Its the first ever National Privacy Week

The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom has established Choose Privacy Week, May 2-8, to help libraries work with their communities around these complicated but vital issues. Privacy has long been a cornerstone of library services in America and a freedom that librarians defend every day.

Choose Privacy Week invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives individuals the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.

Choose Privacy Week Video from 20K Films on Vimeo.

Resources:

• Choose Privacy Week Resource Guide includes school library lesson plans.
• Civic Engagement Materials: Tools for libraries to moderate community discussions on privacy.
• Promotional Materials: Purchase posters, bookmarks, buttons, and resource guide
• One-page Privacy Handout
• Word Search: Free downloadable PDF word search, focusing on “Computers and Privacy.”
• Programming Ideas
• Web Banners and Graphics
• Position Paper and Press Material

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Or 30 Things in 20 minutes.  Maurice Coleman and I presented with another group so we only had 20 minutes to run through ours.  I’d say we did pretty well though.

We put together a resources pages with links to all of the tools we mentioned and some the audience threw out at the end.

Cloud Computing Resources

• Cloud Computing Explained
• NIST Computer Security Division

Scheduling

• 30 boxes
• doodle (schedule Polling)

Curriculum development

• PBWorks
• Wikispaces
• Wikipedia wiki farm comparison
• delicious
• Diigo
• MindMeister
• Freemind

Resource Sharing

• Netvibes
• Pageflakes
• Feed My Inbox
• WordPress
• Blogger
• Zotero

File Sharing

• dropbox (Get a dropbox and Maurice gets more space <g>)
• drop.io
• box net.

In class communication

• twitter
• Friend Feed

Classroom space

• Asynchronus
  • Jing
  • Ning is soon not to have free networks according to
    TechCrunch (April 15th, 2010)
  • blogs
  • wikis

• Synchronus
  • skype
  • tinychat
  • dim dim
  • YuuGuu

Evaluation

• Instant Feedback
  • pollyeverywhere.com

• Traditional Feedback surveymonkey
  • polldaddy.com
  • zoomerang
  • survey monkey

Archiving

• Slideshare
• wink
• ScreenToaster
• Camstudio
• Audacity
• UStream
• Blip.tv
• Vimeo
• Elluminate

Web Application Suites

• Zoho Apps
• Google Docs

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I have put together a Resources List over at the Libraries and Transliteracy blog.  People often ask me where to start or what to read.  This is a compilation of some of the reports I have read over the last 6 months or so.  I’ve tried to blog many of them on the LaT blog pulling out the key points and I will continue to do so.   But for those of you who want to read them yourselves, enjoy!

I’ll continue to add to the list, making a dated added note after entries added after today.

For those of you not familiar the Libraries and Transliteracy blog is a joint effort of Bobbi Newman, Buffy Hamilton and Tom Ipri. Our goal is to be an ongoing resource for those interested in libraries and transliteracy. We will be sharing information related to transliteracy (the new literacies, media literacy, digital literacy, 21st century literacies). You can subscribe via RSS feed or email.Similar Posts:

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The fabulous Buffy Hamilton gave her Pivot Points of Change presentation at my library’s Staff Day last week.  The points were inspired by post from Seth Godin in which he states changing everything is too difficult. Buffy applied this to libraries and librarians for the 9 pivot points of change.  This is a slightly modified version of  her original 9 pivot points of change for school librarians.

1. Instead of thinking you can only participate in face to face conferences, consider how you can participate virtually
2. Keep your traditional means of connecting with patrons and colleagues, but innovate at every possible touch point through social media and social networking
3. Keep reading your print journals, but use a feed aggregator or information portal to access and organize your favorite blogs, journals, podcasts, youtube videos, and twitter rss feeds to stay on the cutting edge
4. Keep networking with colleagues face to face, but cultivate a personal learning network to broaden your PLN (Personal Learning Network) to include librarians and other professionals from around the world who can inform your thinking, practice, and philosophy
5. Keep your traditional productivity tools, but use cloud computing to encourage collaboration and information sharing
6. Continue sharing your library program goals and reports through traditional formats, but also compose these in a different format, such as a mindmap, video, or other multimedia/visualization medium
7. Keep your traditional services and materials, but expand those services and “containers” of materials to reflect patron needs
8. Keep positing literacy as a primary focal point of your library program, but expand that definition of literacy to include new media literacy and information literacy as mainstream literacies equal in importance to traditional literacy.
9. Keep your traditional sources of authoritative information, but let the research topic and mode of research guide the integration of social media information sources and tools for delivering that content in your subject guides

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Yesterday I attended a MaintainIT webinar – Using MaintainIT Resources for Technology Training, where they shared some useful information and links.  One of the sites was Infopeople, a nonprofit that archives their presentations and handouts and makes them available under a Creative Commons license!

As I was exploring I came across materials for a previous workshop - Stress Management in the Library Workplace.  There are a lot of workshops listed but since my post – Library usage will go up during a recession – management are you really prepared? is still getting a lot of hits, I thought I’d share this one specifically. You can download the PowerPoint presentation, some exercise and these handouts:

• The “Bakers Dozen” – How to Reduce Stress
• Relieving Stress through Exercise
• Stress Relief through Nutrition
• Stress Relief and Sleeping Habits – 10 Tips for Better Sleep
• Symptoms of Stress and Causes of Stress
• Seven Quick Tips for Time Management

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