Library Camp East is tomorrow in Darien, CT! http://wiki.library2.net/index.php/Library_Camp_East_2006 I wish I could be there! I hope the day goes well and I’ll be watching for blog posts, Flickr pics and more! Have a great day everyone!
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Have something to say about social software in libraries? Submit a proposal: http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/cfp/ HOT URL too! The planning committee (Michelle Boule, Karen Coombs, Amanda Etches-Johnson, Meredith Farkas, Ellyssa Kroski, Dorothea Salo), a group of phenomenal librarians, are waiting to hear from you!
Jenny and Stephen in Columbia, SC Originally uploaded by Michael Casey. The day begins!
Talis has announced the winners of the Mashup competition. Congrats to AADL’s John Blyberg (a powerhouse of L2 goodness) for first place and to the Second Life Library 2.0 for second! Read Teresa Koltzenberg’s post at ALA TechSource here and Jenny Levine’s post here.
Meta shot Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. Sadly, a string events, and my own human error, resulted in the loss of my camera — and all the picturtes from the trip — as well as my Sidekick 3 during our trip to Holland. I was corresponding with a few folks via the phone address at tmail.com so please write to me at mstephens @ mac.com!
WooooHoooo! http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/08/27/davids-new-job/ David reports: I have accepted a new job! Starting in October, I will be the Digital Branch & Services Manager (read the job ad, if you’re interested) at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. I’ll be in charge of all things digital – including the website (and building a new, extremely cool library 2.0 site – stay tuned on that one) and the IT department. What did I like about this job? Listen to this: ” … lead a lighly skilled cross-disciplined staff in using new technologies to translate traditional library services into a digital, Library 2.0 […]
Pete and Michael Originally uploaded by South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative. SJRLC Blog & RSS Workshops Peter really blew me away with his work on the ALA l2 course! Remember the L2 Manifesto? http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2006/05/thoughts-on-ala-bootcamp-l20-manifesto.html? Today I go to work with Peter, who is an incredible trainer, writer and library thinker in his own right, and a group of 40 or so librarians from South Jersey! What an incredible time!
Library Garden gets Tamed and Shifted Originally uploaded by janielianne. Post Roadshow in Princeton, NJ with Library Garden authors Amy, Robert and Janie!
Michael Stephens is a frequent speaker at library conferences around the world, he was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2005. He has been the keynote speaker at many conferences, including the Iowa Library Association Conference, Ohio Tech Connections, the Rethinking Resource Sharing Conference, the Mississippi Library 2.0 Summit (Mississippi State University), and the Ohio Library Council. He also spoke at Internet Librarian International in London in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and at the August 2006 TICER Innovation Institute at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. He serves on the editorial boards of several major journals, including Internet […]
Holding an MLS from Indiana University, Michael Stephens has spent the last fifteen years working in public libraries. Beginning in the fall of 2006, Michael will be joining the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, as an Instructor. He is a student in the University of North Texas IMLS Distance Independent Information Science Ph.D. Cohort Program, studying libraries, librarians, and social software. He is currently writing his dissertation. He has presented at library conferences locally, nationally, and internationally, has published with Neal-Schuman Inc.and has written for Public Libraries, Library Journal, the OCLC Newsletter […]