Forgive me folks for not highlighting another LJ Mover & Shaker whose path I’ve followed for awhile. Nicole Engard was also named a M&S this week. I have subscribed to Nicole’s outstanding blog “What I learned Today” since its inception. It does my heart good to see an LIS student and blogger honored by LJ! If you haven’t grabbed Nicole’s feed, please do so. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6423441.html Ever since she enabled internal communication and collaboration with these tools, Engard notes, “Staff who used to email or walk across the library to chat now do so on the intranet, providing an archive of […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
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You have new Picture Mail! Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. Seeing this photo in Jenny’s stream brought back many good memories and reminded me today is Teresa’s last day at ALA TechSource. Back in May, 2005, Jenny and I accepted an invitation from Teresa to dinner while visiting Providence, RI to do a NEASIST event. We’d never met. But something clicked that night and Tersea asked us to write for the Blog. I honestly believe my path in libraryland changed that evening. Since then, Teresa has edited my blog posts at TS and supported and encouraged me through the […]
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/evanston/news/forum/295064,pp-editorial-031407-s1.article From the Evanston Review: A freshman state senator has proposed a law that would ban access to social networking Web sites, such as MySpace, at libraries and public schools. Sen. Matt Murphy (R-27th) of Palatine, believes his legislation would make life safer for youths because it could prevent contact with potential sexual predators via computers at those sites. We do not doubt that Sen. Murphy is sincere in his desire to make life as safe as possible for the children of Illinois. Others like him see forums like MySpace that didn’t exist a decade ago and liken them to […]
CONGRATULATIONS to the Class of 2007 Movers & Shakers, announced this week by Library Journal!! I am honored to say I’ve had the opportunity to talk to some of these folks about libraries, technology and change. Their perspectives and insights inspire me. I want my students to become “reflective practitioners” like the folks below as well as everyone on this year’s list. Go forth Movers & Shakers – change the world! Michael Casey: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6423425.html “I wouldn’t be in librarianship if I couldn’t combine so many of my passions,” explains Michael Casey, whose interests range from technology to photography. Casey’s major […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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! 🙂
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!
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 […]