http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/mit-reinvents-the-post-it-note-with-post-it-notes/ Watch the video and ponder how we could use this in libraries: quick and dirty notes for planning, tagging books for pickup, etc.
Monthly Archives: May 2008
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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2927/flashing-lights-warn-library-visitors-to-be-quiet (Thanks to Ken at Crown Library for the heads up.)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/ksu-ima050108.php# OMG! LOL. TTYL. For many adults over the age of 30, the former groupings of letters would seem incoherent, but for a newer generation of technologically-savvy young adults it can say a lot. “Instant messaging, or IM, is not just bad grammar or a bunch of mistakes,” says Dr. Pamela Takayoshi, Kent State University associate professor of English. “IM is a separate language form from formal English and has a common set of language features and standards.” Takayoshi, Kent State associate professor of English Dr. Christina Haas and four Kent State undergraduate researchers examined the language of instant messaging. […]
| View | Upload your own David Armano posts a presentation on Micro Interactions at his blog Logic+Emotion. I think he really taps into an important opportunity for libraries. Take a look and checkout his well-cited and well-crafted show. Don’t miss the points about consumer-generated content, Starbucks and lifestreaming. Does your library have a way to participate in your users’ lifestream?
Win: The director works for 2 hours at your job!, originally uploaded by mstephens7. One of the prizes at WNPL Staff Day! Other libraries could do this. 🙂
Staff Development Day at Warren Newport Public Library, Gurnee, Illinois, originally uploaded by mstephens7. Friday I was tickled to spend the day with the staff at Warren Newport Public Library, in Gurnee, Illinois for their Staff In Service. The theme of the day was WNPL 2.0, so I think I was in the right place. I was especially thrilled to customize THL for them, complete with slides that highlighted the cool things they are doing. One surprise was finding a Yelp review I was able to incorporate into the show: http://www.yelp.com/biz/warren-newport-public-library-gurnee I stayed for a nice lunch (complete with […]
Stephen Francouer writes about the usefulness of his library’s Reference Blog: I am really pleased with the way that our library’s reference blog,Reference at Newman Library, has continued to thrive after being launched four years ago. We’ve now posted over 1300 messages (and hundreds of comments, too); our weekly average is about a dozen posts. When we started the blog, it was intended to do away with the informal and haphazard systems we had to notify each other at the desk of technical problems and to alert each other to new resources and tools. We had been using: notes taped […]
In the last two weeks, I’ve had the honor to address groups of library administrators and trustees. It’s been a lot of fun — and thought-provoking – to discuss cultural technology shifts with them. Here are the slides I’ve been using: The Hyperlinked Library (Trustees)
Dominican Graduate Schools Commencement May 2008, originally uploaded by mstephens7. Congratulations to all of the Dominican GSLIS graduates! Leah kindly posed with me at the after party. I had a bit of a moment, realizing that she was in my very first LIS701 class the semester I started teaching full time in Fall 2006. Fresh from her undergrad, she jumped right into our program, was featured in the “If You’re not Gaming, You’re Losing” video and she just got a job! Again: Congrats to Leah and all of our GSLIS students. Go forth!
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