Categories TTW Ephemera

http://www.netvibes.com/sljalltogethernow Click through to see all of the particpant blogs.

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I am on my way to Traverse City, but lunch at Panera in Grand Rapids and the chance for some wifi beckoned. I also was interested in checking in with the SLJ All Together Now: Learning 2.0 program. I launched Thing #1 today Blogs: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/290000629/post/770030277.html With the help of Blake Carver and Kyle Jones, we set up a companion blog site here at TTW to gather all of the participants’ blog URLs. I was tickled (Oh My! That was a horrid typo – I meant TICKLED for sure!!!)to see the first one entered came from Australia! The site is running smoothly […]

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Reminder: we here at Equinox have three (yes, three!) positions available for “Systems Developer, Library Automation Applications.” Do you have a passion for libraries, or even just for organizing all the information you come into contact with? Does working with a small, agile team of software designers and developers to create unique and successful solutions to interesting problems sound more like a hobby than a job? (Do you like Thai food? We have a very decent Thai restaurant nearby. But if you don’t, apply anyway!) Equinox is looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic software developers to join the Equinox R&D team. If […]

http://www.librarian.net/stax/2326/why-search-and-search-engine-law-matters/ Jessamyn writes: My friend, lawyer and law professor James Grimmelmann, has written a short interesting article called The Google Dilemma about why people should care very much about how search engines work and what regulations and laws guide them. Using a few examples which may be familiar to many librarians he makes a great case for why corporate policy at Google matters and why people shoudl understand how Google works generally. If the Internet is a gigantic library, and search engines are its card catalog, then Google has let the Chinese government throw out the cards corresponding to books it doesn’t […]

Cindi Trainor writes: I wanted to highlight this program, which got a good writeup on Library Journal‘s LJ Insider blog recently, because it’s done a bit differently, and it’s not about the shiny bits, it’s about people, and it’s about change. Can you feel it? If you attended the BIGWIG session, what did you get out of it? Would you attend other library conference sessions set up this way? What about an entire (un-)conference, where the topics discussed are chosen after the participants show up? Read the whole post here: http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2008/07/best-in-showcase.html

If you pretend someone is not there, if you pretend the awards and honors that someone on your staff receives aren’t worth mentioning, then this reflects upon you. People will notice it and question your awareness. If they see you deliberately refusing to recognize talent, then they will begin to ask, “Why?” The results from this questioning won’t aid in your leadership. However, if you recognize and embrace your talented staff, if you give them the skills they need to continue improving, then your staff, your organization, and the greater library community will not only recognize those talented people but […]

I jokingly confess to my audiences that I’m a sometimes eavesdropper at conferences! You learn about the profession and how people feel if you listen closely. The most telling and useful was a snippet I heard in the Skywalk at PLA: “Everytime people really like something, we get rid of it.” Here are just a few from Anaheim: On the Super Shuttle to the hotel, somewhere between stop #6 and stop #10: “Always make time for yourself at the conference too.” On the exhibit floor: “Face it, you suck at Guitar Hero, but the teens won’t care.” At a nearby […]