Categories TTW Ephemera

Tuesday I spent the day with some great school librarians from the Houston ISD. I keynoted their all day inservice with “The Hyperlinked School Library: Explore, Engage, Encourage” and did two sessions on Tech Trends and a Q&A clsing session. It was a great day! There’s nothing like that Texas hospitality! Download the slides here: Hyperlinked School Library: https://tametheweb.com/talks09/HyperlinkedSchoolLibHouston.pdf Tech & Trends: https://tametheweb.com/talks09/TechTrendsHouston.pdf

Sent to me via Karen Burns in Iowa, this presentation speaks to one of my prominent themes here at TTW. The signs we put up in our libraries convey a message to users. Some, riddled with NO and other negative language just don’t feel right for library spaces. How can we demonstrate empathy with our signs? How can we encourage people? Take a look!

I follow news about Gwinnett closely because of all of the interesting and strange things their board has done. It’s a perfect example for teaching. Take a look at the newest news: http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/gwinnett-to-close-dacula-113500.html At a specially called meeting Tuesday evening, the Library Board of Trustees voted to take the step in the face of budget cuts mandated by the County Commission. The vote was 3-1. Already this week, Gwinnett residents have seen the library system take the unusual step of closing Sundays and Mondays and reducing hours the rest of the week. In a heated discussion at Tuesday’s meeting, District […]

Leah White writes: My fellow young librarians and library workers: I am now accepting submissions for an idea that I have been bouncing around for some time now. The Young Librarian Series is is a multimedia project. The basis is going to be a series of video interviews and guest posts on a blog graciously being hosted at tametheweb blogs. (ty Michael!!) Our themes will be generations in the library and being a Gen Y and young Gen X librarian; our experiences, our triumphs, struggles, cool projects that you might want to highlight, and so on. Items the you might […]

Heh – made you look! But really, check out Jessamyn’s spot on post about this irksome practice: http://www.librarian.net/stax/2970/why-i-dont-accept-guest-posts-from-spammers-or-link-to-them/ I get an email maybe once a week from someone with a human-sounding name saying they read my blog and think they have something my readers might be interested in. Or they offer to do a guest post on my blog. The link is usually some sort of vaguely useful list of something library-related but the URL of the website is not library-related. In fact the URL of the website is usually something like onlinenursepractitionerschools.com, searchenginecollege.com or collegedegree.com (which if you’ll notice […]

WEll, I won’t physically be there…but: http://www.america.gov/multimedia/askamerica.html#librarians The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) will hold its annual World Library and Information Congress, the 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, from August 23 to August 29 in Milan, Italy. Leaders in the field of library and information sciences from across the globe will gather at the conference, including representatives from U.S. Embassy libraries.Join U.S. Embassy Rome and CO.NX as we host a series of video webchats in conjunction with the IFLA conference. From August 23 to August 25, leading American librarians will discuss issues of importance to the […]

I zipped across northern Michigan yesterday to do an afternoon presentation with some wonderful librarians. Thanks to all who attended. The slides are here: https://tametheweb.com/talks09/TenTechTenIdeasAlpena.pdf

I’m happy to share that I put LJ in touch with some of our recent grads/current students to cover programs at ALA. Katharine Johnson, Carrie Straka and Bill Goodwyn all contributed short articles for online coverage. http://www.libraryjournal.com/microsite/49047/ALA+Annual+Conference+News.html Take a look: Bill: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6670769.html Katharine: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6671470.html Carrie: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6671137.html

Multitouch Microsoft Surface: Cultural Heritage Browser from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo. I have a new post at ALATechSource about the Shanachie presentation at ALA. Check out the video above to see one of the projects they highlighted in action. http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2009/07/the-visitors.html Late one February evening in 2007, I found myself sitting in my Oak Park, Illinois living room with two visitors, sharing wine and talking about libraries. It was late, I had to teach the next day, but I couldn’t say goodnight. I met the he two fellows with me –Jaap van de Geer and Erik Boekesteijn of the […]