(David said I could call the post that!) http://www.davidleeking.com/ Take a look at David King’s snazzy new blog, complete with categories and such! WooHoo! My favoriter category right now is the postings devoted to the Experience Economy. Give it a read at http://www.davidleeking.com/category/experience-economy/ I’m reminded of the first time I met David — Bob Lewandowskli and I timidly approached him outsdide of XandO (now Cosi) in Dupont Circle at CIL 2004. I just had to say “You Rock” to him about his take on library web sites.
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Great posts about the L2 discussion from two of my all time favorite voices of the biblioblogosphere: http://scanblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-stephen-said.html http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/archives/2006/02/the_library_20_1.html Alane writes: Stephen Abram has written a long post, The Library 2.0 ‘Bandwagon’, in which he suggests in what concrete ways Lib2.0 would be different from Lib1.0. If you’re feeling woolly-headed about Lib2.0, read Stephen’s take on it. What he said. “The users are moving into the control position. Libraries are no longer able to drive the good bus ‘library’ alone.” I am pretty sure that when libraries’ systems and services are more transparent and accessible to users, and so may […]
Take a gander! One of the Web Resources is our own Karen Schneider! Bibliobloggers Rule! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5235518
Via e-mail today: I envision the library as a focal social and information center that plays a strong role within the daily lives of individuals. We are not there yet, but if enough people believe in themselves, libraries, and society — i think we can get there.
Just a link for now: http://www.yalibrarian.com/2006/02/library-20-services-to-teens-listing.html Lots of cool stuff to explore and good ground for imagining what your library could do! Take a look.
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Thanks to everyone who commented on the Reinvention post, sent e-mails and posted flickr pictures tagged just so! — it really touched me. I appreciate your thoughtfulness! I have 2.5 more days at work at SJCPL and then I’m off to the next chapter.
http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/02/20/authority-in-the-age-of-the-amateur/ A thoughtful piece at Infotangle discusses authority of Weblogs. Ellyssa Kroski ponders, for example, how we might judge the usefulness and authority of a Weblog: Identity of the Author – Seek out the identity and credentials of the author. Be wary of anonymous bloggers. Accuracy – Is the information presented accurate? Currency – Is the blog up-to-date or outdated? Endorsements – Use sites such as Technorati and Google Blog Search to see what people are saying about a particular blog or article. Technorati recently added an “authority” slider to their search feature which allows users to narrow their results […]
A TTW reader/librarian who wishes to remain anonymous sends this image: And a brief note: “It depresses me how little we think of our users sometimes.”
Beyond all of our technobabble in the Biblioblogosphere, which dear friends you know I love, is a voice so pure that I’m more often than not moved by the words. I get chills. This voice shares exactly what it’s like in many public libraries today — working reference and interacting with people. There is absolutely nothing I could have said to her that would have made any difference at that point. Something personal would have been completely inappropriate and unprofessional, not to mention obviously unwanted. In Reference Interview seminars, we are taught to end with, “Does this answer your question? […]