Jeff Trzeciak the McMaster University Librarian writes: I had a great time presenting to our Board of Governors on Thursday. I spoke about gaming and its impact on students today. It was a radical departure from the type of presentation they had received in the past. They seemed to enjoy it and asked lots of questions. View or download the PDF: http://ulatmac.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/presentation1.pdf Don’t miss the Four Pillars of Transformation, data about games and gamers, insight into the student’s media rich lives and Jeff’s WoW vitals! 🙂
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I was glad to discover some new (to me) biblioblogs this weekend. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blogs.html Check out Bowllan’s Blog by Amy Bowllan, Brian Unbound by Brian Kenney, Digital Reshift by Chris Harris and Practically Paradise by Diane Chen. It’s nice to see more school librarian voices joining the conversation. There’s also more new features (like some smoking HOT podcasts) to discover as well at SLJ!
I wanted this post to be out on the day I spoke at the Ontario Library Association with Amanda Etches-Johnson and John Blyberg at the OLITA Top Tech Trends panel, but my dissertation, teaching and life intervene. Each year about this time, TTW looks at “Ten Techie Things for Librarians.” You’ll find 2006 and 2005 in the archives. So here’s this year’s list, with a new name: “Trends” instead of “Things.” Sure it puts a finer point on it but it also recognizes the changes in my thinking about the essential duties of librarians: Learn to Learn Adapt to Change […]
March 15, 2007. Library 2.0 & Emerging Technologies, Skokie Public Library Staff Workshop, Skokie, Illinois. March 23, 2007. Library 2.0: Planning, People & Participation. Workshop for Capital Area Library Directors. Williamsburg, Virginia. April 12, 2007. Library 2.0 with Jenny Levine. Texas Library Association. San Antonio, Texas. April 26, 2007. Southwest Florida Library Network Technology Day. Toward Library 2.0. Naples, Florida. April 27, 2007. Charleston Public Library Staff Day, Charleston, SC. May 4, 2007. Massachusetts Library Association. Blog’s Eye View:Three Industry Bloggers Talk about Library Trends, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. May 7, 2007. Rural Libraries 2.0 Conference Keynote with Jenny Levine. Traverse City, […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCVuzNo1EDo Take a look at this highlight video from the OCLC Symposium – it’s pretty darn HOT! http://www.oclc.org/reports/privacyandtrust/default.htm
March 7, 2007 AL Direct Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. Congrats Kathryn!
Yup, I’m on Twitter Originally uploaded by mstephens7. http://twitter.com/mstephens7 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/03/06/twitter-anyone/
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/03/dear-library-of-congress.html This rocks my world. I want all of my students to read this and ponder not only the future of books and description but the future of libraries. It is both ironic and poignant that librarians are still worrying about “bibliographic control,” after ceding so much of the same to the companies that now rent them journal access per annum at usurious rates, digitize their book collections into DRM obscurity, or sell them ponderous, antiquated “management” systems that on close inspection do little more than serve as storehouses for the metadata specific to the formats of bygone eras, bold […]
Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals Originally uploaded by ellyssa. Get a load of that cover! Ellyssa notes on the Flickr page – please click through and read the comments — that she pulled the words out of the text of the book. Allow me a HOTTER that HOT! I can’t wait to see it!
Kankakee PL Podcast Originally uploaded by mstephens7. I was honored to have Allison Beasley and Steve Bertrand visit the campus of Dominican University to chat with me last week for one of their BiblioTech Podcasts. It was a fun conversation. Wechatted for almost an hour in one of the GSLIS meeting rooms, with a snazzy little device recording us. http://www.lions-online.org/Podcasts.html