Following blog stats
I have successfully weaned myself from looking at our blog statistics (StatCounter, Feedburner, and Hot Stuff 2.0) on a daily basis; because I am interested in how readers find us, where readers are located, and what interests them, I do still review them weekly if for no other reasons than to reset blocking cookies so my personal posts do not add to the count and satisfy my curiosity. This evening I noticed several returning links from Cairo, Egypt that appeared to originate from my personal author page on a web site I am unfamiliar with, uFollow. With curiosity engaged, I followed the link."uFollow is a free service that...
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Library Cloud - August 25, 2010 Tags: Blog stats CIL2010 uFollow
LiB Recommends – 2010-08-18
Is the Android sticker on my MacBook ironic? http://tweetphoto.com/39846912
Brilliant! RT @sxseventy Today I have invented the sarcasterisk*. It’s for typed sarcasm. Example: Sure, that sounds like a fantastic* idea. My first sarcasterisk* sarcasm: “Oh yes, library eBooks have very flexible* use policies & are easy* to download.” Ta-da!
Ebook Summit Preview: At the Tipping Point http://bit.ly/9L9X9k
If we believe this we must press library eBook licensing NOW. Via @ALA_TechSource: How Libraries Ensure Ongoing Freedom http://bit.ly/cYrTuX
Niiiiiice! Bash that info overload! “Email Sucks. ...
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LibrarianInBlack - August 19, 2010 Author: Sarah Tags: Uncategorized
Thank you Yarnbrarains !
Many librarians have cats. Many librarians knit and crochet. Life facts that we should all accept – and celebrate.
Just check out the Flickr search for “Librarians Knitting” and scroll through the pages to see what I mean.
Look around at your library next conference, even in classes at university, and the needles are flicking. I’ve been in several unconference sessions where social networking is being discussed and someone eventually shuffles to their feet to say “Well, I’m a member of this amazing network for knitters and crocheters called Ravelry“, to be met with a few heads snap...
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Librarians matter - August 3, 2010 Author: Kathryn Greenhill Tags: Uncategorized
Hub of Communication
Pretty accurate description of a librarians' activities at the reference desk from last month's computers in libraries:
...With a telephone receiver wedged between your shoulder and your ear, you are waiting patiently while the patron on the other end expresses his information need: "I am looking for a book; it is blue ..." Beep, beep -- a tone alerts you to the presence of a second caller. Just then, ding -- a little yellow envelope appears in the lower-right corner of your computer--a decade earlier, a voice would have kindly reminded you that, "you've got mail." Ding -- a new window pops into existence; an instant messa...
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Chicago Librarian - Design, Techology & Culture from a Librarian living in Chicago - July 24, 2010 Author: Leo Klein Tags: Reference
Literature rack & QR codes
I have been considering different ways to utilize QR codes in the IRC since returning from the computers in libraries conference this spring. I think they have potential to be an interesting creative outlet (instruction session scavenger hunt and student interaction, saving LibGuides to phones and simple signage tools) and they are a quirky fun technology. I wanted a way to make them feasible, functional, and visually appealing.
I created new signs for the Newbery and Caldecott sections of the juvenile collection; they lead-off the stacks. Signs are complemented by small literature holders with print copies of LibGuide p...
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Library Cloud - July 16, 2010 Tags: IRC LibGuides Academic library QR Codes
Institute of Museum and Library Services — Public Libraries Survey
http://harvester.census.gov/imls/pubs/Publications/pls2008.pdf
National and state summaries here on public libraries, including information on staffing, visitation, circulation, computers in libraries, collections and services, and more. The report was issued in June 2010 but is based on data for fiscal year 2008. Some interesting statistics: There were 1.50 billion visits nationwide to public libraries according to the report, and there were 2.28 billion circulations of library materials.
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MPLIC Reference Highway - June 30, 2010 Author: Philip Tags: All Professional Resources Statistics public libraries charts graphs public libraries circulation public libraries computers public libraries data public libraries information public libraries statistics public libraries usage public l
Making the Right Choice: Software Purchases for Your Library’s Needs and Budget with Marshall Breeding
Marshall Breeding will be hosting the first of our ALA TechSource Online Workshops, Making the Right Choice: Software Purchases for Your Library’s Needs. The event will take place on Tuesday July 20th at 1:30pm Central/2:30pm Eastern/11:30am Pacific.
In today’s library, decisions involving which software to use are crucial. The right decision can make your library more efficient, user-friendly and economical, while the wrong decision can have a lasting negative impact on your service and budget.
If your library needs to change or upgrade its Integrated Library System, you know how challenging the process of sele...
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ALA TechSource Blog - June 14, 2010 Author: Daniel A. Freeman
1/3 of Americans Use Computers in libraries
According to a University of Washington study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one third of Americans use computers in libraries to browse the internet.The study found that library patrons use the computers for a variety of tasks ranging from life changing to the mundane. The availability of internet resources in libraries is expanding the role of librarians to include tasks such as being an employment coach or a homework tutor.Download link - .pdf version of the study report. (Requires a .pdf reader)Wikimedia Commons image by user Limonlime distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license.
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The Centered Librarian - June 2, 2010 Author: Dave Brightbill
Free Webinar on Marketing this Thursday
Hello Readers, it's Kathy here! I want to let you know that I'll be giving a free webinar on marketing this Thursday, June 3, thanks to the good folks at Serials Solutions. The vendor has been running a 4-part series of 30-minute webinars, and mine will be the final one (and the only one on marketing). Here are the details:Marketing Your Library through Discovery: Next-generation catalogs or “discovery layers” are among the most promising technologies, enabling customers to explore the library independently - whether they are in the building or sitting at their computers. Kathy Dempsey, editor of the Marketing Library ...
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The "M" Word - Marketing Libraries - June 1, 2010 Author: ~Kathy Dempsey
Thing #36: Flickr Revisited
For this assignment I watched Jeff Dawson’s and Michael Porter’s Library Images: Engage, Inspire and Tell your Story presentation. I can’t say that it wasn’t interesting but I easily got distracted during Michael’s portion of the presentation. The why is unique to me. Full disclosure: I’ve been Michael’s co-presenter for that exact presentation twice, at the 2009 computers in libraries and Internet Librarian conferences. In other words, most of this presentation was nothing new for me.
However, that shouldn’t be interpreted as disagreeing with anything either of them had said. In fact, I agree with every wo...
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Travelin' Librarian - May 20, 2010 Author: Michael Tags: NELearns2.0 flickr libraries photography
Of libriaries, digitization programs, and doom
From my safety of my keyboard, I watch news of libraries and library consortia that are financially stressed due to the impact of the economy. For public library organizations, the financial problems are caused by their government not having enough money to fund everything that it should. Academic and special libraries (e.g., corporate, news, legal, etc.) are also having to do less with less. We assume wrongly that organization have enough money to make it through a downturn. While some likely did have reserve funds, those monies weren't enough to keep them stable until their funding is fully restored.&nb...
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Digitization 101 - May 18, 2010 Author: Jill Hurst-Wahl
Of libraries, digitization programs, and doom
From my safety of my keyboard, I watch news of libraries and library consortia that are financially stressed due to the impact of the economy. For public library organizations, the financial problems are caused by their government not having enough money to fund everything that it should. Academic and special libraries (e.g., corporate, news, legal, etc.) are also having to do less with less. We assume wrongly that organization have enough money to make it through a downturn. While some likely did have reserve funds, those monies weren't enough to keep them stable until their funding is fully restored.&nb...
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Digitization 101 - May 18, 2010 Author: Jill Hurst-Wahl
From Realities to Values: A Strategy Framework for Digital Natives [Computers in libraries]
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Library Link of the Day - May 8, 2010
Are You SharePoint-Ready?
Lorette S.J. Weldon explores how "ready" are librarians to use SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010? She asks: do you consider yourself an IT Librarian or a non-IT Librarian, an answer that can be part of your job description. She reviews results from a survey presented at computers in libraries 2010, with insights into how this application is leveraged in various organizations.
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LLRX.com - May 5, 2010 Tags: Features Weldon, Lorette S.J.
Conferencing: Computers in libraries and Evergreen 2010
What makes for a good conference? It’s tempting to reduce it to a simple equation: C+P+L=E. Content plus people plus location equals experience. I’m just back from three consecutive conferences and in addition to my annual sense of wonder at the librarian obsession with conferencing, I’ve been mulling over conferences in general, and technology-oriented conferences in particular.
Content, people, and location are all important, but I’d add expectations, technology level, format, and focus to that equation. computers in libraries was one of the first conferences I attended and it is, in many ways, my mental mode...
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ALA TechSource Blog - May 3, 2010 Author: Kate Sheehan Tags: Conferences and Conference Options
Creating a 21st Century Learning Environment
Myself and the amazing team from my place of work (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) are leading a preconference for ACRL at the ALA Annual Conference 2010 in Washington DC entitled Creating a 21st Century Learning Environment. I’m incredibly excited about this, as we’ve worked for years to create amazing environments for our patrons, both in our existing building and in the planning for our new library building (opening in January 2012). I fully admit and embrace my bias for the way we do things (transparently, collaboratively, driven by data), I think that libraries who might not be as lucky could learn...
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Pattern Recognition - April 30, 2010 Author: griffey Tags: ACRL ALA presentation building conference precon preconference
Introducing the post-library commons world: wild speculation on the future of computing and what it means for the learning environment
I’ve been thinking a lot about computers in libraries
lately. I’m talking about
hardware, not web 2,0 stuff. I’m really hopeful that my library is able to
upgrade its public computers and move to thin clients this summer,
but enough systems talk. The topic of computer access comes up regularly in my Next Steps
interviews. Directors in all types of libraries seem to be pondering the same
thing: reducing the number of desktops and move to something else. Interest in
mobile devices continues to rise and it is very possible that we’ll move to
purely wireless machines such as laptops and iPads. Studies
show...
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The Ubiquitous Librarian - April 28, 2010 Author: brianmathews
Computers in libraries 2010
Here’s a copy of my slides for the computers in libraries Conference last week.
Content Containers: Can we be more open-minded about permeable containers?
Cil containers
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This presentation was also the foundation for the questions I asked industry leaders at the panel we hosted at Buying and Selling eContent 2010 in Scottsdale AZ this week too.
As usual it was one of those conferences where you can see the evidence of a sea change a little early. Twitter was so normal this year that it reached trending topic status for the second year in a row. Of course, the LoC archive w...
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Stephen - April 21, 2010 Author: admin Tags: Assorted Other Uncategorized
What’s a Real Book?
While I was at computers in libraries 2010, I listened to David Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States (he gave one of the keynotes at the conference). During his interview (Paul Holdengraber from New York Public Library interviewed him), he was talking about books and what he likes to read … and mentioned that he prefers print books over ebooks (he likes the aesthetics of paper books).
That’s fine – I get that.
But then, the audience … at computers in libraries … applauded! Like he’d just won an award or something. And soon after, someone tweeted “Yeah! David Ferrie...
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David Lee King - April 20, 2010 Author: David Lee King Tags: Future of Libraries ebooks cil2010 ebook readers
Computers in libraries Conference Report: 25 Years Later, Still Pushing Boundaries
Since the days of mainframes, CiL’s discussions of technology relevant to patrons and staff have come a long way.
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Library Journal News - April 20, 2010
Links for 2010-04-19 [del.icio.us]
Dawson, Jan. "askON CALL: A pilot, adding voice to chat." jandawson.net. 18 April 2010.
The slides from Jan Dawson's presentation at the 2010 computers in libraries conference show the pilot project of the province-wide chat reference service for Ontario, AskON, that attemped to use Skype as a communication channel (as VoIP) with their reference patrons.
The Citation Project: Preventing plagiarism, teaching writing
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Digital Reference - April 20, 2010
A sua biblioteca entra num telemóvel?
A preocupação com os telemóveis nas bibliotecas já não é apenas relativamente ao seu barulho mas sim ao modo como não colocar a biblioteca ao seu alcance: Autoria Sarah Houghton-Jan Apresentação na conferência CIL2010 (computers in libraries 2010 - EUA)Bibliotequices: http://bibliotequices.blogspot.com
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Bibliotequices - April 20, 2010 Author: Paulo Izidoro
Computers in libraries & Innovative Ideas Forum
Been a busy week in Library Land this week and I have been wishing that I was elsewhere because of it.
Firstly, I wanted to be in Washington DC, where the 2010 computers in libraries conference was held this week. I was fortunate to be able to attend CIL in 2007, so I know from experience how good it is.
Fortunately, due to the wonders of Twitters, blogging and the Internet in general, you can get some idea of the experience and the content from this premier US library conference. Check out the program, before getting into the details below.
The computers in libraries 201o conference blog gives you all the news and happe...
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librariesinteract.info - April 17, 2010 Author: Michelle McLean Tags: All sectors
How to talk about presentations you haven’t seen
I just finished reading Pierre Bayard’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, and yes, there’s no way to make that sound like I’m not making a joke. But I was thinking about reading conference reports for events that I haven’t attended.
It’s too tempting to take quick conference blog posts (or worse, Twitter posts) at face value, and assume that
what was reported is actually what was said;
the person who said it belives it; and
the person who reported it appoves of the sentiment.
None of that is necessarily true. So it’s tempting to decide simply not to comment at all. I k...
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See Also... a library weblog by Steve Lawson - April 16, 2010 Author: Steve Lawson Tags: Books and reading Conferences
CIL2010: Final Thoughts
I can report without reservation, I enjoyed my first computers in libraries conference. There were a plethora of online resources available before, during, and after the conference, including the CIL 2010 Conference site, CIL 2010 Infotoday wiki, and LibConf blog. I admit to shameful under-utilization of the wiki and blog prior to the conference, but have returned view keynote speaker videos and presentations posted after sessions. Here are a few of my final thoughts about the CIL 2010 conference. Session organizationConference tracks were useful; I had opportunity to attend sessions in all but one (actually, had I copied ...
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Library Cloud - April 15, 2010 Tags: CIL2010 Conferences computers in libraries
How is the DC Metro Like A Library?
Anytime you go to a conference, like computers in libraries, you learn about all sorts of neat things, hear great ideas, and get excited about taking these ideas home. The trouble (for me, anyway) can be in connecting those exciting ideas to the real world outside of the conference.
In his Experience Design Makeover talk, David Lee King mentioned the idea of “Touch Points” - the times a person comes in contact with an organization’s product or services. While riding the DC Metro system, I realized a group could achieve their primary goal while still failing at many touch points (and I apologize for this...
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herzogbr.net blog - April 15, 2010 Author: Brian Herzog Tags: Library cil2010 david lee king dc dc metro libraries public touch point touch points user experience ux whine whine whine
CIL2010: QR Codes
At least two of the sessions mentioned quick response (QR) codes. According to Wikipedia:A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes. Moreover, most current Japanese mobile phones can read this code with their camera.QR codes are growing in popularity in the U.S. and being adopted by libraries. One article on the subject ...
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Digitization 101 - April 15, 2010 Author: Jill Hurst-Wahl
CIL2010: QR Codes
At least two of the sessions mentioned quick response (QR) codes. According to Wikipedia:A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes. Moreover, most current Japanese mobile phones can read this code with their camera.QR codes are growing in popularity in the U.S. and being adopted by libraries. One article on the subject ...
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Digitization 101 - April 15, 2010 Author: Jill Hurst-Wahl
CIL2010: Dead & Emerging Technologies Panel
Bombs & Blue Aliens
View more presentations from David King.
I was on the Dead & Emerging Tech panel this year at computers in libraries, so here are my slides.
This panel is supposed to be entertaining and provocative (and hopefully have some good thoughts too), so it was tricky to do, but fun too.
So – enjoy!
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David Lee King - April 14, 2010 Author: David Lee King Tags: Conferences Cool tools Future of Libraries change cil2010 dead technology emerging technology trends
Ebooks at Computers in libraries 2010
Here’s my video presentation for computers in libraries 2010! I’m so, so sorry that I couldn’t be there, but the incredible Bobbi Newman graciously agreed to let me participate via video. Please, if you have questions or comments, leave them below. I promise I’ll get back to you! Or contact me directly via email, or on Twitter.
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Pattern Recognition - April 14, 2010 Author: griffey Tags: Video presentation cil2010 ebooks ereaders
