This is the greatest thing! You have to see it!
Ever wonder why you can't quite get your arms around what comprises Web 2.0? The applications, articles, and blogs proliferate at a rabbit rate -- it seems impossible to keep abreast.
Here is a great graphic, a mosaic of a world map, comprising 1001 links to Web 2.0 applications. Click on a mosaic square and you are carried to an ap. How cool is that?
World Mosaic of 1001 clickable Web 2.0 Logos
Go see it now!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
2009 Budget Themes
The County-wide 2009 “Major Budget Themes” are Customer Service, Innovation and Business Improvement, External Partners, and Internal Collaboration. It strikes me that what we're trying to do with this wiki addresses customer service, innovation, and internal collaboration. How about that!
Monday, June 2, 2008
Midwest Library Tech Conference 2008
I had a lot of fun last week attending one day of the Midwest Library Tech Conference 2008.
The afternoon plenary session featured Rachel Smith and Alan Levine of the new media consortium, publishers of the annual Horizon Report. Which I confess I had never heard of, but now I have! Here's a link to their list of "Six Key Emerging Technologies."
The new media consortium, or nmc, focuses on education, but is completely relevant to libraries.
Here is a link to the Ning site for the conference, where presenters post their presentation materials and other content. It is a rich, rich site! You could spend hours clicking links. Later, I'll post some highlights from the conference, but not tonight.
And what is Ning, you ask? Click here for more information.
I added a lot of material to the Sub 2.0 wiki. Bookwormishnerd contributed a great list of things to note when you work in a new library for the first time. Click here to read it!
The afternoon plenary session featured Rachel Smith and Alan Levine of the new media consortium, publishers of the annual Horizon Report. Which I confess I had never heard of, but now I have! Here's a link to their list of "Six Key Emerging Technologies."
The new media consortium, or nmc, focuses on education, but is completely relevant to libraries.
Here is a link to the Ning site for the conference, where presenters post their presentation materials and other content. It is a rich, rich site! You could spend hours clicking links. Later, I'll post some highlights from the conference, but not tonight.
And what is Ning, you ask? Click here for more information.
I added a lot of material to the Sub 2.0 wiki. Bookwormishnerd contributed a great list of things to note when you work in a new library for the first time. Click here to read it!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
How are you doing?
How are you doing? Are you getting enough hours? Is subbing your main livelihood or do you have another job? Do you work part time at the library and fill in your week with sub hours? Are you looking for full time work?
I sub in the HCL suburban branches, but work there has almost completely dried up. I sub in the HCL urban branches, and downtown, but there too, there are never enough hours. I'm averaging about 20 hours a week lately. It's a nice time of year to have extra time off, but I wish I could get more hours. I'm perpetually on the fence about going back to Dolphin Staffing, my other employer, to see what they have available.
How about you?
I sub in the HCL suburban branches, but work there has almost completely dried up. I sub in the HCL urban branches, and downtown, but there too, there are never enough hours. I'm averaging about 20 hours a week lately. It's a nice time of year to have extra time off, but I wish I could get more hours. I'm perpetually on the fence about going back to Dolphin Staffing, my other employer, to see what they have available.
How about you?
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Registration Reminder
Remember to register for "23 Things On a Stick" if you haven't completed it. Registration begins today.
Here's the link again: http://www.23ThingsOnaStick.blogspot.com
Go for it!
Here's the link again: http://www.23ThingsOnaStick.blogspot.com
Go for it!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
ALA Wikis and 23 Things on a Stick
The American Library Association has lots of wikis! Look at the ReadWriteConnect page for blogs, wikis, flikr, videos, RSS feeds, even ALA in virtual worlds like Second Life!
If we get our act together and want to take the show on the road, we can add a page for substitute librarians.
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In case anyone didn't get the news: 23 Things on a Stick is back for Round 2, from May 15 to September 15! If you (like me) didn't finish the first time, here's another chance. From the 23 Things on a Stick blog:
"Registration for Round 2 begins May 15, 2008. You must register your blog by June 15, 2008 and then complete all 23 Things by September 15, 2008. Each person participating must have and register his/her own blog."
If we get our act together and want to take the show on the road, we can add a page for substitute librarians.
* * *
In case anyone didn't get the news: 23 Things on a Stick is back for Round 2, from May 15 to September 15! If you (like me) didn't finish the first time, here's another chance. From the 23 Things on a Stick blog:
"Registration for Round 2 begins May 15, 2008. You must register your blog by June 15, 2008 and then complete all 23 Things by September 15, 2008. Each person participating must have and register his/her own blog."
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Librarian Substitutes 2.0 wiki launched
I've spent the whole afternoon working on the "Librarian Substitutes 2.0" wiki. It's fun, it's easy, and it's time consuming, especially on my (slow) home computer.
Go take a look. You will see that it is quite raw and new, with just a few ideas sketched out, but that was an afternoon's work, and I've got to go do whatever it was I was supposed to do with the rest of my day!
Everything I put into the wiki so far is available elsewhere, but the point is to gather it into a quick reference guide with the substitute librarian in mind. We are generalists, and when we want to make sure our skills are current, this will be a first place to look. We can also note specifics about libraries, including the all important where-to-go-for-lunch-or-coffee question!
I picked Wet Paint as the wiki site in part because it was recommended in Terry Burrows' Blogs, wikis, MySpace, and more; everything you want to know about using web 2.0 but are afraid to ask. However, I'm already heartily sick of the advertisements, so I'm open to a move to another wiki host at some point.
Go take a look. You will see that it is quite raw and new, with just a few ideas sketched out, but that was an afternoon's work, and I've got to go do whatever it was I was supposed to do with the rest of my day!
Everything I put into the wiki so far is available elsewhere, but the point is to gather it into a quick reference guide with the substitute librarian in mind. We are generalists, and when we want to make sure our skills are current, this will be a first place to look. We can also note specifics about libraries, including the all important where-to-go-for-lunch-or-coffee question!
I picked Wet Paint as the wiki site in part because it was recommended in Terry Burrows' Blogs, wikis, MySpace, and more; everything you want to know about using web 2.0 but are afraid to ask. However, I'm already heartily sick of the advertisements, so I'm open to a move to another wiki host at some point.
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