My Mountain Plains Library Association Talk

Just got back from Salt Lake City yesterday - I gave a breakfast talk titled The Future is Not Out of Reach: Trends & Transformations for MPLA’s annual conference. Some of you might enjoy the pdf of the slides, too - feel free to click and peek!
James Rettig, of all people, attended my presentation (hey [...]

Working Your Community’s Blogosphere

Recently, Darren Rowse at ProBlogger posted Five Reasons Why Mom Blogs Are the Blogs to Watch. Darren says “Mom blogs are poised to become the next big “It” when it comes to the internet–they’re gathering power like no other blogging niche and will only get bigger and better.” Then he lists some reasons why - [...]

Admin Level Rights on Staff PCs?

I am looking for examples of libraries that DON’T lock down their staff PCs… libraries that provide power/super-user/admin level rights for staff. We will be re-doing our staff PC profiles later on this year, and I want to give our staff as much freedom as possible.
So - who’s doing it or has done it, has [...]

Technology Job at Washburn University

Just a head’s up for those looking for a tech job in a library. Last week at Computers in Libraries, I met another Topeka librarian - Alan Bearman, the Interim Dean of Libraries at Washburn University in Topeka, KS. After we got over meeting in DC instead of Topeka, he mentioned a job opening his [...]

CIL2008, Day 2: Making Time for Web 2.0

Here’s a link to the presentation I gave at Computers in Libraries, titled Making Time for Web 2.0
Enjoy!

CIL2008, Day 2: Transparency, Planning & Change: See-Through Libraries

Speakers:
Michael Casey & Michael Stephens
This session is a standing-room only session!
Organizations are starting to let their staff blog - huge change from not long ago
Not always easy to implement new things
Quote: “Every time people really like something, we get rid of it.” real quote from librarian at PLA. Ouch.
Showing signs from libraries - bad signs [...]

CIL2008, Day 2 Keynote: “The Dutch Boys”

Two years ago, Delft bought a mobile recording facility - to teach kids how to tell their own stories via sound and video.
These guys do a fun presentation. They talked about the documentary they made, visiting libraries across America. Their first stop was New York - so Eric asked if anyone was in the audience [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: User-Generated Content

Speaker: Roy Tennant
Why?
more content is better
more access is better
can help provide personalized service
Kete
kete.net.nz - not heard about this. Looks like a web app for housing digitized stuff, that’s more social than the usual. EX - some people can create ads on the site…
Descriptive Contributions
ex - allowing customers to add content to old photos (ie., who [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: Hi Tech + Hi Touch

Speaker: Jenny Levine
Computers and the Internet will not save the world (Clifford Stoll, from 1995) - what’s missing is human contact. This is also true in libraryland.
We know how to do this in our buildings:
- Delft Public Library (DOK)
- they have electronic based contextual digital signage (run off a Wii, of all things)
- they integrate [...]

Interesting Job Titles

From my comments, someone just asked for a list of interesting librarian-related job titles. Can you guys help out? I’ll start the list off with some previous posts of mine:

NextGen Librarian
Digital Access Architect
21st Century Librarian

Then add in a few others:

Director of Digital Strategy (Helene Blowers‘ job title)
Digital Branch & Services Manager (that’s me)
Open Source Evangelist [...]

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