http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6417241.html While the Democrat-controlled Illinois General Assembly may not be too receptive to new social networking legislation proposed by freshman Republican Senator Matt Murphy, the bill may be the first in several state attempts to achieve the goals of the federal Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), which passed the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate. The Social Networking Website Prohibition Act would require public libraries to prohibit access to social networking web sites, including MySpace and many less controversial, on all publicly accessible computers, including those used by adults, and also would prohibit access by students in schools. […]
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Nancy Dowd, from the New Jersey State Library, responds to the astounding news of the Illinois bill to ban on social networking sites in libraries: Sounds like the right time for your readers to join our experimental marketing campaign! The goal is to make a “library video” not only the most viewed, but to break the record for the most comments ever posted to one video on YouTube. Talk about the value of social networking! The idea is to have people post their three reasons and then pass the word to five friends. Of course what makes it even better […]
I can’t believe this… I hope the Illinois Library Association rallies around this to oppose it! Illinois librarians — are you listening? I hope we get a statement soon from the ILA and Illinois State Library! (Emphasis mine) ILA Update # 1 NEWS RELEASE — For immediate release Saturday, 10 February 2007 Latest Developments Yesterday, Senator Matt Murphy (R-27, Palatine) filed Senate Bill (SB) 1682, only minutes before the bill introduction deadline in the Illinois Senate. The summary is below: Senate Bill 1682 Creates the Social Networking Web site Prohibition Act. Provides that each public library must prohibit access to […]
At the OCLC Symoposium, we used an audience polling mechanism that allowed on the spot feedback and answers. I was able to contribute a question as was Howard Rheingold. The OCLC folks sent me the results that were displayed in the room so I could include them here. It’s fascinating and might be viewed as a reliable data set/cross section of the profession. We had between 350-400 people in the room. One bit of data that would help is a breakdown of what types of librarians were present. Over half of the crowd said “no” (my work is not yet […]
Steve, Camille and the green screen. Originally uploaded by Kankakee Public Library. Who knew that libraries might want to have a green screen to make snazzy videos? 🙂 Assistant Director, Stever Bertrand and Youth Services Supervisor, Camille Rose pose proudly in front of their new toy. They used this green screen for projects to post on the teen zone website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwoHCdIDKU The second installment of the ACPL videos (iACPL2.0) finds the IT Guy and the Librarian realizing they have a common goal. I just realized how useful these videos might be for staff meetings or for class. Great discussion starters. Kudos!
As far as I am concerned, tens of thousands of people who are actively creating new stuff are more interesting than millions of more passive participants. Howard Rheingold I had to contain my fanboy self last week at OCLC’s symposium “Who’s Watching YOUR Space,” because on the ticket (and sitting next to me on the stage) was Howard Rheingold, someone I consider to be an authority on virtual communities, deeply involved in the genesis of online social groups, and the forecaster of the whole social software things with his recent book Smart Mobs. I actually got to sit and chat […]
One of my former 753 students still posts to her class blog. Take a look at her short post about MySpace and the comments that followed. http://punkrocklibrary.blogspot.com/2007/01/leading-by-example-libraries-and.html I pointed out that the teens who were on the Teen Council were probably the stereotypical “good kids” who already obey their parents and wouldn’t be the ones who’d “misuse” MySpace anyway, or be taken in by predators pretending to be peers, or whatever all else their parents have spooked them with. In other words…the Teen Council kids wouldn’t be the teens who’d NEED the MySpace page in order to get interested in […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWY8OBMlroI Rock on Allen County Public Library (in my home state of Indiana) Thank you very much! ACPL IT Staffer Sean explains: The first time I heard at a library conference that there were other organizations that were having conflict between the IT department and Library staff there was a great sense of relief. I thought about it some more and talked to a number of people. It came down to a couple of issues. Basically the types of people that are attracted to these fields and types of jobs they have to do have conflicting goals. There are lots […]
Fascinating take on Second Life, health libraries and a look at some intiatives within SL for healthcare training. http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/second-life-libraries/ I appreciate the fact sites like slideshare allow us to get to content like this so easily and image sets, such as http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/sets/72157594399807060/ – Communities of Practice in SL – allow us to see what other groups are doing.