Yesterday in a two part session at ILI2008, I joined Thomas Brevik, Michael Casey for a panel discussion on “Next Generation Libraries.” It wasn’t just us talking – many people in the room joined in creating a lively debate/discussion about libraries, vendors, technology, attitude, and LIS edu. Take a look at David Kemper’s post: From Canada to London: How Twitter Opens (Conference) Doors As Twitter matures and empowers people, users of the micro-blogger service are finding more ingenious ways to communicate. Twittering or sending tweets (updates) about conferences or live events, such as the Presidential debates, are gaining in popularity. […]
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By Michael Casey & Michael Stephens The rules of marketing have changed. Do libraries know that? Corporate PR-types used to control the message. Sitting behind a desk, they’d write a carefully crafted press release and then send it off to newspapers and upload it to their web site. The attention the company got might barely justify the salary of the PR professional. Today’s world is fundamentally different. Neither news nor brand identity are controlled through press releases or carefully choreographed newspaper articles. Brands are molded and shaped by the audience-and the audience is everyone. People talk. And people listen. Social […]
Sunday evening walk, originally uploaded by Michael Casey. Michael Casey snapped this lovely photo today in London. I’m at O’Hare right now waiting for my flight. If you are attending Internet Librarian International 2008, please be sure to say HI!
Brian Herzog writes: http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/10/07/work-like-a-patron-day Last week, a library volunteer and I were working on a project together. We each needed to work on a computer, but be close enough together to talk. The only arrangement like this in the library are the public workstations, so we worked out there. In addition to getting the work done, I learned a few things: some of the keys of the keyboard didn’t work very well the monitor had streaks and fingerprints on it it was hard to concentrate with people walking and talking around us both of us forgot to bring a flash […]
Social hardware, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. I’ve had a few emails about the “social hardware.” Here’s Karen’s post: http://freerangelibrarian.com/2008/05/03/social-hardware/ This gem will be going a lot of places in the next few months!
No bicycles, originally uploaded by chawnerb.
Game-In Open Air, originally uploaded by moqub. The U Game U learn logo projected on the outside of the library in Delft!
http://library.sbcc.edu/2008/09/academic_search_premier.html I caught note of this via Twitter. Thanks Kenley! Take a look at this post at the Luria Library’s blog. They’ve turned on video comments as well as sharing an embedded slide show that details basic searching of Ebscohost. This so ties into my takeaways from spending a day at IDEA2008. So much of what we do in the library world and design world comes down to interaction, extension of human feeling, offering something useful and ease of use. This is a perfect example of those things coming together perfectly.
Micro-Interactions in a 2.0 World (v2) View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web 2.0) I wanted to stand up and cheer. My conference notes are here: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IDEA2008+mstephens7
The unbook View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: books book) I saw Dave Gray at IDEA2008. His talk knocked me out. This one is outstanding too.