The Physical Library in the 21st Century?

From the comments on this post:
“… what happens to the physical library? If Topeka Public mails the holds to patrons and they can drop the returned item at boxes, and the patrons need not come to the physical library… I’m the systems librarian at the Academy Library Budapest and am alarmed by the declining [...]

You-promotion or Me-promotion?

Just saw this on Seth Godin’s blog today, and thought I’d pass it along. Go read it - but here’s the jist:

Seth writes about self-promotion
He explains that 37 Signals doesn’t do self-promotion, because they’re “promoting useful ideas. They’re promoting tactics or products that actually benefit the person they’re reaching out to.”

Then he sums it up [...]

More MeeboMe Ideas

Wow - there have been lots of comments on the MeeboMe widget. Great! Some other libraries are trying it out - check the comments on my original post and on Jenny Levine’s post titled Mashing on the Library, Part I to find them. Others have been emailing me, asking for details.
Now, let’s take this one [...]

Fun With our Meebo Widget and the Library Catalog

Update: I’m getting some questions on how we did this, so… We have a Horizon system - look for the searchinput.xsl page in your XSL folder. Then find the appropriate chunk of code where the “nothing found” message and table appears, and add the meebome widget there.
And if you have more questions, feel free to [...]

Actual Work Using Facebook

Just a small aside… but I’ve been doing real live work the last two days using facebook (go friend me - David Lee King at facebook)!
Michael Porter, my writing buddy, is to blame for some of it… We write the Internet Spotlight column in Public Libraries Magazine together, and he posted a question to [...]

Ignoring our Digital Community

Lately, I’ve been hearing librarians say some interesting things about incorporating emerging online trends into their already hectic work lives. They’ll say “wow, this is cool” when I give a presentation - but when implementation time arrives - when these busy people actually need to start incorporating some of these new things into their work [...]

Salt Lake City Public Library Presentations

Yesterday, I spoke at Salt Lake City Public Library’s staff day. I actually gave three presentations - one keynote and two breakout sessions… all three were extremely fun talks!
Salt Lake’s staff day theme this year was “Transform.. Adapt… Grow.” Transformation is a strong theme with them right now - for example, take a peek [...]

Mississippi Library Association Presentation

I recently spoke at the Mississippi Library Association’s annual conference, held in Vicksburg this year. I had a blast! My first job out of library school was in Mississippi, so I was able to hang with old friends - very nice indeed.
And here’s a link to the 2.0/emerging trends presentation I gave.
Enjoy!
 

IL2007, Day 3: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services

Casey Bisson (met him for the first time - nice guy!)
“Libraries are much larger than our books and our OPACs”
Catalog challenges:

usability
findability
remindability

We use Linux daily - it’s the dominant platform of most social web apps
IBM saves over $900,000,000 annually because of LInux
Scriblio.net (used to be his WPOPAC) - very cool. He’s making this easily available to [...]

IL2007, Day 2: Helene Blowers and Meredith Farkas talk about learning

Meredith Farkas - building a foundation with five weeks to a social library

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 [...]

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