Via Nancy K, SJCPL’s Coordinator of Info Tech (who gets it big time!): This makes me sad. An article at the IndyStar notes how poorly Indiana fares in a study of how we stack up with other states in a “technology report card.” It seems Indiana has not progressed in tech start ups, graduating scientists and the tech economy in general http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005511020478 We rank rather low in some categories and actually dropped in a few. What do we need? The article says we need more science and math graduates, more technology in schools (that’s used) and a focus on information/tech […]
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An open letter to everyone who spoke, attended and blogged the Public Libraries Track at Internet Librarian 2005: Thank you all for contributing to the track and its success. I was pleased to see so many folks attend and ask questions. I appreciate the energy in the room, the flashes going off when speakers posed with attendees, the hoots and hollers, the level of comfort the room had and the applause for the folks that got up to speak. I hope we can do it again next year in Monterey. mark your calendars: October 23-25, 2006! Special Thanks to the […]
It’s always good to read a piece called “Futurists Pick Top Tech trends” and apply the trends to how libraries and librarians might change. Take a look at this article in WIRED: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,69138,00.html?tw=rss.GAD The trends: Simplicity Mobile Socialization R.I.P. Combustion Engine? Going Green IT Revolution of 2006 Devices will become simpler to use, possibly without the extra features that gum up gadgets like remotes and handhelds. With that, we’ll come to use or phones more for information, finding friends geographically (“who’s nearby?”) and voice recognition will make tasks easier. We’d better really get a grip on the mobile devices in […]
Finally – after months of reading, pondering, creating the actual survey in Zope, passing the Institutional Review Board application process, some anxious e-mails to my advisor Dr. Brian O’Connor at UNT and some wide-eyed and awake nights thinking, here is my preliminary research project survey! Please, if you are an MLS, in library school, or working at a library and blogging, take the survey! I know there have been other surveys and investigations of the Biblioblogosphere but please consider contributing to this one as well. It will lay the foundation for my further research — and — gasp! — dissertation! […]
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/monkiineko/index.html Try the 105 image movie and you will see Libraryman’s image as well as my submission to Infinite Flickr!
Libraries (and any bureaucracy) are excellent at planning and preparing ? we often prepare and plan for years ? but when those plans are put into place and executed we have a tendency to walk away without performing constant follow-up… I think that what we need to remember is that Library 1.0 is a restrictive place, governed by strict hierarchies, rigid boundaries, and underpinned by change-avoidance. Perhaps this is sufficient — knowing what we are wanting to move away from and where we want to go. The mechanism that is Library 2.0 will assist us in this journey. Michael Casey […]
Finally things have calmed down. Here goes a long overdue summary of what I took home from Monterey. #1 Public Librarians Rule I had high hopes for the track when we got the go ahead from Jane to put it together. I am super-pleased with the feedback I’ve received. (and send more if you haven’t…) There was such energy in the room… so, one thing I learned is the folks that work at PLS really seem to be interested in new technologies and serving their users. Public Librarians rule because they care about their users and their buildings and the […]
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Via LIS DOM and Meredith: There aren’t many places in the world where you can get by–get ahead, if you want to think of it that way–simply on the strength of your ideas and your willingness to express them. The biblioblogosphere turns out to be one of those places. I’m immensely grateful for that. I haven’t been blogging much lately–the whole life trumps blogging thing that many have experienced–but I still dip in and sometimes dive in to this wonderful set of waterways that all of you have built. One way or another, I plan to keep on tumbling through […]
Screen capture set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/1245962/ So far, I’ve purchased some shows and videos and changed a couple of iMovies to iPod format. It’s fascinating. Last night, I snuggled in bed with two dogs and the Night Stalker! Who would have thunk that? Here’s a review by Edward Baig at USAToday: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2005-10-19-video-ipod_x.htm?csp=34