Friday I’ll be at my alma mater – the University of North Texas in Denton – to speak at the library in the morning and at the library school in the afternoon. If you are attending, please say hi!
Yearly Archives: 2009
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From Chapter 3 “Human Rights, Democracy and Librarians” by Kathleen de la Pena McCook & Katharine Phenix in The Portable MLIS: If librarians don’t keep touching base, looking back, remembering the big picture of our main purpose, which is to keep information freely flowing, take tax dollars, and give our communities (in the broadest sense) what they want and what they need, we will lose it all. We will overdue fine our public until they don’t dare come in, buy books the loudest patrons clamor for until we have created a library just for the few and the loudest. We […]
http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2009/01/podcast-tech-roundup.html Don’t miss this outstanding post by Jason Griffey highlighting how easily librarians can contribute to the conversation via these tools. This is a roadmap for creating programming for users – teaching them how to do it as well as a cost-effective plan for those librarians interested in audio: The Core Nothing really happens without my Black Macbook 13″, running OS X 10.5.6. For actual audio capture, I love the simplicity of Audacity. I’ve done some capture in Garageband before, and if its my own presentation I’m trying to record, I actually use the built-in record feature of Keynote. But for […]
The flurry of excited “Yes I used my laptop for council business and so much more” messages like these has been encouraging. It reminded me that I also need to encourage laptop use in all of my classes for many of the same reasons – especially Saturday/Sunday classes. We’ve seen an increase in student laptop use in our program. This weekend in LIS768, I had 5 Macs and at least that many PCs that students brought in to class. We actually ran out of outlets in the room! Using the tools of the trade if you will – for access […]
Scavenger Hunt, originally uploaded by STDL. What a cool photo from Schaumburg Township District Library. Another cool thing is this Flickr account is the work of a student of mine. Carrie is doing a 12 week practicum at the library and part of her work is creating, implementing and evaluating the library Flickr presence. I am serving as her practicum advisor for the semester. She’ll also be teaching a class all about Flickr! She’s blogging her experience here: http://classes.tametheweb.com/librarybug/ Take a look at the photos and the blog!
Cheerleaders, originally uploaded by UIC Digital Collections. Cheerleaders Chicago Urban League Records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library This image may be used freely, with attribution, for research, study and educational purposes. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library. The Library welcomes verifiable information on the people, places, and events depicted. Contact us at digitizeuic@yahoo.com Cite as CULR_04_0229_2563_001 , Chicago Urban League Records, University of Illinois at Chicago Library This project was funded through a generous […]
no cellphone use in library, originally uploaded by annethelibrarian.
Friday, I ran an afternoon workshop/retreat for 200 librarians from “Zone 1” here in Chicagoland. What fun! We covered a group-selected handful of trends and technologies and they did breakout brainstorming sessions. We ended with a 45 min group debrief that really got me thinking about how innovative and forward-thinking these libraries are. Thanks to all who attended! The slides are here: https://tametheweb.com/talks09/Trends&TechRetreat.pdf
Thursday I did a Click U program for the Special Libraries Association based on my Trends & Technologies post. We discussed the Cloud, the Commons and the Tribe! Thanks to all who attended! The slides are here: https://tametheweb.com/talks09/SLATopTech&Trends09.pdf
TTW Contributor and Dominican GSLIS student Kyle Jones writes this month’s NextGen column in LJ: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6630793.html With the dawn of Library 2.0, a philosophy based on user-centered services and change, new librarians—start-up librarians—are arriving at library directors’ doorsteps by the semester with the same kind of fervor and ability that built today’s great technology companies. Can librarians let go of some of their old, restrictive ways to give these new librarians the kind of environment and support that will drive the profession successfully in the 21st century? Library leaders would do well to observe some characteristics of successful Silicon Valley […]