What struck me most about the conference wasn’t something from a presentation I saw. What struck me most was how many laptops the crowd had. Four years ago there’d maybe be two in an audience. This year there were dozens. I don’t know why there was such a dramatic increase, but [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
flickr at IL2006
27 Oct 06 – 11:53 pm
It is a bit nutty how popular flickr has become at library conferences. Look at the growth of photos taken, uploaded, and tagged with:
il2006 – 1,880
il06 – 117
total – 1997 (as of this blog post)
il2005 – 326
il05 – 564
total – 890 (as of this blog post)
That’s more than double in a year. [...]
Is something up with the Library of Congress’ QuestionPoint service?
27 Oct 06 – 4:29 pm
I’ve recieved a few emails from the Library of Congress’ “Ask a Librarian…” service that I wasn’t supposed to get. Either patrons have started entering in my email address as their own for the past two weeks or there’s, well, something wrong with the service. I don’t know which is more likely.
One [...]
myspace/facebook/flickr/etc a fad?
26 Oct 06 – 6:07 pm
Tomorrow’s Soaring to Excellence program – Best New Technologies: Keeping Up with the Storm – is going to be a solid program. I’ll post some sweet video once I have access to it. Brian Mathews is joining us via telephone for a portion of the program and said something great during rehearsal. [...]
new gadgets presentation
24 Oct 06 – 11:05 am
Yesterday I gave a presentation with Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina Pacifici about new and upcoming gadgets. We intended the session to be fun as well as informational. Judging by the laughs, we were successful. I don’t use too many gadgets (ok, maybe I’m in denial – cell for camera/internet/text, GPS, bike computers, [...]
bonus questions
20 Oct 06 – 12:47 pm
The LiB and I bombarded our audience for our SirsiDynix Institute program with a bunch of ideas and information. Since it was only an hour session, this left plenty of questions. We took some time to answer them, figuring they’ll be useful for more than the individuals that asked. Here they are.
How [...]
MySpace Invaders
18 Oct 06 – 3:07 pm
The title slide for my presentation about MySpace and libraries.
ranganathan stickers!
18 Oct 06 – 3:05 pm
I made a “André the Giant” style image starring our friend Ranganthan some time back. A LIS student from Simmons email to ask if he could make some stickers for his classmates and then sent me some. I only have about about 12, but I’ll bring them to Internet Librarian [...]
a lesson from puma
10 Oct 06 – 4:12 pm
[Puma Anjan 2 by bobafred]
In my SirsiDynix Institute talk with the Librarian in Black this morning I mentioned that putting our users in control is a good idea. Sarah gave the concrete example of how power-enabled teen advisors can invigorate a YA department. We weren’t advocating letting the inmates run the asylum [...]
the learning community
3 Oct 06 – 12:13 pm
One text for my Admin of the School Media Center class this quarter is Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning which is put out by ALA. The opening chapter forwards the idea of creating a “learning community” in schools:
“This new learning community is not limited by time, place, age, occupation, or disciplinary borders [...]
