Categories TTW Ephemera

LISDOM ponders it…This makes for an intriguing discussion: in some instances, like tomorrow when I give a presentation to librarians in Australia, the world seems amazingly flat. In others, there is a great disparity. http://lisdom.blogspot.com/2005/08/world-is-not-flat.html Friedman, toward the end of the book, concedes that the world is not truly “flat” but advances and shifts in the global economy are certainly making it seem that way.

Sometimes it’s good to return to an article/blog post/presentation and see how it stacks up after some time has passed. For example, I just found a print of this from a 2001 LJ: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA71785.html Roy Tennant writes in April 2001 about building agile organizations and suggests three key factors to have a grip on: Communication, management and staffing. Through my late 2005 lens, this resonates: Good communication within the organization – both from above and below – is essential. Communication should not be stifled by overcontrolling management or by resentful staff. An agile organization offers many avenues of communication. Line […]

Here’s the page of all photos tagged happybirthdayjess: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/happybirthdayjess/

I use the Traverse Area District Library a lot when I’m Up North. Yesterday was one such time where everything was so smooth, so perfect as a library experience, I need to write about it. I had to print some documents to overnight to Texas for my research project, so off I went to TADL. I must admit I was in a little time crunch because I needed to print and get to the post office before it closed. A note: other than my IM chum Jeff, none of the folks there know I’m a librarian so I was in […]

My heart aches today for everyone in the southland but particularly for librarians and libraries in those states affected by the hurricane. I hope we can come together and help in anyway possible as the clean up and healing begins. I just emailed a colleague down in Terrebonne Parish to see how she is. I hope I hear back soon. I can’t help wonder: will ALA meet in New Orleans as planned? I hope so..to bring our ranks, our money and our support to this most unique of American cities. Here’s a post about wikipedia and the hurricane from Ken […]

Thoughts and prayers to the folks in the Southland.

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2005/08/24/our-schools-are-leaking/ OK, our kids are connected. Technology is part of their lives. But lets try to picture this in a different way. As you are, by now, accustomed to my saying, “It’s not technology, it’s information”. These gadgets are their links to information. They talk, text message, and google with their mobile phones, IM on their laptops, access the world wide web, Net-based video games like Halo, MMORPG (did I get that right?) games like EverQuest and Second Life. These gadgets represent intellectual appendages to our children. They are the hands and feet that carry children to new experiences, and […]

http://www.ecarrie.com/gallery/Baby http://openstacks.net/os/archives/000849.html Congrats to both families from TTW!

Here’s a review of a book about handhelds and Japan called Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life at WIRED: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68537,00.html?tw=rss.TEK The Japanese word for cell phone — keitai, meaning “something you carry with you” — provides a hint about its role within Japanese culture. Over time, mobile devices in Japan have come to be perceived not so much as bundles of technical features, or tools for replicating PC functions from the road, but personal accessories that help users sustain constant social links with others. So it’s not about technology but about the social connection. What else might fall […]

http://theloudlibrarian.net/2005/08/im-reference-is-here.html What a nice post that illustrates so much of what we must do to insure an effcetive rollout of such a service: “I updated our website, updated our blog, and began talking up the service with a few teens, who immediately indicated that it was really cool, and they would totally use it.” A PowerPoint is included as well.