Via Superpatron: http://jocolibrary.blogspot.com/2006/05/meet-library-staff-marge-vallazza.html Marge Vallazza started working as a Circulation Clerk at the Antioch Library in January 2001. Before coming to work at the Antioch Library she had been a “superpatron” both when Antioch was the main library and after when it was a branch. A superpatron is library slang for someone who tarries at the library and checks out a lot of books—in other words, just the kind of patron the library wants. While a superpatron Marge teased the Antioch staff about coming to work for the library following retirement. And in 2001, she did just that. Since then […]
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On May 12th, Jenny Levine and I keynoted SJCPL’s Staff Day. It was a weird thing to come back to the library where I spent almost 15 years but it was so wonderful to see folks I’ve missed. The staff is pretty incredible and were fired up about thinking about change. We did a version of the “Barriers Exercise” I’ve used in Minnesota and in other workshops. It gets folks thinking about how we send messages to our users…. and what experience they have in libraries. Yesterday, I received an email from Pedro, one of SJCPL’s gaming maestros. He mentioned […]
(Also posted at ALA L2, but I wanted this post to be open for comments from any and all too) Good Morning all from Northern Michigan! I hope you had a good holiday weekend! I’m reading Taylor’s meditation on innovation from the Public Innovator’s Lab: In our western culture, corporate wealth rises and falls on quarterly reports. We don’t repaint. Instead, structures less than twenty years old are razed in favor of new retail facades. We are too willing to tear down and start anew. We are enamored of the innovative pilot projects when we haven’t let our previous efforts […]
Web 2.0 – No one owns it Originally uploaded by Paul Watson.
Lakeview Learning Center Originally uploaded by weathertation. Take a look…
Great gem of a post from Dayna’s Blog at ALA L2 I like to believe that library 2.0 skills will become basic skill sets, but I think some of us may have a longer lag time and with new services being offered at the regional, state and higher levels some of our users who can see beyond the limits of the old framework may become frustrated with our inability to quickly make changes. This might be the time when they decide how relevant the local small library is and what purpose it serves in their lives.
This is a model for all state associations to think seriously about! http://blog.njla.org/archives/2006/05/index.html#a000059
Library 2.0 Workshop, Arrowhead Library System Originally uploaded by pkchrist. Second to last day in Minnesota. this is when I tripped over furniture THREE TIMES!
L2 Friendly Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
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