March 2008
The Archives
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Library 2.0
Where’s the time for 2.0?
Michael Sauers, The Travelin’ Librarian, has an interesting post today about 2.0 and staff workloads. Maybe at an institutional level adding the new social tools onto an already overloaded workflow isn’t the answer. Granted, I firmly believe that some of the new tools can be integrated successfully and streamline the existing workflow, but what about [...]
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Observations
916 Kickbacks
LIS News reports about three former library workers from Sacramento Public Library being arrested for over billing the library and receiving kickbacks to the tune of $90,000. I’m happy that my beloved Carmichael branch played no role in the scheme. I’ll also note at this time that the Carmichael branch is across the street from [...]
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Library 2.0
Life 2.0
There was a discussion last week on the SLA Transportation Division’s listserve about everybody’s favourite virtual envrionment: Second Life. The discussion was prompted by a webinar for the transportation community that showed how Second Life can be used to help people access information from around the world. I’ll admit I was a little biased before [...]
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Observations
Science Fiction and Qualifications
Today my partner, Joe Gebis (future Ph.D.), received a box of science fiction novels from his brother in the mail. I asked him why didn’t his brother give the books to a library, rather than pay for shipping to send them here. Apparently public libraries don’t need lots of science fiction. I told him that [...]
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Observations
Settling.
I was listening to NPR this weekend, and Cambridge Forum had the authors of The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America to discuss their research and their solutions for making the class just above the poverty line more stable. One line stuck with me when they said that teachers are not respected [...]
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Library 2.0
IM me for some service.
LIS News has linked to a story about Cal State Fullerton’s use of Meebo for chat reference. Chat reference seems to be so hot these days that for many library folks it’s a forgone conclusion. At Internet Librarian, there were many references to people using Meebo widgets to communicate with their patrons. I know if [...]
