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CiL: The Web 2.0 Challenge to Libraries

Paul Miller, Talis Paul is a great speaker — funny, engaging & passionate. He began his presentation with an outline of the four topics he was going to cover: libraries and trust reaching out from the library library 2.0 platform shared innovation Minor aside: the session overview is so crucial. It has the potential to [...]


new

It’s official: we have a new University Librarian at my institution. During the interview process, the candidates had the opportunity to address the staff on the future of the academic library. Jeff’s angle: Library 2.0. So, how excited am I? Very.


school library 2.0

Kathy Kawasaki, a participant in my Blogs & RSS course last Fall, has set up a great blog for her school library, the York Mills Collegiate Institute, here in Toronto. Have a look. There’s a lot of cool stuff going on with this blog: Kathy reports that she’s had excellent support for the blog, from [...]


shiny new toys @ your library

Over at ACRLog, Steven Bell’s latest post opens with a question: “At your academic library is there a feeling, perhaps an underlying pressure, that new technology should be leveraged to a greater extent than it is?” The question, I think, has to do with the notion that perhaps we’re implementing Web 2.0 technologies (like blogs, [...]


OLA: The Blog People: Librarians Generating Content and Communication

OLA Super Conference Presenter: Michael Stephens, St. Joseph County Public Library I finally got to meet Michael Stephens, after years of reading his blog and admiring his work! I was pretty-well sitting back and enjoying his talk for the most part, so this is mostly summary stuff. Update: Michael’s presentation materials are here. ———— – [...]




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