1. Logo Contest Entry – John LeMasney « Libraries and Transliteracy - Libraries and Transliteracy needs a logo so we’ve opened up a contest.

2. Logo Contest Entry – Nate Hill « Libraries and Transliteracyhttp://bit.ly/a4jsX2 @natenatenate

3. The networked speaker: 10 ways to make the most of your next gig via @dontgetcaught – some great tips from one of my new favorite blogs

1. Business cards
2. QR (quick response)
3. A special website for advance information
4. Followup on the web
5. Work your social networks.
6. Work the room before you speak
7. Work the halls after
8. Keep better track of those you meet in person.
9. Learn about co-presenters and panelists in advance
10. Work with your organizers.

4. a must read! “How would the Dalai Lama tell people to F**K off?” Finding that sweet spot btwn polite & assertive – enough said

5. How to Find Time to Learn Something New or Tackle a Passion Project – post from Lifehacker on how to squeeze all those extras into your life.  Very in nice in relation to my post earlier this week on finding time.

6. Interesting NYT piece on privacy as assumed or not & consequences - The Economics of Privacy Pricing basically if you start off with privacy you value it more, if you have some privacy and someone takes it away you get upset. If you have none and someone offers you some in exchange for something like cash, you might not be willing to pay up.

7. New blog post from @Cindi Take Pictures, Tell Stories: Creative Commons and You via @ALA_TechSource – another great post from Cindi Trainor in her photography series. I have them all bookmarked!

8. cool and creepy - Discovery and Facebook Show How a Pandemic Could Affect You -ok this probably should have been number one because it’s so cool and creepy at the same time.  Really check it out.

The website created by this application shows a fake newsfeed featuring your friends’ names and profile images alongside status updates, links, pictures, and comments about the disease, government-mandated quarantine zones, emergency services availability (or lack thereof) and much more. You’ll even see some watchable, UGC-style videos created by Discovery in the feed.

The updates contain all the trappings of real social media posts — ribbon-bedecked avatars, hashtags, how-to posts — but with a scary, sad, survivalist twist.

9. read this! – some great information on Amazon’s announcement – eBook vs. Hardcover: Beyond the Headlines – Amazon.com recently announced that sales of the kindle format top sales of print books.  This article takes a close look at responses across the web and what the announcement really means.

10. great post Andy! RT @vonburkhardt: New blog post Reflections on Two Years as a Librarian Andy Burkhardt’s reflection on his first two years as a librarian has some great advice.

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1. me too! RT @sumaya: I need to take the advice from this post: Learn to Say “NO” to (more) Meetings – written for entrepreneurs but great advice for anyone

2. The Death of the Library: Read It and Weep

I walked into my local public library in London the other day and got a rude shock. All of my favorite librarians were gone. They’d been replaced by machines. Where the circulation desk once stood — manned by a friendly soul with whom I’d chat about politics or the weather or the latest London Review of Books — I now swiped my library card and pushed a button that said “borrow” or “return.”

They’d also done some remodeling. This particular branch sits in an elegant 1930s building located in the garden of the house where the poet John Keats wrote his ”Ode to a Nightingale.” The main room — once cluttered with books that literally spilled onto the floor — now is a shadow of its former self. Rather than books, the main thing on display would appear to be tables — artfully dotted around the room as if this were a café or the premier-class lounge for an airline

3. a rant about library architecture. BRILLIANT! via RT @JustinLibrarian RT @buffyjhamilton: RT @ThatAndromeda: – great response by Andromeda to the above post

It seems to me there are three separate threads in this article, and I’m not sure the author clearly separates them even though they are quite different:

4. Facebook Hates Your Brand – a look at the Facebook Community pages and what they mean to libraries.

5. Should we be teaching students to multitask AND focus? via @WendyDrexler

6. 7 Things You Should Know About E-Readers answers 7 questions about ereaders

1. What is it?
2. How does it work?
3. Who’s using it?
4. Why is it signfication
5. What are the downsides?
6. Where is it going?
7. What are the implications for education and learning?

7. Are Public Libraries in a Death Spiral?

The public library of the future has to stop being about collections and start being about helping people and communities.

8. 7 Ways to Identify Your Strengths

1. Journals
2. Your notes
3. Mentors
4. Asking people who care
5. Notice what gets in you the flow
6. Be aware
7. Notice what you are asked for

9. RT @theREALwikiman: US Librarians – would love your perspective on professional library bodies engaging w/ media: Hot topic! CILIP and the Media – this discussion is about a UK library organization CILIP and this involvement it should have representing the profession in the media.  Could easily be applied to the States & ALA

10. Please share with your admin: A Technology Plan Based on Differentiated Learning – the post focuses on schools but this could easily be applied to libraries.Similar Posts:

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1. great list of people to follow! – My Personal Learning Network of Librarians & Library Trainers By @MLx – this pretty self explanatory, Marianne has put together a great list

2. 10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research via @MLx

1. Build Your Own Personal Library for Lifelong Learning
2. Your Very Own Magazine Stand
3. Try the Advanced Book Search
4. Share Your Library with Others Search for Specific Text within Your Own Collection
5. Find Copycats
6. Get the Meanings of Words in Context
7. Search for Other Editions or Related Books
8. Download Google Books for Offline Reading
9. Quench Your Hunger for Strange Knowledge

3. We’re excited about @GirlUp, a new campaign launched by @UNFoundation to unite girls to change the world – Girl Up website – seriously awesome

No matter where they live in the world, girls are bright, talented, and full of dreams. But too many girls growing up in developing countries aren’t able to fulfill those dreams because their chances to go to school, stay healthy, and live free from violence are out of reach.

The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up is a campaign for girls, by girls.Join us now and transform girls’ lives.

4. a must read! on managing info overload or filter info from Clay Shirky in the What I Read via @AmandaClay from the Atlantic

How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various friends and colleagues who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. This is from an interview with Clay Shirky, a prominent thinker on the Internet and its social and economic consequences. He is the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations and a forthcoming book called Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. He also teaches about new media at New York University and consults for a wide-range of clients including the BBC, the U.S. Library of Congress and Nokia.

5. How the the 21st Century Brain Affects Creativity http://bit.ly/9UfluJ very relevant to #transliteracy via @suethomas @ajkeen @DanielPink

6. New blog post from @Cindi Take Pictures, Tell Stories: Flickr Extras Read about how to take great library photos! – this photography series by Cindi Trainor is great!

7 . A Lesson from Zappos: Follow the Golden Rule this article looks at how Zappos approaches relationships with their vendors. How could libraries have a relationship like this with our vendors?

8. The end of busy -  another great post from ZenHabits, this site helps me keep my sanity

Stop being busy and your job is half done.

Think about how busy we are, and how it has become a way of bragging: I’m so busy, I must be important.

“I have a million things to do! I never have time for anything! I can’t slow down — I’m too busy.” This is thought to be a good thing in a society where we must be productive, active, occupied.

But it’s a fool’s game. Busy is simply noise, action without meaning, lots of little unimportant things rather than a few important ones.

Stop being busy. Just decide to stop, today.

9. Great article! How we read online – an old but good article that breaks down how we read online. Some good tips for bloggers in there too.

10. Is the Internet Making Us Smarter or Dumber? Yes – you’ve probably heard the arguments from both sides of this debate. Its not so black or white. Similar Posts:

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1. Managing the Productivity Paradox – HBR IdeaCast – I love these podcast from Harvard Business Review. I’m also very interested in what work and doesn’t work in the workplace. Tony Schwartz talks about what is needed to renew and re-energize yourself at work.

Featured Guest: Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance. He is also the author of the HBR article The Productivity Paradox: How Sony Pictures Gets More Out of People by Demanding Less.

2. When Online Gripes Are Met With a Lawsuit - after creating a Facebook group to complain about the company that towed his car, the towing company filed a defamation suit.

3. Libraries have right to filter Internet, but maybe shouldn’t

4. It’s an amazing time to be a learner – Howard Rheingold interviews Will Richardson about

“passionate participation” and “connectedness literacies,” and his concrete examples that illustrate why and how it is, in his words, “an amazing time to be a learner.”

5. “Libs need to give up notion question answering is core service of the lib. It’s not“ via @buffyjhamilton @aarontay from Facebook social Q&A service is the harbinger of the death of reference

A market now exists for fulfilling information needs. Libraries are one player in that market, but only one player, and not the best known or maybe even the best. The bar to entry into that market is low, so there will be more entrants. When what was formerly a solo operator in a market space suddenly faces competition, said operator must change its business model or go out of business. My conclusion? Libraries need to give up the notion that question answering is a core service of the library.

6. 21% of young adults would turn down a job if it didn’t allow access social network sites or their personal email - a short article with some facts and stats about social networking sites at work.

7. Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age – Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, analyzes three common strands of current thought about education and the Internet.

First is the idea that the instant availability of information online makes the memorization of facts unnecessary or less necessary. Second is the celebration of the virtues of collaborative learning as superior to outmoded individual learning. And third is the insistence that lengthy, complex books, which constitute a single, static, one-way conversation with an individual, are inferior to knowledge co-constructed by members of a group.

8. great resource! RT @disobedientlib: Social Learning Academy: How to use Social Media in Education & Workplace

The Social Learning Academy is intended for learning professionals  – in Workplace Learning and Education – who are new to social media and would like to find out more about the different social technologies and their application to learning

9. 12 Things Good Bosses Believe

1. I have a flawed and incomplete understanding of what it feels like to work for me.
2. My success — and that of my people — depends largely on being the master of obvious and mundane things, not on magical, obscure, or breakthrough ideas or methods.
3. Having ambitious and well-defined goals is important, but it is useless to think about them much. My job is to focus on the small wins that enable my people to make a little progress every day.
4. One of the most important, and most difficult, parts of my job is to strike the delicate balance between being too assertive and not assertive enough.
5. My job is to serve as a human shield, to protect my people from external intrusions, distractions, and idiocy of every stripe — and to avoid imposing my own idiocy on them as well.
6. I strive to be confident enough to convince people that I am in charge, but humble enough to realize that I am often going to be wrong.
7. I aim to fight as if I am right, and listen as if I am wrong — and to teach my people to do the same thing.
8. One of the best tests of my leadership — and my organization — is “what happens after people make a mistake?”
9. Innovation is crucial to every team and organization. So my job is to encourage my people to generate and test all kinds of new ideas. But it is also my job to help them kill off all the bad ideas we generate, and most of the good ideas, too.
10. Bad is stronger than good. It is more important to eliminate the negative than to accentuate the positive.
11. How I do things is as important as what I do.
12. Because I wield power over others, I am at great risk of acting like an insensitive jerk — and not realizing it.

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1. How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking - great article from Peter Bregman with some clear reasons why you should stop multi-tasking

A study showed that people distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a 10-point fall in their IQs.

What’s the impact of a 10-point drop? The same as losing a night of sleep. More than twice the effect of smoking marijuana.

Doing several things at once is a trick we play on ourselves, thinking we’re getting more done. In reality, our productivity goes down by as much as 40%. We don’t actually multitask. We switch-task, rapidly shifting from one thing to another, interrupting ourselves unproductively, and losing time in the process.

Even better are the six things he learned the week he stopped trying to multi-task. I really need to do this

• First, it was delightful.
• Second, I made significant progress on challenging projects
• Third, my stress dropped dramatically.
• Fourth, I lost all patience for things I felt were not a good use of my time.
• Fifth, I had tremendous patience for things I felt were useful and enjoyable.
• Sixth, there was no downside.

2. RT @dmlcentral The Dalai Lama taps Internet and social media to engage in rare direct conversation w/ Chinese citizens – yep the Dalai Lama used Twitter.

3. Explaining racial differences in attitudes towards government use of social media – a brief article from the Pew Internet & American Life Project looking at racial differences in the use of social media.

4. 7 of My Favorite Timeless Tips from the Last 2500 Years

1. “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” – Andrew Carnegie
2. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung
3. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
5. “I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.” “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” – Gandhi
6. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
7. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

5. RT @kongtemplation: great interview tips for librarians from @lynnemthomas – Tips for Librarian on the job market: 4 tips from the interview stage – a must read for anyone looking for a job

Secret #1: If you have landed an interview, the search committee already believes that you are capable of doing the job as they have described it and as you have indicated on your CV and Cover letter.
Secret #2: Interviews really answer the question “am I willing to work with this particular person every day for the next 10 years?” for good and for ill, on both sides.
Secret #3: The search committee is terrified that you won’t like them, either.
Secret #4: We’re all hoping for The One. The Perfect Gig. The You-Can-Pry-My-Awesome-Job-Out-of-My-Cold-Dead-Hands connection. But mostly? Especially early in our careers, we’re looking for a job that will work pretty well for us, and the search committee is looking for someone to fill their job without making them regret their decision a year or two down the line.

6. “Quitting Facebook is pointless; challenging them to do better is not“ (Another blog post on the topic by moi) via @zephoria

People will not leave Facebook en masse, even if a new site were to emerge. Realistically, if that were enough, they could go to MySpace or Orkut or Friendster or Tribe. But they won’t. And not just because those sites are no longer “cool.” They won’t because they’ve invested in Facebook and they’re still hoping that Facebook will get its act together. Changing services is costly, just like moving apartments or changing jobs or breaking up in general. The deeper the relationship, the harder it is to simply walk away. And the relationship that Facebook has built with many of its users is very very very deep. When transition costs are high, people work hard to change the situation so that they don’t have to transition. This is why people are complaining, this is why they are speaking up. And it’s really important that those in power listen to what it is that people are upset about. The worst thing that those in power can do is ignore what’s going on, waiting for it to go away.

7. RT @VenessaMiemis: smart piece on the meaning of privacy in an information age by @doriantaylor – a must read!

8. good convo about tweeting during presentations Twitter, tweeting and ethics via @woodsiegirl – a great discussion about using Twitter during presentations and meeting on the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CLIP) a UK-based professional organization for librarians.

9. 6 Reasons Why People Don’t Change, and What to Do About That – another great post from one of my favorite blogs. Here are the six reasons for how to overcome them read the full post

1. You don’t want to change.
2. You don’t feel courageous enough.
3. Your environment is holding you back.
4. You feel like giving up after one or three failures.
5. You don’t feel enough pain yet.
6. You don’t know how to practically make the change.

10 Why Controlling Bosses Have Unproductive Employees

…if your employees consider you a controlling person, even an unconscious thought of you can have a negative effect on their performance. If, for example, they were to happen to subliminally see, out of the corner of their eyes, your name flash for 60 milliseconds, you could expect them to start working less hard. Even if they didn’t intend to slack off.

11. yes! RT @uMCLE: Clay Shirky & Daniel Pink – a terrific conversation about TV, social networking & motivation – I’m a big fan of both of these gentleman and this is a great conversation

12. RT @zephoria: Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputation. Report: Reputation Management and Social Media My comments:Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputationSimilar Posts:

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1. NYTimes: Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls – Phones are becoming indispensible tools, so more than just phones. Even better the people interviewed for the article aren’t teens or even in their 20s.

2. how ubiquitous computing & mobile devices will shape learning, working, socializing in 2020 via @dmlcentral

Kids who have grown up stealing free views of recent movie releases online or regularly chatting with a friend in Bangalore or Atlanta will be working adults in a world where the notion of “work” has changed because of digital technology. But it’s no longer “technology” in 2020 anymore–it’s just how we get things done.

This article makes the interesting point that  when technology truly does become ubiquitous, meaning we don’t even think about it we’ll turn our attention to things like art and science.

But if technology and the ability to be connected disappear further into the background, what will occupy our foreground? A bit of the humanity we’ve always valued in the “real world.

3. Presentations & visuals: 7 tools, tips and traps from my inbox – from my new favorite blog, The Eloquent Women.

4. the iPad all that & a bag of chips or Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom From Porn’ – an interesting read, especially if you have concerns about the lock down of apple products

5. Great read, excellent tips! RT @MackCollier The introvert’s guide to speaking via @MLx

During the creation process:
1 – KNOW your material, do NOT memorize it.
2 – Tell stories.

When you arrive at the event:
3 – Find the room where you will be presenting, and get a feel for the layout.
4 – Attend any pre-show meetups/tweetups.
5 – Get to your session at least 15 mins early, so you have time to setup everything.

During your presentation:
6 – Thank everyone for showing up and MEAN IT.
7 – Let the audience know exactly what’s coming. .
8 – Move around.
9 – Realize that you WILL screw up, and likely no one will notice.
10 – Engage with the people that are engaged with you.
11 – Close the presentation by thanking the audience for coming (and mean it), then tell them how to get in touch with you.
12 – Let the audience ask questions.

After the event:
13 – Stay connected.

6. RT @hbraum: From @librarianmer: Tips for library job applicants in a tight market – great suggestion from Meredith Farkas for job hunters, includes do’s and don’ts

7. How to Become a Trend Tracker –  @pollyalida

Think you don’t have time to be that person in your library or school who sees new trends and opportunities ahead? Think again!

8. great resource! bookmarkt this! Open Thinking Wiki – seriously bookmark this! a GREAT rearouce for:

• Academic Integrity
• Canadian Educational Bloggers
• Copyleft
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Cyberbullying
• Dark Side of the Internet
• Digital Citizenship
• Digital Storytelling
• Emerging Technologies
• Inspirational Videos
• Media Representation
• Media Literacy
• Open Source, Content, Publishing
• Open Thinking?
• Research Tools
• SlideDeck Design
• Social Justice & Technology
• Tech & Media Literacy Videos
• Tools & Software

9. RT @ALA_TechSource: Lifehacker: How to Get the Best of Both Google Docs and Microsoft Office – it’s no secret that I’m a Google girl, but I do still use Office for somethings.

10. when managers use their position to bend subordinates to their will the heart is taken out of people. - its time to rethink the role of manager.  The manager of the assembly line is ineffective and destructive in today’s knowledge work place

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1. kindness is one of the simplest things that make the biggest different How to Be Kinder: 11 Fine Tips If you only read one thing from this post read this one. We could use a little more kindness in the world and its far too underated. Don’t just look at the list go read the whole article.

1. Be grateful for what you got.
2. Express it.
3. Minimize judgments.
4. Take it easy with the criticism.
5. Try to understand the other side.
6. Make positive observations about people.
7. Remember the small and kind gestures.
8. Remind yourself. It’s easy to forget.
9. Awash yourself in the positive memories of the times when you were kind.
10. Take the smarter and higher road.
11. Be kind to yourself.

2. Internet Archive Launches Library for the Visually Impaired With 1M Books via @ALA_TechSource

The 1 million+ books in the Internet Archive’s library for print disabled, are scanned from hard copy books then digitized into DAISY — a specialized format used by blind or other persons with disabilities, for easy navigation. Files are downloaded to devices that translate the text and read the books aloud for the user to enjoy. To access books visit: http://openlibrary.org/subjects/accessible_book

3. New long post/rant on LiB: “Why internet filters don’t work and why libraries who filter are wrong“:  via @TheLiB – Sarah might call this a rant but it has more facts and statistics than any rant I’ve ever gone on. It is well worth reading and bookmarking should you need to defend your library’s choice to not filter.

4. Parents: Instead of Banning Your Kids from Social Networks, Consider Teaching Responsible Usage via @TheLiB @msauers – a well written response to an email from a school principal advising parents:

Learn as a family about cybersafety together at wiredsafety.org for your own knowledge. It is a great site. But then do everything I asked in this email – because there really is no reason a child needs to have one of these accounts.

5. Not Too Cool for Privacy: Young Adults Monitor Their Digital Reputations

…the young adults are as or more active in protecting their privacy than their older counterparts. Laura Holson reports inThe New York Times that an upcoming Pew Internet Project study finds “people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves.”

6. Girls Carve Out Their Own Space Online

According to an emerging body of research—including recent studies by Northwestern University communications professor Eszter Hargittai —the digital divide is frequently a gender divide.

Yet when it comes to blogging, young women are carving out their own niche. Katie Davis, a Harvard University doctoral student working with Howard Gardner’s Good Play Project, had originally sought out the popular online community LiveJournal to examine adolescent development, but when she discovered that the vast majority of bloggers in her age group (17-21) were female, she became curious. Did the girls’ online writing reflect the adolescent development process? And was it affected by the process?

7. Google Defends Privacy Policies In Letter to Commissioners via @ALA_TechSource

“We do not get everything 100 percent right – that is why we acted so quickly on Google Buzz following the user feedback we received,” Horvath and Fleischer wrote. “We’re also gratified that a number of you, in public statements, have expressed your satisfaction about how quickly we responded to those concerns.”

Both pledged to ensure “that privacy is designed into our products at every stage of the development cycle” and said that Google has a “team of seasoned privacy professionals, including legal, policy, security and engineering experts, to help guide the development of responsible privacy policies across Google.”

8. Awesome! RT @dmlcentral project by NY Times – Images from people around the world taken at the very same moment

9. Gartner’ 10 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010 and 2011

1. Bluetooth (3 and 4)
2. The Mobile Web
3. Mobile Widgets
4. Platform-Independent Mobile AD Tools
5. App Stores
6. Enhanced Location Awareness
7. Cellular Broadband
8. Touchscreens
9. M2M
10. Device-Independent Security

10. Ruling: Washington Libraries Can Deny Adults Unfiltered Internet

The Washington Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision May 6 that affirmed a rural library system’s policy of refusing to temporarily disable an internet filter at an adult’s request. The ruling does not alter federal case law.

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1.very interesting! Social Media Withdrawal: What Happens When Kids Give Up Their Connections – fascinating! Definitely worth reading.

Among the top findings

1. Students use literal terms of addiction to characterize their dependence on media.
2. Students hate going without media. In their world, going without media means going without their friends and family.
3. Students show no significant loyalty to a news program, news personality or even news platform. Students have only a casual relationship to the originators of news, and in fact don’t make fine distinctions between news and more personal information. They get news in a disaggregated way, often via friends.
4. 18- to 21-year-old college students are constantly texting and on Facebook—with calling and email distant seconds as ways of staying in touch, especially with friends.
5. Students could live without their TVs and the newspaper, but they can’t survive without their iPods.

2. Gallery: 8 Tablets That Aren’t Made by Apple

3. Rethinking the professionalism of librarians; an MLS does not a professional librarian make via @level250geek from 10 Reasons Why “Professional Librarian is an Oxymoron”

1. Librarians Have No Monopoly On The Activities They Claim
2. There Are No Consequences For Failing To Adhere To Ethical Practices
3. Librarianship Is Too Generalized To Claim Any Expertise
4. ’Librarian’ Assumes A Place Of Work, Rather Than The Work Itself
5. Peer Review In Librarianship Does Not Work Because There Is No Competitive Process To Go With It
6. Values Are Not Enough
7. The Primary Motivation For Professionalization Is The Monopoly Of Labor
8. Accredited Library Schools Do Not Adequately Prepare Students For Library Work
9. Competing Professions Are Offering Different Paradigms To Achieve The Same Goals
10. Nobody Can Name A ‘Great’ Librarian

4 . Net neutrality NYTimes: Web’s Users Against Its Gatekeepers

With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks, there is growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about whether operators of the networks should be allowed to treat Web users differently, based on the users’ consumption.

5. dana boyd on The Changing Nature of Privacy on Facebook via @joycevalenza

Facebook is saying, “Ah, the social norms have changed. We don’t have to pay attention to people’s privacy concerns, that’s just old fuddy-duddies.” Part of that is strategic. Law follows social norms.

6. Reading list on ebooks in libraries. Librarything via @ALA_TechSource

7. Take Pictures, Tell Stories Part 4: Fun with Photos at Library Events – Cindi’s series on taking better photos is a great guide to taking better photos in the library and everywhere else!

8. “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” - Clay Shirky via @jaclark – Does this apply to libraries?

9. Simple Tips for Getting Rid of a Bad Habits

1. Tell your friends and family.
2. Make it painful to not go through with it.
3. Listen to those who have gone where you want to go.
4. What will this lead to in 5 and 10 years?
5. Avoid temptations.
6. Replace it.
7. Don’t remove more than one habit at a time.
8. Don’t make a huge deal out of it.
9. If at first you don’t succeed dust yourself off and try again.

10. The Most Influential Women in Technology | Fast Company – this probably deserves its own post.

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1. NYTimes: Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley –  Sexism is still alive in Silicon Valley and pretty much everywhere else including libraries.

2. NYTimes: Web Coupons aKnow Lots About You, and They Tell – love coupons? Me too, but make sure you know what information you’re giving up when you get web coupons.

3. Two magazines, Newsweek and New York Teacher, offer competing views of what it will take to fix our schools via dmlcentral- the article the link goes to looks at two magazine covers but its worth actually reading the articles the covers are about.

4. Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things via mlx – be sure to read the article too

5. Are we surrendering our privacy too easily? Intriguing online conversation on MemeBurn via @dmlcentral – an absolute must read if you are thinking about privacy even a little.

6. Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms - If you are looking for well thought out responses to claims that privacy is dead danah boyd is always dead on. Here is another great post from her about this issue comparing it to a face to face situation.

Public-ness has always been a privilege. For a long time, only a few chosen few got to be public figures. Now we’ve changed the equation and anyone can theoretically be public, can theoretically be seen by millions. So it mustn’t be a privilege anymore, eh? Not quite. There are still huge social costs to being public, social costs that geeks in Silicon Valley don’t have to account for. Not everyone gets to show up to work whenever they feel like it wearing whatever they’d like and expect a phatty paycheck. Not everyone has the opportunity to be whoever they want in public and demand that everyone else just cope.

7. Dear Non Library Followers: We’re looking 4 essays importance of libraries 4 savelibraries.org PLEASE WRITE 1 2day send lori at lorireed.com via baldgeekinmd

Savelibraries.org is the collaborative effort of my friends Heather Braum & Lori Reed.  If believe in the value and importance of libraries please, please share your story.

8. Making Your Boss Look Good (Without Becoming a Sycophant) – great suggestions on ways to make your boss look good without looking like a, well you know

9. Study finds young do care about online privacy – Security- msnbc.com – well duh, but studies are always nice back up for those conversations with non believers

10. yes it does! RT @gcaserotti: RT @buffyjhamilton Does the term “digital natives” do kids a disservice? – yes absolutely! It does a disservice to those children without access to technology, it does a disservice to those who have it but don’t understand how to use everything or the ramifications of some of the aspects.  They may be more comfortable with technology than some adults but they are still children.

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1.Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline – a must read. You know privacy settings on Facebook have been changing but just seeing the time line will put it in perspective.

2. CIOs say IT should not block socianetworking sites via @sabram

3.Texting and cellphones being used successfully in fight against malaria via @dmlcentral – love stories about tech being used to save lives

Using a mix of text messages, Google Maps and cloud software, organizers of a pilot program backed by IBM, Novartis and Vodafone believe they saved hundreds of lives in a few short months on the malaria-wracked African continent. Simply by tracking inventory in remote areas with greater efficiency, the anti-malaria groups were able to increase the chances that any given clinic would have life-saving medicine on hand by 300 percent.

4. Change is Hard Because Self-Control Wears You Out - Sources of Insight via @buffyjhamilton – a good look at why change is so hard

5. great read! 25 Lessons Learned from Seth Godin via @buffyjhamilton @presentationzen – also includes top 10 quotes and a list of quotes by subject. Handy resource to bookmark

Have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Be remarkable.

Success is a skill.

Being the best is the best place to be.

Be missed.

Everybody is an expert about something.

Success is a hierarchy.

Don’t do A as a calculated tactic to get B.

Be in it for the long haul.

Quit the right things and lean into the right Dips.

Decide if you’re a freelancer or entrepreneur.

It’s like walking through a maze.

Everyone is not your customer.

Feed, grow, and satisfy the tribe.

Small is the new big.

Find the new scarce

It’s the FREE PRIZE INSIDE. ”

The third century is about ideas.

Spread your ideas.

Don’t wait for perfect.

Don’t get paid to alter your behavior.

The goal of reading is to choose what to change.

The world changes whether you like it or not.

The game of marketing has changed.

Feed, grow, and satisfy your business.

6. Digital Literacy is More Than Having the Knowledge of How to Use a Computer

“Digital literacy is more than having the knowledge of how to use a computer, what your software program does, what function or understanding how the hardware of your computer works. Digital literacy is also about using that knowledge to actually facilitate the learning process.” –  Clarissa Myrick-Harris, director of the UNCF’s Curriculum and Faculty Enhancement Program.

7. RT @UrbanLibCouncil: It isn’t good customer service to punish all library customers for the sins of a few.#ulcqueensbluesky

8. Excellent post from Gina Trapani about what to do with Facebook’s questionable privacy settings via @TheLiB – read it!

9. Great Post blowing my mind this morning: @brianmathews on what the future library might look like via @pbromberg

10 Teachers’ digital skills tick list via @joycevalenza – create list of skills teachers (or anyone) should have. You can add items and mark off the ones you are capable of. very coolSimilar Posts:

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