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Dominican Commencement, January 12, 2008 Originally uploaded by mstephens7 An overdue post! Congrats to all of our winter graduates at Dominican University!
Dear South Bend Tribune: I received your letter today asking for more information as to why I canceled my subscription last week. Your letter included a brief questionnaire asking why I stopped the paper and how the customer service was when I called to cancel. Yes, I called to cancel, because I couldn’t find a way to do so online. You might want to make that an option. I canceled not only because the papers were piling up week to week and sometimes went right into the recycling bin, but also because I realized I was reading only […]
http://liblime.com/news-items/press-releases/nicole-c-engard-joins-liblime/ “Nicole’s passion for open source is inspiring,” says Joshua Ferraro, CEO of LibLime. “We’re excited to have Nicole fill this critical role of Open Source Evangelist, increasing awareness and facilitating education about open source in both the physical and virtual library communities.” “I honestly believe the future of libraries is in open source,” says Nicole. “Libraries are at a pivotal point – things are changing rapidly around them – among them the traditional software and service models. Open Source software and the companies that support these packages allow libraries a freedom that they haven’t had in years. It is […]
Welcome! TTW is now brought to you via WordPress! Thanks to Mr. Blake Carver, a gentleman and a scholar, for all of the assistance porting over the content and such to the new software. I feel like I’ve died and gone to WYSIWYG heaven! Please update your feed readers, RSS portals, aggregators, etc to these new and improved Feedburner feeds, including a comment feed: New Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TameTheWeb Comment Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForTameTheWeb I’d also like to welcome Kyle Jones and Lee Leblanc who will be contributing content from time to time. Find out more about them here: http://tametheweb.com/ttw-contributors/ Lee authored a popular […]
I started Internet training at the St. Joseph County Public Library the same year Jake came to live with me as a 10 month pup. The family that owned him was growing as well, and there was no room for a big Lab puppy with 3 kids and one on the way. So Jake came to Mishawaka and soon found his way into my staff and public classes at SJCPL — nope, Jake never actually made it into the library (although one day he almost did when the Administrators were all off somewhere and we stopped by, but Jake stayed […]
A special holiday Thank You to all who helped me on this year’s journeys: the PhD, the loss of Jake and Charlie, and the travel/presentations. Without the comments, emails, cards, letters and phone calls from my colleagues and friends scattered across our cyber world, the road would have been even harder. This season please be well…hold family and friends close..and breathe. TTW will be back in a few days with a new look! (yes, finally, WordPress!)
Stephen Abram points to the Dec. 2007 issue of Trendwatching offering their top 8 consumer trends for 2008. 1. Status Spheres 2. Premiumization 3. Snack Culture 4. Online Oxygen 5. Eco-Iconic 6. Brand Butlers 7. MIY – Make It Yourself 8. Crowd Mining Great stuff to be mined by library staff, as Stephen points out, and by LIS students. We did our trendspotting exercise last night, and the workgroups pointed to such trends as ubiquitous handheld devices, green libraries, and microblogging.
Lee & Michael, Apple Store, Coconut Point, Estero, Florida Originally uploaded by mstephens7 Thanks to Mr. Lee Leblanc for driving me around southwest Florida for my talk at the Florida Council of State University Libraries/College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) Executive Board/Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) Board Meeting at Florida Gulf Coast University. Lee is a MLIS student at FSU – and he inspires me. http://bibliodox.blogspot.com/
Detained…questioned…irked… Originally uploaded by mstephens7 Read the whole sordid tale here. We really need to market LIS as a profession… especially to TSA agents!