see that the library had a “Make a Movie Night” presented by the teen advisory board. This is good on many levels: The library has technologies the teens may want to use to create content (remember those Pew numbers?) and a space just for them. The TAB is actively working to […]
Texas Library Association 2007 Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Congrats on a great workshop! http://wanderingeyre.com/2007/04/11/learning-about-l2/ http://wanderingeyre.com/2007/04/12/everyone-is-at-the-riverwalk/
Brian Kenney weighs in on the recent bloggers article in the March issue of American Libraries: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6430153.htmlM I don’t envy Leonard Kniffel’s job at all. AL has a huge array of issues to cover and serves many different constituencies, all of whom, I bet, are screaming for more ink. And I cringe at the idea of someone performing a similar analysis of SLJ’s content (yes, we are way overdue on a feature about middle schools). But the truth is, in AL, libraries mean public libraries, youth is code for children’s and young adult services, and students refer to college students. […]
One of my students shared this URL with our class: http://www.lapl.org/ya/. Take a look. It’s engaging and entertaining. I like the iPod earbuds and cell phone with images graphics. Dig a little deeper for discussion, book reviews and links out to some refreshingly frank and useful sites. A few more clicks led me too http://games.lapl.org/ — maybe I’ve missed coverage of this but it was new to me. In the tradition of The DaVinci Code, it’s a library adventure game! Here’s a shot: Well done LAPL!