Frank Haulgren, Collection Services Manager, ILL & Document Delivery – Media – Microforms for Wilson Library at Western Washington University, writes: I checkout your blog regularly and always find some interesting stuff posted. Always fun to share the ideas there with colleagues. You may find our library’s current blogging project of interest. We’ve put up a heavily promoted, limited life blog as the academic year ends to gather ideas about what the library should be doing differently. There is a short video at the top that explains to users what the intent is. 14 Days To Have Your Say May 7 – 21 The […]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
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Columbus Metropolitan Library just posted a new management position: Digital Experience Manager http://tinyurl.com/5ynzvq Under the general direction of the Director of Digital Strategy, the Digital Experience Manager plans, administers, coordinates and drives all aspects of the digital customer experience including customer engagement, usability testing, design, content creation and service delivery. With a high level of independence and accountability, the position oversees the design and development process for the library’s websites and coordinates digital services efforts system-wide working closely with Information Technology, Community Relations’, and Development and Public Services’ staff to ensure the library’s development process and services are customer-centric. Apply […]
Brian Herzog writes a perfect post on why Firefox could and should be used on public computers (emphasis mine): http://tinyurl.com/4fzz6b My library is in the process of re-doing all of our public computers. One major change we’re making is to switch to Firefox for our web browser, instead of the Internet Explorer/Public Web Browser combo we’ve always used. The reason we’re switching is a simple one – Firefox is just cooler. It lets us have more control over how the browser functions, and lets us offer more tools integrated right into the browser. Better for us, better for patrons. Here’s […]
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9937956-7.html A Republican congressman who has sponsored legislation banning access to social-networking Web sites in schools and libraries has found a new target of displeasure: Second Life. Rep. Mark Kirk, who is seeking re-election this year, staged a press conference at a library in his suburban Chicago district on Tuesday to highlight what he called the “dangers” of the virtual world to children. Flanked by local officials, he also released a letter asking Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic to “take action to warn parents of the similar dangers and sexually explicit content found on Second Life.” Kirk said he was appalled that Second […]
Stephen Francouer writes: http://tinyurl.com/556pof My Plan Do quick look ups of nineteen terms and concepts discussed in Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody to see what reference sources would be more helpful to the students I work with. Methodology Using quotation marks around search terms to force phrase searches, I looked in the following resources: Wikipedia Encyclopedia Britannica Gale Virtual Reference Library Oxford Reference In any given set of search results, I would look first for main entries that mirrored my search terms exactly and record any such precise hits in a table. If there were no exact hits, then […]
Karen M. Burns, Administrator of the Southwest Iowa Library Service Area, writes: We did a National Library Week project this year–on the Wednesday of NLW we invited libraries in central, southwest and southeast Iowa to take photos of what was happening at the library that day, and upload up to 10 of them to a group on flickr. I thought you might enjoy taking a look, they’re at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/dayiowalibraries/ We set up an FAQ page before hand, (http://www.swilsa.lib.ia.us/dayinthelife.htm) and did some “training” sessions in the Wimba online classroom. The Meebo Me widget on the FAQ page was used more often than […]
Mac Central, originally uploaded by Betchaboy. Judy O’Connell & Will Richardson at a workshop in Australia. Read this: http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/the-creative-edge/ Tells a story doesn’t it…bloggers, innovators, champions of change, creators of 21st century learning. Using a MAC of course!
This spring GSLIS students voted for one of our faculty for the Excellence in Teaching award. The winner was Mary Pat Fallon. As part of the award, she gave a brief speech at commencement that really fired up our grads and the gathered faculty in the auditorium. She agreed to let me publish part of the speech here: When I think of messages I think of one of my favorite quotes by Neil Postman, the late education scholar: “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”……. No, my use of Postman’s words is more […]
Michael introduces Karen, originally uploaded by Michael Casey. I was nervous!
We now have many new methods for connecting to our users. There is a huge amount of reader enthusiasm happening at Amazon and LibraryThing, but we are not doing it in our own software. DaVinci Code has 3519 reviews at Amazon. WorldCat has five reviews for The Davinci Code, but three say “Test.” Weblogs: Immediacy. Informality. The architecture of participation: blogs are tools. You don’t need to blog, but be the type of library that could be blogging. Twitter: Why would you not use this in your library? Tagging at Flickr: People in the community often know things we don’t. […]