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Xanadu & Libraries. Seriously.
I had the honor of giving my "Hyperlinked Library" talk at the prestigious New York Public Library last week. The question-and-answer session following was wonderful: questions about levels of service...
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Be The Change You Want to Be, and Other Best Practices for Social Software in...
In just 12 months, from the time ALA Techsource published Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software, the influx of 2.0 type tools, books, articles about the tools, and conference...
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Peppy le Pew and Snidely Whiplash
For the past few days I've been an early morning denizen of the Denny's restaurant at the corner of Munras and Fremont in Monterey/>, California/>/>. It's close to my hotel and always open....
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Teaching a Dog New Tricks
When you are training a dog, you do not start with something complicated. You begin with something small and easy: sit. From sit, you move on to tricks that build on that one skill, like shake and lie...
View ArticleEvergreen and Equinox with Karen G. Schneider
Most everyone reading this blog is familiar with Karen G. Schneider. As a recent member of the Techsource team, she has helped us all understand technology a little more clearly. Her new job as...
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On the Information Experience: An ALA TechSource Conversation with John Blyberg
I find myself returning to John Blyberg’s post “Library 2.0 Debased” of a few months back. Last semester was busy: classes to prep, teaching in St. Paul as part of Dominican’s partnership with the...
View ArticleYouTube and the Library World
Earlier this week, some of our colleagues at Booklist became Internet celebrities when the video “Booklist Editors Read for Fun 2007” became a spotlight video on YouTube. This video got me thinking...
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Gaps and Bridges, Bridges and Gaps
There are many stories from the 2008 ALA Annual conference in Anaheim, from Google being MIA on the exhibition floor to what happens when a few hundred librarians descend onto Disneyland. But my...
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Keeping the Library Relevant: A Tour of the Georgia Tech Library Learning...
While in Atlanta in May for SOLINET, Michael Casey and I had the opportunity to tour the Georgia Tech Library Learning Commons. I've followed the blogging of Brian Mathews for some time at The...
View ArticleTech-Savvy Teens Can Help Design Your Library
I think one of the coolest things about a library is that in addition to the service that it provides directly, it is also a forum. Each library serves a community and in turn, that community uses the...
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The Space had to say "Wow!" - The Hammes Information Commons at IUSB
I recently had the chance to visit with long-time colleague and friend Michele Russo, Dean of Library Services at the Franklin D. Schurz Library at Indiana University South Bend. We've known each other...
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Enjoying the Community: The Beginnings of Virtual Common Spaces at Lisle...
Last month, we took a look at one library using the free DIY social networking tool Ning to create an online community. In "Exploring the Virtual Commons: Using Ning to Build a Community at Lafayette...
View ArticleA TechSource Blogger Forum: E-Readers and Libraries
The release of the Kindle 2 has set of a firestorm of speculation about how e-readers are going to transform (destroy?) the publishing industry. Anything with the potential to transform reading has the...
View ArticlePlanning technology for the next 30 years
I don't often post specifically about things I'm involved in at my real job (Head of Library IT at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), and try instead to examine general technology useful to...
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The Digital Divide Inside the Library
Technology and reference are intertwining strands of public service. The task of keeping up with Librarians (and their jobs) is getting techier. As our systems get more sophisticated and our desire to...
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