Posts Tagged ‘ Libraries ’

Top Ten Links – Week 2

January 15, 2010
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My hand selected best links I shared on Twitter from 1/8/2010 through 1/14/2010 in no particular oder: Just call me Tenzing Norbook, I guess. Toby Greenwalt’s response to Seth Godin’s post about libraries and the discussion that takes place in the comments. 2010: The Only Year of the E-Reader great article from Fast Company on why, despite the awesomeness of many of the new ereaders, they wont be sticking around long. Top Innovators Practice 5 Skills the Rest of Us Don’t if you can stand yet another article about innovation the 5 skills are something we should all be doing, innovator or not. To Know the Library Is To Love the Library — But Who Knows the Library? Toby’s article on the Huffington Post A Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals (Part I) How to remove yourself from a Twitter List – lets face it, check what twitter lists you’re on is just one more part of being aware of your online identity, if you show up on one you don’t like you have some options Perpetual Beta – a new blog from Jason Griffey and American Libraries, about technology of course. Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English –

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Library Day in the Life Round 4, January 2010

January 7, 2010
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Library Day in the Life Round 4, January 2010

Yes it’s that time again, time to start thinking about participating in the Library Day in the Life Project.  Will you blog, Twitter, take photos, or show video? or some combination of all? For those of you not familiar with the project in a nutshell library works of all types document a day or a week of their work life. You can check out the original blog post, my explanation of why I do it, or the wiki for more info. Due to the high number of participants in July 2009 I’ve made some changes to the wiki  hopefully will create a little order for those trying to follow along.  I moved the previous list off the front page to its own page. I created a new page for Round 4 January 2010 and added a number column to the table. I also made some changes to the format based on my observations from the last round. Include your job title & type of library in your blog post or video to help readers For the Twitters a hash tag for #libday4 (if you have a better one let me know, speak now or forever hold your peace). Round 4 of the Library Day

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Registration Open for the first Transliteracy Conference, Leicester UK, 9 Feb 2010

January 5, 2010
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The first Transliteracy Conference takes place at Leicester’s new Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre on Tuesday 9 Feb 2010 Find out more and register at http://www.transliteracy.com The full schedule for the day will be released soon but in the meantime a list of speakers and abstracts can be found at http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/2010abstracts.html Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.  Since 2005, when Professor Sue Thomas introduced the concept in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, transliteracy has been taken up and explored by a broad range of academics and practitioners, from information scientists to literary theorists, artists and writers. This one-day event offers an opportunity for academics, artists, business people and practitioners to share discoveries, ideas, and creative works that amplify and augment transliteracy research. For more about The Transliteracy Research Group (TRG) see http://www.transliteracy.com To discuss transliteracy visit http://transliteracy.ning.com/ For information specific to libraries visit my Libraries and Transliteracy page or visit our forum in the Ning group. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit

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Andy Woodworth’s 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon

January 4, 2010
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Andy has put together a list of 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon Right Now. Perception of information is changing Literacy is changing Libraries are now part of greater information chorus Communication is our friend The underlying philosophies of the library have not changed I like the focus on the positive and of course I want to know – do you agree? 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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What Makes a Library a Library?

December 14, 2009
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Last week Sarah Houghton-Jan posted about a staffless library in Washington and asked the  question “What makes a library a library?” Buffy Hamilton took the question to the masses and recorded them for this great video. 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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photo by Beth Tribe

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