6 Terms that Instantly Reveal You as a Librarian. Clutter, physical and mental - or, organizing for the differently organized - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians. I’m finally going to read all the books I have stacked up on de-cluttering and getting organized, and then I’m going to share the accumulated wisdom with you.
That is, I’m going to read them if I can find them. One of the basic themes of this blog is managing mental clutter to become more productive in academia. However, the world of things can also impinge on our ability to produce new knowledge. Open Letters: An Open Letter to the Look That Slowly Forms On Your Face When I Tell You I Am a Librarian. Dear Look That Slowly Forms On Your Face When I Tell You I Am a Librarian: The raised eyebrows and intake of breath fool no one.
As a librarian, I am well aware that most people do not find my job an interesting topic of conversation at a neighborhood barbecue, music festival or, to use a more keenly relevant example, the cocktail party we both attended last Friday night. I believe that those four minutes we spent together, both holding a glass of shiraz in one hand and crumpled up napkins in the other, created a camaraderie that allow me to offer a few delicate suggestions.
Learning about CILIP and ALA governance. I’ve always been interested in knowing more about the governance of professional organisations such as Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and American Library Association (ALA).
I like to know how decisions are made and the structure of the organisation so that I can work out where I best fit and how I can help move things forward. I’ve been involved in the following ways so far to help me begin to get my head around this: I’m breaking up with eBooks (and you can too) I want to break up with eBooks.
Don’t get me wrong, eBooks is dead sexy and great arm candy at parties, as well as a magnet for attention and memorable experiences. But man…eBooks makes for a crap boyfriend. This relationship is as dysfunctional as it gets. Is Belbroughton phone box the world’s smallest library? They say the best things come in small packages.
And that is certainly true for the Belbroughton Book Exchange near Stourbridge. They say the best things come in small packages. Undaimonia: The Chicago blog post - Part 1. 14 July 2012, 2000 CST I’m in America.
I’m standing on the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower – a floor also known as the Skydeck. Below us – me and five other British librarians – stretches Chicago, Illinois: to the north and west, the sun sets over suburbs while, in the foreground, glass and metal skyscrapers are lit with glittering points of shimmering orange and red. The city blocks stretch out geometrically like a chess board: standing at the right angle, they appear as straight lines and perfect rectangles but move ever so slightly and it all falls out of alignment paradoxically becoming a sight which is more comforting, more beautiful. Run up to the Olympics « Kate from UK. We’re one day away from the official start of the London 2012 games, and London (if not the UK) is being engulfed in Olympic atmosphere.
At the SLA conference in Chicago last week lots of people asked me about my reaction to London staging the Olympics. In true British style I replied whingeing about the traffic chaos I’d have to endure! There’s been a lot in the UK media this week telling us all to rejoice in the Olympics being here, but for those of us in London we’re still all grumbling about our journeys to work. Maybe, however, with the opening ceremony tomorrow we’re beginning to revel in the joys of being host city! Where next: Pecha Kucha for professional presentations - Do's and Don'ts. I've seen a lot of Pecha Kucha presentations recently and I'm developing opinions on what makes a good one work in a library/IT conference context. The format requires a powerpoint presentation that features 20 slides, each one a single picture, that automatically moves onto the next slide after 20 seconds. Here are my personal do's and don'ts: Do's: Use abstract pictures rather than diagrams.
Undaimonia. Welcome To The Sue Hill Website. Library marketing toolkit, Information professional. » Blog LISNetwork. #UKLibChat. RICS London Bookshop (ricsldnbookshop) on Pinterest. Lambeth College Vauxhall Library Books On Display. 20 Ways Libraries Are Using Pinterest Right Now. The 10 Rights Of A Reader. Get involved – it’s the way forward. BookBytes - BookBytes. Library Wanderer: Really cool AND a librarian (also known as #cpd23: library roots/routes) Library Camps: what do you need. The Wolfenden Report. Twinset & Purls. Kangarooth. Organising Chaos. Future Ready Begins Today Group News. Connector Josh Bycel raised $50,000 in three weeks to fund a medical clinic at a refugee camp in Darfur.
We all know people like them, people who seem to know everyone. Linked data: not just theory. Beyond books: what it takes to be a 21st century librarian. Librarians provide training to show people how to search for information and evaluate what they find.
Photograph: Science photo library. On the possession of ideas by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Bethan's information professional blog. Librarian's Weekly. Lesley Robinson: Home. New Information Certification. Google. 5 Lonely Google Applications For Competitive Intelligence. While going through my news screening dashboard last week, I stumbled on the recent findings by Mineria , which conducted a study on how Google search applications are being used by information users. A presentation of the methodology that was used and results can be found on Slideshare. (Please see: “ Google Tools for Competitive Intelligence “) In short, it was discovered that the five most important tools for competitive intelligence are: Google Search Google Alert Google News.
Google Maps. Screen reader users: click here for plain HTML +You Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail.
23 Things for Professional Development. ‘An absolute prerequisite’: The importance of user privacy and trust in maintaining academic freedom at the library. This research investigated the importance of user—library trust in ensuring vital freedom of inquiry in academic libraries, exploring its strength through comparison with attitudes towards the National Identity Card Scheme (NICS) within the various libraries of a large UK university.
An online survey of students and interviews with librarians revealed student opposition to the NICS and distrust of the government. Measurement of pre-existing privacy opinions linked opposition to NICS with concerns about privacy. Students were confident in library data protection practices, although surprising discrepancies existed between user perceptions and library practices. Libraries successfully protected personal data from intrusion, but showed a certain complacency and reluctance to prioritize data protection that may be ill-advised given a climate of increasing surveillance. Become Enchanted! Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple.
Kawasaki is the author of ten books including Enchantment, Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. Librarian's list of 60 challenges to do at the age of 60. Library Camp.