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Social Media, Libraries, and Web 2.0: How American Libraries are Using New Tools for Public Relations and to Attract new Users – Second Survey November 2009 View more documents from Curtis Rogers.
This year has been most magical. I traveled a bit, had some wonderful students in my classes, and learned so much from everyone I encountered. I also spent much of the summer with our new dog Cooper in Traverse City hiking and sitting by the fire. One of the most magical and life changing events, however, was spending five weeks in Australia as the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar, researching and speaking in the great land Down Under. Reflecting, as I do in the final days of each year, I can’t begin to describe how the time spent on the other […]
Best Wishes 2010, originally uploaded by Rob Coers. From Rob Coers comes this wonderful greeting detailing his wishes for the New Year. Well done Rob!
We’ll see you in the new year!
Must Check Out a Library Book, originally uploaded by mstephens7. From an anonymous submission comes this newspaper clipping – public library X is requiring proof of a book checkout “within the past two weeks” for young people to participate in “Game Day.” I just don’t know where to even begin with this.
A big shout out to everyone at OPPL for making their staff inservice day such fun – and invigorating. I was also honored to present the staff day with my colleagues Drs. Karen Brown & Kate Marek. Their take on transforming library service was a perfect fit with my Hyperlinked Library model. The interactive exercises they did got all us of thinking! The slides are here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/TransformingOPPL.pdf
DigitaleEtalageTest, originally uploaded by DOK Delft. Hey DOK friends – is that a touch screen? Is that person swiping through choices??
Via all sorts of wonderful bloggers comes this video prototyping the future of Sports Illustrated. Karl Fisch had this to say: More evidence that the way we interact with “text” is changing. To combine and paraphrase something I’ve heard David Warlick say more than once with something Jason Ohler says: We need to stop paper training our students. We should spend less time training our students how to use paper, and more time helping them use digital tools to interact in meaningful and productive ways with the media forms of the day. Also reminds me of this post: Note that […]
OGPL Staff Christmas 2009, originally uploaded by OakGroveLibrary. Oak Grove Public Library writes: Santa Claus came to the library on Thursday, December 03 and everybody had a chance to take a picture with him!