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Day 2 in the Life of a Librarian #libday4

January 27, 2010

I took these notes today as part of The Day in the Life project, if you would like to read more please see the wiki, if you’re interested in how it all got started read this post My title is Digital Branch Manager, I work for system that serves 4 counties with 8 branches (9 counting mine). 7:00 overslept despite having my alarm on. I check it, yes on, no idea why it didn’t go off. This throws my whole day off because I have no time to 8:15 review Kiwanis presentation 9:45 attempt to track down a kindle to take with me for Kiwanis presentation 10:00 make note to redo library’s overdrive page 10:15 panic when I think I lost my library card 10:16 find my library card 10:30 provide new cellphone recommendation for my mom – work is making her upgrade her blackberry 11:15 print handouts for Kiwanis 11:30 Meet head of Popular materials in the lobby to ride with her 1:45 back to the library 2:00 downstairs to get a demo library card 2:15 talk with director about midwinter 3:00 attempting to record instructions of loading Overdrive ebooks on to Nook & Sony eReader, 4:00 run into

We’re barely treading water, what will keep us from drowning?

March 25, 2009

By Bobbi Newman

Start with this, I did Now think about this – How do libraries fit into this picture? As far as I can tell the technologies we’re struggling to adapt to and implement might very well be outdated by the time we’re ready to start using them. That’s not good. Right now technologies are running by and we’re still crawling to keep up. What does it mean? Maybe we can’t keep up, maybe we should stop focusing our energy there, at least temporarily. Let’s face it we’ve been talking about the next gen OPAC for how many years? Would our time be better spent elsewhere? Maybe we need to look at changing our organizational structure and mindset first. Then we’ll be better equipped to keep pace. Perhaps becoming more fluid and ready to adapt much more rapidly to change as it happens? Because right now I see two problems The level of online service and interactions patrons take for granted is not being met by libraries. Not even the most cutting edge, front line, tech savvy ones. The technologies and trends the most cutting edge, front line, tech savvy libraries are preparing may not longer be relevant by the

David’s Digital Branch Stye Guide

February 11, 2009

By Bobbi Newman

David Lee King knows a lot about digital service, he’s the Digital Branch Manager at the Topeka Shawnee Library (and an author and a speaker). If you are interested in digital services and aren’t already reading David’s blog, add it to your feedreader right now, go on, I’ll wait. This wee he shared his Digital Branch Style Guide and it’s definitely worth passing around. He covers General Guidelines for Blog Posts Citing/Attribution Featured Section Comments – What to do with them Creating a “Voice” How Can I Get a Conversation Started? I have a suggestion/problem. What do I do with it? Staff Responsibilities Go read the whole thing. 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

One Man’s Treasure…

January 24, 2008

By Bobbi Newman

Meredith Farkas’ recent post about Library 2.0 got me thinking about me; my title, my position, my duties and my goals. The position of Digital Services Librarian is just 6 months old (and I think the title itself has changed 3 times already). My duties and goals are always in flux which means, for me at least, my position is 2.0. As in not static, changing, evolving, and developing to meet the needs of my users – library staff and patrons. Six months seems like a good time to reflect and, if needed, re-access. A lot has happened, I attended my first Internet Librarian conference, kicked off Library Learning 2.1, helped introduce gaming to the library, created our Facebook page, presented at a conference, just to name a few and the hits just keep on coming. When I look back I think I’ve learned two very important things, I tried to narrow it down to just one, but the two are intertwined, so we’ll call them 1.1 and 1.2 1.1 If you build it they will come. (to paraphrase Shoeless Joe) Or maybe not. One of the best aspects of working for a small library system is that it is

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