At TechSource this week, I ponder the 2.0 Job and charge libraries and library schools to look at their offerings! http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/on-the-20-job-description-part-1.html
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Christine Brown at Waterloo Public Library writes: I thought you might be interested in reading this job posting for a Librarian 2.0 at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library: http://www.accessola.com/site/showPage.cgi?page=career/graduate/jG0324_kfplL.html From what I’ve read and observed on my own, I would guess that the use of Web 2.0 technologies in libraries has been embraced more readily in academic libraries. Its great to see that public libraries are recognizing the need. It is! We can add this to the Next Generation Librarian job at Wayne State and the School Media Specialist 2.0 Jenny reported. It’s intriguing to see what specific job duties […]
…that you were Dreaming “This next generation will challenge libraries in ways undreamt of today…” Stephen Abram & Judy Luther “Born with the Chip” Library Journal, May 2004 I’m pulling together some slides for a talk on “Web 2.0 Changing Reference Services” I’m presenting to a SLIS class tonight, and the above quote jumped out at me from a PPT I did for a staff retreat back in’04!
Nice post from Don Yarman who works in Ohio: http://yarmando.blogspot.com/2006/02/librarian-20.html Especially this bit about iTunes: If I ran a library, I would be looking to see what I could do with this. Not just following the Shifted Librarian’s suggestion to buy some iPod shuffles to circulate. How about a public iTunes download station? Let library users set up their ‘pods on the station and download a title or two to their own devices? The library could even rip their own CD’s to the public iTunes station. Look, you know that iPod owners check out the CD’s and rip them to […]
Via my UNT cohort colleague Margaret Lincoln comes this notice about a writing opportunity! Dear Librarian: Would you like to be included in Librarians Beyond the Circ Desk: Innovative Librarianship on how you became a blogger, book reviewer, software developer, web administrator or other complimentary activities furthering librarianship? Libraries Unlimited, Scarecrow, Neal-Schuman, Linworth, and McFarland are interested. Contributions from public, school, academic, special librarians–one 1250 word article or two articles each 1250 words, are invited. Those sending two articles (both accepted) will receive a free book as payment. Each “how-to” article will showcase the creativity of contemporary U.S. librarians. For […]
Some folks have e-mailed wondering if my job was opening. I really don’t know but right now SJCPL has two, count em, two Reference services jobs open, including Assistant Manager! http://old.sjcpl.org/databases/jobs/
Two synchronous bits: From the IM survey, which I guess should have included more open ended questions, as noted in some of the comments I’ve received. This is good to know and maybe the next go round, I’ll have more of that open, qualitative type inquiry. I still have 2000+ qualitative replies from the Blog People survey! Anyway: It is cool to open up IM and see exactly who among my colleagues is on it at the time. I must confess I notice that a few of my colleagues set up account but never ever use them, which I think […]
Please take just a few moments to complete this little survey about librarians and IM. I’m doing some background work for a brief talk at Computers in Libraries 2006 as well as collecting some data for my upcoming Library Technology Report “Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software.” I’m interested to see how many librarians are using IM at their desks to commiunicate with colleagues and as a reference point. Click here to take survey Thanks! 🙂
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 […]
Take a look at this incredible day-long workshop at Metropolitan Library System. I know where I will be! The chance to hear Abram, Alane and the Superpatron on one all-star bill is just too cool! What do we know about how users perceive and use libraries? How can we expand our understanding of user perceptions in order to design responsive library services? JOIN Stephen Abram (SIRSI/Dynix), Alane Wilson (OCLC), and Ed Vielmetti (SuperPatron) in this day of learning and exploration of library user perceptions and expectations. Hope to see you there!