New Zealand Presentation!! Originally uploaded by mstephens7. A big shout out to the folks at Wellington in New Zealand! Thanks for a great session!
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Forget the card catalogue. McMaster’s new librarian is talking blog, wiki and gaming. He’s even giving the university an alternative life on a popular online world. Read the Full Article I had the pleasure of presenting the kickoff for McMaster University library’s Learning 2.0 program last week and I had the distinct pleasure of dining with University Librarian Jeff Trzeciak and User Experience Librarian Amanda Etches-Johnson. Our lunch disciussion was incredible and I felt I was truely in the presence of Innovators. Want proof? Check out the Hamilton Spectator article above. When McMaster University hailed the hiring of a new […]
http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/02/march_8_2007_sisters_sisters.php Karen Schneider reports: n March 8, 2007, netbib, Germany’s best observed library-related weblog, will feature an “all-women’s day,” featuring a call for postings by women on Web/Library 2.0 issues, to be posted on that day Ladies, may I ask you to participate? Gentlemen, can I ask you to reach out to the woman (or women) you know have great ideas they are not sure about sharing–and post them on March 8? (Glynnis, you and my new friends in South Africa–can we get some perspectives from you?) Kudos to Anne Christensen and company for thinking this up. Please, give this […]
Jaap and Erik speak to an LIS Class at Dominican Originally uploaded by mstephens7. As I type, dear readers, it’s a COLD Thursday morning..still dark outside with temperatures hovering around 0.’ Jaap and Erik from Deflt Public Library are already up as well, getting ready for their next adventure: tours of libraries to the northwest and meetings with more innovative librarians. Yesterday was wonderful because I had them with me, on campus at Dominican University, as guests of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science. We had lunch in the Dining Hall with Professors Kate Marek and Karen Brown. […]
Jenny says: “What would you add to help your colleagues understand this is also “Library 2.0?” Casey Bisson states simply: “It rocks” and shares some text from the video: ext is unilinear…when written on paper. Digital text is different. Hypertext can link. With form seperated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web. Who will organize all of this data? We will. You will. Digital text is not longer just linking information…Web 2.0 is linking people…people sharing, trading, and collaborating. We’ll need to rethink a few things… What does this mean for […]
I was tickled to read Michael Golrick’s post about blurbing Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk. It will be published by Information Today in April and, like Michael, I hope that the book does very well. I’ve read it and look forward to using it in future classes. (Disclaimer: I wrote the foreword. 🙂 )
I have been waiting for these Visitors Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Erika and Jaap are here! Today they will visit Dominican with me and then tomorrow they are off to North Suburban Library System and other cool places around Illinois! Welcome to our visitors from the Netherlands!
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I gave a new talk at OLA last week called “Best Practices for Social Software,” based in part on my Library Technology Report and some new thinking I’ve been doing in response to all the incredible stuff happening in libraryland and in our 2.0 world. I want to write up the list and hope to get to that this week, but I was delighted to get a lengthy e-mail response to the talk. Patti writes about her thinking in response to some of the considerations of the Read/Write Web and has allowed me to publish it here: Hi Michael, A […]
Via Library Crunch: http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/feb07/Blowers_Reed.shtml Since launching Learning 2.0, I’ve been contacted by at least 2 dozen other libraries that wanted advice on how to develop programs of their own. The great thing about Learning 2.0 is that I created it with the same free Web 2.0 tools that it introduces to staff. I used Blogger.com to publish all the exercises, Bloglines for tracking all staff members’ blogs via RSS, Odeo to host the podcasts, Flickr for photos, and YouTube for videos. Because these tools are free and open, you don’t need your own Web server or domain to create an […]