http://feelgoodlibrarian.typepad.com/feelgood_librarian/ Some people think anonymous blogging is lame. It’s the only way I know how to protect myself, my library and the poor patrons whose stories I tell here. But I am telling you now, there is nothing anonymous about this to me. That’s why I’m reading this one, to emphasize that I have a voice, I have a body, I am an individual person. This is me, sharing my personal experiences, receiving your feedback. There is nothing anonymous about walking through this life knowing that I – me, this little person in this little life – I – am […]
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Via Jenimi: Chris Harris on “Five Reasons Not to Blog:” http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6430167.html 1. “I want to give them a piece of my mind!” 2. “Oh, the stories I could tell.” 3. “I think I can find some time at school…” 4. “Nobody will find out that it’s me.” 5. “It’s OK, I will keep it private.”
http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleid=CA6430408 Jessamyn weighs in on preserving our digital history, especially blogs: Librarians get it: the content we steward is shifting from print to digital. Our libraries require more hard drive space in addition to more shelf space. Patrons need to know how to click and type as well as how to read. And, yet, what of posterity? How will our paths and trackings through the digital realm be accumulated, organized, even archived? This question becomes further complicated by the webby-ness of our online interactions and content production. Content is still being generated in static letter, essay, and book formats, but […]
Leonard Kniffel responds to Brian Kenney’s editorial I blogged about here. “What Have You Done for Me Lately?” The first thing I did after reading Kenney’s article was to look at the March 2007 issue with these objections in mind. March was the issue, after all, that made some school librarians go ballistic because there were no school-librarian bloggers interviewed for the cover feature. In the ALA news section, there were: “Target to Sponsor El Dia de los Ninos,” “School Libraries Count! Survey Begins,” “Army Librarian Creates Story Time Program,” and a piece about children’s author Ilene Cooper winning the […]
This was on the wall as part of the ground rules in the large meeting room for the RRS Comnference. Works for me! 🙂 http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org Yesterday I spoke at the Rethinking Resource Sharing Conference outside of Chicago. This group is doing some darn cool stuff and their Web page sums up their goal nicely: Creating a new global service framework that allows individuals to obtain what they want based on factors such as cost, time, format, and delivery. This framework will encompass promoting and exposing library services in a variety of environments. I stayed to see a presentation about their […]
The crisis in library systems arose because the people who build them and those who pay for them couldn’t imagine them in any other way. Open, remixable systems will allow patrons of tomorrow the opportunity to build the information solutions we can’t now imagine. http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11614/#usability-findability-and-remixability-especially-remixability I’m keynoting the Rethinking Resource Sharing Conference this morning just outside of Chicago. I’ll be using the quote above to illustrate how important it is to look toward sharing and opening our data. Please read Casey Bisson’s excellent post about the the usability, findability ans remixability of our content.
Jessica down at Williamsburg Regional Library writes to let me know they’ve launched their Blogging for a Good Book blog to augment the library’s Looking for a Good Book readers’ service. From the About page: Read a new review every day, Monday through Friday! The staff of the Williamsburg Regional Library in Virginia bring you short reviews of books, movies, and more! Launched in April of 2007, Blogging for a Good Book is the newest facet of the Looking for a Good Book readers’ service. A different staff member picks favorite reviews for each different week. Subscribe to our RSS […]
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/03/the-pragmatic-biblioblogger.html This post at ALA techSource a few weeks ago illustrates what will probably become the model for my dissertation. I was trying it out there and since then it’s been cooking in my brain. Try this on for size, as will I, by putting it out here: The Pragmatic Biblioblogger Model describes multiple types of librarians who share similar desires: to comment, to connect, to create community. The pragmatic biblioblogger model describes a librarian who authors a professionally-focused blog beyond the scope of their job to constantly find, share and offer advice to others in the LIS profession. Constantly […]
Via Will Richardson: Edubloggercon2007–This first-ever, international, one-of-a-kind “meetup” of educational bloggers will take place on Saturday, June 23rd, at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta just before the start of NECC. All are invited–whether you yourself blog, are just an educational blog reader, or even just want to hang out with an interesting group of people. The event is free, and you can indicate that you are coming (and see who else will be there) at the Edubloggercon wiki. This event will be unique in that it is going to be organized by the participants in real time at […]
Brian Kenney weighs in on the recent bloggers article in the March issue of American Libraries: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6430153.htmlM I don’t envy Leonard Kniffel’s job at all. AL has a huge array of issues to cover and serves many different constituencies, all of whom, I bet, are screaming for more ink. And I cringe at the idea of someone performing a similar analysis of SLJ’s content (yes, we are way overdue on a feature about middle schools). But the truth is, in AL, libraries mean public libraries, youth is code for children’s and young adult services, and students refer to college students. […]