Chris Deweese listens to Moby and gets reflective in a great post at Clam Chowder. He discusses how important buy in is for technology projects, especially administrative buy in! One thing I can tell you is that I had (have) a director that supported and encouraged my creativity and staff that understand the value of the web. I think you could have all the talent in the world, but if you don’t have the support of people you work with and if they are not on board with where you want to go, then your talent will not reach it’s […]
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http://www.alise.org/conferences/2006_Conference/2006_keynote.html The Difference that Inquiry Makes: Fostering a Scholarship of Teaching and a Culture of Learning Bass spoke to a an audience of library and information science educators about how education is changing. He showed a video a student made on civil rights (content creation!) and discussed what learning came from it. I finally had to say “Amen” at the end! Educators should ask: “what happens if I try this a whole new way?” We should be teaching for understanding. Understanding = flexible performance capability We should strive to educate flexible professionals.
June 2004 – First Weekend Institute January 2006 – ALISE Conference, last scheduled cohort meeting
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/01/on-the-l2-train.html I’d suggest that librarians not shut themselves off to the discussions taking place. “Library 2.0″ may be a buzz word, but it’s not a weightless one. There is actual work and intelligent discussion that accompanies it. L2 is certainly not about exclusion—quite the opposite. You will do yourself and your organization a great disservice is you embed yourself in a semantic quagmire.
Photo By Mike Pullin, University of North Texas SLIS Photoset at Flickr
Michael Casey and I weigh in on the ongoing discussions of Library 2.0 and call for the next wave: stepping stones to best practice and more. http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/01/better-library-services-for-more-people.html The next few steps, after all this discussion—and after the dust has settled from some virtual sparring—should manifest in the form of “stepping-stones”: let’s move from discussion only to developing and implementing best practices for Web 2.0 tools, to “How-we-did-it-and-did-it-good” case studies, and to empirically based discussions about our “We-tried-it-and-it-failed” lessons. And let’s keep looking for the best ways to serve our users, wherever they are.
Greetings from San Antonio & the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)Conference! We gathered last night at the Omni Hotel. Today we are prepping our posters, which were printed for us at UNT, having a group lunch, and finding our way around this conference. We set up posters at 5:30pm and the Works in Progress Session and Reception starts at 6pm. I have my poster, cards, handout, and a bibliography for interested folks.
Karen weighs in on Top Tech trends for 2006 and I must say: read this one and discuss. It’s a doozy for bringing up what we will face this year and what technology trends will impact our services. Thanks Karen! http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/top_technology_trends_2006.php
I sent this off to UNT a few weeks ago and it was printed in its 20X30 full size. On Monday in San Antonio, we will tack the posters to foamcore and stand by them for an hour and discuss our research with interested folks. I have a handout and business cards as well. I’ll wrte about after the session. This is totally new territory for me!
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/01/ministore/index.php?lsrc=mwrss In this new version of iTunes, the main window displays the Ministore. When I lick on Fleetwood Mac’s “Goodbye Baby” it displays info about the CD the song is on, links to reviews and more offerings from FM and other similar bands that I might like. This feature can easily be disabled but this irked some folks — their listening habits were being sent without their knowledge to Apple to make the correct info display in the Ministore. How many times have you listened to that same sad song, over and over again, in the deep dark, middle of […]