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Archive for January, 2007
CIL 2007 Wiki (like you weren’t expecting it!)
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007I just wanted to give people a head’s up that the wiki for this year’s Computers in Libraries conference is up and people are already starting to add content. I’ve already got my schedule online and I’m really excited about speaking at the conference and seeing some of the terrific talks on the roster. I’m [...]
Now it can be told!
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007I’m so happy to finally be able to publicly congratulate Dorothea Salo on her new job as Digital Repository Librarian at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I knew Dorothea enjoyed her job at George Mason, but like me, she is not a city person and I know how city life can wear on someone [...]
Odeo, I hardly knew you!
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007One thing I was really excited about with Five Weeks to a Social Library was playing around with Odeo. I’d seen a lot of people using it and it looked like a really great service. I love their cute embedded players. Unfortunately, I seem to have come to it at the point where things are [...]
A new (and needed) blog
Monday, January 29th, 2007On a happy note, a friend of mine has recently started a blog in an area of librarianship that doesn’t get enough discussion in the blogosphere: access services. Mary Chimato is the head of access and delivery services at NCSU, and started Circ and Serve because she saw a gaping hole in its representation on [...]
‘Age’-old hangups
Monday, January 29th, 2007I have received many e-mails in regards to the first article in my tenure as a columnist for American Libraries, “Balancing the Online Life” (wish I could link to it, but it isn’t online). Most of them have been very positive, but I did get a few complaints. All of them were from librarians [...]
Does distance learning have to be like this?
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Jennifer Macaulay, who really just has to stop writing such insightful pieces or I will never get anything done, wrote a piece on her experiences as a distance learner a couple of weeks ago. And if I didn’t know better, I would have thought that I had written the entire thing myself, so much did [...]
Help create your wiki’s guidelines!
Sunday, January 14th, 2007In light of what I was writing about wikis and participation, I would like to ask for your help. I have been wanting to have some guidelines on the Library Success Wiki, similar to those that govern the Wikipedia. However, I never wanted to do it on my own for fear that it would be [...]
Encouraging participation in the wiki world
Sunday, January 14th, 2007David King is in the middle of a terrific series on his blog about inviting participation in Web 2.0/social software tools. Here are the ones he’s come out with so far:
Inviting Participation in Web 2.0
Part 2: Passive Invitations
Part 3: Active Invitations
Check out the comments too where people are making some great suggestions!!!
One important point [...]
Who your writing represents
Sunday, January 14th, 2007I remember when I got my job at Norwich, but before I started, I wondered what the new job would mean for my blog. How would my writing reflect on my organization? Would people ask me to censor myself? Fortunately, it has not changed what I write in the least. My blog is separate from [...]
Charitable reading
Thursday, January 11th, 2007My post earlier in the week may just have gotten more comments than anything I’ve ever written. I believe Steve Lawson called it “a great trainwreck of a comments thread.” In addition, I have received a dozen e-mails and IMs from readers of my blog extending their support. One of those e-mails was from my [...]
Where did all the comments go?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007You know, I was kind of wondering why everything was so quiet today in terms of comments after the post I’d written yesterday. It seemed a bit… odd. Then I look in Akismet and found a whole bunch of comments that it had eaten. I think I’ve restored all of them, but I’m still not [...]
Keeping it real
Monday, January 8th, 2007I remember a few months ago, my friend Rochelle wrote a terrific post about the Second Life Library 2.0. She basically wrote about her first-time experiences in the Second Life realm and how confusing and off-putting it was for her. She voiced some criticisms of the Second Life Library project, which she made clear were [...]
Nintendo Wii: Meredith’s Mii
Sunday, January 7th, 2007Nintendo Wii: Meredith’s Mii
Originally uploaded by SirStan.
I have a Mii! I have to say, I thought I could wait until the summer or next Fall to buy a Wii, but after playing it at a friend’s house last night, I’m really starting to get [...]
Five Weeks to a Social Library Update
Friday, January 5th, 2007I am pleased to announce that, after much deliberation, we have chosen our participants for the Five Weeks to a Social Library course! They are a diverse group — geographically, in the type of population they work with, and in terms of their position at their library. Here is the list:
Bayer, Dell – Sr. Research [...]
