Greetings! I am heading North today, not to TC, but to Minnesota and five presentations in five cities in five days! I’ll be reporting from the road and posting pictures at Flickr. I am really excited to meet a bunch of Minnesota librarians. If you are attending any of the session, please say HI! http://www.selco.lib.mn.us/apps/training/courseDescription.cfm?courseID=10226
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(Michael stumbles around in the Library…) http://secondlifelibrary.blogspot.com/2006/05/introduction-to-alliance-second-life.html Alliance Library System/OPAL will provide an introduction to the Alliance Second Life Library 2.0 in the OPAL auditorium on Wednesday, May 31, at 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Speakers will include Greg Schwartz, Tom Peters, Lori Bell, Kelly Czarnecki, Jami Lynn Schwarzwalder, and other librarians involved in the project. They will explain what they are doing, show you what is happening and answer questions about the project. Book discussions, training sessions, and other programs are currently being offered to current virtual residents. The goal of the project is to promote the real library […]
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2006/05/11/and_if_the_state_librarian_is_doing_it.html
….you can’t get to ALA soon enough! At LISNews, Blake points to Karen’s post and says: Some interesting comments including one from David King who sums up my reason for not being part of ALA: “Honestly, one of the reasons I’m not a member of ALA is because of people like Gorman.” Check out the Librarian in Black’s thoughts and the comments as well: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/05/michael_gorman_.html Steve Lawson too: http://library.coloradocollege.edu/steve/archives/2006/05/barbaric_yawp.html
Check out Meredith’s hot post on Social Software: http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/05/10/libraries-in-social-networking-software/ Thanks Meredith!
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/2006/04/are-usb-drives-security-risk.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/144297435/
Asks Michael Casey at LibraryCrunch: http://www.librarycrunch.com/2006/05/spine_labels_and_dedeweficatio.html Michael addresses some interesting points. I’m fascinated by his thoughs on stickers and labels. Do we really need all the stickers we put on materials? How many colored dots, labels and barcodes does one item need? I’ll be interested to watch the discussions about classification play out. I’d still like to somehow see the library’s collection represented as a Tag Cloud that would show us the way to the materials we want.
http://library2.0.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/5/9/1944906.html I just posted this at the ALA L2 Blog: As we close our week of discussion about Librarian 2.0, let me ask you to ponder this: Cluetrain Manifesto Theses 53, 54, 55 There are two conversations going on. One inside the company. One with the market.In most cases, neither conversation is going very well. Almost invariably, the cause of failure can be traced to obsolete notions of command and control.As policy, these notions are poisonous. As tools, they are broken. Command and control are met with hostility by intranetworked knowledge workers and generate distrust in internetworked markets. I think […]
I posted this yesterday at our ALA L2 Blog: http://library2.0.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/5/6/1936772.html One point here about radical trust: I think letting go of silos in our libraries has a lot to do with embracing radicat trust (RT). How often do we see branches, departments, units, subject areas etc that exist as their own little kingdom? These are silos. We need to share — and share freely without worrying that someone may outshine us for a second or some other location will get all the glory –across a flatter organizational structure.
WOW! http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6330767.html Although not a librarian himself, Vielmetti has a patron’s appreciation for libraries—actually he’s more of a superpatron, which happens to be the name of his blog (vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron), launched in December 2005. “It’s written from the point of view of a library patron, rather than librarians,” he says. “I felt that there were things librarians may not see if they sit behind a desk that you can when you walk through the door.” I’ll say it again: Every library needs a superpatron! How do we make sure we are fostering them?