Archive for the ‘Community Development’ Category
Libraries are Miscellaneous
Posted by: greebie on: November 12, 2009
With a wide range of ‘things’ happening in and around libraryland, including Library 101, Stephen Abram’s paper on open source (pdf), Mark Albertson’s opinion piece on the changing purpose of libraries, and Laurel Tarulli’s recognition that not everyone fully understands what it is that librarians do. It all leads me to think about the ongoing [...]
Restorative Practices and Librarianship – another framework to tie unconferencing and social media to librarianship?
Posted by: greebie on: October 7, 2009
To what degree can restorative practices be applied to the act of leading people to information? To me, it does not hurt to ponder the possibilities. I’ve been working in the community on these lines recently, and see many many connections to what libraries and librarians already do. Certainly, restorative practices already are used [...]
Twitter as Platform – 5 Essential Peripherals for Librarians
Posted by: greebie on: June 11, 2009
I love Twitter. It has taken over my passion for blogging (sorry people). Our library has used it to promote Podcamps, Reading, The June 8th 9th Nova Scotia Election, and that’s just a start. I also notice a wide range of people trying Twitter once or twice only to reject it because [...]
Print Media in the Toilet
Posted by: greebie on: April 15, 2009
Today’s local paper had a toilet bowl on the cover. A toilet bowl. Yes, I know the article was about how the new Sewage Treatment plant in Halifax is done broke and won’t be fixed for a while. But guess what? We didn’t have a Sewage Treatment plant attached to the [...]
Speaking Engagements Galore!
Posted by: greebie on: March 24, 2009
Over the next few months, I will be doing a little bit of presenting at various conferences and events. Here is the list:
Wednesday April 1st, at Computers in Libraries Conference, Washington D.C.: CM Tools: Drupal, Joomla, & Rumba
Alongside one of my library heroes, John Blyberg, I will be presenting on ideas and features around [...]
The Reader — New Blog from MPOW
Posted by: greebie on: February 2, 2009
A few colleagues of mine have released a blog for MPOW about reading called The Reader.
Kudos to David, Kristina, Maureen and Laurel for what looks like a fairly impressive blog so far (my name is up there only to put in a few bits of CSS here and there).
Podcamps in Libraries
Posted by: greebie on: January 26, 2009
I have always guessed that unconferences and public libraries are a natural fit. Now, after Podcamp Halifax, I am absolutely convinced. If you are a director of a public library, I suggest you drop everything, do a twitter search for “podcamp”, catch the feed in your aggregator and pay attention to who, when and where [...]
What am I doing now?
- RyanDeschamps: @moreglen No chance we'll run out of room, so don't worry! It'd be nice if we could get a few 'on the day' sessions. #podcamphfx
- RyanDeschamps: @moreglen Likely next week sometime. But we also have a pre-wiki discussion going on on Wave. (with:public podcamp will find it)
- RyanDeschamps: RT @ALALibrary: RT @amlibraries: ALA: American libraries starved for bandwidth (via Ars Technica): http://cli.gs/DBv7XT See also http:// ...
Recent Comments