Categories TTW Ephemera

Here’s the text of a chat I had a couple of days ago. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. This person was IMing from Europe. Cool Librarian in Europe: Hi want just to tell you I appreciate TTW a lot from here in ______ MS: greetings from the USA! CLIE: I particularly follow the IM for VR issue, we’re very very far from this in here. i am fascinated by it MS: IM & jybe could be very powerful CLIE: I try to promote IM when I teach students hox to use e-resources, but it’s not easy […]

Chad, making the move to his first big library job, posts this: http://www.hiddenpeanuts.com/archives/2005/08/09/peer-instruction/ I’ve had a slight change in my job description. Together with another new hire, I’ll be in charge of most of UAH’s student instruction efforts. So glad I took a course on it last semester! I admit to being a bit nervous: In some cases, I’ll only be a year and a bit older than the students I’m teaching. Has anyone else been in this situation? Any problems or success stories? I’d love to hear them. Chad – I must say this is a great position to […]

Above: Three examples of some HOT PL IM Pages..there are many others… take a look and be inspired! Hooray for Alexandrian PL — going live with IM reference on August 15. They’ve created an IM reference page similar to some other libraries — and one I believe SJCPL orginated (Thanks Maire!) What rocks my world is the progression here. More information about the service and how the library handles questions. Just a couple of things to note before you get started… Any screen names that send IMs containing obscene language or that are harassing will be blocked. We are unable […]

Anyone who reads TTW..please make room in your aggregator for FGL… http://feelgoodlibrarian.typepad.com/feelgood_librarian/2005/08/what_books_do.html We need to remember why we do what we do folks… just saying…

Just asking: David Warlick reports on podcasts in the classroom and I’m pondering how libraries can be an extension of this digital content creation thing. I do believe that a “Digital Creation Station” in a library’s Teen section might be a hit. Give them a Mac (or PC yeah yeah but Garageband is soooo cool!), a mic, some software and the chance to play! And don’t even let me hear you say “But what if they get loud?” or, heaven forbid, “what if they have FUN in the library making content to share with friends?” What would the optimal Digital […]

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA630776.html School Library Journal has a new editor. Brian Kenney, Library Journal’s executive editor, technology & web, has been promoted to editor-in-chief of School Library Journal, effective August 1. He succeeds Evan St. Lifer, who left in June to join Scholastic Library Publishing as VP and general manager. I have been so lucky to work with Brian these last few months. I have learned a lot from him about writing, libraries and the “big picture.” Brian gets libraries big time and he understands the place where libraries and technology meet! Best wishes… Oh, and: In 2004, he received a federal […]

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Check out this set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/sets/632151/ These images say alot: library as community meeting place…library as cultural center…library as a place young people would like to be and hang out…and make some music. Well Done Gwinnett County Public Library!

Training should be viewed as a necessity, not a luxury; as mandatory, not voluntary; and as comprehensive, not superficial. Training should be both theoretical and practical. The consequence of poor training will be that our users will lose confidence in librarians: They will think that librarians have joined the ranks of others that have fallen under the weight of emerging technologies, and they will see libraries as another institution that is threatened with extinction as the 21st century approaches. Krissoff, A. & Konrad, L. COMPUTER TRAINING FOR STAFF AND PATRONS, Computers in Libraries, Jan1998, Vol. 18, Issue 1

I am thoroughly enjoying Stephen Abram’s blog. Don’t miss it. Today, he posts about iPods in Libraries. How powerful can digital tools such as an iPod be? The Duke University report has some cool answers… Stephen writes: But what I enjoyed was seeing the uses by music students to play recordings over and over to learn; to record their own work; and to share music in context of discussion. I liked the stories about language students repeating lectures to get all the nuances of the language, to get pronunciations right and to study. There are many stories like this about […]