http://learningexpress.blogspot.com/2006/09/week-6-thing-15-library-20.html Lori Reed, training specialist for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, ponders L2 and empowering staff. What else does Library 2.0 mean? Empowering not only patrons but staff. Our library provides the most outstanding customer service of any organization that I have ever seen. But do we provide the same service to internal customers? Not always. If our vision is to be the best library in America, we have to start by being the best staff. We need to support and encourage each other. We need to realize that yes we are all individuals and we make […]
It Starts from Within…
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See Jessamyn’s post: http://www.librarian.net/stax/1860 This is exactly what ALA needs. I have to admit I had never seen the faces of some of these folks whose names I do recognize. Thanks ALA… please keep going! I want more! More faces, more humanity… 🙂
Director, are you Blogging?? Via the Church of the Customer Blog: If CEOs blogged, they would save considerable time on hundreds of weekly emails that ask roughly the same types of questions. That’s part of Debbie Weil’s thesis in The Corporate Blogging Book. “Why not do it more efficiently?” she writes. “Instead of a one-to-one message, why not a communication from one to many thousands?” She describes the pro’s and con’s of corporate blogging with plenty o’ pointers on how to do it well and not screw up. I read an early copy of the book and it’s excellent. So […]
http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/09/19/making-time-for-web-20/ David King posts about one of the phrases I hope to never hear in libraries again when it comes to social software: “We don’t have time for ____.” I’ve also heard it as “we don’t have time tio post to a blog” or “It adds another click…” David writes: Library administrators and managers need to lead this change in their organizations. One way they can do this is to provide time, equipment, and training in order to successfully implement these new tools into the library’s digital space. What does that mean, practically? Here are some examples: Time: Time to […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrtYdFV_Eak For your viewing enjoyment, in light of the recent Warner Brothers/You Tube alliance, is “Ray of Light” from SJCPL Staff Day 2003. It’s taken three years, but now I feel much more comfortable posting this and I did get permission from SJCPL administration. This video was borne out of a time that we wanted to show the staff how important every single person is to the mission of the library. Ity’s not books, or snazzy technology, or a beautiful building, folks, it’s people that make the library go round in my book. Steal this idea or any part of […]
Groep0002 Originally uploaded by Ticer Tilburg. Group photo taken of the lecturers at the “Digital Libraries Ă la Carte” course, held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, from 21-25 August 2006. Top row, from left to right: Bjørn Olstad, Michael Fraser, Teun Nijssen, Peter van de Graaf, Carl Grant, Jon Kirriemuir, Catherine Candee. Second row: Paul Miller. Bottom row, from left to right: Sue Roberts, Philip Payne, Jenny Levine, Micahel Stephens, Michael Breaks, Ian Dolphin
One of this summer’s LIS753 students posts another student’s examination of Privacy Codes of Ethics in the Corporate World and asks for comments. Maybe a TTW reader might have input: http://juliettelis753.blogspot.com/2006/09/privacy-code-of-ethics-in-corporate.html
Rewriting job descriptions? Looking at your organizational chart? Offering gaming in your library? Don’t miss: http://ulatmac.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/8/ You see, there’s this guy whose name is Robert Gagne and he’s considered one of the “stars” of instructional design. Back in 1965 he published something called The Conditions of Learning. In it created a nine step process. This process has become known in the world of education as “Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction”. They are: Gain the learner’s attention Inform learners of objectives Stimulate recall of prior learning Present the content Provide learning guidance Elicit performance (practice) Assess performance Enhance retention and transfer […]
Rules in the Teen area Originally uploaded by davidking.
Via a great piece at LJ featuring Stephen Abram, Joe Janes and Roy Tennant: “All of these things,” Janes says, “are opportunities.” Libraries today, he observes, cannot affort to be paralyzed, wed to old modes of service, bureaucratically pinned-down, or too reticent to take advantage of the fact that, in a world drowning in information, libraries should be more vital than ever.