I’m at the second annual Kansas Libary Camp today. I’ll be blogging the sessions I attend. You can follow on twitter #libcampks09. The sessions have been decided and there should be notes posted by the end of the day. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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Fee based Workshops should the presenter get paid?
I got into a conversation with Joshua Neff of Library Society of the World fame (among many other things), about this topic and he said – you should blog about it. Who am I to ignore a direct order Here is the jist. There are a lot of ways to present in libraryland. You can submit to a conference, which may or may not waive the registration fee and depending on the circumstances offer other compensations including but not limited to travel, hotel & meal expenses. This ranges widely from conference to conference and person to person. Ok I accept that situation. I know there are opinions on which conferences do what, but I’m not addressing that now. Then there are the other presentations/workshops where you’re asked/invited to come talk/teach/train about something. Some of these are free to attendees (never mind membership dues) and some are fee based. Here is my issue – if attendees are charged a fee the presenter should expect to be compensated. I’m not saying don’t present without compensation. I agree with Josh, I’m all for sharing information for free. But you should ask up front if attendees be charged a fee. If you’re going to
Congratulations to Library Journal’s 2009 Movers & Shakers
Last year I posted a list of Movers & Shakers with a link to their blogs, so I thought why not make it a tradition. Below are the names linking to the LJ post about them and a link to their blog/wiki/website. While you’re at it check out this map that LJ put together showing the locations of M&S for 2002-2009 Maureen Ambrosino Kenning Arlitsch Barry Bailey Brian Bannon Rebecca M. Blakeley - http://msugovdocs.blogspot.com. Erik Boekesteijn – www.shanachietour.com Chad Boeninger – libraryvoice.com Jill Bourne J. Drusilla Carter Natalie Caruso Susan Conlon Karen Coombs – www.librarywebchic.net Kim Duckett- www.lib.ncsu.edu/course Carlene Engstrom Ann Dutton Ewbank – www.fundourfuturearizona.org Lia Friedman – blog.ucsd.edu/artslib and www.theexperiment.org and radicalreference.info Dean Giustini – weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar; wiki: hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca; twitter: twitter.com/giustini Toby Greenwalt – www.theanalogdivide.com and twitter.com/theanalogdivide Jason Griffey – www.jasongriffey.net/wp Carey Gross – www.elflibraries.org Lisa Harris - startwithastory.wordpress.com and jailtutoring.wordpress.com William Harmer Sarah Houghton-Jan – LibrarianInBlack.net Ingrid Kalchthaler - http://booksandsomuchmore.blogspot.com/ Nancy J. Keane – nancykeane.com Karen Kleckner Keefe – www.onebookonezipcode.org Casey Long Laverne Mann – redlibcomic.blogspot.com Daniel Marcou – www.streetfiction.org Jamie Markus – wyominglibraries.org/trusteetrouble.html Matt L. Moran – library.com Joe Murphy – joemurphy.notlong.com Rebecca Near – www.grpl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Kristi L. Palmer Dave Pattern – www.daveyp.com/blog Ken Pienkos Michael Porter – libraryman.com/blog Lauren
What’s the matter with our profession?
It’s a question many of us with an MLS, and those without, struggle with. Just take a look at the Library Day in the Life blog entries. You’ll see a wide, and I mean WIDE, range of variety in how we spend our days, weeks and years and our education levels. Matt Hamilton wrote a post with some observations on the field, he’s about to graduate with an MLS and he’s the Library Innovation and Technology Manager at the Boulder Public Library. He points to some problems in the field, namely the wide variety of what we do. I agree with him when he says : The field is not in good shape. I don’t think adding “information” to the MLS is the answer, either. I don’t think that by further genericizing the profession by calling ourselves “Information Professionals” is any kind of an answer either.. I don’t completely agree with his solution. It’s time to stop making our field generic in the I-schools, and to let our students get the specialized skill-set they need. And I don’t mean that you take a “track” that consists of three classes providing a shallow introduction to your area of specialization. I mean
23 Things Summit Wrap Up #23smt
Yesterday’s 23 Thing Summit was great and intense (audio, slides, chat and Twitter!) There were almost 300 attendees (I think). WebJunction and MaintainIT staff did a great job wrangling the presenters and the attendees. Thank you Brenda, Michael, Jennifer and everyone else! If you couldn’t make it, you can find the slides, audio and chat transcripts here and David took some notes. There was even a Twitter hash tag #23smt, which popped up on Twitter trends about 40 minutes in. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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