We’re excited to share news about the latest developments for this year’s Internet Librarian International conference. New larger venue – Olympia Conference Centre Following the success of last year’s standing-room only event, we are thrilled to be moving to London’s Olympia Conference Centre for the 2012 event. This purpose-built conference venue will give us more space for conference sessions, more scope for networking, and improved facilities including robust wifi. Olympia is located within easy reach of the shops and restaurants of Kensington High Street, Knightsbridge and Notting Hill, and a wide range of museums and tourist destinations. New conference Chairs help info […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Thanks to everyone at the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. I thoroughly enjoyed spending the morning with the staff at their Staff Development Day. The slides are here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/HyperlinkedEvansville.pdf
We librarians are in a war for survival but we keep getting caught up in battles. The battle with Overdrive, the battle with Harper Collins, Penguin, other publishers, the battle with database providers, the battle with Apple, Facebook, and everybody else trying to limit choices/privacy, etc. and we are losing them and losing them badly. It is time to remember the War. I don’t know about you, but I am fighting the War to make the Library vital to my community and make the community I serve the best in the world. I don’t care about eBooks, I am not […]
Question of the Moment: “What is the nicest thing anyone ever said to you?” Students and staff are enjoying answering our newest Question of the Moment posted on one of the library hallway windows. Within minutes of the question being displayed, we had some funny answers such as, “Someone said I had thick hair!” written by a teacher whose hair is very sparse, and some deeply felt answers such as, “You are a good son.” and “Someone said they wanted to help me.”
The Hyperlinked Library as Word Cloud – How will you encourage the heart of your library users? Happy Valentine’s Day (click to get the giant version)
We can talk all day about whether or not it’s a good idea to lend out devices to patrons, but in the end action is better than any kind of talk. After listening to both sides of the lending devices story for a few weeks, I decided to say the heck with it and buy some Nooks and iPod Touches to lend out to my teen patrons. My approach to lending out these devices was simple: sure, anyone can go out there and buy these devices and put whatever they want on them, but what about all of the cool […]
Making researchers famous with social media View more documents from Mal Booth Mal writes: These are the slides and notes for a workshop we are running for academic researchers on using social media to raise their profiles as part of our UTS Research Week 2012 program.
LogoColors, a photo by widgetsandstone on Flickr. Via one of my students, just discovered this campaign: http://www.widgetsandstone.com/CustomContentRetrieve.aspx?ID=3999890 Various fluorescent colors of the campaign logo. This was part of a marketing campaign to draw citizens to a visioning event to give their ideas on how the Chattanooga library system could be reinvented. Other parts of the street marketing campaign were stickers, coasters and coffee cup sleeves — all done with the initial “Nothing Will Change” message, then followed by the altered “Everything Will Change” message. Ads direct mailers and web page were also part of the overall campaign. The end […]
Don’t miss this article by Åke Nygren at InformationToday Europe: http://www.InfoToday.eu/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80411&PageNum=2 Åke explores how Stockholm Libraries are responding to e-book stagnation: Since 2010 the Stockholm Public Libraries have been working hard at coming to grips with the conflict between a growing public demand for e-books and the devastatingly low percentage of e-books available in their stacks. The overall conclusion: instead of waiting for a print oriented publishing market, paralysed by its anxieties for possible loss of market shares, let’s get the job done ourselves! Later: The third step will be to explore the potential with EPUB 3, an open format that has […]
SLIS Student Research Journal is a peer-reviewed publication of San José State University School of Library and Information Science that promotes graduate scholarship and intellectual inquiry in the fields of library and information science, archives and records management, and museum studies. For more information: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/slissrj/ LIS Educators – please share this info with your students, including the policies for submissions, etc: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/slissrj/policies.html My essay “Beyond the Walled Garden: LIS Students in an Era of Participatory Culture” is in the newest issue: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=slissrj Here’s a brief excerpt of that article: Contributions Matter It makes me happy to see students, especially those who have taken my classes, […]