Absolutely wonderful, thoughtful post from David Warlick on a chance ride to the conference center with a school librarian. http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/07/07/why-libraries-are-important/ The library that people remember from their school experience (decades ago) seems to have less meaning when we have access to a global library of information with a mouse-click. But this logical piece of visionary budgeting misses an essential point in where education is evolving. When the child graduates, the teacher will be gone. The classroom will be gone. The textbooks will be gone. But for the first time in history, continual learning will be the ONLY road to prosperity. […]
Warlick: Why Libraries Are Important
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I totally missed that ITI put up my article about Gaming Symposium as FREE! Thanks ITI! http://www.infotoday.com/MLS/mar06/Stephens.shtml
http://www.zephyrinnovation.com/ I’ve been lucky to spend some time working and talking with Kathryn Deiss, who just took an incredible position with ACRL. I’ve learned from her, been inspired by her and look forward to future collaborations! And — she’s started a blog! From her about me page: I have a deep belief in human creativity and our ability to innovate. For 16 years I have been facilitating learning for librarians, libraries, and other non-profit agencies. Sometimes this has been individual learning (workshops, institutes, etc.) and sometimes it has been organizational learning where larger groups are learning together. In almost every […]
http://www.wpl.ca/ I talk about WPL a lot because they are doing some cool stuff… Take a look at the Flickr section of their front page. It links to their collection of sets. This not only allows the librarians to organize, tag and receive comments on their photos, but it also educates users: this might be some folks first experience with Flickr. It’s a Web-based teaching moment! Other experienced Flickr folks might click through and add WPL as a contact. In fact, maybe the next step is a link in that box something like this: Add the Waterloo Public Library to […]
Via NEKLS: Brenda has eight tips for would-be technology trainers: 1. Stop trying to provide step-by-step directions 2. Encourage independence. 3. Expect success. 4. Encourage exploration. 5. Provide context. 6. Treat training as a collaborative project. 7. Use storytelling. 8. Be real-world.
Patron to AV Librarian on learning the library would soon be checking out iPods: “Get out! You mean I can check out an iPod from the library? I don’t have to spend $150 myself to get one? Great, now I can spend that money on something else. I’m getting a manicure, a pedicure….”
JENNY LEVINE & MICHAEL STEPHENS’s STATEMENT (From 05/01/2006 to 05/31/2006) Your lenses have generated $0.08 total. $0.08 has been donated in your name to Squidoo Charity Fund. http://www.squidoo.com/library20/
Joe Sipocz, my SJCPL colleague, just got back from ALA. He posts to the Lifeline about the Long Tail: http://www.libraryforlife.org/blogs/lifeline/?p=1496M We’re in the era of unlimited consumer choice, which has extended this long tail. Anderson predicts that our children will never know what the phrase ‘out of print’ means. All of this also explains why our public often asks us for books that we don’t own.
I owe a mountain of inspiration to Karen Schneider for this one! I’m working on the syllabus for my section of LIS701: Introduction to Library and Information Science for this Fall at Dominican. We’re using Rubin’s Foundations of Library and Information Science from Neal-Schuman and I’m adding a reading of The Cluetrain Manifesto as well. We’ll have articles and blog posts to react to and discuss. Putting this together, I’m reminding of a question I had last semester during one of our discussions of current library jobs and those 2.0 job descriptions. “What do we need to pay attention to?” […]
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/06/30/newsgator-posts-roadmap-for-the-future-of-rss/ There ‘s so much here about the power and future of RSS, I’ll just quote the end: RSS is the foundation of almost everything Web 2.0 – isn’t it? It’s what makes blog readership scalable, podcasts subscribable, wiki changes watchable and so much more. If Newsgatgor can succeed in offering the kind of innovative features this roadmap alludes to, without falling into the trap of crass commercialism, Reinacker’s vision could be deeply influential for the future of the medium. Put this on your to read list!