Take a look at http://voicethread.com/share/289291/ to see how the good folks at Darien Library are telling their story. Gretchen Hams, the Head of Children’s Services, shares information about Children’s Services via Voicethread. I will be watching all the opening day festivities for this innovative new library from afar! Congrats to all involved.
Daily Archives: January 5, 2009
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Phil Bradley writes: The method that I use is fairly simple – a) Do I know this person myself? If so, it’s almost a certainty that I’ll add them. b) Do I know of them? Again, if the answer is yes, they’ll get added. c) If I don’t know them, what does their profile say? Everyone can add a small profile piece about themselves. If the profile is blank or not informative, they tend not to get added. d) How many tweets on the first page of their profile are useful to me? If I start looking, reading and clicking […]
I’m adding this article by Stephen Abram to my LIS701 syllabus. http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep08/Abram.shtml Abram offers various scenarios for the future of reference services, including this one: Status Quo: A Recipe for Fossilization This is the disaster scenario — at least for our profession. Suppose we don’t evolve fast enough. Most of us know the story of the frog in the boiling water. Will we be blind to the overall changes and allow ad-driven search results to dominate the important question space? Worse still, will we fall into the trap of demanding a Google-like experience? Will there be no event, no transformational experience that […]
I get very excited at the power and promise of what we’re doing: innovative services, new buildings, the harnessing of new technologies to extend our services in surprising ways, and much, much more. With that in mind, I offer a few simple hopes for this shiny new year. Many libraries are doing these things already while others are testing the waters. Wherever your institution is going, these are things I hope for: I hope that we tell our story well. I hope that we guide our users into the digital landscape. I hope that we make good decisions. I hope that […]
final things, originally uploaded by circulating. Congrats to Iris Shreve Garrott who is retiring from McCracken PL! I’m swiping some text from her blog bio page: As the family matriarch and company employee with the most longevity it is my responsibility to show everyone else how important it is to be play and be happy as they work on the web. Oh… and I am happy 100% of the time now… for really. for more career bio, here is a press release from April 27, 2006… Although plenty of people work extremely hard for youth in the Paducah community, few ever […]