This kind librarian agreed to let me publish this email in response to our talk at CIL2008: Dear Michael: I attended the presentation about transparency given by you and Michael Casey at CIL2008, and I wanted to share a comment I had directly with you. As you talked about transparency, the one concept that seemed intrinsic to all you said, but I thought should have been said is “TAKE RESPONSIBILITY” I think it needs to be said because so few people actually do it when it comes to libraries. When I worked as a paraprofessional in a large library, I […]
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Allen County Public Library’s Sean Robinson writes: The property fax reform in Indiana is causing library budgets to shrink across the state. In an attempt to be more transparent and to inform both our staff and the community on how we plan to handle this change our Director Jeff Krull has created this video. We are planning for it to be part of a series as we go through this process. I really like Krull’s take on staff and the library’s preparation for the future. I applaud Sean and Jeff Krull and everyone at ACPL for taking such a bold step […]
As part of Dominican GSLIS Emerging Library Leaders series, we had Kathryn Deiss, ACRL Content Strategist, in to present on Leadership. I captured some of her points but it was so interesting I stopped typing to listen. Her slides were beautiful — filled with lovely images of nature and flowers. Some thought provoking statements/questions: Multiple communication channels are available now for social interaction. How do we lead in this environment? How do we innovate? Some libraries are innovating like crazy: Users vist the Delft DOK library get an automatic text: “Welcome to the world’s most modern library!” It’s got to be fun. The […]
Librarian 2.0 formula, originally uploaded by Commissaresse.
LIS768 Today, originally uploaded by mstephens7. As the semester ends, a big shout out to my class up north – the folks who joined me for three weekends in St. Paul to explore Library 2.0, to ponder the writings of Michael Buckland, Howard Rheingold, Jess Shera and many, many Bibliobloggers/librarian authors, and consider how libraries are evolving. Also a note to the authors of our textbook Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk: The book was well-received and quoted often in the papers and projects. In fact, I just heard Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Service is into its second printing […]
GSLIS Faculty and Dominican Librarians, originally uploaded by mstephens7. Our University librarian Inez Ringland is retiring after 23 years of service. Yesterday, after the last faculty meeting of the semester, we gathered for a toast and a photo opp. Cheers to Inez! Photo by Sharon Tobin
Updating presentations today…adding this — can someone remind me how I found this? 🙂 http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ugl/ http://twitter.com/askundergrad
The incredible Marshall Shore turned me on to this: http://sfist.com/2008/02/21/coco_bart_stati.php Starting sometime in April, library books will be available at Contra Costa County BART stations via “ATM style lending machines.” A new program called Library-a-Go-Go, along with the Contra Costa County Library, will allow BART riders to simply swipe a card, select a book, wait for said book choice to drop, and then return the book after the rider is finished reading their literary gem. The machines will “hold around 400 popular and best-selling titles, both fiction and nonfiction, and will be accessible during Bart hours.” Sweden, Norway, and Finland […]
Marcus writes: But something funny happened on the way to OJS: I became firmly convinced that the traditional journal model is antiquated for sharing research and knowledge among librarians. A better course is to develop and nurture excellent blogs, with multimedia capabilities and guaranteed preservation of the postings. This could be an entirely new blog that starts from scratch, or an established journal that evolves into a blog. One of his arguments: Peer review should be a post-publication process, rather than a pre-publication process that sometimes drags out for many months. If physicists can post pre-prints that get discussions flowing […]
“We’re seeing more requests outside of creative services to switch to Macs from PCs,” notes David Plavin, operations manager for Mac systems engineering at the U.S. IT division of Publicis Groupe, a global advertising conglomerate. There are so many requests that Plavin now supports 2,500 Macs across the U.S. — nearly a quarter of all Publicis’ U.S. PCs. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/21/17FE-macs-in-business_1.html Dominican now supports faculty requesting either a Mac or PC for their offices. And anecdotally I heard that 40% of our incoming students university wide have Macs. 🙂