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IMG_0216 Originally uploaded by National Library of New Zealand http://librarytechnz.natlib.govt.nz/2007/09/in-2017-libraries-will-be.html What began as a small campaign to encourage people to visit the National Library’s trade exhibit area has since gone global, so I thought I’d use our own blog to wrap some context around the cards that have blown out of the drawer and all over the Net.

September 21, 2007. The Hyperlinked Library. New York Public Library staff presentation. October 5, 2007, Featured Speaker, Top Technology Trends, Nevada Library Association, Carson City, Nevada October 10, 2007. Keynote, Illinois Library Association, Springfield, Illinois October 29-31, 2007, Internet Librarian, Monterey, California. Public Libraries Track with Jenny Levine and a super HOT lineup of speakers! November 2, 2007. Schaumburg Public Library Staff In Service Day, Schaumburg, Illinois. November 10-11, 2007. Hawaii Library Association, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Kauai: Opening General Session: Ten Top Technologies & Ideas to Improve Library Productivity, Session: Working Better in a 2.0 World: Discovery & Play Discussion […]

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Michael Stephens, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in Illinois. He spent over fifteen years working in public libraries while developing a passion for technology. His publications include The Library Internet Trainer’s Toolkit, two ALA Library Technology Reports on Web 2.0, a monthly column with Michael Casey in Library Journal, and a host of articles. Michael also maintains the popular blog Tame the Web. He received an IMLS doctoral fellowship at the University of North Texas, was named a Library Journal “Mover and Shaker,” and recently joined the Dominican faculty. […]

From Brian Kenney’s editorial in SLJ this month: The message that has come through on blogs and discussion boards is loud and clear: we librarians know what’s best. Yes, before we build a branch we do our demographic research. If more families are moving into the neighborhood, we expand the children’s room. If local immigration patterns indicate a need, we purchase more Spanish or Chinese materials. But actually sit down with neighborhood residents and ask them what they want? I don’t think so. Keep Dewey or kill it? There are pros and cons to each approach, and what works in […]

  We received flowers from Amanda, Lyle, and the Mississippi State University Librarians for Charlie’s passing. I can’t thank you all — and everyone who has commented, emailed, IMed — for your caring and understanding at this trying time. Thank you.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118340075827155554.html Fascinating article that features Jessamyn West, Sarah Houghton-Jan, Karen Schneider and Michael Casey and other librarians weighing in on Maricopa County’s Perry Branch Library that opened without using Dewey to organize the collection. I heart this: “We may want people to spend hours learning our arcane systems, but the reality is they’re going to default to the path of least resistance,” PubLib’s Ms. Schneider said. “We need to be in that path.” Oh yes we do! But it’s what’s missing from the library that has drawn the most attention: Perry abandoned the Dewey Decimal Classification System for its books, […]

Charles Bone 1998-2007 Originally uploaded by mstephens7