Categories Presentations

January 20, 2010: “Creative Collaboration and Immersive Engagement: The Hyperlinked Campus,” EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas. January 26, 2010: “Ten Trends & Technologies for 2010,” Education Institute, online program. February 11, 2010: “Measuring the Effect & Impact of Learning 2.0 Programmes in Australian Libraries,” with Warren Cheetham & Richard Sayers, VALA 2010, Melbourne, Australia. (Skype) Switzerland & Germany: March 8, 2010: Geneva: Program with AILIS librarians and tour of CERN March 9, 2010: Geneva: Tour of UN Library & program with senior librarians, followed by program at US Mission. March 10, 2010: Hamburg: The Hyperlinked Community Library at the Hamburg […]

A big shout out to everyone at OPPL for making their staff inservice day such fun – and invigorating. I was also honored to present the staff day with my colleagues Drs. Karen Brown & Kate Marek. Their take on transforming library service was a perfect fit with my Hyperlinked Library model. The interactive exercises they did got all us of thinking! The slides are here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/TransformingOPPL.pdf

I have one more local speaking engagement before Holiday Break – and it’s going to be fun! Next Friday, I’ll be joining my Dominican colleagues Dr. Karen Brown and Dr. Kate Marek for a staff institute with the staff of the Oak Park Public Library. We’ve designed an interactive 4+ hour workshop around transforming library service, emerging trends and dealing with change/transition. I am especially excited to see my colleagues present their “Drop Your Tools” material. If you’re an OPPL staff member and you read TTW, please say HI. And a shout out to the good folks at OPPL for […]

Before my trip to Darien, I got to spend a wonderful day with the good folks at Rutgers University School of Communication & Information. I presented the Fall 2009 lecture for the Beta Phi Mu, International Library and Information Studies Honor Society Omicron Chapter at the SC&I that evening, preceded by a reception. Students as well as local librarians attended. One thing I did with this talk was tap into the wisdom of part of my own personal learning network. Polling my Twitter followers for sage advice yielded some interesting and useful conversation starters. Read about it at ALA TechSource: […]

A huge thank you to all the wonderful folks who attended my plenary session this morning at the Charleston Conference 2009. I was a tad sleep-deprived, but the excitement and interest of the crowd made the talk and our discussion – which continued to the coffee break – very engaging. The slides are here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/HyperlinkedServiceCharleston.pdf Checkout the Twitter hashtag here: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23chsconf09

I am very happy to be speaking at Rutgers in a couple of weeks. If you attend, please say hello! Beta Phi Mu, International Library and Information Studies Honor Society, Omicron Chapter Presents its 2009 Fall Lecture “Building the Hyperlinked Library” By Michael Stephens, Ph.D. Thursday, November 19, 2009 Alexander Library, Pane Room, 1st Floor 7:00 PM Reception, followed by Lecture at 7:30 Contacts: Melissa Hofmann: mhofmann@rider.edu Marie Radford: mradford@rutgers.edu

Thanks to everyone who attended the keynote. I’m rushing off to my next session but I wanted to take advantage of the wifi an upload the presentation. The slides are here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/239835/HyperlinkedSchoolLibASLA.pdf

I had a great time yesterday in Richmond. The discussion section was incredible. As I told the group, I learned so much that I can take back to the classroom from these 100+ public library directors from all across the state! Thanks Virginia! Download the slides as a PDF here.

I had a great time at the MOBIUS Conference in the Lake of the Ozarks region of Missouri. My keynote was Tuesday night, followed by a rocking Dessert and Beverage reception. It was a very nice event. Thanks to all who attended and to all who chatted with me at the conference and around the Tan-Tar-A Resort. The slides are here: https://tametheweb.com/hyperlinkedlibrary/HyperlinkedMOBIUS.pdf