http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6330755.html Congrats to Chris for a great article. I was lucky enough to get Chris to talk with my for ALATechSource a few months ago. I’m pleased to see that School Library Journal is getting Chris’ thoughts out there. And checkout his article on MySpace. Digitally re-shifting your school library is about harnessing the power of new ideas like Web 2.0 to help fulfill the mission of school libraries. It does not necessarily mean discarding the old, but rather reconsidering what works best in meeting new challenges in a changing educational world. It’s all a part of helping students become […]
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Via LibraryGarden: “Leslie is oh so 2.0!” Leslie is Flickr-ing! Winter 2006 046 Originally uploaded by lburger1951. This brought back some nice memoires of our lunch with Leslie! And don’t miss news about the Blogger’s Bash at ALA NOLA!
Fascinating reading at “What I learned Today…” http://www.web2learning.net/archives/332 This was posted on our Intranet by our head of Technical Services: This year during the ILUG @ AALL (July 2006). There will be discussion on the State of the Innovative System. I would like to get your thoughts and present them during this discussion. Things that will be discussed are: How has Millennium worked in your institution? What has it helped? What problems has it raised? Where does the Innovative system fit into the IT environment of your institution? … From the standpoint of you and your institution, where do you […]
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/05/which_users_lif.html Who in your company gets the emails/stories from your users? Too often the good stories are routed to PR/Marketing (the success stories that make for good testimonials) while the rest of us (programmers, customer service, etc.) get all the complaint emails. Yes, we like hearing about how great our product is, especially when we did the work. But it’s the stories about how the company/product/service/cause has changed someone’s life–that matter to those of us doing the actual work. And sometimes the way a user’s life is changed is not at all what we’d expect. Let me tell you a […]
http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/04/library-staff-and-technology-buy-in.html My earlier posts point out the observation that companies that have successfully adopted disruptive technologies did so only when they created a separate organization to deal with the technology. The idea of a group within the library being organized and responsible for investigating emerging and disruptive technology issues fits into the pattern of companies that successfully managed their innovation. The goal of this organization should be to play around with technology and to participate in rapid prototyping, not to create anything practical or plan for implementation. The focus should be on learning and discovery, not action. Think technology group […]
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Just a pointer and a note: http://blog.njla.org/ File this under how to do it GOOD for state level library associations!
Jenny and I are preparing for our ALA L2 Opening Session. Here’s a cornerstone of our talk: Radical trust is about trusting the community. We know that abuse can happen, but we trust (radically) that the community and participation will work. In the real world, we know that vandalism happens but we still put art and sculpture up in our parks. As a online community we come up with safeguards or mechanisms that help keep open contribution and participation working. Darlene Fichter http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side/2006/04/web-2.html
“Policy is anxiety avoidance.” Kathryn Deiss, Patron day, MLS This statement really resonates with me. It leads me to questions about how user-centric our libraries are: Are we avoiding contact with users be creating layers and layers of policy? Are we not turning comments on our public blogs because we might actually get comments? This has been a great day of discussion and thought! More in a bit!
http://www.seattlest.com/archives/2006/05/02/all_the_news.php A photo from our tour of SPL was included at www.seattlest.com. No comments about the picture yet… Apparently all the headphones for loan at the Mixing Chamber are gone, so these signs went up.