http://www.libraryloft.org/ Cleck the link above or check it out at the Library Loft myspace page! This is an excellent example of involving teens, using new technologies and building community. What is YOUR library doing with teens and technology?
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http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2006/06/20/jenny_and_alas_excellent_adventure.html Congratulations to Jenny Levine on her new job at the American Library Association!! What an incredible thing: Jenny quotes the job description: “Knowledge of 2.0 technologies and concepts. Ability to work in a complex organizational environment. Strong communication ability (written and verbal). Comfort with rapid prototyping….” Who would have thought just 8 or so months ago when the discussions of social tools and L2 were ramping up that by Summer 2006 ALA would be advertising for someone to utilize 2.0 technologies and work in an environment of rapid prototyping? And who would have guessed that one of the most […]
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/06/19/yahoo-opens-im-to-developers/ Just some linkage for the IM category of TTW!
David Warlick posts about Hitchhikr: It’s a conference aggregator for lack of a better phrase. You’ll see two lists of conferences in the panel to the right. The top list includes conferences that will be happening in the next month (in red), conferences that have already happened in the last month (gray), and any conferences that are currently going on (blue). The longer list beneath includes all of the conferences that have been registered on hitchhikr. They are sorted by popularity. You can click any conference to receive its report. Reports include a brief description, submitted by the person who […]
The Full Set of Our Librarian Trading Cards Originally uploaded by Pegasus Librarian. Jenny & Steven have already mentioned this but I just have to chime in and comment on how wonderful it is to take this online thing and make it a physical extension as well: putting a face on the library. Folks, any library can do this! Think of the possibilities for outreach to your community of users! Collect them all! Rock On Gould Library! UPDATE from Iris: Thanks Michael. 🙂 One note of clarification: these cards have been around since before the “online thing.” Every year since […]
This little fact snuck it’s way this week onto Michael Casey’s About Page at Library Crunch: He’s also the Division Director of Technology Services for the Gwinnett County Public Library. WoooHoo! Congrats to Michael for moving up from Branch Manager to Division Director of Technology! I have been knocked out by the caliber of the posts at Library Crunch since last fall, Michael’s work opening the new branch at Gwinnett and his thoughts on technology planning, creating new services and user-centric libraries. What a perfect position to move into! I am also happy to report Michael and I will be […]
Michael Stephens’ OPAL presentation, SL cam Originally uploaded by informationgoddess29. A few folks listened to the talks in Second Life! These are the added links from discussion that came up during the four presentations I gave on Thursday and Friday for OPAL. We had great groups both days. I really appreciate the folks at OPAL setting it up! It was also available in Second Life! Here are the presentations: http://www.opal-online.org/Stephens200606blogs.htm http://www.opal-online.org/Stephens200606IM.htm http://www.opal-online.org/Stephens200606socialsoft.htm http://www.opal-online.org/Stephens200606buyin.htm Here are the extra links from discussion: Weblogs: http://www.opal-online.org/Stephens200606photo2.jpg Amanda Etches Johnson’s Wiki of Library Weblogs: http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links Great resource and clearinghouse of all types of Biblioblogs! Jenkins […]
To bury the grape tendril in such a way that it shoots out new growth I recognize easily as a metaphor for the way life must change from time to time if we are to go forward in our thinking. Frances Mayes Under the Tuscan Sun (For everyone on the brink of change, or in the thick of it all….)
David Warlick posts: MySpace now has 72 million users. That is larger than the populations of 213 countries. Perhaps we could deal with the social online networks thing if we thought of it for what it is — MyNation. This is their digital nation. They are citizens, and they’ve never been taught digital civics. (see the post for notes) Might librarians also be thinking about teaching digital civics? I think so!
Via the American Libraries Direct Newsletter: http://blog.marketingprofs.com/2006/06/w_why_blog_post_frequency_does.html Daily posts are a legacy of a Web 1.0 mindset and early Web 2.0 days (meaning 12 months ago!). The pressure around posting frequency will ultimately become a significant barrier to the maturity of blogging. Here are 10 reasons why…..