Archive for July, 2006

Selling information literacy — reflections after one year

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

The other day, I got an e-mail from a reader of my blog: “You mentioned in one of your more recent posts that you’ve learned what works and what doesn’t in “selling” information literacy to faculty. Could you elaborate? I suspect that I will have to be doing a lot of that in the near [...]

SirsiDynix Talk Archive

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

For those of you who missed my wiki talk last week and wanted to watch it later, the archived presentation is up and is available as a podcast or as a video with the slides and audio. There are a lot of terrific presentations in the SirsiDynix Institute archive by some of the great thinkers [...]

The 21st Century Librarian: Further Thoughts and Your Comments

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I’m on vacation in Florida this week and have happily been away for the computer for long periods of time, so I was very surprised to find all of the comments on what I had written a few days ago on skills for the 21st century librarian. I guess it really touched a chord (it’s [...]

Skills for the 21st Century Librarian

Monday, July 17th, 2006

A few weeks ago, I finished a chapter I was writing (not for my book — another one) on the topic of technology in LIS Education. I think Rachel asked me to write it because I had complained about my own library school education in the past and the fact that many schools create this [...]

Links for SirsiDynix Talk

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Here are some links for those of you who are attending (or have attended, depending on when you look at this) my SirsiDynix talk today. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to post them in the comments section of this post and I’ll answer them as soon as I can. Better for [...]

Wiki Webcast: You’re Invited!

Friday, July 7th, 2006

What: Wiki: The Ultimate Tool For Online Collaboration
When: Thursday July 13, 11 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific.
Where: Online! Via the SirsiDynix Institute.
Who: Me!
Why: Because you want to learn more about wikis and how they can be used in libraries.
Wiki is a social software tool that allows for unprecedented online collaboration. It enables a group of [...]

Hot new blog, or RSS for the busy clinician redux

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Good news! David Rothman, whom I recently wrote about here and Michael Stephens wrote about here, has just started his own blog (davidrothman.net) on medical librarianship and technology. He is doing some really cool things with using RSS to provide outreach to busy clinicians and I’m sure will have a lot of great practical [...]

Scientific analyses of blogging

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

Lilia Efimova, who herself has written some really fascinating studies of blogging, has collected papers from Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs and the 3rd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem. There are some really interesting studies in there, including Discovery of Blog Communities Based on Mutual Awareness and Browsing System for Weblog Articles based on [...]

Knowledge management in a growing and change averse organization

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

On Friday, I had a meeting with the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies to discuss future plans for integrating information literacy instruction into the curriculum. On several occasions I brought up issues that involved communication problems between the programs and the library. In response, he discussed the internal communication problems he’s [...]