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Is there a technical services librarian in your life who has inspired you? Do you have a colleague who has tackled today's challenges in technical services and triumphed? Do you know a person who leads the way in innovation, collaboration, or data integration? Is there someone you know who puts the service in technical services? If you know of a person who merits these descriptions, please tell us the name of your nominee by March 30, 2012. The NETSL Award for Excellence in Technical Services will be presented at the NETSL Annual Spring Conference, iLibrary: Digital Futures for Libraries, to be held on Thursday, May 3, 2012, at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
Tame The Web
I’ve been thinking a lot about public libraries/organizations and social media lately, especially on the differences between Twitter and Facebook. I wanted to jot down some notes about what I think works and what doesn’t, & figured I’d share them publicly so that folks can do anything from heartily disagreeing with them in the comments to potentially benefiting from them. I’ve had a personal Twitter account and followed libraries with it since fall of 2007, but have only recently started tweeting for a library system (about a month now). I still have a lot to learn, but I’ve also learned a lot. These notes take the form of advice, and it’s advice I stand behind, but I’m not claiming to be an expert (highly recommended, by the way: this Geek Girls Guide podcast episode on The Cult of Social Media , which covers, among other things, how often “social media expert”/guru/maven is invoked and why it is often a misapplied phrase). *Don’t import your Facebook status updates into Twitter.Now don’t get me wrong–I have been on Twitter. I signed up about two years ago and have used it sporadically ever since. I like the short bursts, but they often are just links to typical stuff found elsewhere.
Library Garden
I remember when I was in library school, a lot of people talked about librarians who were resistant to change and would try to derail your exciting and innovative projects. Often, this discussion was couched in ageist “us” (young, innovative librarians) vs. “them” (old, set-in-their-ways librarians) terms, but even when it wasn’t, the assumption was there that someone bringing new ideas was right and the people resisting those ideas were wrong. After seven years of pushing change and encountering resistance to various projects in libraries, I can say with some certainty that it’s never so black-and-white.
Information Wants To Be Free
PLCMC partners with Alliance Library system to open cultural/creative space in virtual world Charlotte, NC - Oct. 6, 2006 - The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC) and the Alliance Library System are pleased to announce a partnership to collaborate on the "Eye4You Alliance," an island in Teen Second Life that will offer virtual library services to teens. Teen Second Life is a 3-D, international gathering place on the Internet where teens 13-17 can make friends, play, learn and create. Teens create a digital version of themselves, called an avatar, that they use to travel around the "virtual world," meet new people and participate in a variety of activities. The goal of "Eye4You Alliance" is to create an interactive and informative space for young adults within the Teen Second Life virtual world and to collaborate with other educators who serve youth and are already present in Teen Second Life and in real life.
Second Life Library 2.0
LibraryBytes: Helene Blowers
[Warning: A bit of a personal rant here ...] On Saturday morning I'm doing a talk for the Digital Media in a Social World conference being held at OSU. And while this is a topic that I've talked a lot about in the last four years, I have to say that personally I've become a little numb to all the hype today that is around "social media." For me, many of the conversations and conferences around this topic seem to turn into a snake oil salesman dance.OK, I know this may be forcing you to speculate a bit, but honestly, where do you see the line being drawn for most libraries when it comes to this ridiculous drama over eBooks and publishers, concerning limited copies and accessibility in particular. We really aren’t good at standing up for ourselves but this is getting insane. I looked at our OverDrive account the other day and it was very common to see 100-200 holds on 10-20 eBook copies of a particular title. Unbelievable.
Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan
I was thrilled to be a part of the LITA Top Tech Trends discussion at the ALA Midwinter Meeting a few days ago. Tech Trends veterans in attendance (or following along online) might have noticed a slightly different format to the session — each of the five panelists presented a single trend, turned it over to the group for discussion and comment, then we moved on to the next panelist/trend. The second half of the session was devoted to e-Books. As a complete novice (my only experience with an ALA conference prior to Midwinter was the joint CLA/ALA conference held in Toronto in 2003, and even then, as a newly-minted, extremely overwhelmed librarian, all I could manage to take in was the exhibits), I thought the format worked quite nicely.
blogwithoutalibrary.net – libraries, technology, UX, &c.
It’s a pretty standard view of our profession that one of the things that makes a librarian a librarian is that they work in or with a library. That’s changing in weird and new ways, sort of. I just got back from SXSW and was really delighted to see a strong librarian presence in a number of new and useful ways. For people who are already part of the # SXSWLAM movement, you may already know this stuff, but for people curious how to make librarians into a presence, a terrific and “I want to hang out with those people and have what they’re having” presence, read on. A lot of this stuff got started with a few high-traffic groups on facebook.
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Mathemagenic — Lilia Efimova on personal productivity in knowled
It’s hard starting after a break – there are way too many stories to tell and way too many thoughts that came in between. So I start somewhere. I had a burnout – going on and off after my PhD defense and not very obvious behind the usual “not feeling normal” during my pregnancy. But eventually it came to the surface and things are slowly getting better. Between other things that means less time online (and mainly lurking :) and much more time making things with my hands (rather then typing and talking :). And, of course, we had Anna.
Gottmer Uitgevers biedt vanaf donderdag de eerste drie delen van de Gossip Girl-boekenserie als mobiele romans (movels) aan via Movels.eu , een portal voor boeken die op mobieltjes zijn te lezen, opgezet door mobiele softwaremaker The Saints . De Gossip Girl-serie van schrijfster Cecily von Ziegesar is op papier al heel succesvol, vertelt Saskia Balmaekers van Gottmer. “We zijn er in 2003 mee begonnen en zijn nu al toe aan het tiende deel.
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Library Voice
Web Video is a great way to reach patrons Making videos for my library patrons have saved me time, allowed me to better serve my them, and enabled them to quickly find answers to their questions. I first started using web video for library instruction over 6 years ago and have learned a lot along the way. My hope is that the information in this post can help others make web videos and screencasts to reach and teach their patrons as well. Why Web Video?The Library Link of the Day provides you a daily link for keeping up to date with the library profession. Destinations include the latest library news, good reads on the web, and other valuable resources that a library knowledge worker should know about. The link is presented without commentary. Links always lead to free content, but sometimes require registration (also free).
Library Link of the Day
19:45 Tweeted: MT @alaconnect: Coming Soon: A New Look! Read about upcoming changes or get a sneak preview by joining the beta test http://t.co/aSShmhXs 11:45 Tweeted: "How do libraries cultivate participatory literacy to disrupt... the "banking" system of education?" w/ @buffyjhamilton http://t.co/sYLKckud March 25th and we have bleeding hearts March 25th and the fountains are on #crazy