The more things change….
Wow. While not much of a ranter myself I can’t stay away from by David Lee King’s post
How Can We Change the Unchangeable, or David’s Rant. Grateful nod to Sarah Houghton-Jan at LibrarianInBlack.Net for pointing the way.
Do read it. Its short, sweet and comes to a sharp point regarding the blocking of innovative ideas and [...]
Reaching out to the future
I just got very excited reading “The young visitors: Introducing children to the research library through exhibition tours” by Timothy G. Young in the April 2007 C&RL News.
Creating exhibits for non-traditional users of academic libraries is not only engaging but it is also an excellent way to introduce future students to the services that will [...]
The news is the message
Today I had reason to visit a particular academic library’s site and became side tracked by their news section. It seems that it is exam time and Refworks has been down. Interesting.
And so I wondered what do other academic libraries consider to be newsworthy? A quick look at 14 random sites and I have [...]
A Bridge to Web 2.0
Carolyn Foote the librarian at Westlake High School in Austin,Texas has provided an excellent example of what I was poking at in the previous post. Her library did a display of Books that Changed Your Life that involved not only students and teachers but also a camera, an empty table and a blog!
Web 2.0: It’s [...]
Marketing 2.0
Darlene Fichter’s recent article Seven Strategies for Marketing in a Web 2.0 World raises some interesting challenges and benefits to librarians who are interested in managing rather than controlling their library’s brand and marketing messages.
For me it also raises the question of who is in the best position to embrace these marketing strategies.
It seems [...]
The innovator and the late adopter walk into a library….
I’ll leave it up to you finish the story. But in all seriousness I suggest that you read Jenn Riley’s library culture shaking post on TechEssence.Info. I think her piece, “Involving more librarians and library staff in technology projects”, will resonate with any librarian trying to find a place as an innovator [...]
Helpful Tips for Managing Ourselves
Thank you Elizabeth J. Cox for passing on some valuable tips from your first year in librarianship in On being a new librarian: Eight things to keep in mind. A sweet quick piece that gets right to the point of taking responsibility for managing ourselves, our careers and our contributions to the profession. Dare I [...]
More on the Armchair Conference Circuit
Registration closes on April 26 for the Canadian Learning Commons Conference 2:
Continuing the Conversation which takes place April 29 - May 1, 2007. The session blurbs promise some worthwhile discussions. But since I can’t be there surrounded by others sharing a passion for client focused services, I’ll just wait in my armchair for the conference [...]
slis21
Now this I find interesting. slis21, a blog at San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science, is devoted to virtual tools and new courses. An interesting example of managing change both on the micro level as students adapt to an online learning environment, and on the macro level as they engage with [...]
Armchair conference goer
I confess, if I could I would hop from conference to conference much like the characters in the 1984 David Lodge novel Small World: an Academic Romance (well maybe not too much like the novel’s characters). But I can’t. So I peek at slides.
Something caught my eye in the slides from Kenneth Peterson (Coordinator [...]