Hi Everyone, my name is Michael Colford, and I am the on the Senior Management Team of the Boston Public Library in charge of Regional Services. When Michael asked me to guest blog on Tame the Web, I was both surprised and honored. I’ve done a fair bit of blogging, but not a whole lot in the library profession. That said, in my position at the BPL, I do a whole lot of talking up of using technology in the support of public service, and meeting users where they are using Social Networking and other Library 2.0 tools. I thought […]
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Rural Libraries 2.0: Traverse City, MI Originally uploaded by mstephens7.
Hello. Jeff Nowak here. I am a first-year library school nube who got into this whole library thing because I was a literature freak and a book fiend. I am currently the editor of something called Any Four Words. What amazes me about our Web, Library, or Catchphrase 2.0 era is the game it plays with information. The 19th and 20th century public library phenomenon helped take the book off its pedestal by opening up its shelves to the proles. When large amounts of people really started putting books to use, it suddenly dawned on these people that books were […]
2.0 Business Librarian Florida Gulf Coast University Originally uploaded by iblee on smugmug.com. WOW!
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6431957.html Robin Hastings writes: What did we get out of this process? We learned our staff are willing and able to understand the new technologies that our patrons are using. We also learned some specific lessons about presenting this sort of training experience. Next time, we will include the Life Long Learners portion of the PLCMC program—a tutorial that explains the “7 & 1/2 habits” of lifelong learners to help our staff get into the spirit of being self-taught and self-motivated. We will also offer live question-and-answer sessions at least monthly, if not weekly, to help staff understand difficult concepts […]
Greetings from SWFLN! Naples, Florida Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Today I did a “Library 2.0” presentation for some cool folks from the Southwest Florida Library Network at the lovely Collier County Library in Naples, Florida. Thanks to all who attended!
Library 2.0 Summit at Mississippi State Originally uploaded by mstephens7. http://library.msstate.edu/mslibrarysummit/index.html This Summit is for everyone who wants libraries to matter in a web-savvy world. If your library is already using wikis, blogs, podcasting, folksonomies, social networking, or other Internet media, this Summit is for you. And if you’re not certain what some of those words mean, this summit will be invaluable! Is your library blogging, using Instant Messenger, promoting services through Flickr and Facebook, or using a customized OPAC complete with user reviews and electronic book bags? Or would you just like to learn the vocabulary, pick up practical […]
http://lisnews.org/articles/07/04/20/136247.shtml Why waste your time trying to be a “21st Century Librarian” when you’re just going to retire in a few years? You’re perfect just the way you are! Stick with the same ol’ thing you’ve been doing since you started working 27 years ago (and hey, don’t be afraid to remind everyone of just how long it’s been!). To raise the awareness of those around you, here’s a list of traits for the 20th Century Librarian. Fear and loathe change Leave technology to others Librarian-centered focus Be completely ignorant of any/all trends beyond 1975 Use only phones and email […]
“Society has determined what the library of the past has been, and it is society that will determine what the library of the future shall be.” Jesse Shera, The Foundations of Education for Librarianship Via the Social Customer Manifesto: http://www.socialcustomer.com/2007/04/from_transactio.html Interesting piece that supports many of the statements we’ve been discussing. The Social library is a “shop” as well. …a shop which ignores the attributes of 2.0 is a shop with a limited shelf life. Why? 1. Consumers want to co-create. If your shop site doesn’t allow the community of users to share their ideas about what it should sell, […]
Michael Casey and I are writing our next column for LJ’s The Transparent Library and we realized what a perfect place to discuss the recent Wired piece “The Naked CEO” by Clive Thompson. Thompson blogged about the article while writing the piece and asked for input. At his blog, Thompson sums up so much of what we’ve been discussing about the advent of web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the almost-left-the-station Cluetrain: Reputation Is Everything: Google isn’t a search engine. Google is a reputation-managment system. What do we search for, anyway? Mostly people, products, ideas — and what we want to […]