What does it mean when two influential and well-spoken Library futurists incorporate the same cartoon in their presentations about libraries and librarians? I think it means we need to look at how we make decisions and the plans we put in place. Click to see it: Image from The New Yorker by Rox Chast Both Stephen Abram, at CPL Scholars in Residence, and Geroge Needham, at the Gaming Symposium, used this cartoon in their talks. It resonates with me because I believe it’s true: do we worry too much about our services and plans that things take FOREVER to get […]
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I’ll be at the Gaming Learning & Libraries Symposium this week. If you’re attending say hi and don’t miss the meet up Jenny has organized. http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/12/02/gaming_in_libraries_symposium_prenotes.html
Thanks to all who took my LIS Bloggers survey. I collected roughly 250 responses from Bibliobloggers from all over the world. So far, the results are very interesting! The questions about why we blog, community and the use of social tools yielded some intriguing data. Watch for more here as I mess with it. One thing that rattled me at first and then seemed so incredibly right, was Steve Lawson’s post about my survey, where he copied his answers out of the survey and into a blog post. Pondering with Dr. O’Connor down at UNT over a great cup of […]
Michael speaking to 6000 class Originally uploaded by pelicanwind.
I am teaching again next semester at Dominican! WooHoo! It will be over three weekends in February, March and April. Here’s the class description: LIS 753 INTERNET FUNDAMENTALS AND DESIGN An introduction to the fundamentals of the Internet, including its origins, evolution, architecture, current issues, and future. Students will gain a basic understanding about Web content languages, Web site management, and design/usability principles. Students will also be introduced to the fundamentals of telecommunications and networking with examples drawn from the Internet. Critical Internet issues such as search engine limitations, security, privacy, copyright, governance, and other related topics will also be […]
Hi, while I’m moving some things around here there may be some changes. If you’re looking for my old home page, it’s here for now.
Greetings! I am off to Texas tomorrow at 6am for a whirlwind stay. I’m presenting in Dr. O’Connor’s SLIS 6000 class tomorrow night and chit chatting with some faculty about my research. I’ll be writing again in a few days!
Congrats to my cohort colleague Mary Jo Venetis! She and dr. Maurice whheler have published “Evaluation of Web access to historical sheet music collections and music?related iconography” online! http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/wheeler/index.html
I’m working a lot this week as well as getting ready for three weeks of conferences. TTW posts will be a tad slower. More in a bit…
I’m at Dominican University this weekend for the first sessions of my class. We meet from 9am-5pm today and tomorrow. I’m nervous, excited and tickled at how stressfree the morning has been so far: up at 4am, on road at 6am…in Chicago by 7:45am… in the classroom..the technology works…the students are arriving… here we go…