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!
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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 […]
This little fact snuck it’s way this week onto Michael Casey’s About Page at Library Crunch: He’s also the Division Director of Technology Services for the Gwinnett County Public Library. WoooHoo! Congrats to Michael for moving up from Branch Manager to Division Director of Technology! I have been knocked out by the caliber of the posts at Library Crunch since last fall, Michael’s work opening the new branch at Gwinnett and his thoughts on technology planning, creating new services and user-centric libraries. What a perfect position to move into! I am also happy to report Michael and I will be […]
To bury the grape tendril in such a way that it shoots out new growth I recognize easily as a metaphor for the way life must change from time to time if we are to go forward in our thinking. Frances Mayes Under the Tuscan Sun (For everyone on the brink of change, or in the thick of it all….)
“This course was so popular, we had to move to a larger room, and there still weren’t enough seats.” So cool to see reports from Jenny Levine’s RSS presentation yesterday at SLA in Baltimore! This morning I’m writing my acknowledgements for my forthcoming Library Technology Report and I realized how much she has inspired me and countless other librarians, including the 50 folks in the ALA library 2.0 Exploration! Yes, we’ve done over 28 presentations so far this year, together or apart, and I wouldn’t have missed a single minute! Well Done Jenny! Thank you! Update: More coverage from the […]
Via Michael Casey’s photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/166106405 Gwinnett library board fires director By DUANE D. STANFORD The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 06/13/06 The Gwinnett County Library Board fired its executive director of 15 years Monday night, enraging a crowd of patrons who wanted her to keep her job. Sparking cries of “Incompetent!” and “Fire the Board!” from the audience, three of the library board’s five members voted to oust director Jo Ann Pinder without cause. The panel’s majority also used a parliamentary procedure to block the board’s only dissenting member, Brett Taylor, from speaking on the motion. Phyllis Oxendine, who sponsored the […]