Additional Questions to Answer When Changing the Unchangeable

Barbara Kelly, from the Manage This! blog, just mentioned my How Can We Change the Unchangeable post - and added some amazing stuff. She added two questions, and then included a short commentary that’s hugely important to this discussion.
First, her additional questions:

“What sort of leadership do we need from innovators and change instigators in librarianship [...]

Casa Grande Library System is Twittering!

Casa Grande Library System is twittering (at http://twitter.com/cglibrary)! Looks like they’re dumping news from their RSS feeds into their twitter account.
This is the first actual library system I’ve heard of that’s twittering… anyone else know of a twittering library (ok - I realize that sounds funny…)?
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David’s Video of the Computers in Libraries 2007 InfoTubey Awards

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Quicktime .mov format | Youtube version
At the Computers in Libraries 2007 conference, Information Today held the first InfoTubey Awards. From their website, “[the Infotubey] awards will be presented to those organizations or individuals for outstanding YouTube productions. Premiering at the 2007 Computers in Libraries conference, these awards recognize those creating YouTube library-related productions. [...]

Links to my Talks at Computers in Libraries 2007

This should be my last post on Computers in Libraries 2007
here are links to the pdf files of my talks:

Guiding Libraries & Info Pros Through Change
Setting up the New Stuff: Planning & Implementing Library 2.0
Introduction to Videoblogging (part of my post conference session on podcasting and videoblogging with David Free)

Enjoy!
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How Can We Change the Unchangeable, or David’s Rant

I learned one other thing at Computers in Libraries this year, and I’d like to share it in the hopes of starting a healthy discussion (and hopefully to collectively start figuring out how to fix this problem).
Here’s what I experienced during my Change Management talk:
Personally, I thought this talk would attract a smaller audience - [...]

Five Things I Experienced at the 2007 Computers in Libraries Conference

As usual, the Computers in Libraries conference was great! I always find the Information Today conferences extremely useful. It’s a great way to keep my finger on the current pulse of library and information specialist emerging tech thought, I always enjoy meeting new people and hanging out with old friends, and I always learn something [...]

Straw Tricks at the Computers in Libraries 2007 post conference

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I taught a post conference session with David Free at the 2007 Computers in Libraries conference on podcasting and videoblogging, and we needed something to videotape. here’s our video!
ps - this is my second attempt to post it - something went wrong the first time around… update: and it worked! Yippie!
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Straw Tricks at the Computers in Libraries 2007 Post Conference

Update - ok - this post didn’t work… but I reposted the video, and everything worked THIS time. The REAL Straw Tricks post can be found here. Thanks for everyone’s patience!

Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 3 - The Library of the Future

They wanted to be the first of the new libraries
two goals:
1. design and build an absolutely fantastic new library
2. use technology to be more efficient and effective - but it will meet our patrons’ demands
They have one rule - tolerate uncertainty
continuing vision:
eternal values
new technology
Next, Alan Gray talked about their library building…
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Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 3 - Alliance & Charlotte Libraries Get a Second Life: Library Services in a Virtual World

Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 3 - Alliance & Charlotte Libraries Get a Second Life: Library Services in a Virtual World
Lori Bell, Tom Peters, Kelly Czarnecki, and Matt Gullett
Lori - intro to second life and their projects
two main projects - adult and teen focuses
5000 daily visitors to the Alliance Information Archipelago and 2-3000 teen visitors [...]

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