With Christiane & Nils, originally uploaded by mstephens7. I spent less than 24 hours in Hamburg – but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the good folks there. Christiane and Nils were my guides for the day, including a brief tour around the beautiful historic city. We had a wonderful luncheon with folks from the university library, including Markus, Ulrike & Anne: I presented “The Hyperlinked Community Library” that day at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg. The Hyperlinked Community Library View more presentations from Michael Stephens.
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I’m a bit behind with Thank You messages and shout outs – so here goes! Thanks to everyone who made my stay in Geneva, Switzerland so wonderful! I was sponsored by the good folks at the US Mission Geneva for two days of touring and presentations/discussions. During my brief stay, I spoke with members of AILIS, Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists, and led a discussion among social media practitioners from the private sector, consultancies, international organizations and the press. We also toured CERN and the UN Library. Thanks to everyone at the UN LIbrary as well for being so […]
PLA 2010-DM2 068, originally uploaded by Library Journal.
This Week in Libraries #2: Aat Vos (architect) from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo. Check out this new venture from our friends in Holland.
Presentations that ROCK!, originally uploaded by _Marianne. Take a look: http://mlxperience.blogspot.com/2010/03/presentations-that-rock.html I really appreciate the points about telling your story and gathering support. The best presentations synthesize current thinking and discourse shared via passionate, unique story.
This post was written by Kasia Grabowska for last semester’s LIS 768: Library 2.0 & Networking Technologies class. Kasia has allowed me to repost it here. After doing brand monitoring research for the past few weeks, looking closely at Skokie Public Library (and not so closely at several other libraries), I decided to put together a list of “do’s and don’ts” for librarians on successfully utilizing social media. This is what I learned from doing brand monitoring and what I personally would recommend to libraries that are getting started with social media. Tip #1: Learn how to monitor your brand Join the RIGHT […]
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/online_education_and_blogging Joshua Kim writes: The best preparation I received for blogging was teaching online. One of the most important elements for running a successful online course involves presence. The instructor must be “present” in the course discussion boards and blogs. Teaching online gave me tons of practice in writing rapid, hopefully thought provoking, discussion and blog posts around the curriculum and the student’s work. Much has been written about how teaching online can improve on-ground teaching. I’d add comfort with blogging to the benefits online learning. Is the ability to quickly produce prose that (at least sometimes) may interest a […]
Via John Schumacher on Twitter comers this opinion piece from Oregon Live: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/03/shhh_its_a_library_not_the_cor.html Ellen Hansen writes about her love of quiet and the lack of it in her library: (emphasis is mine) No, my full wrath is reserved for library-quiet abusers. When did the library turn into the local coffee shop? One man comes into our library and sets up as if it’s his own, private office space. That’s fine, if you’re reading, writing or even typing on your computer nonstop. But his work entails talking on the phone nonstop, for hours on end. Others conduct education tutorials or hours-long […]
It’s easy for any library to have a social media presence these days. Translating that into success with serving a teen population? Well, that’s another thing… Be Yourself The discussion of personal and professional profiles always comes up. I didn’t want to have two profiles (done it before, hated it) so I had to make a decision: add teens to my own accounts or hide myself far, far away. I went with what some may consider to be the unpopular route. I added them to my own accounts. I feel like it has made a world of difference. I am […]
Guten Abend nach Berlin! The talk at the US Embassy went well – what a great group. Tomorrow: StammTisch. See you there.