Update on ALA’s District Dispatch Podcast

Remember awhile back, when I posted about ALA’s District Dispatch blog? Jenny Levine commented (among others) - which is good, because she “has the power” (said with that superhero echoey effect) to fix that kind of thing.
And she did! today I can successfully listen to and download the audio file manually, and I can also [...]

How David Makes Videos

From comments on my ALA Midwinter 2007: It Can Be Confusing post, Nancy Dowd asks:
“David, What great quality video - what kind of camera did you use? Any hints on how you posted the video?”
Cool question, and thanks! Here’s what I do:

I currently use a Sanyo Xacti HD1A camcorder (here’s a great review of the [...]

The Next DOPA?

From my comments - “Dopa is reborn as DOPA jr… ” (thanks, Steve!)
From the full article: “Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, introduced S.B. 49 at the beginning of the
current legislative session. The bill is reported to have identical
language to DOPA, with one addition. According to a report on ZDNet, Stevens added language that had been
part of [...]

Inviting Participation, Part 5: Specific Tools - MySpace

This is part 5 of my Inviting Participation in Web 2.0 series of articles.
So far, I’ve introduced both active and passive forms of inviting
participation using web 2.0 tools, and explained how to do both using
blogs. This time, let’s examine MySpace.
MySpace is like a closed web 2.0 free-for-all, complete with blogs,
shared calendars, “friends,” videos and photos [...]

Customer Service When No One is Looking

Just a random thought on customer service. I’m currently reading a book by Jim Palmer (an old friend from my days in Nashville) titled Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God. It’s an interesting book (though I realize not everyone’s cup of tea).
Palmer mentions loving libraries, and then goes on to say this (it’s not [...]

ALA Midwinter 2007: It can be confusing!

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ALA Midwinter was a big conference - one that had many meetings in many different hotels. To the right is a video of me trying (almost unsuccessfully) to get to a program at the conference. I was confused - the hotel the program was held at, as far as I could tell, didn’t [...]

ALA Midwinter 2007: Digital Gaming in Library Instruction

I attended the ACRL Instruction Section Current Issue Digest and Discussion Forum on digital gaming in library instruction. It was pretty interesting - here are my notes, mainly on comments and questions I found interesting, in fairly random order (with two wicked cool ideas that came up, too):

You could use Second Life as a platform [...]

ALA Midwinter 2007: Raising the Next-Gen Resource Sharing Librarian

Mary Hollerich, Audrey Huff, Michael Porter, and Michael Stephens spoke.
Mary Hollerich (National Library of Medicine):

Spoke a little about kids today: different learning styles, tech savvy, collaborative, thriving on change, multitaskers, learning resource sharing on the job
Resource sharing is more than just ILL: blurred boundaries with ILL, circulation, and acquisitions
Expanded concept of resource sharing: lots of [...]

Michael, david and DDR

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Michael Porter and I decided to test out DDR, which was set up at ALA’s Techsource booth at the ALA Midwinter meeting just held in Seattle, WA. As you can see from the video, we had a good time!
Michael Porter and I decided to test out DDR, which was set up at ALA’s [...]

ALA Midwinter 2007: OCLC Social Networking Panel

These are notes from the session I participated in…
Lisa (need to find her last name!):

They created I-Go, a library toolbar. Quicklinks to library resources. The search on the toolbar searches lots of stuff (ie., library resources). Cool. It DOESN’T search Google.
MySpace: www.myspace.com/undergradlibrary - cool URL. They have chosen to not actively recruit friends. They repost [...]

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