Greetings! I am heading North today, not to TC, but to Minnesota and five presentations in five cities in five days! I’ll be reporting from the road and posting pictures at Flickr. I am really excited to meet a bunch of Minnesota librarians. If you are attending any of the session, please say HI! http://www.selco.lib.mn.us/apps/training/courseDescription.cfm?courseID=10226
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….you can’t get to ALA soon enough! At LISNews, Blake points to Karen’s post and says: Some interesting comments including one from David King who sums up my reason for not being part of ALA: “Honestly, one of the reasons I’m not a member of ALA is because of people like Gorman.” Check out the Librarian in Black’s thoughts and the comments as well: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/05/michael_gorman_.html Steve Lawson too: http://library.coloradocollege.edu/steve/archives/2006/05/barbaric_yawp.html
UPDATE: What a great time that was! Thanks to all at OPAL!! Here’s the presentation. Here are some extra links as resources: Cluetrain Netvibes Open Source Software at TechEssence ALA on DRM & DRM Guide for Librarians Librarians Who IM Future of Music Using Bloglines! The Internet is Entering its LEGO era Libraries with MySpace accounts Tennant and Pace on the Future of Catalogues from Panlibus Rainie on Millennials from SELCO iPods in Action at Georgia College and State University Using Evidence to Support our Libraries from Stephen Abram OCLC Perceptions
Wednesday, April 19, 2006. “Rev Up Your Online Services: Blogs, RSS, Wikis and other Dynamic and Low-cost Technologies” Workshop. Washington State Library Association Annual meeting. Tacoma, Washington. Friday, April 29, 2006. “Technology Planning” and “Wikis and Other Social Tools for Your Library” (with Jenny Levine). Texas Library Association Conference, Houston, Texas. Wednesday, May 10, 2006. SJCPL Staff Day. “Libraries Fit for the Future” with Jenny Levine. The Big Picture: Toward Library 2.0. Training, Technology, & Planning Monday, May 15, SELCO ,Tuesday, May 16, Willmar Public Library, Wednesday, May 17, Detroit Lakes Library, Thursday, May 18, Arrowhead Library System, Friday, May […]
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/03/27/conference-20-ten-tips-for-extending-your-education-conference/ There’s loads of great conference posts and round ups from both CIL2006 and PLA2006, which are also the official tags! Take a moment in reading those to swing by Warlick’s piece on “Conference 2.0.” CIL certainly had many of those points covered, as did PLA. But there are some good ones to think about as well. Thought for next time? A podcast booth or quiet area where podcasters could stage a discussion, conference debrief, or just get some recording done.
What fun! We had a great crowd for the session being in the last slot of the conference! Links to our presentation: http://www.tametheweb.com/presentations/BlogsPLA06.pdf Our Six Things We Can Do Now: (Via the Librarian in Black) 1. Read weblogs and checkout what other libraries are doing. Keep tabs on new developments. Go to http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net. 2. Start your own “What’s New” blog at your library. Update it often and create an environment of dynamic content. Turn comments on. 3. Appoint a “trend reporter” at the library who watches what’s going on and reports back to staff. Form an Emerging Technology Committee. 4. […]
Here’s a download of the bibliography from today’s Planning for Technology workshop. I had 30 very cool librarians from all sorts of libraries and I honestly didn’t want it to end! Thanks all! Bibliography
This is a Flickr version of one of my favorite presentations from 2005! How do we insure staff buy in to our technology initiatives? New services? Let’s make sure they do, because buy in is paramount to the success of library technology projects! Originally presented at Internet Librarian, November, 2005.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Computers in Libraries Preconference Workshops: Morning Session: “Teaching the Internet” with D. Scott Brandt, Afternoon Session: Technology Planning for 21st Century Libraries. Saturday, March 25, 2006, Public Library Association, “Community Building Through Your Web Site: Library Blogs and RSS Feeds” with Jenny Levine, Boston, MA Wedensday March 29, 2006 “The Blogger’s Toolkit Workshop,” Joint Conference of the Kentucky Library Association Academic and Special Sections and the KY-SLA Chapter, Prestonsburg KY. Thursday, March 30, 2006 “Conversation, Community, Connections, and Collaboration: Practical, New Technologies for User-centered Services.” Opening General Session Joint Conference of the Kentucky Library Association Academic […]
Back in February, I did the SirsiDynix Webinar: Weblogs & Libraries: Communication, Conversation, and the Blog People. I got the statistics, survey and audience questions a few days ago from Crystal, who made the whole thing run so smoothly. One of the things she suggested is I might answer some of the questions here as well as share some of the polls we ran through the talk. The mechanism for the SirsiDynix presentations is very useful: the polls engage the audience and the presenter gets valuable feedback and data!We opened the session by asking what type of library folks were […]