The Other Librarian

I’ve had a tongue-in-cheek post-in-waiting for a while now that would look at traits I notice in online cultures as a way of understanding whether or not a particular service is for you or your library.    It had been percolating, percolating, percolating. . . and then I read Greg Schwartz’s post on Managing His Own Social [...]

Last year, I created a post of Ideas for the New Year as a way to mark my progress over the year.   Overall, I don’t think I did too bad in completing them.  Here are the ideas, and how well I’ve done in completing them.

 New Website for the library.   

Check.  It happened, go look.

Contribute to [...]

This is kind of like the “day in the life of” except it is a “night in the life of.” I can’t remember the times, but consider that most of this stuff happened between 8pm last night (Tuesday) until I posted the final blog post today.

I logged onto Meebo for fun.
I chatted [...]

I had a great time on a short visit to St. John’s Newfoundland to do the Getting to Library 2.0 workshops prior to CLA.   We had a great bunch of speakers including Heather Matheson (who talked about using Joomla, hurray!), Amanda Etches-Johnson, and a great keynote by Mark Leggott.      Gillian Byrne and Lisa Goddard also [...]

When I wrote my “Technology requests ought to begin with a ‘yes’” post, my intention was to highlight a dialectic between those who want to fight the so-called “culture of ‘no’” and those who want to emphasize the need for planning and sustainability. My argument was that technology has changed (and I stated [...]

I’m going to try and say alot of things over the next week or so, but I thought I’d summarize some key thoughts for now.

Meh.  It was a conference.   It was a good conference even.  But sitting through the good and average in terms of presentations, I realize that I want conversations that matter [...]

Yes, I will be at CiL and definitely want to chat with you.   Just say “hello!”
I just got my copy of Walt Crawford’s Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change.  What I didn’t realize is that a good lot of Other Librarian posts are cited in there.   So, obviously I’m going to review and [...]

Hey you! . . . Yeah, you!
I’m going to tell you what I think you should do right now. Then I’m going to tell you why you should do it.
What you should do:
Find the email address of one of the following librarians:

Dorothea Salo
Meredith Farkas
Amanda Etches-Johnson
Elyssa Kroski
Michelle Boule
Karen Coombs
Tom Peters
Heather [...]

Well whaddayaknow! I am published in an open source journal. I have a short opinion piece called ‘“That’s ‘E’ for ‘Everyone’”: The Future of E-Learning in Public Libraries where I argue the thinking for e-Learning has to change for it to fit in the vision of the public library.

So I will be presenting with Kelli Wooshue at NSLA on October 1st about Web 2.0, using a lesson plan similar to what we did when we presented to our management team.
If you haven’t heard about this in previous posts, essentially we get people to do very specific tasks with a Web 2.0 technology and [...]