Michael Casey’s latest thoughtful post resonates deeply with me: http://www.librarycrunch.com/2006/02/evolutionary_technology_and_th.html So when my group, the Emerging Technologies Team, sat down to examine the current and future technology landscape, we quickly came to the realization that while there are some wonderful new things that can be put into our plan, few of them are actually new technologies. Most are modifications or improvements on existing technology. All of this leads me to believe that technology, at least right now, is in an evolutionary phase, whereas only two or three years ago we were still in a revolutionary time period where new ideas […]
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You can listen to the 49 minute discussion, and read about future similar podcasts here: http://talk.talis.com/archives/2006/02/introducing_the.html
Here’s the good news: I am gathering all my data, presentations and evidence to send to Dr. O’Connor for my “qualifying experience” at UNT. š Next up: writing the porposal for my dissertation. Here’s a bit from a favorite researcher that is helping my thinking: Nancy Van House : http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse/projects.htm#blogs Avid topical bloggers see blogging as a transformative technology for building and maintaining an intellectual community, and doing individual and collaborative knowledge work. I’m interested in how blogging may be transforming the work of knowledge communities. Blogging gives us a place to watch how participants cope with the decontextualized world […]
God Bless Luke Rosenberger, who attended my SirsiDynix Webinar last week and sent a comment about the charts. He has helped me manipulate some of the mountain iof data with Excel skills that blow me away. He wrote: If I remember the survey correctly, you allowed respondents to choose multiple answers for that question….I think you should keep your “n” constant — always comparing your data against the number of respondents. So perhaps for this question, a bar graph would be a more helpful mode of presentation.. Heck yeah! So here’s a link to some more data, presented in spiffy […]
I’m sad with all the excitement this week I couldn’t zip right back to River Forest, IL for the Dominican University Second Annual Follett Lecture, presented last night by Ed Valauskas. The title: The Googlization of Libraries: Debunking the Internet Godzilla Myth. Some students and colleagues were there last night, and here are some of their reports: Natalie, one of my students from last semster, reports at Who Moved my Library: (I love that name!) Libraries do have an uphill battle when it comes to public perception that everything is “Free” on the internet. I agree with Ed that dismissing […]
Check in at Blyberg.net for a candid and most transparent reflection on the ILS and this paragraph, that hopefully will send a message to III and others: Librarians and coders are not just going to timidly wait for little features anymore. We want control of our systems. Maybe Iām feeling the fatigue that sets in after months of subverting the intended use of our system, but quite frankly, I hold little hope that our vendor will decide to pursue a strategy that champions community dev. In fact, during a recent visit to AADL, we were told by a top III […]
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Wouldn’t that be a great dissertation? Anyway: Don’t miss making your own Simpsons likeness to staff the SPL! Thanks to two Micahels: Sauers for turning me on to the Simpsonmaker and Casey for starting the POOL.
Friday, March 3, 2006, “Conversation, Community, Connections, and Collaboration: Practical, New Technologies for User-centered Services” Social Software & Libraries Workshop with Jenny Levine, Metropolitan Library System, Burr Ridge, IL. Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Computers in Libraries Preconference Workshops: Morning Session: “Teaching the Internet” with D. Scott Brandt, Afternoon Session: Technology Planning for 21st Century Libraries. Saturday, March 25, 2006, Public Library Association, “Community Building Through Your Web Site: Library Blogs and RSS Feeds” with Jenny Levine, Boston, MA Wedensday March 29, 2006 “The Blogger’s Toolkit Workshop,” Joint Conference of the Kentucky Library Association Academic and Special Sections and the KY-SLA […]
Hey folks! CIL 2006 is just around the corner! I know the scheduling of both CIL and PLA at the same time is so unfortunate but for those attending either or both conferences, there’s some fun to be had in DC this March. I’ve attended this conference since 2000 and it’s always lively and energizing. This year, I’m teaching a couple of workshops: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Computers in Libraries Preconference Workshops: Morning Session: “Teaching the Internet” with D. Scott Brandt, Afternoon Session: Technology Planning for 21st Century Libraries. Wednesday I’m moderating Steven Cohen’s Communities track and at press time […]