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Roles and responsibilities for 2.0 technologies

I get asked a lot of things via email from librarians, but very few actually make it to this blog. This question was so interesting and probably better answered by…
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It’s not about us (or more ramblings on possessiveness)

I know Jenica wondered if her blog post, Rambling about possessiveness, really had a point, but it was right in line with things I've been thinking a lot about lately.…
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Great new books on my “to read” list

I must admit that the last time I read a non-baby-related book was probably last Fall. And now all these great books are coming out from the LIS presses that…
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2.0 or and bust

Since before my brain was hijacked by baby stuff, I've been thinking a lot about how many third party Web 2.0 vendors libraries are dependent upon (not to mention all…
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Looking beyond the technolust

Let me preface this post with the statement that I hate the term Luddite. I think it's often used to dismiss people and ideas that differ from our own. It's…
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I’ve been provoked!

Steven Bell commented in a recent ACRLog post that there hasn't been much reaction to the Taiga Forum Provocative Statements. I've seen a few reactions online and here's mine --…
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Congrats to the 2009 Movers and Shakers!

Take a look at this truly amazing group of people that Library Journal chose to recognize this year. I've never known more folks on the list and so many are…
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It’s not all about the tech – why 2.0 tech fails

Yesterday, I gave a talk for the ACRL Virtual Conference entitled Can't Get There From Here: Achieving Organization 2.0. If you're registered for the Virtual Conference or the regular ACRL…
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Online conferences – the future is now

I've been lucky to have had some recent involvement with two online conference models -- one that recently happened and one that will be happening soon. I'm really pleased to…
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Separate but not equal?

When I read David King's post about Ask-a-Librarian services last week, I didn't have a strong emotional response to it. That was, until he wrote a follow up which brought…
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Technology education and the “real world”

I just love that feeling of serendipity when I find that people are thinking about the same things I am at the same time. Karin Dalziel made an impassioned case…
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What’s new at Maintain IT

The Maintain IT project is awesome, so when equally awesome Stephanie Gerding asked me to pass on info about their new offerings, I didn't hesitate: The MaintainIT Project is pleased…
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Fomenting revolt in Iceland

I got back from Iceland this weekend just in time for a storm to knocked our power out at home. It's back on and I'm slowly recovering from the travel,…
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SOPAC 2.0 at Darien Public Library

Run, don't walk to check out the Darien Public Library's awesome new Drupal-based website along with the John Blyberg-designed new-and-improved SOPAC 2.0. I, for one, am totally impressed with the…
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Not without the Web

A week and a half ago, I was giving a talk in South Florida (where I used to live) and it's made me a little reflective about how much my…
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Value in the online world

I've been thinking a lot about how we value online things in light of a few interesting posts I've read recently. The first was Walt Crawford's post about some negative…
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Building Academic Library 2.0

I am on a roll with this travel mojo! On Monday, I visited the Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians in Quincy, MA to give a preconference entitled…
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If you haven’t heard of it, it’s new to you!

I don't write much on this blog about the gadgets and applications I use, but I've recently started using several things that I thought people might want to know about…
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Collecting blogs in archives

One of my former students from SJSU had an interesting question for me about archiving student and faculty blogs: I am in the midst of reading Varsity Letters : Documenting…
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Computers in Libraries (CIL2008) – My Brain is Full

the group - for Connie Originally uploaded by cindiann I had a really wonderful time at Computers in Libraries, as always. While there are always certain talks where the delivery…
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