Archive for the 'slowlibrary' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recently, I was asked to present at a conference called Student Edge on student engagement and the web. The audience included executives of Student Unions from across Canada and the facilitation process worked more like an unconference than your standard “get up and do a powerpoint” style of conference.
Anyway, as I prepared for my [...]
On Tuesday, May 27th I will be hosting a CE accredited workshop on Web 2.0 for the Canadian Health Libraries Association conference. I am very excited, and the agenda is pretty much set in stone.
One of the things I have been struggling with is whether I should bother to explain Twitter in any depth. I [...]
Among the best things about conferences (besides karaoke, right Greg?) are hearing ideas from people you had not previously met. One of the memorable conversations I had was with Sarah Cohen about whether libraries were really on board with the what, whys and hows regarding sustainability. I think we came to the conclusion that libraries [...]
I love the idea of recommendation services like LibraryThing, Bibliophil and Books iRead. The main reason I like these services is because of their potential to identify items for me that I may never encounter on my own. You have to accept that I am a) a busy parent with little time [...]
Heather Morrison discusses what she calls an “access gap” for scholarly journals in public libraries. She claims:
The local public library will have interlibrary loan service; however, with limited staffing looking after everything from storytime for preschoolers to special services for teens, adults, seniors, and more, not to mention buying books and running the library, the [...]
Sarah Houghton-Jan, the illustrious Librarian in Black brought up the issue of ethics in libraries reminding us to post the ALA Code of Ethics on our office walls. She also points to a post by BlogJunction highlighting two other studies
Ethics are extremely important, but I am here to say that a statement of [...]
I am a great fan of Judy Blume. So much so that I have started reading her books (somewhat prematurely) to my four-year-old son. The most recent entry is Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great. It was timely, since my four-year-old is now learning to swim.
If you don’t know the book, then suffice it [...]
Steve, Iris, Rikhei & others are going through some kind of meme on why they are librarians. I think self-reflection is great. In fact, when I started this blog, that’s what I intended to do — take opportunities to look at the library world in ways that might reflect “others” in [...]
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