“Society has determined what the library of the past has been, and it is society that will determine what the library of the future shall be.” Jesse Shera, The Foundations of Education for Librarianship, 1972. Wiley-Becker and Hayes, p 135. During the Q&A at the Student Symposium last week at the University of Arizona, Jana Bradley, the director of the program, shared this quote from Jesse Shera. It really falls in line with my thinking about libraries as social spaces online and in physical space. For more about Shera: http://wiki.case.edu/Jesse_Hauk_Shera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Shera
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Dr. O’Connor, my dissertation chair and professor at UNT, and I have had some cool talks about blogs (of course), flickr and tags over the lst couple of years. I was pleased to see he has launched a blog called “Hypotheses non fingo” where you’ll find discussions of visual representations, photocutionary acts, and ultra high resolution images. http://memestate.typepad.com/hypothesis_non_fingo/ I did have to look up what the title means! “Hypotheses non fingo” : “I feign no hypotheses” — Isaac Newton
Joel Husenits, Managing Editor at the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN), writes: The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) is using Google Co-op to power a search engine that searches all 251 Ohio public library websites. You can check it out at www.oplin.org/fal (we folded it into our existing “Find an Ohio Library” site). We thought other states and/or library systems might be interested in examples of localized custom search tools. Thanks Joel. I did some sample searches, including the above for “blogs.” Seems fluid and friendly. Nice! Have other libraries adopted this technology?
I like the heart Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Could we say that personalized tastemaker-style services encourage people’s hearts? I know comment conversations can for sure. Something about this graphic really touched me after an evening of lecture and discussion with my incredible LIS701 class.
http://www.libraryman.com/blog/2006/11/27/new-job-news/ A big congrats to Michael Porter, AKA Libraryman who has accepted a job at WebJunction in Seattle! Wohoo! Michael has been doing some outstanding talks and presentations up and down the West Coast and here and there, including Hawaii and SRO crowds in California! Michael, who I admire greatly for his caring nature and passion for all things libs and libs, wrote this at his blog: I’d also like to thank the member libraries and librarians who have made it possible for me to pursue the tools and ideas that have such potential to fuel our vitality and growth. […]
David Rothman announces LibWorm: http://davidrothman.net/2006/11/25/libworm-search-and-current-awareness-for-libraryfolk/ With LibWorm, you can search over 1100 feeds, including more than 800 biblioblogs, many LIS journal TOCs, and many other information sources of interest to libraryfolk. Any search in LibWorm can be outputted as an RSS feed, so LibWorm should be a very useful way to track mentions of your favorite subjects in the biblioblogosphere and beyond. You can choose to use LibWorm’s built-in aggregator by registering for an account, and this will also facilitate the social aspects of the site that will be implemented in the future. Check out the feed categories, including podcasts […]
We never had ANYTHING like this when I got my MLS! Michael Habib’s Masters Thesis is available for download at http://etd.ils.unc.edu/dspace/handle/1901/356 Comments are welcome at his post: http://mchabib.blogspot.com/2006/11/toward-academic-library-20-development_22.html While academic libraries have always been places of reading, Academic Library 2.0 is a place of both reading and writing. However the process always recognized patrons would write their ideas down and that they would eventually reenter libraries as part of the scholarly and historical record. Furthermore, librarians have always trusted that the majority of their users strive to distinguish that which is good and true. This is the foundation of the […]
Mary Mitchell, part of the Web Team at Phoenix Public Library, writes: I want to share a link to a library that is doing cool things-and it’s not even my library. I wrote about it on my week-old blog: http://libraryjourney.blogspot.com/ The Tucson Pima County Library has a wonderful link on their public website about a program that their staff presented at last week’s Arizona Library Association Conference. They did a great program on practicality of Library 2.0 and talked about their Emerging Technologies group. Great idea – and great to share the whole thing with their community! http://www.lib.ci.tucson.az.us/about/presentations/index.cfm Thanks for […]
Michael Casey reports this am that the entry for Library 2.0 is up for deletion at Wikipedia: http://www.librarycrunch.com/2006/11/delete_library_20_from_wikiped.html I’m amazed really, especially after recent professional journal articles hereand here, the SLJ Summit focus on School Library 2.0, and the fact I have students writing about it in my classes! Please add your thoughts!
A new report from Pew Internet & American Life Project on podcasting: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/193/source/rss/report_display.asp Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time. However, few internet users are downloading podcasts with great frequency; just 1% report downloading a podcast on a typical day. Hmmmm… I download a few podcasts and burn CDs for my drives back and forth to Illinois. My use has increased this year as I find the podcasts that engage me. Look at the PDF of the report to see the small upswing […]