Posted inlibrarianship Wikis
Let 100 wikis bloom?
In Please, Not Another Wiki Casey Bisson complains about the proliferation of wikis: Perhaps I cringe at any suggestion to create a new wiki because I wonder why that content…
Posted inALA libraries tech trends
Well, I said yes.
Last night, I got an e-mail asking if I'd like to join the LITA Top Technology Trends panel as one of their experts. And it didn't take me more than…
Posted inlibrarianship online education tech trends
If I just had 15 minutes each day
Stephen Abram wrote a column for Information Outlook on Learning 2.0 called 15 Minutes a Day: A Personal Learning Management Strategy. So it got me thinking. If I had 15…
Posted inonline education open source
DrupalEd is released
When we taught Five Weeks to a Social Library, we used Drupal and kind of had to hack it to make it work as a course management system. Too bad…
Posted inlibrarianship tech trends
Congratulations Roy!
My good friend, Roy Tennant, has just accepted a sweet job at OCLC, and he didn't even have to leave Northern CA! I don't quite understand exactly what he'll be…
Posted inlibrarianship social software tech trends
CIL Reflections
I got back home from Computers in Libraries yesterday afternoon. The sky was a beautiful blue (still is) and the weather finally convinced me that it might be possible to…
Posted inlibrarianship social software tech trends
Early Impressions at CIL
Meredith Farkas on Social Software Originally uploaded by madinkbeard. I did a lot of blogging at the last two major national conferences I attended. I decided this time, given that…
Posted inhi librarianship
Airport delay-enabled mini-posts
My flight's delayed until 2:20 (I've been here since 8:00 am) so I thought I'd blog a few things I've been wanting to mention but just haven't had the time…
Posted insocial software tech trends
Conference season begins!
And what a season it's going to be! Last year, I gave my first conference talk ever at Computers in Libraries. Since then, I've given around 18 talks and I…
Posted inreference
Fun with Elsevier
At my school, we used to subscribe to the Science Direct engineering package for our online engineering students. It worked well, but got very little use since most of the…
Posted inblogging
Who says memes are frivilous?
I just wanted to post a follow-up to the five non-library blogs meme started by Rachel Singer Gordon. Thanks to people's posts on the topic (see here for many of…
Posted inblogging librarianship
We could be heroes
Wow! I'm really shocked that people would name me as a biblioblogger hero, but am even more shocked that Dorothea Salo would actually start a meme (yes, you did it…
Posted inhi
I am such a sheep!
Doggles and I joined the Mac cult Originally uploaded by librarianmer. This week I have joined not one, but two cults. First, I went and bought a MacBook Pro. It…
Posted inALA librarianship libraries
What about Library Association 2.0?
One thing I have loved about the whole Library 2.0 movement is the push to stamp out the "but we've always done it this way" attitude. I am a strong…
Posted inBook
Wishing it were an April Fools’ Day Prank
Bad news, folks. :( Apparently the printer of my book screwed up big time and the book is going to have to be completely re-printed by another company. According to…
Posted infree the information! online education
In other happy news…
I was beyond thrilled to see the Wired article featuring Helene Blowers' amazing Learning 2.0 project and model. You know when you make it into something like Wired, you've MADE…
Posted inBook social software
The book is here!
The book is here! Originally uploaded by librarianmer. My day started off pretty badly. I woke up and my neck was so stiff and painful that I couldn't turn my…
Posted inblogging librarianship
Krabby Patty
I've got a long list of things I'd like to post about, but I'm just feeling crabby and unable to focus on them right now. I'm not feeling down about…
Want to implement social software at your library?
If you have any interest in implementing social software tools at your library, you may want to check out some of the amazing proposals created by our participants for their…
Making Five Weeks to a Social Library happen: The down and dirty
In this post, I'm going to talk about the decisions we made in creating the course and what I would do differently next time. Hopefully this will be useful to…
