Benjamin Wheal writes: To celebrate the demise of the video collection and the now unchallenged reign of the DVD, staff felt that the remaining videos must go out with a bang. One weekend staff came in on their own time to film the final stand of the video in a giant domino train throughout the library space as a fitting homage to their service. May the videos now rest in peace. Long live the VHS! The video was filmed earlier this year in Tea Tree Gully, South Australia, and in the Library here we’re all very proud of our effort […]
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I have a new post up at ALA Techsource – an interview with the National Library of Australia’s Paul Hagon: http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2010/05/mash-ups-mobiles-a-conversation-with-paul-hagon.html Paul discusses his take on making library collections available in some very unique ways: It’s been less than 2 years since the iPhone (via the appstore) became a viable interface. We now have the iPad. Internet enabled TV’s are just starting to appear. We are interacting with these using gestures rather than through a textual interface. Imagine if your TV had gesture recognition & you interacted with it by waving your arms about, smiling for yes and frowning for […]
Yesterday I gave two talks at the 2010 Reaching Forward conference, a meeting for staff from all sorts of Illinois libraries. Here are the slides: Reaching Forward 2010: Technology Planning View more presentations from Michael Stephens. Reaching Forward 2010: Hyperlinked Services for Young People View more presentations from Michael Stephens. Thanks to everyone who attended!
Frameworks, originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Brilliant!
i control what I share, originally uploaded by cogdogblog.
Library Trading Card #1: Keith, originally uploaded by scampion. Steve Campion writes: ROCK ON! This is the first in what I expect to be a series of library staff trading cards. I hope to post more trading cards gradually over the next many months, each spotlighting a different person on our staff in some unique way. For this one, I want to thank Keith for his enthusiastic willingness to participate. This set grew out of two different photo project ideas I’ve had in mind for the library’s StaffWeb and my Flickr page for a long time. And the idea of […]
Glimpses of the future of libraries in Finland: http://www.walkingpaper.org/2790 My colleague Aaron Schmidt reports from his time spent in helsinki working with the Gates Foundation at the 2010 Global Libraries Peer Learning Meeting. Take a look at this: “The libraries I saw have overcome their addiction to circulating content. Now they’re all about doing, making, publishing, working, and experiences revolving around content. People are still getting print books and CDs for the library, sure, but other stuff seems more important. Here’s a little report…” Later: “It is impossible for library patrons and staff to sit on opposite side of a […]
sign_nofooddrink2, originally uploaded by bowmanlibrary. Remember this post from July 2006: Ten Signs I Hope I Never See in Libraries Again Take a look at this: (via Liz Danforth on Twitter) Passive Aggressive Library Signs Some are obviously created by students (graduate students?? says one commenter) but some of them are real. It baffles my mind how we still tape up these angry, mean-spirited signs in places that should be as welcoming as possible.
From Michael – This is a reprint of a column originally published last year in Digitale Biblioteek. It was very nice to finally meet Jan in person at UGUL10. Jan: Hi Michael, I’ve read your long and rich Ten ways to encourage the tribe blogpost from the 17th of May. I think every librarian should read your story about how libraries and librarians can engage in and connect tribes or communities of shared interest. In this post you mention several important sources of inspiration, such as Peter Block, Howard Rheingold and Seth Godin. You also named the book The Cluetrain […]