SA400448 Originally uploaded by testdriverone. Thanks to Guus Van Den Brekel for getting this pic of Jenny and I..I am still stinging from the loss of all of my pictures! If anyone took any in the session or at any Ticer events, please e-mail me!
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Jenny blogs about our travels here. Last week, I joined Jenny Levine for a trip to Holland and the Ticer Digital Libraries à la Carte: New Choices for the Future program. We taught a day-long hands on workshop. Jenny covered blogs and RSS in the am and I took the participants through IM in the afternoon. I tried something a bit different this time. Taking a cue from our Web 2.0 discussions, Learning 2.0 initiatives, and such, I offered the group what I called an “immersive, experiential and playful” exercise in using IM and thinking about IM in libraries. I […]
Via one of my lists, a scary tale from a library user on how we present ourselves to the public: The next day I gave the library a ring. That’s when things got weird. According to the nice lady at the circulation desk, I checked out the book in April, 2006. “But I haven’t been to your library in a decade,” I told her. “I don’t even live in Queens anymore!” I asked her the title. It turned out to be a children’s book, written in Spanish: El Hombre Que Aprendio a Ladrar Y Otros Cuentos. I don’t speak Spanish, […]
Day One at Dominican Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Greetings from my new office in Lewis Hall! Things are well here — the campus is bustling like I’ve never seen (having only taught weekends) and the folks in GSLIS are incredible. Yesterday, I attended Convocation and spent some time meeting and greeting. Today, more of the same. My heartfelt thanks to all who have emailed or IMed to ask how things were going as this transition continues.
Academic Library 2.0 Concept Model Detailed Originally uploaded by habibmi. Checkout Michael Habib’s diagram of Academic Library 2.0. I am fascinated by this — even more so now that I am on campus.
Jessamyn blogs her recent visit to the Chicago-based Newberry Library: guard: “Do you have some RESEARCH you’d like to do?” (clearly the emphais on the word, to me, implies “hey dumbass, it’s the most obvious password in the book. Here, I’m giving it to you”) me: “No, I just wanted to look at the reading room, but I think I’ll go home instead.” I really try to not use this space to complain about customer service incidents unless I think they can somehow be useful teaching tools, but I just was floored here. I had done my homework and read […]
Meta shot Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. Sadly, a string events, and my own human error, resulted in the loss of my camera — and all the picturtes from the trip — as well as my Sidekick 3 during our trip to Holland. I was corresponding with a few folks via the phone address at tmail.com so please write to me at mstephens @ mac.com!
WooooHoooo! http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/08/27/davids-new-job/ David reports: I have accepted a new job! Starting in October, I will be the Digital Branch & Services Manager (read the job ad, if you’re interested) at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. I’ll be in charge of all things digital – including the website (and building a new, extremely cool library 2.0 site – stay tuned on that one) and the IT department. What did I like about this job? Listen to this: ” … lead a lighly skilled cross-disciplined staff in using new technologies to translate traditional library services into a digital, Library 2.0 […]
Don’t miss: http://blogaboutlibraries.com/2006/08/signs_17.html and Michael Sauers’ Library Signage group at Flickr! I’m glad to see so much discussion about signs and the stories they tell — and the excellent examples of good signs showing up at Flickr! Take a look at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtisrogers/223146313/ as well! Update: Don’t miss Steve lawson’s “Shiny Happy Signs!”
L2 Motivation Originally uploaded by Muggie42. Well done!