More good blogging news from Battle Creek, MI. The local Battle Creek Enquirer did a nice article about how the Gerda Weissmann Klein blog is connecting both students and senior citizens who will have the opportunity to hear this extraordinary Holocaust survivor on April 16 in Battle Creek, Michigan. http://battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070327/NEWS01/703270315/1002/NEWS01 Phyllis Rice, Chris LeFils and Esther Smith have been discussing Klein’s 1957 book, “All But My Life,” on an online blog with high school students. “Part of the goal of the class, which is about the Holocaust and World War II, is to understand where people of different generations are […]
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Michael Casey and I have some good news. We’ll be writing a monthly column in Library Journal starting next week. It’s called “The Transparent Library”, a title we like a lot. We’ll be applying some of our thinking and inspiration to organizational culture and libraries, with a slant towards technology as well. We’re very happy to be in LJ because each month the columns will be made freely available on web for easy linking. Here’s just a bit from the first one: The cultural and social shift we’ve observed, highlighted by Wade Roush’s idea of continuous computing and the advent […]
Via http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/03/25/finding_time_at_penn_state.html: Jenny posts: Otherwise known as “losing time at Penn State” trying to use the library’s online resources. What a great illustration of the barriers our users face, and not just at Penn State or at academic libraries. This is the video Ellysa Stern Cahoy showed during the Next Gen Librarians panel at last week’s CIC Conference.
Love it! And thanks to Nicole for tagging me. Allow me to add 5 blogs I read beyond the Biblioblogosphere, skipping over trashy celebrity gossip blogs I just might glance at..on occassion…sometimes… The Copy Blogger: http://www.copyblogger.com/ Insights, tips and “how to’s” for making your blog a standout. Great stuff for librarians writing blog posts for their libraries to consider. The Church of the Customer Blog: http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/blog/ Customer evangelists. Companies on the Cluetrain. This blog is fascinating. It was here I found out about the Kohl’s kerfuffle that I use in tech trend talks. A useful blog that can get readers […]
remoteImage.jpg Originally uploaded by heyjudegallery. Via HeyJude…. fascinating stuff. http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2007/03/a_problem_with_blogs.php If you are blogging with your students, or you are thinking of blogging with your students, I encourage you to not think of blogs as a writing assignment, but instead to look at them as conversations. Conversations that can give you both feedback about a lesson, or continue a conversation well after a lesson has ended. Blogging brings a new dimension to the classroom. You cannot blog and not change the structure of your classroom. Two great examples of this are Mark Ahlness and Clarence Fisher, both of whom have […]
Mills Learning Commons is an active, student-centered learning space that integrates traditional and emerging scholarly resources, information technology, expert help, instruction, and collaborative and individual study space. Congratulations to the folks at Mills Library at McMaster University for winning the McMaster Student Union’s Rudy Heinzl Award of Excellence for their redesigned Learning Commons. Read all about it at the library blog, including this: It is especially gratifying to receive this award since it comes from the students themselves. I visited the library and walked through the commons when I was on campus in January and it was ALIVE with students […]
I am more aware of the role of academic libraries with students and faculty in my first year at Dominican. The Rebecca Crown Library serves our GSLIS students and the whole Dominican community of students, faculty and staff. I am fascinated to see how the library is used, what my students say about it and if they use it at all. Frankly, many GSLIS students use a closer-to-them library or their own library where they work. This year, I’ve toured a few academic libraries, given talks in them and discussed services with their librarians. It makes me happy to see […]
Great piece by Andrew Pace: http://blogs.ala.org/pace.php?title=all_sirsidynix_roads_lead_to_rome Golden Opportunity? SirsiDynix sounds sincere about its direction. I spoke to several principals, including Martin Taylor, John Dixon, Berit Nelson, and Tom Gates—they seem confident in this road to Rome. I am going to reserve the bulk of my judgment for a few months. But I also wonder how this might be playing out in Rome, Georgia. As many a blogger and library developer has said, the release of the open source Evergreen System by the Georgia PINES group has the potential to change the library automation landscape. “Salivating” was the word I used […]
2 shelves, 5 months, 40 books Originally uploaded by scampion. Steve from Pierce County Library used this Flickr photo to illustrate all the books he reviewed for the blog Mostly NF! This interactive photo is my way of celebrating the 40 books I’ve reviewed in the Mostly NF book blog on my library’s website these last five months. Gathering all the books again for a group shot seemed appropriate for the milestone. Click any book in the picture. I hope you have enjoyed reading ‘Mostly NF’ these last 5 months (and now listening to the podcasts!). I’ve always loved to […]
Dave Pattern posts a cryptic message on his blog: Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you that something major is about to happen, but you really don’t want to repeat it because it might not be true and you’d just be spreading unfounded gossip. But, then again, it’s so absolutely huuuuuuge that you can’t find a hat big enough to keep it under? Anyway, something may (or may not) be about to happen that could rock your world. Let’s sit back, fasten our seatbelts, and see what happens in the next 48 hours in LibraryLand… And he tags […]