Those South Carolina librarians just rock: http://librarytrax.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/teentrax/ Yesterday, we hosted our first teen services institute, TeenTrax. It was a blast! Patrick Jones, *the* teen services guru in my book, started the day with a great reality check. What do you call young adults in the library? By their names! It’s all about relationships, and you can’t have a relationship with someone if you don’t know their name. How true! Michele Gorman, the truly awesome Teen Services Manager at Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s ImaginOn, gave us some of the basics on doing Reference for teens, and followed up with practical approaches to creating programs […]
Daily Archives: October 7, 2007
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From Wearing Scarves Year Round: (emphasis mine) Yesterday, I walked into the brick wall that was the realization that many of the projects I want to work on at the Northern-most library I might not get to work on. It’s frustrating because I thought I would be able to get a lot of things off the ground and I got excited and invested in that, and then it turned out that the library’s promises of being interested in making themselves more 2.0 and integrating social networking services into their world was not on the level. They do seem to want […]
On the benefits of virtual worlds: http://www.smartmobs.com/2007/10/06/real-hope-in-a-virtual-world/ On mapping Wikipedia: http://www.smartmobs.com/2007/10/07/wikipedia-mapping/ On Privacy 2.0 and allowing “opt in” services: http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2007/10/privacy-20.html