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Curtis R. Rogers, Ed.D., Communications Director at the South Carolina State Library, has posted the annual survey on American libraries using Social Media tools for PR/Marketing. Please consider participation and share the link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/annualweb202012 The survey will close on Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 5:00pm EST. Please forward this survey to library colleagues, state library association listservs, Facebook pages, or others who may be interested. If you have any questions, please contact me at crogers@statelibrary.sc.gov. Curtis R. Rogers, Ed.D. Communications Director, SC State Library
Don’t miss Too Much Assessment Not Enough Innovation: R&D Models and Mindsets for Academic Libraries by Brian Mathews. Download it here: http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/19047/Too_Much_Assessment_R%26D_Paper_Mathews_Enhanced_Version.pdf?sequence=1 Brian writes: In seven days I’ll be giving a talk on R&D for academic libraries but here is the enhanced version of the conference paper. This is a follow-up (actually a sequel) to Think Like A Startup. I described the intentions of this paper last month so I’ll save us all from repetition. The key point is that assessment programs should be engines for change seeking progress not sustainment. I reread the paper on Saturday and the thing that stood out was how […]
Yesterday I presented the SJSU SLIS Lecture at the California Library Association. Thanks to all who attended and participated. For slides please Contact Michael
A heartfelt dankeschön to the US Embassy in Berlin and the Zukunftwerkstatt for sponsoring my talks in Germany. The slides are here: For slides please Contact Michael
Shared with my by Professor Hobohm as I travel around Germany.
A big shout out to the incredible staff of VPL for the great visit I had yesterday. I was invited by library administration to do a public library futures presentation for staff. There are some very exciting things happening at this library and I learned a lot from everyone I talked to. I repeated the talk in the afternoon for more staff and folks from nearby libraries. Thanks to all for such a warm welcome to Canada. For slides please Contact Michael
Super cool article by Patricia Martin at Huffingtom Post. So glad to meet here at #rsq12 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-martin/libraries-digital-age_b_1942610.html‘ Until recently, public libraries had little reason to innovate. Then Google arrived. More disruptive technologies followed, causing an identity crisis for librarians. Now the profession is re-thinking its purpose — a quest that lured a gathering of 350 eager librarians to Telluride, Colorado recently for the R-Squared (Risk and Reward) Conference. As I circulated, knots of librarians huddled to share ideas and solutions. If there was a common thread it was the need to understand the increasingly complex lives of customers. Pre-Internet, a library […]
Note from Michael: I met Tippecanoe County PL (Lafayette, IN) director Jos Holman at IPLA last week. He told me about his library’s creation space “The Portal.” S. Neal Starkey, Head Technology Librarian, followed up with some info and a link. I thought this was a good example of what’s possible in a medium-sized midwest library. The Portal is a new public space the Tippecanoe County (Indiana) Public Library system custom-designed to give its customers a place to learn, create, and interact with new technologies. This space is currently populated with a mix of desktops, laptops, and tablets. The design and seating are flexible […]