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Greetings from Willowbrook, Illinois! I’m here for Metropolitan Library System’s Patron Day: Who Are These People & What Do They Want? Transforming User Perceptions of Libraries Today, I’ll get to hear Stephen Abram, VP of Innovation at SirsiDynix, on his extensive research on “library user personas;” based on thousands of user profiles, this research creates “types” or “personas” that stand for specific characteristics, behaviors, and characteristics of library users; Alane Wilson, Senior Library Market Consultant, OCLC, on the significant findings in the recent OCLC report “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources;” and Ed Vielmetti, creator of the SuperPatron blog and […]
Cluetrain Manifesto #95: We are waking up and linking to each other. We are watching. But we are not waiting. I honestly laughed out loud at this comment at FRL concerning another ALA kerfuffle about conference meetings being posted online: In an effort to establish its street cred as a hip organization, ALA is going to an all-flash mob scheduling process. 30 minutes before the meeting, they’ll send a bulletin to all their myspace.com friends telling them where to show up. Thomas Dowling This too: I laughed first when I read the post, again when I read the messages on […]
Steve Wilson (corrected! Thanks Steve Lawson!) creates a Squidoo Lens: http://www.squidoo.com/EasyL2/ This lens is meant to augment a presentation I’ll be giving at the Broward County Library Reference Forum on May 9. It’s supposed to be a one-stop shop for bringing yourself up to speed on Library 2.0. Just click away on the links lists and have fun! Great work Steve!
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Running Around the Room Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. What a great crowd! We promised our handouts and some useful links would go up here: HANDOUT: http://www.tametheweb.com/presentations/LevineStephensTLA.pdf Get started with a free Blogger Blog here! The Cluetrain Library 2.0 Reading List Second Life Library 2.0
Posting from the incredible Texas Library association conference, which I’ll write about soon, but here’s a comment about the NJLA post that must be brought up top. Thanks Sophie! Michael, wow! And thanks for blogging a photo from NJLA’s photostream! The NJ Library Association is now blogging, and to kick off the blog’s unveiling, we blogged this week’s annual conference. Actually, conference blogging is continuing for the next week. We have 4 constant bloggers and 4 event bloggers. (I’m the blog manager.) Podcasting at the conference was a huge, huge hit — over 50 people recorded podcasts on Tuesday, and […]
Before I head out for Texas, one more link: http://www.blyberg.net/2006/04/25/overcoming-the-tech-deficit-and-helping-others-to/ Blyberg blows me away yet again with a well-reasoned essay about libraries that are “tech-depressed.” Give it a read! One of my favorite bits (of many!): Long-term planning I was interested to hear from one individual at Library Camp who was in the middle of a strategic planning initiative. I was thrilled by the fact that she had come to the event as a way to help her hash out some of the ideas she and her institution were working with as they plugged away at their planning. Radical new […]
Via Michael Casey in an IM: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57634636@N00/ Mrs. Cassidy has a flickr account! She must be an elementary teacher somewhere and realized that she could share class images. No details are given so it’s impossible to tell where this class is. But parents can most probably subscribe and see what their kids are up to!
My Avatar In between writing my proposal and Library Technology Report, I’ve spent a bit of time visiting the Second Life Library 2.0. It’s fascinating. My avatar, Stephen Mandelbrot, stumbled around looking for the library until two of my fellow bibliobloggers assisted me. Anyway, it’s surely something to be aware of, and pay special attention to things such as this: From Helene Blowers: Teen Services in SLL2 – Through the RSSvine this morning, I stumbled across this exciting development regarding Second Life – Library 2.0 … my own library (PLCMC) is getting involved and has just recently taken up the […]