Dear TTW: I’m taking a little one-credit class called “The Thoughtful Professional” in my library school. One of the requirements of the class is to send the professor a short email with a “Heretical Idea” about libraries. During the last 30-minutes of each class we discuss the idea. The author remains anonymous.I wanted to share mine with you because a photo you put in your Flickr stream inspired me. Here it is: Throw away the library policy book; toss aside the library rules! Most library rules and policies serve no one, except the ineffective managers who implement and administer them. […]
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Please join me in wishing Jenny Levine a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Jenny has done so much to help shift the profession and more recently our association that I think she deserves a big round of applause and “thanks you’s” — and one way of doing that is to post your own Flickr shot tagged “happybirthdayshifted.” 🙂 Happy day to you my friend!
http://tametheweb.com/category/flickr-rocks-my-world/
Ian McKinney at Allen County Public Library writes to TTW: Report cards came out today so we threw this together. It’s on our teen blog: http://acplteens.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/its-time-to-bring-up-those-grades/
Tame The Web 2000 Originally uploaded by Russ and Lori WOW! I’d forgotten about the pre-blog days…
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/su_dontsuck (Thanks to Librarian 1.5 for the heads up.)
http://blog.last.fm/2008/01/23/free-the-music As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner—and the artists they work with—plus thousands of independent artists and labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be. Full-length tracks are now available in the US, UK, and Germany, and we’re hard at work broadening […]
http://president.mlanet.org/mfunk/2008/01/send-me-you-success-and-failure-stories/ MLA president Mark Funk is asking folks, especially in health librarianship, to share their stories about access to social sites at work: In an earlier post I presented some findings from the survey done by the Task Force on Social Networking Software. They found that many librarians are having access to various social networking web sites and applications blocked by their IT departments. I asked for some success stories on getting these sites unblocked, but I didn’t receive any. I’m asking again for you to send me not only success stories, but failure stories as well. I’m working on […]
I’m attending a meeting this afternoon on campus as part of a discussion of emerging technologies and teaching. A few of us were given ten minutes to talk about what emerging technologies we use in our classes. I’ll be highlighting blogs and RSS (and a few other social technologies) for my segment. I’ll be using this post for the brief “show and tell.” Blogs in the Classroom: In 2004, Merriam Webster online announced the most-searched word of the year was blog and noted that one of the most talked about online innovations of Web 2.0 was the use of blog […]
I’ve been mulling the announcement of Apple Movie Rentals for my Apple TV. Macs and iPod the last few days. This morning, via Twitter, John Blyberg points to a piece by Seth Godin: Â http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/how-much-for-di.html Godin writes: No, I don’t think Free is always the answer, but I do think the studios are about to make a mistake of RIAA proportions. I’d charge fifty cents for an online rental. It would immediately hammer the rental stores (which is fine with Hollywood) and DVD replicators (also fine with Hollywood) but would instantly teach people a new habit. Then, once the new habit […]