Take a look: http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/11/14/single-greatest-point-of-value-from-blogging/ Thanks for the pointer David Lee King!
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First of the original ten cohort members to finish the degree! Well done!
A shout out to Jennifer Graham and her blog “jennimi” on her one year anniversary of blogging. http://jennimi.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/one-year-and-then-some/ It’s been an interesting endeavor. Sometimes it sucks me in and I have to leave for awhile to get things done. Sometimes I absolutely love it. But always I am cognizant of the fact that I am, in my tiny tiny lower case j way, participating in the web’s creation, not just observing or reacting to it. I also have begun to see how this process allows librarians to reach out to more people with our knowledge, curiosity, problem solving urges, welcoming […]
I don’t say it enough! Blake is the MAN for working so hard to keep TTW and the other hosted sites, blogs and wikis going at good ole LISHost, which turns 4 today! Thanks Blake! http://lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/01/1719209
One of the respondents of the OCLC perceptions survey urged libraries to look at ways to deliver books by mail. That person needs to move to Topeka and Shawnee! From the Superpatron: David Lee King writes in his article The Missing Piece of the Library Netflix Model Previously, I have posted a little about Netflix and how libraries could use the model in a similar way (mainly riffing off Michael Porter’s great posts about Netflix). And then I switched jobs. And guess what? In my first two weeks at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, I kept hearing things about […]
“To the librarian I once overheard saying, “It is my personal duty to make sure we have no typos on anything!” I must say: Don’t miss the forest for the trees, Dear Lady. Typos can be corrected, especially online, and focusing too much on those little details may lead to missing the big picture. You’re the one that staff may be e-mailing about, while they wait to launch the new wiki, you are still proofing the proposal for the wiki! A nimble organization can move quickly if not mired in proofing, re-proofing, and proofing one more time a policy change, […]
ALA Editions vs. TechSource Originally uploaded by ALA staff. You know Jenny is in the house when the ALA folk are DDRing.
Thought-provoking and insightful article at Educause. http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp Policy Disconnects Drawing a clear line between technology and policy can be difficult. For example, how many of the characteristics of current libraries (identified by the list below) are driven purely by technology or by policy? These traits include: Mainly electronic text-based collections with multimedia content noticeably absent Constructed for individual use but requires users to learn from experts how to access and use information and services Library presence usually “outside” the main online place for student activity (MySpace, iTunes, Facebook, the campus portal, or learning management system) Note that comments are enabled, […]
Goodness but I love numbered lists! Are you starting your library blog? Take a look at: http://www.avivadirectory.com/successful-blog-launch/ A fave: 2. Don’t get seen naked: Never launch a blog with fewer than 5 posts. In the blogosphere you typically get just one shot at impressing a visitor or fellow blogger. Too many new bloggers throw up two posts and then start working on promotion. In the world of blogging, you are selling yourself and your writing. If you can’t give people a fully dressed picture of what your blog is all about and what type of writing will be on it, […]
bookwall Originally uploaded by acpl. ACPL is on FIRE folks! http://acplinfo.blogspot.com/2006/11/remember-browsing.html Ian writes: Allen County Public Library has recently launched a Web feature that casts browsing in a whole new light. Sean Robinson, head of IT Services at ACPL, created a mashup of book covers and information for the books cataloged at ACPL yesterday. This is the new browsing: http://blog.acpl.lib.in.us/amzamash/book_wall.php Check it out!