IL2007, Day 2: Teen Second Life

I spoke on Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s teen Second Life projects (slide will be posted in another post)…
Kelly Czarnecki
They have set up a way for teens to pay library fines in Linden Dollars - and the teens set it up!
take it to another level - being able to interact with people you couldn’t [...]

IL2007, Day 2: Promoting Play Through Online Discovery: Lego Building

Meredith Farkas:

issue - lots of people don’t have access to continuing education programs
hands-on learning is important
online courses can be run cheaply

talked about Five Weeks to a Social Library:
had 40 participants, all kinds of libraries

tools used:
drupal - it allows multiple blogs, all in the same place, and static content, too
blip.tv
opal

lessons:
playing with technology is essential to learning [...]

IL2007, Day 1: Cranky? Boomers & Older Adults are Greying the Internet!

Cranky? Boomers & Older Adults are Greying the Internet!, Allen Kleiman
seniornet, thirdage, eons - examples of senior-focused social networking cites
these sites are doing something, but aren’t doing a very good job of it.
said a 46 year old isn’t a baby boomer… ??? (picky sideline thing)
most of these sites are focused on seniors or boomers with [...]

IL2007, Day 1: Integrating Libraries & Communities Online

Integrating Libraries & Communities Online, Glenn Peterson, Marilyn Turner
Marilyn Turner
bookspace.org - they made this. It’s cool. It brings together book lists, author lists, librarian tips, etc… many genre guides
it’s only focused on books - so it still has the traditional librarian bias to content
they include a librarian’s blog on each genre page
assign 2 people per [...]

IL2007, Day 1: Putting Evidence-based Practice to Work

Putting Evidence-based Practice to Work, Frank Cervone and Amanda Hollister
Frank:

most librarians haven’t been trained in HCI
defined evidence-based practice
data provides primary evidence for decision-making
it’s not “common sense” - different stuff generally happens than what you “think” will happen
Ex - doing a usability test, then comparing it with other similar tests to see the larger picture
similar to [...]

Internet Librarian 2007 Meebo Chat Room

Michael Porter made a Meebo chat room for Internet Librarian 2007 - let’s see if I can embed it in this blog post…

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Topeka’s Techie Toybox

I thought some of you might be interested in my library’s “techie toybox” that I have been purchasing over the summer. What is a techie toybox? In our case, it’s a bunch of gadgets, cameras, and the like that library staff can check out and, well, do stuff with. Here’s the list of gadgets (photos [...]

New Song and Video: Social Digital Global Shift

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I recorded a new song and video for y’all! This song is all about social networking and how people are using the emerging social web to connect with each other, to communicate… and in my case, to sing songs to my blog readers.
When writing the song, I was thinking about [...]

Information Tomorrow has finally arrived!

Cool beans! Rachel Singer Gordon’s newest book, Information Tomorrow: Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public and Academic Libraries, just came out. I know, because I received a copy in the mail today.
And why did I receive a copy? Because I wrote one of the chapters! My chapter is chapter 10, An Experience to [...]

What did David do today?

What does a Digital Branch Manager do, exactly? I frequently wonder that (since I AM one and all)… so I thought I’d keep track of what I did today. The list below provides an interesting snapshot into what a librarian might do in a new-fangled, social networking, digital branch management type job:

attended a meeting about [...]

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