Via the the South Bend Tribune, George & Helene: http://tinyurl.com/35km63 There’s a lot to ponder here about digital content, access and libraries. I appluad Borders for updating their business model. I urge librarians to examine how these new, streamlined services might fight the mission of their institutions At the Borders concept store, new themed book islands are built around lifestyle genres, including travel, cooking and health. The digital centers, meantime, are geared to welcome people of all levels of tech know-how. Staffers will guide customers through the process of burning music to CDs, downloading songs to most digital music players […]
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My LIS Trading Card Originally uploaded by drdrewhonolulu Nice to see Dr. Andrew Werthheimer’s LIS Trading Card. It’s one of the first I’ve seen tagged “LIS Faculty Trading Card.” I’d like to see more. LIS professors – have you made a card?
BATL shirt logo Originally uploaded by jefoto Looks like gaming is getting serious at Traverse Area District Library!
At Darien Library, staff at the front desk have their own blog. This level of openness and transparency does my heart good. When was the last time someone on your front lines got to do a shout out to the staff? http://tinyurl.com/yut83k Sometimes I lose sight of how wonderful the people I work with are and it takes a patron comment or the observation of an interaction to remind me of that very fact. Last month a patron told Desketeer Alison that they felt we were the ‘Jet Blue of Libraries” for our willingness to go above and beyond.for our […]
Checkout the just announced video contest at Mississippi Ststae Libraries: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=8661499353 Hosted by the Mississippi State University Libraries, the Digital Video Contest is a chance for students, faculty, staff and alumni of Mississippi State to show their creativity and compete for an opportunity to win a fabulous new digital camera. Those interested in taking part are encouraged to create a video, not more than 5 minutes in length, based on the theme “Once Upon a Time at the MSU Libraries…” It is up to the individual or group to interpret the theme.
IRSQ Social Software in Libraries Issue is OUT! Originally uploaded by mstephens7 The current issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly is now available. I guest-edited this issue and got to work with some incredible librarians working in the field and sharing their insights. Checkout the Table of Contents: IL 2.0 at The American University in Cairo: Flickr in the Classroom Kaila Bussert, Nicole E. Brown, Alison H. Armstrong Blogmania: Blog Use in Academic Libraries Lani Draper, Marthea Turnage The Problems and Potential of Myspace and Facebook Usage in Academic Libraries Melanie Chu, Yvonne Nalani Meulemans MLISc The Life of a […]
Recent coverage of Twin includes an interview wuth a librarian: http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/02/twine-semantic-web-is-here.html Sarah Miller, a librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, became a member of Twine’s test group in November, partly because she and her husband, Ethan, a doctoral candidate, needed a place to organize all the documents they wanted to share with each other about teaching and learning. Ms. Miller likes Twine’s mechanized tagging abilities. “If I save the URL of a Web page into my Twine account,” she said, “Twine will skim the page and turn it into tags automatically. It’s a way to tie together things that […]
In my LIS753 and LIS768 classes, all of the students create WordPress blogs for journaling, reflection on readings and assignments. I asked my graduate assistant and TTW contributor Kyle Jones to give his new MacBook Pro a workout by creating a spiffy “How to set Up WordPress” screencast. For weekend classes where our time is precious, this screencast will be invaluable. Students can set up a blog before class so we can dive right in! Online classes will benefit as well. http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4 Kyle gave me permission to share it here as well – I think it might be especially […]
http://23thingsonastick.blogspot.com/ Some of the folks in class this weekend at the College of St. Catherine told me about Minnesota’s statewide adaptation of Helene Blowers ultra-successful, easily replicated 23 Things program. It seems that at the Minnesota State Fair, any and all food items are usually available “on a stick” — thus the twist on the title. Check out the site to see a state level implmentation. You know what could be next?? A national “23 Things” program for all library staff, library trustees and other curious LIS folk who want to learn.
I’ve always been fascinated by social interaction online, all the way back to 1994 when I started a discussion list for Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks fans on my old Mac with a dial-up connection. I didn’t know it then, but I was attempting to bring together a community–to make some connections between various folks who shared an interest and to let them talk to each other. Now, more than 12 years later, I realize it was one of many early examples of building a virtual community and the beginnings of social networks. Social networking services (SNS) are […]