The deadline to propose a talk at Internet Librarian International is March 31st. Have you pondered presenting in London? It’s a great conference! http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml/
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Good reading at ALA Techsource: http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/the-monster-mashup.html I think I need to say that THIS is OVERDUE! It may be time for our profession to seriously reconsider the value of the traditional conference, where a conference planning committee asks for conference proposals twelve to eighteen months in advance of the conference. How can library and information conferences—gatherings, happenings, bashes, mashupcamps—better aid and abet quality growth in the library and information science ecosystem? I feel the urge to utter a manifesto coming on: A conference should try to actually foster and facilitate the discipline, movement, or ecosystem it represents. It should be […]
Nice post from Don Yarman who works in Ohio: http://yarmando.blogspot.com/2006/02/librarian-20.html Especially this bit about iTunes: If I ran a library, I would be looking to see what I could do with this. Not just following the Shifted Librarian’s suggestion to buy some iPod shuffles to circulate. How about a public iTunes download station? Let library users set up their ‘pods on the station and download a title or two to their own devices? The library could even rip their own CD’s to the public iTunes station. Look, you know that iPod owners check out the CD’s and rip them to […]
Wowza! Libby at SJCPL does a nice twist on the Meme of Four and relates it to what the library offers. Check it out and adapt it for your library blog! http://www.libraryforlife.org/blogs/lifeline/?p=527 Let me know if you do! Update: The LiB reports: I did this for our library blog a while back and tagged other library blogs, though to my knowledge none of them picked it up: http://marincountyfreelibrary.blogspot.com/archives/2006_02_01_marincountyfreelibrary_archive.html#113891940102245290
Congratulations to Sarah – ourLibrarian in Black – who just got a new job! http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/03/walking_in_the_.html WoooHooo!
I have a new post at TechSource, with some fascinating comments by Mary Ghikas from ALA: http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/02/on-change-library-20-and-ala.html Jenny and I will be with the ALA folks this afternoon for a special “Association 2.0” version of the Roadshow. And Jessamyn reports about the ALA Council Facebook! Woohoo!
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The SirsiDynix discussion The 2.0 Meme – Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarian 2.0 is now available. I was really blown away by Stephen Abram, Michael Casey and John Blyberg. I was honored to join these fellowings and chat around a virtual rountable about 2.0 discussions. The chat about mash ups and user created content really got me thinking. Abram asked us to give a quick overview of our L2 thinking to start. I made some brief notes to prepare, which included this: The principles of Library 2.0 seeks to break down barriers: barriers librarians have placed on services, barriers of […]
Organizational charts worked in an older economy where plans could be fully understood from atop steep management pyramids and detailed work orders could be handed down from on high. Today, the org chart is hyperlinked, not hierarchical. Respect for hands-on knowledge wins over respect for abstract authority.
http://web2.wsj2.com/thinking_in_web_20_sixteen_ways.htm Dion Hinchcliffe writes: So, in this vein, I took my own studies of Web 2.0 as well as many raw inputs as I could find and came up with a roughly structured list of how to “think” in terms of Web 2.0 ideas. Let me know what you think and as always add your own in the comments below. Let’s create a really terrific guide for those who are just discovering this fascinating and useful study of the next generation of online software. The list and his points are incredible and can be most useful for guiding libraries into […]