October 2006 London 386 Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. These are the follows from the public library in Delft that are doing some most cool things with video: http://tametheweb.com/2006/10/videocasting_at_delft_pl.html They’ve been taping interviews with librarians, snippets of the sessions and spreading the good word about user-generated content.
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Internet Librarian International 2006: London, England Originally uploaded by mstephens7. It was standing room only in this mornings Web 2.0/Library 2.0 Session featuring Phil Bradley, Brian Kelly, and Paul Miller. I moderated the lively hour of L2 discussion and insights. My favorite slide was Phil Bradley’s, in response to all the discussion about semantics and buzzwords. It simply said: “I don’t care” I LOLed and Phil proceeded to detail how the web and how libraries are changing, as did the other esteemed folks. Jenny blogged the entire session here: http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2006/10/16/20061016_ili_setting_the_stage_for_20.html More later…must sleep. We have another full day of conference […]
England, October 2006 Originally uploaded by mstephens7. A day of touring before Internet librarian International begins lead us to Stonehenge, Salisbury and a most enjoyable day taking in the sites! Today: we teach a pre-conference workshop!
Day Seven: Walking London’s Southwark & City Originally uploaded by mstephens7. I’m on my way to Iowa this morning to do a workshop and keynote presentation for the Iowa Library Association. Then, I zip right back to O’Hare and join Jenny to fly to London for Internet Librarian International. I’m looking forward to meeting librarians in Council Bluffs and on the other side of the pond. Please say “hi” if you are attending! More from my travels as time and connection allow.
Fun with Richard Petty @ the Liberty Public Library! Originally uploaded by Asheboro Public Library. Nice use of Flickr….click through and check out some images from Asheboro Public Library.
Jaap van de Geer, Delft Public Library (www.dok.info) and blogger at www.oblog.nl reports on his library’s work with videocasting. A recent trip to Ireland/Dublin/Trinity College for a music festival was not only a great experience but an opportunity to create some videocasts for the library Web site at http://www.dok.info, see the bottom right of the page. He reported via email: “We also organized an amazing summercamp. That video is also online (no dutch, pure expressions), the response of the kids and their parents was heartwarming. I think videocasting is a tool we should use much much more to appeal to […]
Joshua Zehner, Assistant System Administrator at the Fulton County Public Library in Rochester, IN, writes: Hey, I was surfing you flickr account and I found those pictures from Cherry Hill Public Library in NJ. I was really interested in the three or four photos of their “Listen Before You Borrow” station. Our library would love to do this expect there is one issue my boss has with it, copyrights. Is it legal to rip your collection onto a pc for everyone to listen to, but yet allow those same CD’s to be checked out at the same time? We would […]
Do you believe it? Lost on the train in Holland — at the end of the line no less, somehow the camera and phone disappeared in but were then turned in 2 weeks later. I received letters from the Dutch authorities, and passed them on to Rob Coers who had the items sent to his place in Holland. (It was easier than wiring over $100 have them shipped to me) I will get them from Rob when we meet in London in just a few days! Thanks Rob! The photo card has all the Holland trip pictures on it! Hooray!
I just finished up an hour talk on technology trends for the folks at the LIANZA meeting in Wellington. I was chatting with the audience via VoIP from my office on campus at Dominican. I shot some photos with the MacBook Pro as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/264394325/ I’m fascinated by the fact that Timothy Grieg was taking pictures and within an hour had them up on Flickr, so I could see what the room and the projection looked like. The world seems very small when we can meet and chat across distance and time. I also added Timothy as a contact, favorited […]
Are Libraries limited, obsolete? I don’t think so… Into my email box, from Nathan Rinne, Media Cataloging Technician at the Educational Service Center in Maple Grove, MN, comes a link to an opinion piece in the Lawrence, Kansas paper: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/oct/02/libraries_are_limited_obsolete/ I’ll quote a bit of it here, as author Mark Hirschey urges readers not to want a new downtown library because everything is online and young people aren’t using libraries. He offers three points: 1. Libraries are inefficient. Like me, kids seek fast, convenient access to up-to-date information. That’s available on the Internet. In this new information age, libraries are […]