GSLIS speaker series attendees Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian As part of the Emerging Library Leaders series, Jenny Levine spoke to a group of students, faculty and staff last Monday night. I was thrilled to be there and hear her full length Gaming in Libraries talk. The students — many gamers themselves – had some great questions. I am tickled that Jenny got to speak at our school. Her presentation is here: http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/presentations/2008/20080204DominicanGaming.pdf
Yearly Archives: 2008
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IRSQ Social Software in Libraries Issue is OUT! Originally uploaded by mstephens7 The current issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly is now available. I guest-edited this issue and got to work with some incredible librarians working in the field and sharing their insights. Checkout the Table of Contents: IL 2.0 at The American University in Cairo: Flickr in the Classroom Kaila Bussert, Nicole E. Brown, Alison H. Armstrong Blogmania: Blog Use in Academic Libraries Lani Draper, Marthea Turnage The Problems and Potential of Myspace and Facebook Usage in Academic Libraries Melanie Chu, Yvonne Nalani Meulemans MLISc The Life of a […]
Richard Wallis reports: 2007 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, Nicole C. Engard known for her work at Jenkins Law Library and more recently Princeton Theological Seminary Library, is on the move in to a new and interesting role. Nicole is joining LibLime, the library Open Software company behind Koha, as their Open Software Evangelist. In this Talking with Talis show, I talk with Nicole about her career so far, the challenge of her new role, and her rear view of the library systems landscape. Click here to listen: http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/02/open_source_eva.php I think we should watch developments such as this very closely. […]
Recent coverage of Twin includes an interview wuth a librarian: http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/02/twine-semantic-web-is-here.html Sarah Miller, a librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, became a member of Twine’s test group in November, partly because she and her husband, Ethan, a doctoral candidate, needed a place to organize all the documents they wanted to share with each other about teaching and learning. Ms. Miller likes Twine’s mechanized tagging abilities. “If I save the URL of a Web page into my Twine account,” she said, “Twine will skim the page and turn it into tags automatically. It’s a way to tie together things that […]
Are you a decision maker for your library’s ILS? Make sure you checkout this report (which has received some great notice, I am late to the party) Breeding’s observations are useful and concise: Polaris emerged as the system with the highest positive ratings. Libraries that use Polaris rated their system higher in all categories than any of the competing systems and are the least interested in open source alternatives. Only 1.56% of responding libraries indicated they were considering migrating to a new system. (I keynoted their User Group meeting in 2006 – what a cool bunch!) The Library Corporation scored […]
In my LIS753 and LIS768 classes, all of the students create WordPress blogs for journaling, reflection on readings and assignments. I asked my graduate assistant and TTW contributor Kyle Jones to give his new MacBook Pro a workout by creating a spiffy “How to set Up WordPress” screencast. For weekend classes where our time is precious, this screencast will be invaluable. Students can set up a blog before class so we can dive right in! Online classes will benefit as well. http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4 Kyle gave me permission to share it here as well – I think it might be especially […]
In LIS70 this week, we looked at the foundations of the profession and at some LIS philosophers. It was once again that time to discuss Ranganathan and his five laws. Each semester I ask the classes to decide if they would rewrite the laws. Here’s what the Wednesday night group came up with: Ranganathan’s 5 Laws-Edited to 4: Information is for use and it’s for everyone. Every piece of information is valuable and every user will find value in something. Eliminate barriers between the user and the information. The library is a growing and evolving organism. What do you think? […]
Library Trainer Originally uploaded by mstephens7 Great new redesign of the Library Trainer blog from PLCMC’s Lori reed. Check it out: http://librarytrainer.com/
Virtual Reference business card Originally uploaded by Joey Digits Text message reference marketed via a business card. Joey – please let us know how it goes.
Karl Fisch, at the Fischbowl (a staff development blog for high school teachers), summarizes the report “How Should Colleges Assess and Improve Student Learning?” http://tinyurl.com/2n5544 This stuff always intrigues because I want to make sure we are doing the right things in class. Fisch provides his summary via a multiple choice question: So, let me summarize (bias alert! bias alert!) via a single multiple choice question: 1. According to this report: a. Grades are pretty much a non-factor in the hiring process. b. Multiple choice tests are an unreliable predictor of success. c. Employers are pretty much satisfied with the […]