Communication Breakdown to Communication Strategy

Roger C. Schonfeld and Kevin M. Guthrie have written in the July/August EDUCAUSE Review some of the findings from the Ithaka commissioned 2006 survey on “the attitudes and perceptions of academic collection development librarians and faculty toward the transition to an increasingly electronic environment”.
A must read for anyone interested in developing successful faculty – [...]

Taking the Fun of Web 2.0 Seriously

It seems that some library folk in Australia are managing not just the tools, but also the spirit of Web 2.0 with their “Library 2.0 on the Loose” unconference.
Here’s part of the enticing invite found on Librarians Matter, the blog of one of the organizers, Kathryn Greenhill;
Feel passionate or curious about new library approaches, [...]

Teams

Some interesting thoughts from David Lee King in his post “Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian” and from Emily Clasper at Library Revolution in “Librarians and Technology: Minimum Competencies”.
They are right. We do need to know these tools, their creative possibilities and how to use them to manage our communications, services and professional development.
We [...]

Let’s Communicate

I just stumbled across the report “What Is an Open Repository”, by Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey, in the April 2007 issue of Ariadne on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio Texas in January. This was the second open repositories conference, the first was held in Australia in [...]