As part of our Staff In-Service day last week, the whole SJCPL team took the Myers Briggs Type Inventory Assessment Tool with our facillitators Sharon and Dan Wiseman. I am an ENFJ. Seven years ago, we did the test and I was an INFJ. The purpose? To show the library staff how differently each of us meets the world and experiences it. We broke up into types (NFs for me) and did an esxercise. It was pretty darn cool.
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Jenny writes: “And that’s not even counting today’s adults that are already sitting at Panera every morning, surfing while sipping.” Uh oh! That’s me for sure! Take a look at Jenny’s note about wifi success from Steve Oberg, who I’ve chatted with a few times.
Bob and I taught an afternoon session yesterday at the Surburban Library System headquarters for Jenny Levine. We had ten library folks from all different kinds of libraries in to talk about technology training. It was a blast! Bob and I play off each other well and I look forward to teaching with him again! Jenny moblogged it here and here. Aaron worked the virtual Reference Desk and participated! Our PPT is here!
http://www.gmailswap.com/list/read.php?f=1&i=4783&t=4783 Library folk — have an extra gmail account laying around to offer? Check out my swap post at http://www.gmailswap.com/niftyswaps.php
In honor of our program today at SLS, I’ve been pondering some trainer’s tips… Be prepared! Prepare the training materials, such as updating notes, URLs and facts and remember how quickly things change in the technology world. Prepare the training space: set up computers, test equipment and test software. Get to know the room if it’s the first time you’ve been there. Know your audience. Who are they? Plan for specific groups: Students, Faculty, Seniors, Novices or Teens. A class for seniors will be different than a class for your teen users. Check out all the stuff you can find […]
The more I read (Abram and Luther in LJ this month!), the more I ponder, and the more I IM with colleagues and SJCPL staff, I realize we need to get serious about this form of communication. I saw this recently in a library and it made me sad: I totally understand restricting open chat rooms…but not IM. Just sayin!
Reuters Tech Story on Digital Cameras And this! Take a look folks! “Digital camera shipments are seen rising to 68.6 million units this year from 47.9 million in 2003, research firm IDC said on Thursday in its Worldwide Digital Still Camera Forecast. Shipments rose 71 percent in 2003 from 2002.” Nice. This little article offers a lot of stuff for those Digital Camera classes!
I have received over 500 spam messages this weekend. So I turned off the old address here… mstephens (at) tametheweb.com! New address: mstephens7 (at sign) tametheweb (dot) com mstephens7 (at sign) mac (dot) com still works as well!
Blake rocks! http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/0729248 This is a good one. SPL probably is the first library of the 21st century and will set some standards for study and emulation for years to come. Read the piece at the New Yorker. It fired me up big time this am as I sit at Panera! Lordy! I love libraries!!
http://www.librarystuff.net/2004/05/plogs.html Steven points to an article called “The Virtues of Chitchat”, by Michael Schrage, which, Steven writes, “discusses the use of blogs within corporate IT departments, most notably with keeping everyone informed with ongoing projects. Schrage calls them project logs, or “plogs”.” Lovin’ it!