Stephen Francouer writes: http://tinyurl.com/556pof My Plan Do quick look ups of nineteen terms and concepts discussed in Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody to see what reference sources would be more helpful to the students I work with. Methodology Using quotation marks around search terms to force phrase searches, I looked in the following resources: Wikipedia Encyclopedia Britannica Gale Virtual Reference Library Oxford Reference In any given set of search results, I would look first for main entries that mirrored my search terms exactly and record any such precise hits in a table. If there were no exact hits, then […]
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This spring GSLIS students voted for one of our faculty for the Excellence in Teaching award. The winner was Mary Pat Fallon. As part of the award, she gave a brief speech at commencement that really fired up our grads and the gathered faculty in the auditorium. She agreed to let me publish part of the speech here: When I think of messages I think of one of my favorite quotes by Neil Postman, the late education scholar: “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”……. No, my use of Postman’s words is more […]
We now have many new methods for connecting to our users. There is a huge amount of reader enthusiasm happening at Amazon and LibraryThing, but we are not doing it in our own software. DaVinci Code has 3519 reviews at Amazon. WorldCat has five reviews for The Davinci Code, but three say “Test.” Weblogs: Immediacy. Informality. The architecture of participation: blogs are tools. You don’t need to blog, but be the type of library that could be blogging. Twitter: Why would you not use this in your library? Tagging at Flickr: People in the community often know things we don’t. […]
Done., originally uploaded by leah the librarian.
Via one of the Dom Profs: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0811.pdf Just downloaded to read. Looks great so far: The most profound impact of the Internet is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning.
Don’t miss: http://blog.zsr.wfu.edu/pd/2008/05/02/roz-at-loex-teaching-web-20-to-students-15/ Their own Web 2.0 Awareness Survey 74 students Awarness of Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Blogs, Podcasts, Social tagging, Wikipedia, Other Wikis, RSS RSS had not heard of 92%, 0% had ever used Social Bookmarking 68% had not heard of Other Wikis 45% had not heard of Podcasts 51% had heard of but had not used 5% had blogs 8% had uploaded videos Audience discussed how their students compare – similar experiences — students are not seeing new technologies as ‘exciting’ the way librarians do….for them it’s like a new feature on a car — or a refrigerator….. Librarians […]
Staff Development Day at Warren Newport Public Library, Gurnee, Illinois, originally uploaded by mstephens7. Friday I was tickled to spend the day with the staff at Warren Newport Public Library, in Gurnee, Illinois for their Staff In Service. The theme of the day was WNPL 2.0, so I think I was in the right place. I was especially thrilled to customize THL for them, complete with slides that highlighted the cool things they are doing. One surprise was finding a Yelp review I was able to incorporate into the show: http://www.yelp.com/biz/warren-newport-public-library-gurnee I stayed for a nice lunch (complete with […]
But Web 2.0 is about much more than the technology—it’s about a change in focus to participation, user control, sharing, openness, and networking. Mike Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus and Professor, University of Washington, Seattle offers a balanced, thoughtful look at emerging technologies and libraries: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6551184.html Consider this passage on social networking: Opportunities Social networks provide an important vehicle to reach important users—upper youths, teens, and twenty- and thirtysomethings. Libraries currently support various real-world groups by providing space, resources and information services, education, and organizing assistance, and many are already experimenting in these social networks. (See www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Social_Networking_Software for some examples and best practices.) But most […]
Passion Quilt meme, originally uploaded by hblowers.
FLA 2008 — slide from Williams keynote, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. I’m totally taken with this… need more info. Will the FLA2008 presentations be uploaded? Maybe our TTW Contributor Lee Leblanc will write up some conference impressions when his papers are done. 🙂