Yearly Archives: 2014

106 posts
News & Life Updates

News: Karen Schneider Wins the Elizabeth Futas Catalyst For Change Award

A heartfelt congratulations to Karen! From http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/02/karen-schneider-wins-elizabeth-futas-catalyst-change-award CHICAGO – Karen G. Schneider, university librarian at Holy Names University, Oakland, Calif., is the 2014 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award. This award is given biennially to an individual for making positive changes in the profession of librarianship and consists of a 24K gold-framed citation and $1,000 contributed by the Elizabeth Futas Memorial Fund of the American Library Association. “The 2014 Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award jury chose to honor Karen G. Schneider for a career noted by risk taking, inspiring and mentoring colleagues, […]

News & Life Updates

A New Logo for TTW

A shout out to John LeMasney this Monday morning as I finish spiffing up our new look here at Tame the Web. An email from ILI prompted me to ponder a new logo for TTW last week. I asked for thoughts from Facebook and John, a designer and technology consultant/trainer, messaged offering to work with me for free! I follow John’s work on FB and must admit I was thrilled to get to work with him. I filled out a “Design brief” at his site, we had a phone chat and then finished the process via Facebook chat. The Red […]

Engaging Library Users

The User is Still Not Broken by Brian Kenney

Don’t miss Brian Kenney’s new column: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/60780-the-user-is-still-not-broken.html Meet People Where They Are—Not Where We Want Them to Be Libraries are very good at organizing and presenting content in anticipation of users’ needs. From cataloging resources to creating booklists, to offering workshops and classes, we’re all about meeting people where we think they may be. The trouble is, not all individuals fit into our elaborate schema. It’s difficult to genuinely meet people where they are. It’s far easier to set up a system that we think might help most users—and a whole lot cheaper. Meeting people where they are can take […]

News & Life Updates

News: Library Effect Launches

Jan Holmquist shared this with me: There is a new attempt to break out of the echo chamber and share the many different sides of library activities and the positive effects they have  on the communities they serve. The goal of The Library Effect is to share stories about the many facets of library activities — and their outcomes — with a general audience. Good luck to Shannon K. McDonough (@shnmcd) with this fine initiative. Read the first edition of The Library Effect here: http://thelibraryeffect.com/ – Then share with your library and non-library friends. https://twitter.com/libraryeffect From Michael : In the first edition […]

Presentations

WISE Workshop: Designing Online Courses for Diverse Communities of Learners

  Here are the slides from my WISE workshop presentation:  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/239835/StephensWISEWorkshop14.pdf   Sponsored by the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium As LIS programs become more entrepreneurial, reaching more diverse groups of learners, LIS educators are challenged to design their courses for diverse communities. There are many possible dimensions of diversity—different learner work contexts with different value structures (e.g., library vs. business), different cultural contexts when courses have a global reach, differences in learner demographics (age, gender, ethnicity), and differences in technology use outside of class, including social media. How does online course design take into account this diversity? This panel of experienced […]