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What’s New at Libraries and Transliteracy – Authors, Examples and ALA

Bobbi Newman — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:16:30 +0000

There have been some exciting things happening over at the Libraries and Transliteracy site!

Transliteracy in Practice – We are looking for examples of libraries working to make staff and patrons transliterate. We want libraries and transliteracy to not only be a resource for theory and news but also a place you can go for real world examples and ideas.

Any programming, instruction, work process, training or whatever you’re doing to make staff or patrons have the tools, skills and information they need to be active success citizens in the 21st century, we want to hear about! We’ve set up a page to show case the stories and a form to collect them.

We’ve added two new authors!

Gretchen Caserotti is the Head of Children and Teen Services at Darien Library (CT) where she is working hard to redefine public library service to kids and families in the 21st century. Her interest in technology, media and usability was developed while completing the MLIS program at Pratt Institute in New York City (2008). She currently serves as a member of the ALSC Children and Technology Committee and is a member of the Media Ecology Association. In 2010 Caserotti was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal.

Anthony Molaro is the Head of Technical Services and Automation for the Messenger Public Library of North Aurora. Anthony is currently a PhD student at Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science where he holds an MLIS. Anthony is also an adjunct instructor and usually teaches cataloging and classification . He is also aninformation activist, and advocates for the removal of barriers between people and information. Anthony is one of the co-founders of the Chicago Deskset.

Anthony is currently scheduled to deliver the Keynote Address at the 2010 Arizona Library Association Conference. He also writes and presents on a variety of topics. His interests include technology and libraries, eBooks and eReaders, organization of information, digital media, the digital divide, information activism and social justice, and transliteracy.

The Translitearcy Interest Group at Midwinter and Annual - We will be having a discussion meeting at the MidWinter conference. It’s at 1:30 on Monday the 10th. If you’ll be at MW please come by. Stay tuned for more info about Annual Similar Posts:

Libraries in a Transliterate, Technology Fluent World #intlib10

Bobbi Newman — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:52:00 +0000

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Libraries and Transliteracy Swag

Bobbi Newman — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:07:38 +0000

Thanks to the logo contest we had last month over at Libraries and Transliteracy we now have swag!

Yes we’ve opened our very own Cafepress store for Libraries and Transliteracy Swag! You can get just about anything from coffee cups, totebags (come on you can never have enough totebags) to baseball caps.

I ordered a totebag and a coffee cup and you can see the photos on Flickr. We’d love to see pictures of your swag in action, you can email them to me or add them to our group on Flickr.Similar Posts:

Transliteracy is Now a LITA Interest Group

Bobbi Newman — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:52:35 +0000

I’m thrilled to announced that there is a Transliteracy Interest Group within the Library & Information Technology Association( LITA) division of the American Library Association (ALA).

I think Tom said it best in his announcement:

I often joke that I get more accomplished at conferences at the bar after the sessions are over than I do during the conference. Well, here is a rather clear result that began as a conversation over drinks

I was in Boston for Midwinter and on the last day of the conference met some people including the fabulous Lisa Carlucci and Tom Ipri for drinks. Libraries and Transliteracy wasn’t even a blog then but Tom and I knew we wanted to promote the concept. Thanks to a suggestion and encouragement by Lisa we began working on the Interest Group.

I was a little leery of putting it within LITA as people often think Transliteracy is just about technology and I was concerned this would only further confusion. But I think LITA is the best home for the group.

We will continue to blog at Libraries and Transliteracy (keep your eyes open for some new authors!). We will be using ALA Connect for official Interest Group business, you do not need to be a member of ALA to join Connect and be a member of the group. We also have the Google Group (which we aren’t really using) and Facebook page for L&T business not related to ALA.Similar Posts:

Please Vote for the New Libraries and Transliteracy Logo

Bobbi Newman — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:11:09 +0000

Please take a few moments to vote for your favorite two options in the new Libraries and Transliteracy logo*

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Why Transliteracy? An Introduction for Librarians – a Tech Talk with Michael Sauers

Bobbi Newman — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:10:36 +0000

I had the honor of being Michael Sauers guest on his NCompass Live Tech Talk series. I did a brief overview of transliteracy and its importance to libraries. The session was recorded and will be up after some editing, in the meantime here are my slides and some links.

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Sign Up For Tech Talk With Michael Sauers – Transliteracy

Bobbi Newman — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:03:51 +0000

On Wednesday I have the honor of being the guest on Tech Talk with Michael Sauers for the Nebraska Library Commission. I will be giving a brief introduction to transliteracy then answering questions from Michael and others. I’m excited about the conversational tone of this talk versus the presentations I’ve done on tranlsliteracy!

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Libraries and Transliteracy Needs You!

Bobbi Newman — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:00:14 +0000

Yes You! Libraries and Transliteracy needs a logo, and not the one I threw together for our facebook group. We (the authors) have discussed it and decided our talents lie elsewhere. So we are having a contest!

Design a logo for Libraries and Transliteracy!

There are no rules or guidelines for the logo. Something that reflects what transliteracy means to you.

To submit your design please email it to me bobbi.newman AT gmail.com by July 31st.

I’ll post them on the blog, and the winner will be determined by reader feedback and blog authors.

Prize: Unfortunately we can’t offer a fabulous vacation or $500,000 to the winner. We can offer the street cred of saying you created our logo and I promise to put together a box of fun for the winner. :-)

As John points out you don’t have to have expensive software to create something there are plenty of free options out there.Similar Posts:

Publishing is the New Literacy

Bobbi Newman — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:41:27 +0000

In a recent piece at egdge.org Clay Shirky talks about the changes brought about by the internet and relates them to historical events.

To make a historical analogy with the last major increase in the written word, you could earn a living in 1500 simply by knowing how to read and write. The spread of those abilities in the subsequent century had the curious property of making literacy both more essential and less professional; literacy became critical at the same time as the scribes lost their jobs.

It is our misfortune to live through the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race, a misfortune because surplus always breaks more things than scarcity.

The mere fact of being able to publish to a global audience is the new literacy, formerly valuable, now so widely available that you can’t make any money with the basic capability any more.

I know that this line was tweeted a lot, but it seems that many people missed the point. He wasn’t saying publishing is a new literacy. He is comparing publishing to the historical aspect of being literate. He adds some clarification in an interview with James Mustich and Andrew Keen on salon.com

We have this whole complex of words, “publish,” “publisher,” “publicity,” “publicist,” that all refer to either jobs or the work of making things public. Because it used to be incredibly difficult, complicated, and expensive to simply put material into the public sphere, and now it’s not. So I’m comparing it to literacy — literacy used to be reserved for a specialist class prior to the printing press, and, much more importantly, prior to the spread of publishers and the rise of a real publishing industry.

Including this statement

As I put it in “Here Comes Everybody,” “society doesn’t change when people adopt new tools; it changes when people adopt new behaviors.

Mustich recounts a point made by Shirky and one I have shared often when speaking lately – We can not see where we are going from here.

What interests me in what you wrote about the printing press, and the immediate changes its advent provoked, is how unclear the effect of its influence was to those subject to it at the time. Today, in the throes of another massive technological change, we’re trying to see very clearly what’s happening, and part of the point of your piece is that we can’t see it either, because we don’t know what the behaviors are going to be that are engendered by the technology.

If you haven’t read Clay Shirky’s two books Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, I strongly recommend them.

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The Digital Divide Does Not Discriminate

Bobbi Newman — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:36:22 +0000

This short video is from the March 9, 2010 FCC summit to discuss the need to include all Americans in the digital age. It gives clear examples of the need for access and the skills to use the internet across a diverse segment of the population.

People need universal access to broadband and the skills to use it, not as a privilege, but as a right.

These five stories come from Americans who have found digital literacy to be a major influence in their lives.

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