Greetings from #PLA2014 in Indianapolis. The slides for my talk today are here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/239835/StephensPLA2014Learning.pdf The presentation is based in part on these columns: Reflective Practice: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/01/opinion/michael-stephens/reflective-practice-office-hours/ Learning Everywhere: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/04/opinion/michael-stephens/learning-everywhere-office-hours/ Learning to Learn: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/06/opinion/michael-stephens/learning-to-learn-office-hours/ Infinite Learning: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/10/opinion/michael-stephens/infinite-learning-office-hours/
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http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/people/movers-shakers-2014/jan-holmquist-movers-shakers-2014-tech-leaders/ Jan Holmquist’s nominators describe him as a “global librarian,” and it’s easy to see why. In addition to his current work as head of development for Denmark’s Guldborgsund libraries, Holmquist’s side projects tend to involve collaboration with librarians all over the world. He is engaged with ongoing international projects in Germany and the Read Watch Play Twitter reading group based in Australia. And in 2011 and 2012, he worked with librarians in the United States and the UK on the “Buy India a Library Project” and then built awareness of the program’s efforts with a presentation on crowdfunding for […]
In honor of PLA14, our e-book is FREE this week at amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Library-Michael-E-Casey-ebook/dp/B00IQYZ1BA/ref=sr_1_sc_1? And it’s always FREE here: http://tametheweb.com/2014/03/03/news-download-the-transparent-library-e-book-here/
I am excited to be speaking at the Public Library Conference in Indianapolis. See you there! Thursday, March 13, 2014 04:15 PM – 05:15 PM 135-136 Hyperlinked Learning Experiences at Public Libraries: MOOCs & Beyond This presentation will explore emerging models of connected, open learning—offered for free— with great potential for staff and the public. Can we support students of all kinds in Massive Open Online Courses? What’s the potential for professional development and lifelong learning when courses can gather the best of the best in a field and offer experiences and exploration anywhere? This session will explore new ideas […]
Via Pam the Librarian: http://pamlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/kicked-out-of-the-library/ Last week I went to the Exeter Public Library with a colleague to work on a project for our high school. We needed Internet access, a table to spread our documents out on, an outlet to plug-in our devices, a spot away from the distractions of our school, and a buzzing atmosphere where we would feel inspired to create new ideas for our project. What better place than the local library? We arrived to a very still and silent library. Two women behind the main desk looked at us as we walked in and went back […]
Sarah Houghton writes: http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2014/03/new-san-rafael-public-library-website.html I’m pleased to announce that last week we launched a new website for San Rafael Public Library athttp://srpubliclibrary.org. The site was designed by Influx with their Prefab library website service. We are very happy with it! Our library is relatively small and we don’t have the time or staff brain bandwidth or expertise to design, maintain, troubleshoot, and host a website. We were happy to hire Influx to do this work for us. For very little money a whole lot of pressure and stress has been relieved from our collective library brain. So far, we’ve gotten some really fabulous […]
Brian Kelly (Cetis, University of Bolton) and I are carrying out a survey to support a contribution for the LILAC 2014 information literacy conference. The aim of the survey is to identify institutional policies and practices to support use of Cloud services by staff and researchers as well as current institutional policies and practices for staff and researchers before they leave their host institution (e.g. due to redundancy, retirement or to take up a new post) who wish to continue to make use of IT services and digital resources. The findings will be published in a poster on “Preparing our […]
I am very happy to share that over the past few weeks Michael Casey and I have edited together all of the Library Journal “Transparent Library” columns into an e-book that we are making available for FREE to readers of TTW. Here’s the description: The “Transparent Library” gathers 29 columns from Michael Casey and Michael Stephens. Originally published in Library Journal from 2007 – 2009, the column explored concepts related to transparency, management, engaging communities, social media, strategic planning and constant change. The e-book includes supplemental essays and columns, and includes a new conversation “The Transparent Library Revisited.” We’ve wanted to assemble […]
Had a great day yesterday with library folk at two talks I gave at UCSB. The slides are here: Learning Everywhere/Learning Always: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/239835/StephensLearningUCSB.pdf Trends & Tech: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/239835/TrendsTechUCSB.pdf
Thanks to everyone at Cook Memorial Public Library District. I spoke at the library’s staff development day yesterday. I enjoyed talking with the staff and board members about planning, emerging technologies and “learning everywhere.” The slides are here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/239835/StephensCookMemStaffDay.pdf