Greetings from O’Hare and my Sidekick 3. Jenny Levine and I leave in just a few hours for the Netherlands to present at the University of Tilburg TICER Library 2.0 event. Armed with iPod, digicam and a travel guide, I am sans MacBook Pro, so I’ll return top blogging and email in 8 days! Have a good week!
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In just a couple of weeks, Jenny Levine and I head to The Netherlands for the Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources institute!Here’s some info for participants in my session: Where Our Users Are: Instant Messaging for Libraries – Michael Stephens (Module 2: Hands-on: Library 2.0 Technologies to Reach out to the Customer) This workshop explores and explains instant messaging in the library setting, including software, training and policy. Ample hands on exercises will give participants a true feel of what launching an IM Reference service at their libraries involves. We’ll discuss implementation strategies, best practices and the possible pitfalls […]
Greetings from Mississippi State University! http://library.msstate.edu/content/templates/?a=1092 I’m listening to T. Scott Plutchak, Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, open the program with his keynote. I’m here to talk about social tools and such. It’s been a whirlwind visit to Mississippi but it’s been great! Dinner last night was filled with great conversation, including T. Scott and I discussing trust in libraries. Read his thoughts here.
Friday, July 14, 2006. Emerging Technologies in Libraries, Mississippi State University Libraries E-journal Continuing Education Workshop, Mississippi State University, MS. Tuesday, July 18, 2006. “Conversation, Community, Connections, and Collaboration: Practical, New Technologies for User-centered Services” Social Software & Libraries Workshop with Jenny Levine. Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ. Thanks Library Garden! Wednesday, July 19, 2006. “Conversation, Community, Connections, and Collaboration: Practical, New Technologies for User-centered Services” Social Software & Libraries Workshop with Jenny Levine. Darien Library, Darien, CT. Thursday July 20, 2006 & Friday, July 21, 2006. Community Building Through Your Web Site: Library Blogs and RSS & Hands On […]
Tuesday I was in downtown Chicago to take part in the American Society for Engineering Education conference. I was pleased to see they have a conference blog: http://www.asee.org/chicago2006/ I was there to present in the Engineering Libraries division. Convened by Darcy Duke, from MIT, I was part of Staying Relevant to Our Users: How New Technologies are Redefining the Role of the (Engineering) Librarian. The session description: New technologies and new tools are changing the face of what information professionals do and perhaps even redefining what it means to be a librarian. This issue is particularly relevant to engineering and […]
David Warlick posts about Hitchhikr: It’s a conference aggregator for lack of a better phrase. You’ll see two lists of conferences in the panel to the right. The top list includes conferences that will be happening in the next month (in red), conferences that have already happened in the last month (gray), and any conferences that are currently going on (blue). The longer list beneath includes all of the conferences that have been registered on hitchhikr. They are sorted by popularity. You can click any conference to receive its report. Reports include a brief description, submitted by the person who […]
The preliminary programme and conference information is up at http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml! I’m happy to be presenting with Jenny Levine, moderating the Library 2.0 track and teaming up with Rob Coers again for a session on training! If you are attending this wonderful conference next October, please say HI!
Meeting with St. Catherine’s LIS Students Originally uploaded by mstephens7. One of the many. many highlights of the TTW goes North tour of Minnesota was meeting up with this group of St. Catherine’s SLIS students. Leah, in the blue jacket, was in my LIS753 class at Dominican. She arranged the gathering. We went to a nearby Caribou Coffee and talked about libraries. You know what fires me up? These four ladies are gearing up to make a difference in libraries! We were all over the board in our talk: L2, barriers, next generation librarianship, etc. Leah wrote the talk up […]
The advance information for IL2006 is up! Don’t miss these useful sites: www.infotoday.com/il2006 http://il2006.pbwiki.com/ Note that there is going to be a podcast studio as well! And, for public librarians and others interested folks (because this stuff translates well to almost any library!), don’t miss our PL Futures track on Monday, October 23, 2006: Track B: Public Libraries’ Futures This track focuses on planning, people, and participation. It explores the shift toward patron involvement, librarians building resources for collaboration and communication, and how public libraries (PLs) are changing to meet the needs of the plugged-in, socially networked user. Organized and […]
We travelled 200 miles south from Mountatin Iron to Minnetonka, just outside Minneapolis for the last day of the tour. (If you look up exhausted in the dictionary, there’s a picture of me)