Thanks for the great comment! I appreciate the answers very much…it’s a topic I’ve struggled with recently.
For me, it really seems to boil down to critical thinking skills, which is something that SHOULD be taught throughout the college curricula. More of my thoughts on Pattern Recognition early next week!
Exactly! Any information literacy program should address not only paper and electronic library resources, but the general world of information, which is increasingly electronic. Thanks for the comment!
Identity 2.0 is potentially more interesting than Web 2.0 ever will be. That, along with the concepts of Attention and Gestures, will, in my opinion, revolutionize the web if they take hold. I’ve been mentioning these ideas some in my blog, but only superficially. I haven’t yet gotten to the point where I understand how or if they will affect libraries. Dick Hardt, who gave the awesome presentation you point to, was interviewed in the Talking with Talis podcast series. It’s well worth listening to; later in the series, they also talk with Ed Batista, who is involved with Attention Trust.
Thanks for the comment, Travis! I’m going to look into the Hardt/Talking with Talis podcast (as well as all things Identity 2.0). I look forward to checking out your blog for thoughts on Identity 2.0, too.
Your class sounds great! I agree, it’d be extremely useful for all SLIS students to have a background in these elements. Not only do they have an impact on our users’ information context, but they’re excellent ways for us to learn more about our own profession!
I also heard and enjoyed the Basbanes talk. I remember when his earlier book- A Gentle Madness-was published, my supervisor at the time felt the book was dangerous!
Imagine that! Gentle Madness mentioned several norious library thieves-and that nfo out there might be bad for library security or something..not sure.
Thanks for doing this. We were told it was going to be a txt chat and sort of were not ready to blab on about this topic. Looks like you captured it all very well– and fast!
Thank you for mentioning InfoMinder. There is a version (25 pages) available for $9/year. There is a free trial for users to evaluate the product against the free version. Then they can decide whether the small price is worth it.
Hi Lauren– I’m glad the Lifehack post worked for you. I’m a big fan of libraries and librarians (I think I just gave a hack about using library books to help time people’s consumption of books), so I’m glad this had some mindshare with you. I love your Flickr as a training tool. It really helps add to the conversation. Further, I love the concept of library 2.0, and look forward to reading more of your posts in this regard. You rock!
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* Wadeable Streams Assessment
* Printable Maps from NationalAtlas.gov
* National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
* Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA)
* EPA’s Green Vehicle Guide
* 50th Anniversary of the Interstate Highway System
* READ Government Documents
* Country Reports on Terrorism
* Beyond the Box Score : Baseball Records in the National Archives
* Visible Earth
Also the need to “set up autonomous organizations charged with building a new and independent businesses around the disruptive technologies” (at http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/04/librarians-dilemma_11.html ) instead of just relying on more continuous responses to user needs.
I fear that libraries are at risk of and on the way to becoming archives and gathering places. Perhaps this is fine with many in the profession. I feel that as a community we have much to offer in an effort to influence and guide technological advances. These ideas are simply possible way for libraries to deal with the current envionment which is changing the ground beneath us. We either need to move now or take the chance of falling into a sinkhole.
John,
Thanks for the links… interesting reading!
Eric,
I’m just getting started reading your blog, but I think I agree with a lot of what you say.
It seems to me that libraries can and should be each: archives, gathering places, and technological innovators. There is merit in each of these and I think that libraries have something unique to offer in each role. I worry that it’s easy for people (particularly the general public) to assume the library is only an archive or a gathering space, though. That’s one of the many reasons I’m interested in how libraries and librarians can learn about, educate people about, innovate on, influence, and guide technology. There’s certainly something to including ethnographers, anthropologists, and disruptive units in the process. This is why I think it’s such an exciting time to be in the middle of it all.
(So, John, I guess you could say I’m interested in the “change agent” role we discussed in management class. )
Thanks Helene! I am, and we’re all really, really looking forward to it! I, too, am particularly interested in seeing your Learning 2.0 plan. Looks like a lot of exciting things are happening in Charlotte!
Thank you so much for covering the panel. From my perspective it was interesting delivery a speech on our process, fused with the way we think about our approach, whilst using “the future of the book” as a thread. It seems that you made sense of it. Pleased you are enjoying the scout role. If you are seriously interested in pursuing the possibilities in future studies, please e-mail me. I can both give you some points of reference (most of the members of my team graduiated in futures studies) and put you in touch with Peter Bishop at UHCL. You can take the course on line as well.
What is your opinion on the future of the book?
Best
Derek
Thank you so much for your comments. I will be sure to get in touch with you. I am very interested in at least reading more about future studies. Once I graduate from my MLIS program I might very well be interetested in taking the online course you mention. The coming three months are very busy for me, so it will probably be after that.
My opinion on the future of the book is that we will see less and less reference resources in paper format. I really think that a lot of the standard reference books will become digital. They’re so costly and slow to produce in paper that it just makes economic sense to put out electronic versions instead. My library tries to buy electronic whenever possible and people also seem to prefer that. I suspect that there may continue to be a *few* reference sources that are real classics that will hang around for a while, though.
Fiction, though, I think will stay in paper for a while. You can read a paper book on a plane when you aren’t allowed to use electronics. You can read a paper book in the pool. You can throw it in a bag and not worry about if it’ll get damaged. I think that paper fiction will stick around as a luxury item for some time.
Non-fiction is a bit muddier for me. I’ve yet to find a really useful electronic version of a non-fiction book. However, a majority of non-fiction isn’t meant to be read cover-to-cover the way fiction is. It might just be that the electronic non-fiction books I’ve seen aren’t as useable as they will be in the future.
Of course, if you talk with the student, they want anything they need for their paper to be in elecronic format and searchable. So if we’re looking at that attitude, it may be that we’re closer to electronic formats that I realize.
I’ve collected more Camp Darfur photos from our real world camps and the Second Life camp here; we also published 3000 of the real Camp Darfur Comix as a way to educate kids on what’s happening in Darfur today. Thanks for blogging and sharing this project with others.
Happy holidays.
Will be happy to add you in linkedin, send me email at mt2222 yahoo . com
As a librarian who believes in knowledge sharing, I wish to share something with you.
My 2007 resolution is a friendly deal to get more comments at my blog and promptly reciprocate.
Best wishes for 2007.
If you are interested in “the social nature of knowledge on the web” I would recommend the articles of Nancy Van House about the sharing of knowledge in network communities and the implications for the design of digital libraries.
I am very interested also in the area of IL, I think that there is no so much literature about the relation between SE and IL. If you know some sources on the subject I will be very grateful to know.
Thanks for sharing! I’ll be sure to look up Nancy Van House’s work! It sounds excellent.
I haven’t found a lot on SE and IL, but I’ve found some. I have a list of articles I’d like to find on another computer. I’ll see if I can get it tomorrow to share with you.
My list had less information than I remembered, but it looks like it would be worth looking into E. Whitmire.
Epistemological beliefs & the information-seeking behavior of undergraduates in Library and Information Science Research 25(2003)
The Relationship between Undergraduates’ epistemological beliefs, reflective judgment, and other information-seeking behavior Information Processing and Management 40(2004)
Thank you very much Lauren! I will read the articles you recommended.
About your questions:
“For those who are interested in the theoretical underpinnings, what shortcomings do you see? What areas need to be developed?”
I find that they are difficult to answer, but very interesting. I think the area of feminist epistemology in social epistemology related to LIS has been not explored until now.
I will think more on your questions and write some responses in other messages.
I have read the two articles of Ethelene Whitmire. I think it would be interesting to add the social aspect to her analysis. She is centered on individual performance but she doesn’t mention the possible influences of social aspects in these mental processes or information-seeking actions.
What do you think?
Hi, you and I never really spoke, but John and I were good friends in college. I was digging through old paperwork after a recent move and having gotten nostalgic, decided to peer around the web and see if I could find out what was new with old John Borwick. Lo and behold, you two are married! Good lord you looked gorgeous! Just wanted to pass on my belated congratulations and wish you both the best. (Your blog is pretty interesting too, got caught up reading it for quite a while).
It’s gotta be a shared responsibility. I teach a professional development class on IL and librarians really resist giving up the complete and total ownership of IL, which is a huge mistake, in my opinion. Faculty are in a better position to hit at certain standards than we are–they know the literature of their field, etc., in most cases, better than we do. I also believe that this is something that must happen everywhere on our campuses… NOT just “in the library.” Do we, will we still have the biggest role in this? Yes. We create awareness, identify and assess, and ultimately, we know our stuff!
Thanks for your comments! I’m not arguing against shared responsibility. I think that can be where the strongest programs are formed. I think that in having the biggest role (through creating awareness, identifying and assessing, and through our knowledge) we sometimes are in a position to have the larger impact. Like many trends and interests, I think that it’s most useful to look at the community and see what approach works best there. If the community is looking for IL leadership from the library, then, to me at least, it makes sense for the program to primarily reside there. If a faculty is in a position (and interested) in taking a lead on IL, then a collaboration is the way to go. Great comments, and worth further exploration. Thank you!
My take is this: essentially we’re going to need new tools to help us deal with the proliferation of information on any given person. My current belief is that pseudonymity is the way to go. Check out http://www.globalpov.com. The guy who writes the daily blog, David H. Holtzman, also wrote a book on this topic called Privacy Lost, and it’s his take on this issue of Pseudonymity that really interests me. The phrase I keep hearing “Attribution without retribution” the creation of pseudononymous identities which allow people to try on different viewpoints as they are learning and building their perspective seems almost obvious when you think about it, yet nothing provides a solution to this large and looming problem today.
Interesting point! I can see how this makes a lot of sense. Teenagers, it seems, often do try on several different personalities/hobbies/etc while figuring themselves out. Using pseudonyms would allow for this experimentation in a truly anonymous way on the web.
It’s tricky, though, since social networking sites require you to make contacts with friends. I wonder if there would be a way to retain some level of anonymity while still allowing online connections with friends.
I agree that librarians should be concerned with the preservation of information, however, given the ephemeral nature of information, especially information that exists only in digital form, I don’t believe the emphasis on collecting and preserving in libraries is something that is sustainable. Today, libraries are the conduit or signpost to information. We aren’t pack rats just collecting stuff that nobody will ever look at. Not every scrap of information needs to be saved. Culture is embedded within all information resources such that we shouldn’t be overly concerned with the transience of any particular piece of information. I like what the internet archive is doing and if libraries want to invest the time, effort, and money into preserving blogs, that is well and good. But I don’t see it as a pressing social need.
I came across this last week too! Having seen it twice I agree with you that the point which comes across strongly is that students of the future will need to be able to make sense of their world and the evaluation and critical information literacy angle is the key! Therefore I think that we IL champions have hit the nail on the head (as we British say). The stats in the little film are straggering and would be good to provoke lively debate : I’m sure that some of the predictions could be questioned. I loved the bit about England being top nation in 1900 (to be picky it ought to have been Great Britain or the British Empire) but it caught me out cos I thought they were talking about the present!
Thanks for commenting, Peter! I’m with you, some of the video is probably quite questionable, but the boldness and extreme qualities of the video is part of what makes it so thought-provoking, too. I checked out your blog and added it to my reader. I’m looking forward to following your blog… your interests are similar to mine!
I agree, focusing on saving every scrap of digital information isn’t sustainable. I, too, like what the internet archive is doing. We differ, though, in that I do see a need to preserve this digital information. Digital information, as we’ve all experienced, can be here one day and gone the next. For this reason, I’m really happy that my home state is archiving North Carolina government websites. Not all blogs and social media will be worth the effort to archive, but some will be. I think of all the political campaign blogs that will be useful to political science scholars. I also think of local blogs that are another type of media that makes sense to keep in local special collections. But, it’s just my opinion.
Thanks for the conversation and the opportunity to further the discussion!
You can read first Patrick Wilson’s “Bibliographic Instruction and cognitive authority” in Library Trends, v.39, no.3, 1991, 259-270. And then, the more recent work of Soo Young Rieh. Check her homepage at: http://www.si.umich.edu/rieh/
I have just read your paper about “Social Epistemology in Library and Information Science”.
Of course, I have comments on it.
I find it very interesting mostly from the point of view of the context and actual applications of social epistemology in library practice.
I don`t agree, however, on the relationships you established between sociology and social epistemology. Shera explained the difference between those fields of inquiry in “Sociological Foundations of Librarianship” (1970, New York: Asia Publishing House).
Usually, philosophy is considered -methodologically speaking- conceptual and normative; and sociology, empirical and descriptive (I think the best explanation of that idea is in: Resnik, D. 1996. Social epistemology and the ethics of research. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 27(4), 565-586). Fuller is a sociologist of science who claims that social epistemology must be normative. So, I think the most sociological approach to social epistemology is that of the construtivist views. Normative research seek to evaluate practices (Goldman) or organizations (Fuller) for recommending the best ways to acquire knowledge. Descriptive ones, in turn, analize and explain the ways knowledge is socially constructed (see for example Tuominen & Savolainen).
I think we as librarians could follow any of these three options, as Fallis (following mostly Goldman), Zandonade (in agreement with Fuller) and Van House (agreeing mostly with constructivist theories) have done.
I hope it can be useful to you. Sorry if it is a too long comment.
Thank you for your comment, of course it is not too long. I really appreciate your input! This paper was done as an independent study, with minimal guidance, and I was doing it mostly as an exploration so that I could have a basic understanding of these ideas. Your points are well taken, and I appreciate the insights you suggest.
Congratulations! I was IMing with a mutual acquaintance the other day and we both said, “Whoever gets Lauren when she’s done with her degree is going to be so lucky!” So nice that your current employer thinks the same thing.
Aw, shucks, Megan! Thanks for your kind words! It is really exciting to be at a place where I’m able to do interesting things and where they like me enough to keep me around. Having a job lined up makes the whole graduation thing a lot more fun, too.
Hi Dallas, I teach a one credit hour information literacy class. It’s a introduction to research class that focuses on print, database, and web resources. I tend to focus on the total information environment, which is why I talk about Web 2.0 as part of the research process.
I do workshops on emerging technology and web 2.0, too.
What you are linking to is a paper done by R. David Lankes and colleagues at Syracuse University for the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy on impact of participatory technologies on libraries — “the library as conversation.” I’d be interested in your feedback on the concepts discussed. mg
I just read the report as it was cited by David Pimentel in his paper for NASKO 2007. I’ll be commenting on it my “Some Things Read This Week…” post for this week.
I, too, am new to Conversation Theory. While it seems quite useful, I also worry that it has makes practically everything into conversation. And while metaphors are good they always break down at some point. Perhaps I’ll just have to read the Pask book.
Thanks for your comment, Mark. I’ll look forward to reading your “Some Things Read This Week” post.
I can see your hesitation with Conversation Theory. I have to admit that my tendency is to rather enthusiastically embrace ideas that appear promising, then to read up on them, then to draw my “real” conclusions. I’m in the enthusiastically embracing phase for CT, and need to read some Pask. I’d most like to read his Conversation Theory: Applications in Education and Epistemology, which my library doesn’t carry. It looks like I’ll need to look into ILLing it. When I do, I’m sure I’ll have more to say here!
I do think it would be wise to teach children how to exercise traits, but if we do not at the same time give them a skill set — however transient — with which to practice and hone those traits, then would any of what they were taught about exercising traits stick?
“Recently, American social scientists of a neo-Tocquevillean bent have unearthed a wide range of empirical evidence that the quality of public life and the performance of social institutions (and not only in America) are indeed powerfully influenced by norms and networks of civic engagement.” By Robert Putnam.
Is there a relationship between the rise in the number of women in the work force and the changes in the civic engagement?
First off, you get to teach a credit course on information literacy? I’m so jealous. I agree with you about the need to address Web 2.0 sources in information literacy classes. It’s my gut feeling that students and most faculty don’t really grasp that these technologies can be sources of scholarship or that they can be used as avenues for scholarly communication. One thing I try to stress to my students about research is that there is some information that is only available in electronic form. Likewise, there is some information that is only available in print. A comprehensive understanding of their subject will likely lead them to information in multiple formats.
I’m getting ready to read Weinberger’s book and am looking forward to see how he addresses the issue of order. As for extinction, don’t fret. AI has some significant leaps to make before being able to replace librarians.
This is very interesting. I have given a number of presentations around this topic recently in the UK : Information Literacy and Web 2.0. I have taken the line that Web 2.0 affects us first of all as information professionals and that we have to investigate these new tools, acquire them as we can, and that Web 2.0 ( as you say) affects the content of our teaching (eg Wikipedia as a valid startup source, blogs for up to date infgormation) and the means that we can teach eg using blogs, YouTube, wikis, podcasts etc.
I must admit that I get very bored with endless debates about what IL is, and suspect that many of these debates arew sterile! Taking the SCONUL Seven Pillars model as a starting point what I can detect is that the emphasis which we give to each “pillar” is changing. We have to spend more time on what constitutes information, teaching a sense of context, critical thinking about which media to use and its validity and above all the ability to evaluate and choose from the material we find. I guess its less about the vagaries of the databases that we subscribe to, because these are only one plank, albeit an important one, in the information scenario that our users can choose from.
So thank you for this post : perhaps I am on the right track and the book that I am currently co-editing on IL meets Library 2.0 will be useful…
Jason–
Thanks, it is really exciting to teach a credit course. We’re lucky, at MPOW. There is real support for the course among faculty and advisors. I know other schools have tried to start a course but have had an uphill battle. Good point to stress: that just as some information is only online, so is some only in print. I hope you enjoy Weinberger’s book. It really blew me away.
Peter–
Thanks, your presentations sound very interesting! I appreciate your take on IL and the “big” questions: “what constitutes information, teaching a sense of context, critical thinking about which media to use and its validity and above all the ability to evaluate and choose from the material we find.” I look forward to your book once it’s out. It sounds like it will make some interesting points!
I don’t think the concept of information literacy is as ethereal as many think. To put information literacy in a context that my students can understand, I liken it to investigative journalism. You need to know what you don’t know, uncover what you don’t know, and decide how you’re going to use what you find. Of course, those are loaded statements. Where do discussions of authority fit in? Media literacy? Communication theory?
Now you see why I’m jealous of Lauren’s credit course. It would take some time to teach a comprehensive course on info lit.
Thanks Jason, I agree, info lit really is more like journalism or detective work than some theoretical concept that is hard to pin down. I’ve recently been thinking about the importance of critical thinking and media literacy skills that are cornerstones to what I consider information literacy. Since I’m spending time thinking about this, I include it in my course. However, I wonder if this is an area were we are stepping on the toes of other disciplines. Should it be housed in communication? If so, would as many students take the class since it would appear tied to a major? For now, though, I’m going to continue including anything along these lines that I can. It just seems too important not to.
i’m so jealous you can use google calendar with outlook. i’m stuck using meetingmaker at work, and while i’m very comfortable with it, i’d MUCH prefer to use google calendar. alas, i don’t think mm will ever talk to it. sigh….
thanks for the comments! i have very little faith in the big vendors making their calendars compatible with google’s, but i wouldn’t be surprised if google tries to do their best to make their products compatible with others…. if ever they make it compatible with meetingmaker, i’m sure they’d announce it here: http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new.html fwiw!
Lauren, you said the exact same thing I was thinking: If people are playing on their laptops instead of taking notes, you are boring them. Do something different.
I am using both Slideshare and authorSTREAM.
But , I find the audio presentations upload using authorSTREAM have an edge …. The audio quality and sync is superb on navigation between in authorSTREAM but in slide share whole presentation goes out of sync….
I have tried the trial version of authorPOINT 3.8 for capturing my presentations with audio …. and uploaded the audio is great and superb sync is there …. Animations are there … narrations are supported , animated gifs too are supported… I think the slideshare users have to move to authorSTREAM … now
Thanks Jason, Megan! I’ve not done CC training with faculty. Have you had the opportunity, Jason? Did they find it useful? I bet the first years enjoyed it, Megan. It’s certainly more interesting than a dry lecture!
Lauren, I had some similar thoughts while watching The Office last night. I think in some ways we tie technological diversity to age because different generations often come to the table with different comfort levels with different technologies. However, this is dangerous because there are plenty of younger technophobes and older technophiles.
I thought the funniest part of the episode was Creed’s attempt to be 30. I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Interesting to here your approach to conferences!
Sorry I missed meeting you at this one! (I’m already back home in Raleigh now. We have to cover the desk tomorrow for others who are “just” going to the NCLA conference tomorrow!)
Michelle – (mlcz on Twitter)
Hi Michelle, I’m sorry we didn’t cross paths at the conference… hopefully we will sometime soon. I’m back at Wake today, too, for pretty much the same reason… two hours at the reference desk!
I think you’ve identified an important point about the lists being communities.
One of the key reasons (I think) that lists continue to be so popular is that they deliver the conversation into one’s inbox. You subscribe, and there it is. Many of my colleagues still have no clue about using RSS. I just discovered RSS and the blogosphere early this year, and I’m so hooked that I never have time to read my email lists. I managed to subscribe to a few of them on RSS, but I can’t post from there to join a conversation.
I really wish all the lists would “convert” to a different format. There are other ways to host a discussion list– it’s just that they haven’t caught on yet by the user base of the lists. I think they will, eventually. It’s just that people are slow. I’ve been reading and participating on email lists since they first came out in the 90s, but many people have only started more recently. Email has been around for a long time, but there are still people who can’t use it correctly, as is evidenced by all the junk that shows up on the lists.
Thanks for your comments, Patricia! I agree. The uptake for new technologies can be really slow. I’ve been talking about RSS for at least three years now, and I know just a very small number of the folks I talk to about it have begun using it.
An interesting thing to me about RSS is that so many people use it (or something a lot like it) without knowing that’s what it is. I’ve talked to a number of students about the feeds in Facebook, and most say something along the lines of “it’s so easy… one stop and you see what all your friends are doing.” I’m like “that’s exactly what rss can do for you!”
Perhaps when a majority of folks are used to getting centralized updates through Facebook feeds, Google news, or whatever, they’ll start to see that RSS can actually make their lives easier.
Hey, that’s my hometown. Where did you wind up eating?
I only get back a few times a year to visit my folks, but I have to say I really miss it this time of year. The colors in Richmond are nothing compared to that vibrant display you get in the mountains.
I have to admit that I leave all my computing behind when I go on vacation (no matter how long). I take my cell phone and that’s about it. We always take pictures though and upload them to our flickr account when we get home.
Honestly, I find that I don’t miss it all that much.
What a small world! We ate at the Laughing Seed, Early Girl, Jerusalem Garden, and a Noodle place. I love Asheville for a lot of reasons, one of which is the amazing food. I can only imagine how much you’d miss it if you came from there. Good to know that I’m not the only one that enjoys leaving the computing behind on vacation. I think I need to get better at clicking the “mark all as read” tab in my rss reader. Thanks for your comment!
Yes I too think so . authorSTREAM is much better approach as compared to SlideShare as authorSTREAM suppport narrations,animations,animated gifs,rehearse timings and also supported by free tool called authorPOINT Lite .
Thanks for the YouTube link Arin…. that’s much faster! I have to say, I found your site because of your Net Neutrality video, but now I’m interested in your film as well. Thanks for all you’re doing!
Thanks for sharing Megan! It’s fun to see how we all customize our internet experience… and I really like seeing what others have discovered that I might have missed!
No problem! I think it would be awesome if the winning entrant had worked with a librarian… but I think all the entries will be fascinating to watch no matter what!
He he, have you noticed how many librarian bloggers are posting that they are the Annoyed Librarian? Just to be clear, I have blogged about it as well…
Another great example of this is TechSmith offering a free, older version of Camtasia. Now that I’ve downloaded it and tried it, I’m more likely to shell out for the full version – when I can afford it, that is. And until I can afford it, I’ll be recommending the software to others.
The problem with the Kindle is that I can’t head down to a store and see it in action. I could do that with the Sony Reader, at least (and I still kinda want one). $400 is a lot to spend on a product sight unseen. Of course, the DRM stuff would keep me from buying anyway, I’m kind of hoping they’ll ease up a but in firmware updates.
Thanks Karin! Your Camtasia example is exactly what I’m thinking about! I, too, am a much bigger fan of Camtasia now.
Another good point re: seeing the Kindle. Sadly for Sony, since there was a Reader at the local Borders, I had seen e-ink which actually made me more interested in the Kindle. If I hadn’t been able to see a working example of e-ink in person, I wouldn’t have been interested at all. But I think you’re right; the interface is much different, and it’d certainly be good to see the annotation features and ability to buy over wireless first hand. Let’s hope they get the DRM stuff figured out soon!
The “human search engine” aspect of Twitter can’t be overlooked, and it is one of the reasons I follow you and another librarian
I also use Twitter as my own personal RSS aggregator of sorts. I track keywords and while I often get to busy (or just forget) to check my Google Reader, my iPhone is always with me and makes it easy to quickly scan a lot of relevant info that I otherwise would have missed.
Sure thing, Karen! I think it’s important to raise this point ever so often… David’s recommended reading is really interesting (in case you’re interested).
Looking forward to seeing you at the Town Hall… hopefully it’ll be a good one!
It sounds to me like you have everything in order. Sometimes you can become so busy and engulfed in life and work that the time will fly past you. If nothing else take time out for yourself and enjoy life a little.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I even have a half finished blog post to the effect in the works, but have not been able to finish it. We got our first computer much sooner though- my mom was a techno-phile. I remember playing Oregon Trail in the library for 25 cents an hour.
I too have been thinking about our generation lately, but more so about the implications our digital/print fence strattling has on our professional expections, and how our outlook may differ from that of the generations on either side of us – even those separated by only a few years.
Oh how I loved playing Oregon Trail in the school library…
I found your website and thought you may be interested in MyiCourse.com, a free, web-based, e-learning platform that is “just right” for those faculty members who want the freedom to create their own on-line educational site, but do not have the budget, servers, IT department support or programming skills to access the typical e-learning solutions. Yes, I did say it was free. No limits. No contracts. No stripped down “free version” with the “real version” requiring money. MyiCourse platform allows a multi-media approach using video, audio, images and PDFs. We emphasize accountability for the students. Students are timed, tested and they can send their transcripts after course completion. MyiCourse.com also allows sharing of academic courses for all to use. In short, a great course on one of our sites can be imported and placed in the course catalog of other MyiCourse sites. MyiCourse also allows you to create a public site for everyone, or a private site that is closed and password protected.
I would invite you to drop by MyiCourse.com and click on the Learning Center link. Another option would be to Google Myicourse and see what others are saying. I would be most pleased to spend some time with you or others on the telephone and give you an online tour. Let me know what you think. MyiCourse.com, flattening the world one course at a time.
very handy! I like twitter for troubleshooting-with-other-librarians during the work day, and keeping up with friends / former students as well. Plus finding out what’s going on at Midwinter in a tweet-by-tweet.
Oh Lauren! I am so sorry to hear that we were a room full of strangers. Shame on us, for not being more welcoming and gracious! And your name is so familiar to me–did we meet at one of the 5 Weeks forums? You were a presenter there, weren’t you?
I know how hard it is, though, to show up at an event where you don’t know if you are going to know anyone, and don’t know what it’s going to be like. (jeans? suits? in between?)
We missed you, and yes please Twitter me ahead of time. You’ve got a lot of cool stuff going on–I’d love to hear more about what you’re doing with new tech tools and designing training for students…
I’m at a small library and we’re working on a technology wish list for teens. Getting 2 new teen computers and interested in your ideas for upcoming trends.
Hi Alice, thanks for your comment! No problem at all! I really appreciate what you all are doing, and after this blog post a number of folks were interested in meeting up ahead of time for the next one. I imagine you’ll have a number of first timers then!
You’re right, I did participate in 5 weeks! Such a small online library world!
Ann, I wasn’t actually on the panel… just reporting on it. However, one of my areas of interest is the evaluation and implementation of technology for specific groups, so if you’d like to chat I’d be happy to. My email is lauren@laurenpressley.com.
I really like the term “bridge generation.” I’ve definitely felt that way in many of my work interactions. I was born in 79 too and always felt that I was neither a Gen X-er or a Millennial (or Gen Y which is what they were calling the next one along, back when the Gen X-ers were in their 20s). I often find myself struggling trying to explain why when students are searching our various databases some things are going to count as an encyclopedia article and others will be a journal. They never used a print encyclopedia, so that background experience isn’t there when I start talking about the online version. I’m still working on my new approach.
Your family must have been near bleeding edge. I was one of the first people in my school to have internet access, but I didn’t have it until 11th grade. I pretty much exclusively used it to look up bands and movies. (Although I did play with my Encarta disc too.) That year for Christmas I gave everyone all kinds of different printouts – one person got a photo album of pictures of her favorite band along with some interviews, one person got the script for his favorite movie, one person got a 2 binder print out of the entire Heavenly Creatures website. It’s funny how awesome they thought those were then when they couldn’t get to those things themselves and how lame they would be now.
And since you mentioned Oregon trail, I have to share my story of how I was a student aid at a summer camp and would swap computers with the camp kids so that I could get my name on the high score board on every computer in the room (about 40 of them). It started random since I’d be on a different computer each day, but by the last few weeks I was actively seeking out the few computers left. I had kids rooting for me and others trying to knock me off. It was great fun. (and I did succeed)
You are exactly spot on. Games teach the player in ways that fit naturally with the content and apply directly to the situation. James Paul Gee calls some of this “just-in-time” information. I believe and I’ve written about it, that we can make information literacy instruction “just-in-time.”
In addition by looking at the strategies games like Mario Galaxy use to teach like: slowly building skills, adding on previous skills, keeping the challenge high enough to encourage the player to move forward, providing feedback along the way with each new star collected,and lowering the barriers of failure (how many extra lives can a player build up in some levels?).
All of these strategies can and should be applied in our information literacy instruction.
I talked with a guy last year who said he’d played videogames a lot in his youth but then moved away from them as he grew up. He recently tried them again and the thing that impressed him most about modern videogames is how they progressively teach you what you need to know in order to succeed and advance.
In the “old days,” you had to spend hours figuring out what to do or you had to read the manual and hope. But today’s games assume you know nothing, throw you into situations, and then help you learn as you go so that you succeed. It’s another one of those things you don’t really understand unless you play games or someone tells you. Thanks for telling everyone.
It’s funny, even when playing the wii sports games, I didn’t *get* the whole learning-in-the-game dynamic. In fact, it took a few hours with SMGalaxy to put it together and to begin to trust the game to teach me. Like you’re saying, Jenny, it takes playing the game to really get that. Or hearing it from someone.
And I love the “just-in-time” concept Paul. That’s dead on. People do learn best when they’re motivated, and “just-in-time” speaks to that.
Thanks Molly! I really appreciate your point about how these perspectives shape our expectations in the work environment! I do think that is really interesting (and think it will be even more so as the workforce gains millennial workers).
And Ellie, I’m with ya! I think it gives me some empathy for my older colleagues to be on the cusp. If it’s a little difficult for us to differentiate between encyclopedia and journal articles with college students… I’d imagine there’d be even more conceptual hurdles to jump if the technology all came after one graduated from college! Congrats on Oregon Trail! That’s an awesome story!
I understand completely! It seems like, even when I am not “at work,” I constantly encounter ideas that I think might be good to incorporate into my work-life, and vice versa.
Perhaps it is a sign that we truly enjoy our jobs. I remember having jobs that completely drained me, instead of energizing me, as my current one (usually) does. In those past positions, I tried not to think about work while at home.
I find this particularly interesting as librarians seem to go one way or the other with almost no grey area in the middle. The bulk of my friends from library science school are the kind of people who are “all in.” They read library journals at home, they browse library related websites, they attend conferences, etc. However, there’s an entire compliment of librarians that I’ve met in the years since graduation who see their career as a nine-to-five thing (many are public librarians, by the way, though I’m not attempting to draw a conclusion by saying that).
For me, the entire discussion gets even murkier when you begin considering subject librarians (which I’m one of) who work in very specialized fields (which I do), because it’s like having two distinct jobs – I’m viewed as a librarian and a genocide expert. This means that even if we are fully immersed (as I think I am), it might not be library science as such, but possibly a subject area that we cultivate in order to become even better experts at shepherding information.
The conferences I attend, the presentations I give, the articles I write, and even the blogs I read, wind up being a fairly mixed lot of the two. On the surface, you’d think that everything I’m writing, attending, and presenting was simply Holocaust/genocide related – The Origins of Violence in Darfur, Finding Primary Sources for Holocaust Research, Following the Paper Trail of Modern Genocide — but in truth, they straddle that line between information and subject specialization.
At the same time, you could just as easily find me at an Intellectual Freedom Committee meeting (state or national), which, now that I think about it, kind of bridges the gap as much as any of subject specific things I do.
Thanks for your comments! Michelle, I know what you mean– I feel my work energizes me, too. I like that about library work. So much of it resonates with my larger world view that it just makes sense to have integrated some of it into my personal life.
Tim, I think you make interesting points! I hadn’t thought of the potential to be a leading expert in a subject area (mine in Women’s and Gender Studies), but I can see how that could be the case, particularly in a field like yours. It sounds like you have very interesting work!
I’m active in my day job as well as on a national professional level, but for most nights and weekends, I spend my time on other things. I have a wide array of interests that keep me busy outside of my working hours, and just like your professional activities, they can inform my work as well. These are not mutually exclusive lifestyle choices.
There’s a reason why I went with “eclectic” in my blog title. Don’t feel like you have to specialize just because some (or many) have done so. If you’re unhappy with your blog title, change it, but don’t feel like it has to also be your mission statement.
I think that if you just focus on projects that interest you (and that you can get support for in your organization) you’ll just sort of fall into a niche — however narrow or broad. My title — Librarian for Digital Technology and Learning — is so broad I get to justify doing almost anything with it. Very cool. It also means I get pulled into all sorts of task forces — gotta watch that! I think you’ve got the same covered with “Instructional Design” librarian. With all your interests, that’s a great first job to have! So expansive!
No need to change your blog title, imo…or go with something expansive rather than specialized.
Thanks for your comments… and reassurance! I guess I get so used to the conversations about specialization that I begin to see that as the One True Path. Eclectic and expansive interests and titles do have quite a few desirable qualities. Thanks for reminding me.
Hey, Anna. I didn’t mean that everyone has to spend ever waking minute of the day on library-related work. And I think we’re saying close to the same thing, just coming from different perspectives. For me, a lot of the involvement is a hobby and a diversion from the day-to-day library work. Broad involvement (being diverse hobbies or more focused in one area) means that there are more opportunities for interesting activity at any time. And, really, we can sometimes learn the most from things outside of the field. Everything enriches everything else. Thanks for your thoughts.
I’d not worry about using your name. It is your weblog. Weblogs reflect the person behind them. Nothing egocentric about putting your name up front. On a community weblog, like LISnews, it is different. It is also different on a work sponsored weblog.
I’d think twice about changing the name. Will you confuse your readers? Prehaps lose some? What is to be gained by a name change?
Lauren, I am so glad everything went well with your dad! I’m trying to make an effort to improve my diet and level of exercise myself.
I’ll be interested in how the Virtual World conference goes, too, so will be on the lookout for folks who are blogging it.
i’m playing with CoverItLive and live-blogging some of the sessions in SL. i’ll archive them to my site too – but if you’re online and want to check it out the live-blogging will start back up at 4pmSL.
I agree to some extent, facing the same situation this week with my MacBook Pro. But…
As much as I would prefer to buy in store (for the instant gratification) I have to admit that Apple’s emphasis on acquainting newcomers to the brand with the ins and outs and whys (using way more in-store reps than previously) is a much better use of manpower than trying to customize at the store.
The last time I was there it was quite amazing actually… all down the side were people sitting next to Apple reps learning about the Macs. There were families who seemed to have made coming an event, all the kids in tow. There was even a small crowd at the iTunes presentation going on at the back projector.
Anyway, in the end, I think I prefer the store the way Apple’s done it as a showcase with most of the standard configuration products, rather than emulating factory/warehouse if you know what I mean.
Thanks, Morris. Those are good points. I agree that it makes good sense for the to focus on those who don’t know/aren’t sold on Apple products. It just seemed strange to me that they can fix some internal problems in store and not upgrade a hard drive. Good to know I’m not the only one facing this situation with a MacBookPro this week.
One of the things I remembered from my past MLIS class was how the library was not seen as a source of information due to, like you said “Information isn’t scarce any longer.” However, Google or other search engines are not the end all and be all information gathering. I agree with you that libraries and librarians serve a greater source by helping those patrons to find valid and accurate data.
In addition, libraries need to expand itself to other services it can provide to the community it serves. Here in Miami, all libraries have tax forms and provide tax assistance through AARP volunteers every friday. When there is an issue to vote on, early voting can be done at libraries. As long as this trends continues and the needs are met, regardless of what happens to information gathering, the library will still be around for many generations to come.
I agree with you that Wikipedia is a very useful tool for teaching students information literacy concepts. Most students — and most people — approach Wikipedia as consumers of the information with little clue about how the information even got there in the first place. I believe that even drawing students attention to the Discussion and History tabs can deepen their awareness of what’s going on in Wikipedia and (hopefully) use it more mindfully — or at least get a better grip on what all the fuss is about it. They’ve all heard they should be cautious about using Wikipedia and that anyone can create content, but most students and also faculty have never even noticed features of the wiki besides the Article tab itself. But peeking into the Discussion tab exposes the biases and struggles of the authors to attempt some sort of “neutral point of view” and the History tab reveals the anonymity of authors (and edit done by an IP address!). You can totally leverage the interest students have in Wikipedia to teach concepts such as peer review vs. the seemingly collective review happening in Wikipedia and discuss the pros and cons. I’ve also discussed the scholarly vs. popular dichotomy and then asked students to think about whether Wikipedia is scholarly or popular, neither or both while talking about the Wikipedia guidelines (NPoV, no original research, etc.) and showing them how the wiki works beneath the surface of what they read. Fascinating stuff! A whole arsenal of rich material for engaging students!
I like it Lauren. I can’t tell which screencasting tool you’re using, but if Camtasia you could also go for a menu as in http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/libcon/links/ (sorely in need of updating). Camtasia Studio 5 also allows you to pan and zoom automatically, good for showing URLs and such… You might also consider hosting somewhere other than YouTube to aid in readability – I like Viddler.com because it doesn’t compress nearly as much, thus rendering the videos much more legible.
Thanks for your comments! I agree. It’s really worth thinking about what services a library can provide for the local community. Tax assistance, early voting, etc. are great services from public libraries. Some of the information environment issues I discussed (I think) make a lot of sense within information literacy. It’s certainly an interesting time to be navigating changes and creating a new path!
Thanks Paul! The site actually had examples from several different screencasting tools we’ve experimented with. Thanks for the advice on Camtasia 5. I need to upgrade.
Also great tip about Viddler.com. We intentionally chose YouTube for the findablity factor, but there’s nothing to say we can’t post material in a different location for embedding as well. I’ll be sure to look into it.
Hey Kim, thanks for your comments! I’m with you! I’ve actually gotten a fair amount of mileage out of Wikipedia at the reference desk, too. It’s amazing how a short one-on-one conversation about the tabs, works cited section, and a little bit about the Wikipedia culture can change how someone sees the source. It’s a great one, if it’s used thoughtfully. (Which is the key for most things, isn’t it?)
It was a great day! ZSR is planning to remodel our 24 hour study rooms and add a cafe/coffee shop. No immediate plans for the rest of the building, but we’re always interested in learning from others!
I’m experimenting with screencasting and am struggling with how sterile it can feel. Any ideas about how librarians can communicate authenticity through video?
Hi, Jason. Isn’t that the question! I’m a fan of more conversational and less scripted, but I don’t (yet) have evidence that that method communicates authenticity. Are you having any luck?
Lauren, Thanks for sharing your notes about the visit to Appalachian and posting those great shots, especially the view from Special Collections. We enjoyed showing off our building and having a chance to talk with you about library services and buildings. We will be following your progress with interest and hope to hear from you as your plans for renovation develop.
We need to shift – the message is clear. As regards to the importance of our profession – I am quite sure that its diminishing – how many knowledge or information management panels do have librarians as members? Are curicula has to change – include more techie items …. LIS teachers have a bigger role to play to keep our “so called profession” afloat.
Thanks for your comments. I agree, there are some things in the basic LIS curriculum that need to change… starting with more emphasis on tech. I’d love to see more courses about how to evaluate new technology in light of a specific community, for one!
I feel you. Same thing happens with me. I take a day off and get maybe 2 hours of “book” work done. I did that for a year and had little to show for it. Now I just stay an extra hour at work and aim for a page a day — I also get up early 7:30ish on weekends to write for an hour and then snooze a little after that burst is gone.
Thanks, Brian! This is good advice. I think that you’re onto something with the chipping away each day. I’ll have to attempt to get up a bit earlier tomorrow to see if I can make some kind of progress that way, too!
I had more success taking a full week off at a time for writing (3 weeks over a year). That enabled me to get more of a momentum going than a day at a time did. Of course, you also have to let the housework go and have a supportive husband to pick up the slack (which I know you do!). Keep plugging away.
Thanks Susan! John and I actually were talking about how a week off might make more sense than five Fridays…. I’d have to wait until the semester is over, though! Very helpful!
Great stuff! So many are so “stuck in the gerbil wheel” that if they jump off for 1 second to “learn something” there is an assumption, that it is better to keep running then stop for directions.
I think if things can be shared in snippets (like this) there is more hope. Self-initiated learning goes a long way….sometimes we have to give people a snack rather than a 112 course meal
(of information.)
I like what you wrote about the differences between kids and adults in the online world. Have you heard of a new online service that bridges the digital divide by providing every child with their own virtual laptop on a USB bracelet and while the child is surfing their protected by WiHood.
I’m the product development manager for Connotea. Thank’s for trying us out. We are continually developing and improving features, but I’m particularly interested in where we can go to support university communities.
If you have any feedback I’d love to hear it, you can contact me at i dot mulvany at nature dot com.
okay, i really like the content of this post and i don’t want to detract from your message, but i just want to say that i was already planning on using futura medium for my passion quilt piece if i got around to it.
re: the content. you’re right. libraries don’t exist in a vacuum. i sometimes wish that more librarians would realize that we need to evolve with the rest of the information world.
I really like this, too. And it can also be applied on a personal level, as well: Are my actions as a library employee working towards the library system as a whole? Am I a good team member?
Welcome to the Comment Challenge Lauren. I also use co.mment to track my comments and feed it into my Google Reader. It’s had a big impact on my ability to respond to comments. I also use cocomment due to it’s community aspects.
Hi Lauren,
Welcome to the Comment Challenge. I’m working on the challenge as an individual and also with my class. We were busy today commenting to our blog partners all around the world. My students and I are always so excited when people read our blog posts. There is nothing more thrilling than receiving feedback on what you’ve written.
I’ve never used co.mment but it sounds interesting.
Kimberly
a.k.a classroomqueen
As far as those questions go, I hardly ever comment on other blogs. I read alot, but….I don’t know, I end up hitting the back button alot. Would that be something like Commenters Remorse? And I use Twitter too much. There, I said it.
And I’d not kept up with my comments before I started using CoComment for the challenge. I’d started to do it on del.icio.us but it was kind of a pain. The CoComment browser extension does it for me though. Cool.
Some people are such prolific commenters and I’m really impressed by that. If I’m interested in something enough to comment, I tend to do it on my own blog and just link back to their post. But some of my own posts get so many comments that I feel badly for not reciprocating. I guess that’s why I decided to do this challenge as well. It’s an awesome idea!
Haha, Commenter Remorse and too much Twitter, I am SO there, Marianne!
I know what you mean, Meredith! So often I see my thoughts (or at least most of them) mentioned in the comments that I don’t add my own… and if my thoughts are particularly detailed or sufficiently different, I try to post and use trackback links. I’m glad you’re on board for the commenting challenge…. I think it’ll be a fun one. (I’ve already seen changes in my own blogging behavior because of it, fwiw!)
Hi Lauren,
I’m not far from you–Greensboro, in fact. I’m really intrigued by your post. I have always thought of library people as the ultimate in detail orientation, but your post makes sense. I particularly like thinking about the library’s place in the community at large, which leads to my question for you, which is: how big does the picture get? Where is the point at which you have to stop expanding the circle ?
I can’t figure out if I am a big picture or little picture person–I seem to vacillate wildly, depending on what is going on. Although in either case, I seem to head for the extreme side.
If done right, I could see potential for this sort of technlogy in distance learning. As an example, a professor (or librarian) could post a lecture (or information literacy session) and then students could send back video comments or questions about various topics covered. This would ensure a more active communcative by-play, allowing students to feel more involved in the learning process (and perhaps better able to retain what they learn).
I guess one concern might be the learning curve for this sort of technology; it isn’t for beginners. And, what is the point of an instructional technology session in which people spend most of the time resolving whatever technological bugs come their way?
Another concern would be the volume of students (i.e. if 200 students are participating in the class remotely) and how to effectively manage their feedback.
Karen, I think there’s good potential for video in distance learning, too! As far as learning curve, I’m guessing we’re a few years out from mainstream use, but for some computers it’s a seamless experience. Macs come with a built in camera now, so to make the comment I literally just clicked “record.” It would have been a hassle with my old Mac. I would have had to find my camera, make sure it was charged up, connect it to my computer, make sure the computer knew it was there, and *then* click record. In a few years I’m hoping/guessing the camera integration will be more widely adopted.
As for the numbers, that would be a concern in a 200 person course! I can think of a few ways that could be potential answers, but all would require some sacrifice (in total watched, length of time, etc).
Interesting comments! Thanks for bringing them up!
This is great Lauren. Thank you. The only trouble I’m having determining whether to include my home address (it’s public anyway, but…). Since nobody in Ojai is using Brightkite yet, there isn’t really a reason to include the street address. However, if I ever get trusted friends in Ojai, then I could include it so I show up in the “Around Me” tab.
This site does take some mental grasping, but seems to have considerable power. One thing you forgot to mention was how important using SMS can be for managing your account. If you want to set your location and it is one of your placemarks, just send an text that says “@lax” and the cool thing is Brightkite sends you an SMS right back that tells you how many other users are in your location.
So, for me the two areas to grow and learn about are SMS and privacy settings.
Thanks for posting about this, Lauren. I’ve been trying to figure out how I want to use BrightKite and how much, especially since (as you note) there aren’t good widgets for it yet.
Right now, I’m trying to figure out how to friend you on BK. Any ideas? When I put in my username in “discover friends,” it says it couldn’t find anyone I know on the service, which is obviously baloney since you’re on both.
Is the second graphic above the right one? Should it maybe show the “sharing” tab for Twitter?
Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts about BK, and I hope to learn more from watching your use of it.
Kenley, I know what you mean about home address. No one here (except for 2 people I invited, and trust) is on the service either, but I think a little bit about technosavvy people with bad intentions knowing exactly when I am out. My hope, there, is that they might know if I’m out, but they hopefully won’t know if *both* my husband and I are out. Thanks for adding the point about SMS! I’m still working out that aspect of the site, and didn’t even realize that I could find the number of users in the area using SMS. I’m using the iPhone interface, mostly, which is really nice, too. I wonder if since there is so much to learn that this service won’t catch on as much…
Jenny, thanks for pointing out the picture issue! I’ll fix that right now! As for the discover friends, that could use some work. After poking around, it looks like the address bar at the top of the page can be used to find people, too:
Good to meet another local interested in this stuff! Libraries are evolving… while there are detail folks, there are other folks, too. It’s an interesting time to be in the profession! As for me, the picture is very large! I like to think in terms of the entire information ecosystem. Can someone in California access our information online? Can I find a copy of a rare book, that we don’t own, for a patron using Google Books? Where is the first place anyone goes for information… can we make a difference in that location. Of course, not everyone thinks in those terms, nor should they. But I do think that examining a system larger than the library building makes a lot of sense, particularly if you’re trying to reach people that don’t currently use library services, and also in light of the likelihood users are spending most of their information seeking time online.
Good to meet you! I’m adding your blog to my reader!
Lauren
Would you be able to share more of the discussion about the brainstorming and planning you went through? What were some of the ideas that you came up with? How does your framework tie into the discipline you selected?
Please let me know if you are able to talk more about your process.
There is also a concept called the AIR Equation: the 3-part formula for happiness at http://www.AIRequation.org. The formula says happiness is based on 3 states of being, and to concentrate and building up ourselves and others in these areas.
Thanks for the post! I just started checking out BrightKite last week and I wondered how everyone was sending their posts to Twitter – now I know! The trick now is to get more people who are actually my “friends” to sign up and start using it.
Thanks for posting this. I got my invite a week or two ago but haven’t spent much time on it. I’m pretty sporadic on Twitter, though so I don’t know if I’ll get hooked on brightkite, but I’m off to revisit it!
I’m reading your paper entitled “Social Epistemology in LIS”. It is an interesting and useful paper for the readers of both disciplines. For my research purpose, I would like to use your paper as a reference. Would you please provide me the bibliographical details of your paper? I would highly appreciate your cooperation.
Thanks Md.Roknuzzaman! Sure, you can use it as a reference. What bibliographical details are you looking for? I submitted it as part of a graduate program, so I suspect you could treat it as a white paper…
Technically, gMail is still in beta and institutions of higher education are switching all their mail services to this beta product. Who would have thought?
Thinking, analyzing, planning all have their place but at some point you just have to do it. In some institutions one can spend so much time with those steps that you miss out on the opportunity to be innovative. To be exciting. To have a pulse. I want to have a pulse and I want the organization I work for to have one too.
I’m with you on the exciting/pulse/innovation line of thinking. Innovation is one of my primary motivators, and I’m a big fan of trying out new things and seeing how they go.
Lately I’ve been wrestling with the issue of assessment and planning. I see some colleagues in the field looking for more processes and plans for implementation of services they plan to use, which makes me think that there are less “culture of beta” people than I might have expected. I’m trying to figure out how to bridge their work needs with the “culture of beta” idea.
I also see great value in focus groups and having conversations with our users, so I am thinking a lot about that, too. However, I think that a lot of those conversations and focus groups can meet around new services and projects as they arise, not slowing down the process in the planning phase.
I particularly like your “I want to have a pulse and I want the organization I work for to have one too.” Amen to that!
Congratulations, Lauren! You should be very proud to accomplish this. Love the glossy graphics too! I’m a sucker for using them to bring attention to good content. Way to go, Susan
We’re not here yet but here’s what I envision. Removing large reference desks and reclaiming that space for the public or just putting up a small staff kiosk. Staff connected with wireless headsets and PDAs or tablet PCs roaming or on call from their work areas.
In the far future we may have walk up terminals with voice recognition where patrons can ask questions and the computer will answer or if it can’t answer transfer to a librarian…kind of like what happens now when you call a bank or insurance company.
I’m not saying any of this is better or worse. It’s just different and we have to be willing to explore new territories to stay relevant and vital to the communities.
Was trying to subscribe to your blog – but got a whacky error message – not sure if it was me or you, but thought I’d let you know in case something’s busted on the blog. : )
I still belong to ALA (as well as VLA: Virginia Library Association) but I’m not as involved as I used to be because I went from being an academic librarian, which was well served by individual divisions and round tables, to my current position, which is a redheaded-stepchild if there ever was one.
Sorry I missed you at the Lita Happy Hour. After I’d had a drink or two, I sat down in a corner with some new friends and stopped circulating. I’m thinking I missed a bunch of twitter peeps because of that!
I totally agree about twitter. It helped me meet up with people, decide what sessions to go to (or NOT go to) and even helped me win a $100 B&N gift card. All in all, a HUGE SUCCESS- even with the service going down periodically.
Thanks for the post. Note, though, that “Jim” O’Neill is actually “Jill.”
Also, one question: In what context did Harvey Gover mention the NAL “Blue Print for Success”? I’m not quite seeing the connection between that paper and a discussion of distance learning, other than that it includes the quote from Jill O’Neill.
Thanks Lila… I’ve corrected it… serves me right for relying on my hearing rather than asking for names for the blog post!
Harvey had very positive remarks for the NAL “Blue Print for Success.” As you can probably tell from the program notes, the program was about the nature of distance learning today. Many traditional students expect access to the same services that distance service students have, which often means more librarians embracing technology that used to be primarily for distance students. I can’t remember exactly what he said about the report, but, for example pages 26-27 talk about technology investments over the next five years. Full text and enhanced online catalogs are important to both distance and local students. Is this helpful?
Thanks for highlighting this, I hadn’t read Librarian by Day before (new feed added to my GReader) but I especially love this idea. Since I have an unusual position it’s always great to see what other folks are doing with their time and how they manage it all. I can’t wait to see the results!
I’m so excited to see this idea taking off! I was thrilled to see that Lori put the wiki together, I should have been doing that instead of playing videos games this morning. Now I just have to get added to it LOL
I’m really enjoying these posts, and am so glad you participated. It is really great to see what professional librarians do throughout the day. I especially like your focus on your task system, because mine needs a major overhaul. I need all the hints I can get.
I am so glad that this meme/project has been started. For those of us that are starting a career in libraries, it is very helpful. My question is sort of a pros and cons type of question. I haven’t fully decided which avenue I want to take with my MLS program…public or academic. Would you mind giving me a rundown of some pros and cons of your academic setting?
I think technology is probably the trigger. It influences how organizations will spend money and direct resources. So, if an organization is seeing online social media as a competitive advantage in attracting younger workers (perhaps because they’ve read they’re all on Facebook), then they’ll naturally attach the media.
I’ve never been a big fan of lumping people into categories either. I just think the link is strategically-driven.
Lauren, great post! I’m interested in the fact that the presentation rehearsal space could only be booked by students! I really like the idea of having students do research projects on the Library!
Thanks, Giz! I’m with ya, saving the presentation room is a great idea… and I’m all for student projects that teach them skills and have real world possibilities. Love the idea!
Whew, quite a question. It could be an entire blog post in itself. Would you mind shooting me an email? lauren@laurenpressley.com These last few weeks (and coming 2) have been crazy, but I’ll try to get in touch as soon as possible.
The picture shows two people taking notes while a presenter talks over a bulleted PowerPoint. That seems ironic to me since he was apparently talking about how irrelevant lectures are. You said that some presenters used clickers, and that some sessions were only 15 minutes long. Besides that, was there evidence that presenters were themselves employing some of these new techniques to engage you? Just wondering, since this was a conference about new teaching techniques.
Hey Carol, this photo was taken as the speaker gave an overview in preparation for collaborative work. That being said, plenty of presenters (us included for this conference) gave lectures. This is pretty standard for education conferences in my experiences.
Most people who are in academia excelled in a traditional-lecture based environment. They wouldn’t have gone on to grad school if they didn’t. But then, as we teach, we realize that a majority of students aren’t like us, and most don’t pay attention to the lecture-style format. So, perhaps ironically, a lot of education presentations are given in lecture format to best reach the audience, while the topic might be about using newer methods. Some speakers, like the one above, lecture enough to get the (more traditional) audience on board, but then move in to a modeling mode, demonstrating newer methods to make their point. However, I’ve seen a lot of more traditional faculty get very frustrated in these sessions, so it’s kindof a gamble.
Great observations! I SO agree with the low periods and high periods and it’s so important to capitalize on those highs to really get some good work done. Editing sucks. I don’t think anyone is very good at editing themself, which is why it’s so important to have other people looking at it (though they’re not always right either — I mostly agreed with my editor, but I totally disagreed with many of the edits my copy editor made). Just remember that it’s your name on the work and don’t let anyone turn it into something you don’t believe in.
I think everyone’s different when it comes to writing something so huge. Some people can do that “I’ll write 500 words every day” thing and get a little bit done each day consistently. I’m one of those people who needs a good, long, uninterrupted period of time to write. When I did my book, I tended to do research and organize my thoughts during the week and then I’d actually write an entire chapter in the course of a weekend. I found this helped to make each chapter pretty cohesive and it kept my attention. I can’t write with distractions and I need to be “in the zone” or I can’t write at all. I envy people who can just sit down and write for a bit before work or after work; I’m not in the right headspace at those times.
Best of luck on getting totally done! It’s an amazing feeling to print out the whole damn thing and just look at what you’ve accomplished. YAY!
If you are interested in “association” via wiki, the Foresight Education Project has just been launched at the U of Houston, home to the longest running Master’s program in foresight education.
Thanks, Meredith! It’s interesting how similar and different people’s experiences can be. I like your idea of research throughout the week, and writing on the weekend. At the end of the day, some days, my brain seems to stop working on detail grammar issues. I’m looking forward to getting there. It’s gonna be nice!
Hi Peter– Thanks! I used Keynote (on the Mac). In fact, these days I make most of my presentations in Keynote, and export them in some format that will work on a PC.
I’ve noticed the same things lately. While I know I’m still productive I’m frustrated with myself for being so easily distracted & check FF & Twitter so often when I should be working on a presentation. I’ve pretty much done what you described set aside time for Facebook, FriendFeed & Twitter and tried to stop checking them so often. I’m interested in how it works for you and for me. I wonder if we were Digital Natives if it would even bother us? I think it wouldn’t it would just be part of our day & how we operate. Is that good or bad? I don’t know.
i absolutely know where you are coming from, and it’s a dichotomy I struggle with, as well. I know that social networks take care and feeding… read, react, think, add, participate… but sometimes I’m just too busy or wrapped up. Sometimes I’ll check my txt and have 200+ tweets, which I’ll scan and delete, since it’s hard to react to something someone said 12 hours ago. Sometimes I’ll think of something to add, but there’s already 12 plus comments on Friend Feed, or someone else offered up the same tidbit. Does it make me feel out of the loop? Yes. But what do I do about it? Keep up the best I can, and jump in on the party line when I’ve got them time.
Keep us posted on how your “twitstriction” goes. : )
I so totally know where you are coming from. Multitasking is overrated. I try to limit twitter and FF to nights when I am at home, but there are times when I need the feedback and opinions of colleagues while I’m at work.
If you use Outlook I highly recommend the book Take Back Your Life. When I followed that book I was the most productive ever and I only checked email twice a day.
My mentor constantly reminds me to focus on accomplishments not tasks.
Lauren, I’ve been working on similar things. I’ve given up looking at FriendFeed totally and started paring down Twitter followings.
If you aren’t already, you should be reading Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders. He’s been writing a lot of about similar issues lately. http://www.43folders.com/
The irony of recommending another thing to read to help you get more done is not lost on me.
Lauren, I have been thinking the same. I was totally not myself, when I had to turn in my laptop for repairs and had no internet for two weeks.
And worst of all, new restricted internet policies at work make it impossible for us to use the internet or email accounts for private purposes at work, without risking your job. And hey, I work in media after all! It still makes us really mad, because you are totally cut off until you get home at night and switch on your own laptop, to follow up with your private life. So, just checking mails and readers turns into 1 hour.
Thanks for the comments! I’ll look into Take Back Your Life, and into 43Folders. (I’d been keeping up with the conversation there, but cut the feed a few months back… looks like I’ll add it back to my reader!)
Glad to know that I’m not alone. I look forward to seeing what works for you all, and I’ll post about my Twitter diet after I’ve been on it a while and have noticed a change (one way or the other).
Great post. I’m way behind in my blog reading so missed the survey. But I would say it sounds like you’re on the right track. While we do have a duty to help students in the here and now to be able to use our resources and succeed in their academic career, the simple fact is that without a solid base of theoretical skills like critical evaluation, knowing the practical stuff like the where and how of searching library resources can be rendered useless.
The real challenge as I see it is making the theoretical stuff interesting and relevant, and making sure students have the chance to put those theories to practical use so they can see the real-life value of learning them. This is very hard when not given the benefit of a semester-long course (which I don’t have). As you point out – the time issue is always the one that forces us to sacrifice a lot of theoretical stuff…
I read about a site on John Chow’s blog today called http://www.43marks.com – its like Pageflakes and iGoogle but better cuz you can add you all your bookmarks and the bookmarks can be websites not just gadgets and RSS feeds although you can upload your favorite RSS feeds too. Its free and totally customizable re-arranging categories and bookmarks in anyway you want. I really do like 43marks much better. It’s great for teachers! They give you a unique URL (43MARKS.com/username) where you can upload bookmarks that are of interest to the class your teaching Just give out the URL so the the whole class can see the bookmarks
Lauren, what a great post. I tried hard to adapt GTD for my work. Part of the problem is that I like compartmentalizing work and home, at least in email and to-do lists, and GTD seemed better suited to people who melded work and life together, or who worked from home (though this may be a mis-read on my part).
What I did take from GTD was the concept of having a capture. I now carry around a moleskin that I use for my work/life/errands capture. Before I always felt like I was forgetting something. I would go to the store and have no idea what I really needed. Now I organize these jumbled thoughts as soon as I remember them: my notebook has sections for work to do, life to do, stuff to buy, long term dreams/goals (the someday list), and blog ideas. This way, if I think of a home thing at work, I jot it down. If I think of something I need to buy when I’m commuting, I jot it down. I never take the next step of really organizing this stuff, except that when I get to work I transfer any notes into my work system. This is what has worked for me: having it all in one place instead of maintaining multiple lose-able lists. And I have almost completely lost that feeling that I’ve forgotten something. I think my memory has even improved.
About two weeks ago I started using Remember the Milk, integrated into my gmail. It’s fantastic. Before I was committed to a paper to-do list for work, but I really like how I set priorities and due dates in RTM, and then it’s right in front of my face. I find it harder to ignore my most important tasks with RTM.
I use some combination of systems. I work on keeping down the number of things I expect to do; I usually base it on the week. What do I need to get done this week? I’ve learned to give myself fewer things than I think I can get done, because so many little things (reference questions) tend to come up unplanned.
I just opened Thinking Rock up (GTD software) and created a project called ‘Life’
This is my second look at this software and I realise now that you don’t have to capture every single thought you have, but instead just use it as useful project software, where you can work on projects that you plan to do in the future as well.
I too have been rethinking my “system” lately- though I never fully implemented GTD. Like Joan, I was never quite happy with merging my work and personal to-do’s, and never quite got around to the weekly review. I also found I was adding a lot of tasks that just weren’t important to the to do list.
I have been doing the 3 important tasks thing the last two weeks and It’s been helping a LOT. Not only because it forces me to sit down and take stock of what is important at the start of the day, but because I have a focused reason to give people when they wonder why I can’t do their Very Important Task RIGHT AWAY.
Since I’m done with school in December, I’m also planning to do a major overhaul of my filing and organizational systems to get me in gear for a new job, new responsibilities, and new professional development goals.
There’s something in the GTD book about “cleaning the garage, but not today.” The point was that you didn’t have to do everything on your list. I like GTD because it enables me to make sure that the little things — like filling out a vacation form — don’t drop through the cracks. I still haven’t gotten to the point where I feel that I’m making a lot of progress on some old projects, but that’s OK. I know the really important stuff is getting done.
Maybe we should have a productivity/GTD rap session at the library some day. (But don’t feel like I’ve just put another thing on your list!)
Lauren, I marked this post to read later, and finally just did.
This is exactly the conversation we’ve been having at my university regarding our semester-long class. The problem I’m having is that we have a unified curriculum, and while my inclinations are more towards your thinking, that is not necessarily the same for my colleagues. This semester we had students submit written assignments via individual blogs through WordPress. There was a bit of a learning curve early in the semester, but by the end of the semester, it seems they enjoyed it. But my colleagues want to do away with it the blog and have students submit assignments via Blackboard. Our class isn’t about blogging, but I feel they learn so much by having to do their homework via blogs.
I did have some success with this during our session on news sources. We talked about Google News, Lexis Nexis, and Library Press Display. They got the concept that they can use Google News most of the time (and it’s better than a regular Google search), but that Lexis Nexis is where they should go for comprehensive searches or when they aren’t allowed to use the internet for an assignment. Framing it in those terms seemed to help them get it.
A like-minded colleague and I are both teaching a winter session version of our class, one hour a day for about three weeks. It’s a time for us to experiment more with this newer approach. At the end of this semester, I was disappointed to realize our students still couldn’t differentiate between a website, a PDF, and a journal collection online. I like the idea of teaching life-long skills, even at the expense of library resources.
Interesting comments! I think a common theme here is that we all take the aspects of different time management systems that are most useful in our own contexts. Joan & Karin, the combined personal/work tasks is something I feel resistance to, too. But I think in my situation it’s better that way (otherwise, I forget all about the personal tasks that have to be done and just focus on the work list). Derik, I’m with you… I am having a hard time understanding just how much is realistic, but I am realizing that it’s a lot less than I thought it was! & Carol, maybe we do need a rap session! I won’t put it on my list now, but I’ll file it away in my staff development folder for the next committee meeting.
Joan! It sounds like we’re having a lot of similar discussions at our respective places of work! I’m interested in how your class goes. With a like-minded colleague you’re sure to be able to do some interesting work! If you want to trade ideas sometime, just let me know!
Dana, I think you’re right… the semester long course makes it much easier to approach some of these topics. With a one-shot library instruction session, you have to make the faculty member happy with what you’re teaching, and they might have different ideas about the research skills they want their students to have. For what it’s worth, I often work in things like RSS by comparing them to the Facebook news feed or talk about alerts using google news alerts for personal names to make journal/database alerts more interesting. The trick (for me) is finding out what’s interesting enough to the students to provide a hook for the research skills and theories.
Whenever this question comes up, I can’t help but think about one of the cousins to the reference desk — namely, the customer service department of a typical business. I can think of nothing more frustrating for me as a consumer than to contact a business with a question that requires thought and judgment only to find a slug on the other end of the transaction who automatically refers me to an inscrutable Web site. Based on such evidence from business, it is likely that many libraries will use the changing nature of the reference desk as a cover for providing less service. Maybe one question to ask is what standards of old-fashioned reference need to be transferred to new technology?
We (at the U of Denver) changed our “Reference Desk” name to the Research Help Desk, and students understand that terminology a little bit better. We also changed our service model to just have grad students (LIS for the most part) work at the Research Help Desk, while the reference librarians schedule 30-60 min consultations for the more in-depth questions.
George: Good points. I especially like your last question. I do think a lot of this is institution specific. Laurie left a good point on my Facebook about how her public library has a very busy reference desk (with questions we just don’t get). I agree, the stereotypical customer service, refer to a website, have a horrible experience, is something we don’t want to imitate. But with evidence that a lot of college library users want to help themselves, I think a really well designed library website (with built-in excellent training materials) can help, particularly if the web design process includes usability testing… which I wish more places would do in general.
Joe: I love the terminology change, much more user-centered! I also think that your grad model/consultations is a good one. We use a consultation model in addition to the ref desk hours, and our consultation stats are increasing at an amazing rate. I think we might see this emerge as a practice standard. Thanks for reminding me about the Reference Renaissance. I’ll check out the powerpoint right away!
Ditto! I’ve had a Sony eReader for 6 months, and the 4 libraries I belong to are useless for content – I’ve talked to them all about it, and in the “ebook” category they are all choosing to focus on audiobooks in various formats. One is even a member of NCDL, but there’s just not much to choose from there. I read the free ebooks that are mostly in the sci-fi and fantasy genres (those authors seem to understand free content), but will end up using the eReader mostly to read purchased ebooks when I travel, rather than taking 6-8 hardbacks from a library. It’s quite frustrating – I have this *great* tool that I really like and can’t use as much as I’d like to. (I chose the eReader over the Kindle to avoid being tied to Amazon-only content.)
I’m in library school at the moment and I was wondering if anyone thinks that the reference desk will use webcams at some point to conduct reference interviews?
We use email and instant messaging so it seems that to use technology at its fullest for a perfect technology-orientated interview we would use webcams.
Thanks! I really enjoyed reading your blog and comments
Emily, good point! Char Booth is doing some interesting work using Skype for reference at Ohio University. I often wonder if it would be useful for our study abroad students.
For what it’s worth, the students I talk to say they don’t call the reference desk from the library because of the noise they would make on the phone. I think that they would have a similar reaction to using video within the library. However, from residence halls, apartments, and other countries, it could be a good fit.
Rachel, I’m glad I’m not alone! You’re right, it does seem like the scifi and fantasy authors are there much faster than the rest. Hopefully it’s like the sciences and the ejournals (that got there so much faster, but paved the way for other disciplines).
Good luck with these new projects! I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on the Instructional Tech one. It’s a shame that it’s usually the staff development stuff that goes by the wayside when we get too busy with other things, but obviously, services to patrons have to come first.
I can’t say much about Google Books (haven’t really kept abrest of it lately), but I have mixed feelings about the Life Archive. I just hope they don’t rely on digitization to preserve everything. I mean, Google has some awesome search alagorithms, and lots of money to ensure everything stays well-maintained, but part of me is afraid that they are going to treat the archive as just more stuff to crawl.
Here’s to hoping that they avoid that “evil” thing you talk about. For better or worse they are the public shepherd to a cultural treasure.
Laura, could you come on the next T is for Training and talk about Instructional Design? Every other friday at 2 eastern. Next one on 30th. Love if you could come and talk about id. Thanks.
It would be nice if academic libraries could work with their respective campus bookstores to provide textbooks in digital formats that students could “rent” for the semester at a cost that is more reasonable than purchasing the book (which is usually relevant for one semester, anyway).
The probably with Twitter as primary conference communicator is for those who don’t attend or follow in real time and for the archive. Blog posts can be found, saved, tagged, commented, etc. Tweets tend to disappear if you don’t see them right away.
I would hope all the twittering would lead to better post-conference thoughtful blog posts, but I’m not sure that’s the case.
Thanks for this blog Lauren. I also love GTD! I found Outlook Track-It through it. It’s a small toolbar for outlook that reminds you to followup to emails. easy to use! hope you have some info on that.
Thanks for all of the good work you are doing as co-chair of the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group.
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Thanks for the link, Brian… I do read Wired (on paper, even!) and immediately downloaded several of the apps. Much of the usefulness is in others using them, too, though, so not all were as useful for this experience. May in the future….
Derik, I am totally with you. I would have expected (1) a better way to get back to older Tweets and (2) more thoughtful/reflective blog posts… however, I know I’m not doing that as much as I like, and I suspect many are in the same boat.
Hi Lauren,
you have gone so far beyond me with the internet savy stuff, it is not even funny. But, good for you, I have no clue!!!! I hope you are well and you are still happily married, as I am sure you are! I would love to keep in touch, but I really don’t know how, perhaps you do.
Love Always,
Wendy Woolfolk Gast
I just had a personal tipping point yesterday. I was at a library conference and in each conference satchel was a different bestselling paperback donated by a publisher. I looked at mine and instantly thought “well, I like the title, but that’s a bit useless for the plane”. I realised then that Stanza on my iPhone had crept up as my preferred way of reading fiction….
A couple of months ago I would have thought “oh great, just what I want for a long plane trip”.
Glad to hear I’m not alone in finding that it’s creeping in like this! I think it’s a good point that different formats might be better for different types of reading. I, too, am mostly reading fiction using Stanza. I wonder at what point I’ll convert to wanting to do most reading that way.
Hi Lauren
I follow you on Twitter and saw your blog post link. I’ve got to put my own CV together, so this is a great template to follow. Do you mind if I copy your idea?
that’s stunning, Lauren! well done. lately I’ve been looking for ways to repurpose one of my domains into more of a lifetream and less of a blog and seeing your awesome CV site has given me all sorts of ideas. nice job
Thanks Chaunacey & Amanda! Of course, Chaunacey… go for it! Amanda & Derik, I love the idea of using a format like that for a lifestream. Very cool, potentially very fun to look at, and more interesting than a static page. Good stuff!
Interesting questions.. I’m currently thinking about all these questions as I’m coming up for tenure soon myself. While I don’t actively academically blog (and thus I need to think on your question a bit more), a first thought I had was that I expect one place where blogging could be evaluated in the tenure process is in feedback from external references. If those references feel such work is a real contribution to the general public and the community, their comments in their review could act as a quasi-peer review in a sense.
Thanks for your comments! It’s a good point you make about external references. It’s interesting, because one could request letters from people they know who read the blog, could post a request for anyone with an opinion to send something to the committee, or the committee could ask someone in the field to take a look and make a recommendation (in order to get a non-reader to review it). I wonder if any institutions are taking an approach like this. Good food for thought! Thanks!
Thanks, Lauren. I’m glad you like Connect so far. We’re pretty excited about it ourselves, and we’re eager to get feedback and see how folks use the site.
Lauren, I love the idea of two tracks for the Cyber Zed shed–because the most relevant technologies for our libraries may not be the cutting edge.
While I suspect ACRL couldn’t do this, as it would compete too much with ALA, I would love to see an annual ACRL so I could bypass ALA entirely. I can’t go to two-three conferences a year, and ACRL would be my top choice every year it was available.
I’m giving ALA Connect a try. Since I’m overseas, I’m always looking for good ways to connect with other librarians, especially those whom I know but not necessarily well enough to friend on Facebook, and those who aren’t already on Twitter.
I’m not sure who is in the database though–is it current ALA members? I searched for a few folks, and I found two out of eight. I also stumbled over deciding how to label people–and how this will matter eventually. There are several people I think of as friends who are also former colleagues or classmates.
I was surprised not to find any groups connected to instruction, nor to individual LS programs.
I guess these things will evolve with time, but right now it has so few people that it’d be great to see an early adopters group, just to get things going.
Great point about the tags. It was something I took for granted but you are right; it really does help bring content together. As you know, I loved the focus group too and think it has a lot of value (especially because we connected there!) As I said there, and in my own post on the this topic, I’d love to see more opportunities to discuss ideas, technologies, challenges, etc. Let’s use conferences as a way to not just share but discuss our own successes!
Hi Joan… I’m glad you’ll give it a try… add me as a friend!
I think you’re right…. it’s still in the early days. We should look into how to create groups… it would be nice to pull together the early adopters in some way!
Thanks for your comments Joan & Sarah! Joan: you hit upon something I think a lot about lately… it’s impossible to attend all the interesting looking conferences out there. I would love to attend LITA and ACRL in addition to ALAs… not to mention Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, and LOEX. However, since I serve on ALA committees, I mostly go to those. I would love to attend conferences where I could bring back lots of ideas, but instead I spend most of my conference time and budget in meetings.
Sarah, I’m with you, too. I would love to see more opportunities to discuss. I (personally) mostly see that type of opportunity online at this point. How would you envision it looking at a large conference?
Lauren, this is terrific. So glad you are taking a lead on this, because now I can just watch and learn. This SMS reference service might be do-able now for us. Bless you! Betty
Thanks for blogging about CIT, the sessions you attended sounded really interesting. I’m especially interested in playing around with FeedWordPress, what a neat tool!
You’ve convinced me that I should go next year. I work at UNC HSL so I’m pretty much a stone’s throw away from Duke.
Thanks for bringing up FERPA – I was unclear how student’s educational records are protected on public sites/tools, too. I’ll see what I can find out and would like to hear more on your concerns.
Establishing a blog is way easier than maintaining one. Be sure you have the passion of keeping up with updates and have the focus of maintaining your own topic.
But teaching through blogging is a very good channel if properly structured.
It is nice to note that your interest revolves around teaching computers to the beginners. Teaching is always great fun and very satisfying thing to do. And of all the subjects, you have chosen computers which is very apt at this point of time.
What is Thinking Rock? I feel like I’ve heard of that. It’s for GTD? and Bacarli, I use Outlook Track-It for my ebay business. It’s a great little toolbar for Outlook. The followup reminders are great.
Even though I’m not a parent, while reading Outliers I couldn’t help thinking how it validates the odd child, the one who is curious and thoughtful, maybe doesn’t quite fit in – those are the ones that grow up to be Bill Gates! I have a niece that fits that description. She may end up curing cancer
Outliers blew my mind as well. I find myself STILL thinking about it. And he makes a great case; working hard, plus talent, plus OPPORTUNITY makes for a meteoric career rise.
It’s somewhat rare for students to enjoy their jobs in college. I know my first internship in college showed me that I didn’t want to work in that industry.
Sometimes just working at the school cafeteria can be the perfect fit for a student. It beats filing papers all day in a cubicle, and you usually get some free food!
I hope this doesn’t sound too stalkerish or weird, since I found this blog entry from a google search on brightkite and how it could know my location from my phone, but …
I’m a Raleigh-ite too! It made me smile to see someone else from my neck of the woods who wrote such a good and convincing blog entry.
I hope you don’t mind if I read your link on what twitter can do.
I am ordering your book tonight! Recently, I have become very interested in moving away from English (I finished my MA in May) and moving in the direction of Library Science. Considering going for an MLS right now and I hope your book will be helpful. Thanks.
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Congratulations! I had the same thing in the first trimester — the only things I could stomach eating were crackers and potatoes. I didn’t even like sweets, which is bizarre for me. Later on, I became ravenous. Good luck on staying vegan — I’ve never been a big meat eater, but I wanted it all the time when I was pregnant. I ate a hamburger for the first time in about 15 years and couldn’t get enough of them. But you never know what your cravings will be for — could be hummus or bean burritos or something! Your body will tell you what it needs to keep that baby happy and healthy.
Good luck to you and your husband. It’s been without a doubt the most stressful experience of my life and it turns everything in your world upside down, but it’s so worth it. Babies are amazing and it’s so much fun to watch them grow and develop a personality and new skills every day.
Congrats!!! I’m so very happy for you! Sorry your first 3 months were rough but glad you see light at the end of the first trimester tunnel. I fell off the vegan wagon after a bit when I became really adverse to soy and then diabetic in the last few months…
Let me know when/if you are in the Triangle area. I’d love to get together!
Take care and happy pregnancy!
Thanks Megan, Meredith, Sarah, Paul, Samantha, and Brandi!
Meredith, I’m sorry your first wasn’t too fun either, but it’s nice to know I was in good company. And eating is even more fun than before now. I’m watching for cravings. So far nothing animalish, but I’m certainly not going to be fanatical about it if I do start feeling that way. If I have to, I hope to crave eggs or something, though.
Brandi, oh my, it sounds like some crazy food issues for the last few months! I keep wondering if I’m going to develop something just because I’m eating more food than normal lately, which also means more soy. We’ll see…. I actually am going to be going to the Triangle a bunch over the next few months. I’ll Facebook you to see if any of the times would make sense. It’d be fun to get together!
Congrats! Welcome to the library mom club. I seriously want to start a library moms blog. I hope the ms gets better. Feel free to contact me for tips, support, etc. I still have it 2 years later.
I’m so happy for you! P.S. I have tons of baby stuff if you ever make it to Charlotte.
& Lori, I’ll let you know if I make it to Charlotte sometime soon. I’m sorry to hear about the ms lasting so long…. I’m not exactly myself yet, but I expected that at this phase… it never occurred to me that it might go on for so long. You might be onto something with the library moms blog idea…
Wonderful news! I am so glad you survived the first semester. I thought that three months were the worst, the barfing and the tiredness and the secrecy. By then end, when you were feeling better, people were nice to you and helped you with things like doors, but you really needed the help more at the beginning.
Good luck! All of your readers are cheering for all three of you…!
See this few links from my Diigo library re: Digital Humanities. It’s an area I’m pretty passionate about and plan on exploring when I enter library school next year. Peace.
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But Brian, there are just two from the South East, and one from the North East… I actually thought it was pretty good distribution. And you watch, I have a blog post brewing on voice-searching!!
Brett, indeed it is. I think they were interested in seeing what perspectives a new group would bring. Should be interesting!
Karen, it would be good to see you! I always enjoyed your perspectives at the TTTs I’ve attended!
I found the page on Documenting a New Media Case especially helpful as I consider my own new media endeavors in light of self-evaluation and promotion.
Your class sounds great! I agree, it'd be extremely useful for all SLIS students to have a background in these elements. Not only do they have an impact on our users' information context, but they're excellent ways for us to learn more about our own profession!
Thanks for the comment, Travis! I'm going to look into the Hardt/Talking with Talis podcast (as well as all things Identity 2.0). I look forward to checking out your blog for thoughts on Identity 2.0, too.
I also heard and enjoyed the Basbanes talk. I remember when his earlier book- A Gentle Madness-was published, my supervisor at the time felt the book was dangerous!
Imagine that! Gentle Madness mentioned several norious library thieves-and that nfo out there might be bad for library security or something..not sure.
Thanks for doing this. We were told it was going to be a txt chat and sort of were not ready to blab on about this topic. Looks like you captured it all very well– and fast!
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You forgot the Nexus One, which has added the feature that’s soon to come to all Android devices: Universal Text recognition. Any text field at all can be voiced, anywhere on the phone, built into the OS. And thanks to a two-mic noise cancellation system, it works even in noisy environments. Take a look at the Nexus One video I shot at CES for an example: http://bit.ly/perpetualbeta
Bah, and how could I have forgotten!! That is totally awesome, and clearly where it’s going. I actually remember being a little disappointed with the iPhone because that’s what I *expected* the voice control to do. Thx for the video… going to check it out now!
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Absolutely. In my mind you can have no info lit program without a tech component. It’s becoming one in the same, and changing so rapidly!
Posted 06 Jan 2006 at 6:10 am ¶Thanks for the great comment! I appreciate the answers very much…it’s a topic I’ve struggled with recently.
For me, it really seems to boil down to critical thinking skills, which is something that SHOULD be taught throughout the college curricula. More of my thoughts on Pattern Recognition early next week!
Posted 06 Jan 2006 at 2:04 pm ¶Exactly! Any information literacy program should address not only paper and electronic library resources, but the general world of information, which is increasingly electronic. Thanks for the comment!
Posted 06 Jan 2006 at 8:57 pm ¶There is also a strong argument for information literacy throughout the college curricula as well. I’m looking forward to your post next week!
Posted 06 Jan 2006 at 9:00 pm ¶Thanks, Lauren. I hope it does prove helpful. As I said in my first post, if you have ideas, feedback, etc. just send them my way.
Posted 07 Jan 2006 at 6:30 pm ¶Will do! Thanks, again, for the service!
Posted 07 Jan 2006 at 9:23 pm ¶Identity 2.0 is potentially more interesting than Web 2.0 ever will be. That, along with the concepts of Attention and Gestures, will, in my opinion, revolutionize the web if they take hold. I’ve been mentioning these ideas some in my blog, but only superficially. I haven’t yet gotten to the point where I understand how or if they will affect libraries. Dick Hardt, who gave the awesome presentation you point to, was interviewed in the Talking with Talis podcast series. It’s well worth listening to; later in the series, they also talk with Ed Batista, who is involved with Attention Trust.
Posted 14 Jan 2006 at 4:41 am ¶Hey! The class I teach at Dominican has many of thses elements. My dream class for SLIS students has all of them. Good work!
Posted 14 Jan 2006 at 4:55 am ¶Thanks for the comment, Travis! I’m going to look into the Hardt/Talking with Talis podcast (as well as all things Identity 2.0). I look forward to checking out your blog for thoughts on Identity 2.0, too.
Posted 16 Jan 2006 at 11:31 pm ¶Your class sounds great! I agree, it’d be extremely useful for all SLIS students to have a background in these elements. Not only do they have an impact on our users’ information context, but they’re excellent ways for us to learn more about our own profession!
Posted 16 Jan 2006 at 11:34 pm ¶Thanks, Lauren! Let me know how I can do better…
Posted 18 Jan 2006 at 1:33 pm ¶Lauren-
I also heard and enjoyed the Basbanes talk. I remember when his earlier book- A Gentle Madness-was published, my supervisor at the time felt the book was dangerous!
Imagine that! Gentle Madness mentioned several norious library thieves-and that nfo out there might be bad for library security or something..not sure.
anyway- great site!
Posted 02 Feb 2006 at 1:14 pm ¶Thanks Craig! I don’t know much about Gentle Madness, but I need to check it out!
Posted 04 Feb 2006 at 11:05 pm ¶Thanks for doing this. We were told it was going to be a txt chat and sort of were not ready to blab on about this topic. Looks like you captured it all very well– and fast!
Posted 21 Apr 2006 at 10:46 am ¶Thanks, Brian! It was a really interesting session!!
Posted 21 Apr 2006 at 12:01 pm ¶Thank you for mentioning InfoMinder. There is a version (25 pages) available for $9/year. There is a free trial for users to evaluate the product against the free version. Then they can decide whether the small price is worth it.
Posted 27 Apr 2006 at 10:34 am ¶Hi Lauren– I’m glad the Lifehack post worked for you. I’m a big fan of libraries and librarians (I think I just gave a hack about using library books to help time people’s consumption of books), so I’m glad this had some mindshare with you. I love your Flickr as a training tool. It really helps add to the conversation. Further, I love the concept of library 2.0, and look forward to reading more of your posts in this regard. You rock!
–Chris…
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Thanks, Chris! I’ll look into finding your Lifehack post about library books. It sounds interesting!!
Posted 17 May 2006 at 9:26 pm ¶Thanks Lauren.
I think I like that Chico State librarian’s blog even more, at http://meriam-library-gov-doc-news-blog.blogspot.com/. Here are her recent entries:
Previous Posts
* Wadeable Streams Assessment
Posted 18 May 2006 at 10:41 am ¶* Printable Maps from NationalAtlas.gov
* National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
* Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA)
* EPA’s Green Vehicle Guide
* 50th Anniversary of the Interstate Highway System
* READ Government Documents
* Country Reports on Terrorism
* Beyond the Box Score : Baseball Records in the National Archives
* Visible Earth
Thanks for the link, John! I’ve added it to my Bloglines account. I hope summer is treating you well… any interesting classes?
Posted 18 May 2006 at 10:57 am ¶Interesting. I read the 2 posts about the Librarian’s Dilemma. Is this where we’re headed? Ethnographers and autonomous, disruptive units.
First at
http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/04/libqual-and-librarians-dilemma.html
about getting beyond just listening to users and their stated needs. See the reference to the U of Rochester library hiring an anthropologist/ ethnographer to study users.
Also the need to “set up autonomous organizations charged with building a new and independent businesses around the disruptive technologies” (at http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/04/librarians-dilemma_11.html ) instead of just relying on more continuous responses to user needs.
Thanks Lauren.
Posted 30 May 2006 at 11:55 am ¶I fear that libraries are at risk of and on the way to becoming archives and gathering places. Perhaps this is fine with many in the profession. I feel that as a community we have much to offer in an effort to influence and guide technological advances. These ideas are simply possible way for libraries to deal with the current envionment which is changing the ground beneath us. We either need to move now or take the chance of falling into a sinkhole.
Posted 31 May 2006 at 12:58 pm ¶John,
Thanks for the links… interesting reading!
Eric,
I’m just getting started reading your blog, but I think I agree with a lot of what you say.
It seems to me that libraries can and should be each: archives, gathering places, and technological innovators. There is merit in each of these and I think that libraries have something unique to offer in each role. I worry that it’s easy for people (particularly the general public) to assume the library is only an archive or a gathering space, though. That’s one of the many reasons I’m interested in how libraries and librarians can learn about, educate people about, innovate on, influence, and guide technology. There’s certainly something to including ethnographers, anthropologists, and disruptive units in the process. This is why I think it’s such an exciting time to be in the middle of it all.
(So, John, I guess you could say I’m interested in the “change agent” role we discussed in management class.
)
Posted 01 Jun 2006 at 11:43 pm ¶I am so glad you posted this, as I was late, lost in the other end of 3rd floor, and literally couldn’t get in the room.
Posted 30 Jun 2006 at 12:38 pm ¶No problem! Thanks for commenting. Several times I was a little late to where I was going due to the tricky room numbering on the 3rd floor!
Posted 05 Jul 2006 at 9:39 pm ¶I hope you’re among them
Posted 16 Jul 2006 at 1:26 am ¶Thanks Helene! I am, and we’re all really, really looking forward to it! I, too, am particularly interested in seeing your Learning 2.0 plan. Looks like a lot of exciting things are happening in Charlotte!
Posted 16 Jul 2006 at 12:12 pm ¶Did you find anyone that blogged “Leadership for Learning”?
Posted 19 Jul 2006 at 1:07 pm ¶I haven’t run across anything yet. If I do, I’ll post a link!
Posted 20 Jul 2006 at 12:02 am ¶Thank you so much for covering the panel. From my perspective it was interesting delivery a speech on our process, fused with the way we think about our approach, whilst using “the future of the book” as a thread. It seems that you made sense of it. Pleased you are enjoying the scout role. If you are seriously interested in pursuing the possibilities in future studies, please e-mail me. I can both give you some points of reference (most of the members of my team graduiated in futures studies) and put you in touch with Peter Bishop at UHCL. You can take the course on line as well.
Posted 22 Jul 2006 at 8:08 am ¶What is your opinion on the future of the book?
Best
Derek
Hi Derek,
Thank you so much for your comments. I will be sure to get in touch with you. I am very interested in at least reading more about future studies. Once I graduate from my MLIS program I might very well be interetested in taking the online course you mention. The coming three months are very busy for me, so it will probably be after that.
My opinion on the future of the book is that we will see less and less reference resources in paper format. I really think that a lot of the standard reference books will become digital. They’re so costly and slow to produce in paper that it just makes economic sense to put out electronic versions instead. My library tries to buy electronic whenever possible and people also seem to prefer that. I suspect that there may continue to be a *few* reference sources that are real classics that will hang around for a while, though.
Fiction, though, I think will stay in paper for a while. You can read a paper book on a plane when you aren’t allowed to use electronics. You can read a paper book in the pool. You can throw it in a bag and not worry about if it’ll get damaged. I think that paper fiction will stick around as a luxury item for some time.
Non-fiction is a bit muddier for me. I’ve yet to find a really useful electronic version of a non-fiction book. However, a majority of non-fiction isn’t meant to be read cover-to-cover the way fiction is. It might just be that the electronic non-fiction books I’ve seen aren’t as useable as they will be in the future.
Of course, if you talk with the student, they want anything they need for their paper to be in elecronic format and searchable. So if we’re looking at that attitude, it may be that we’re closer to electronic formats that I realize.
I’ll be in touch in November.
Posted 03 Aug 2006 at 9:40 pm ¶Thanks,
Lauren
Thanks for the mention, Lauren.
Posted 14 Nov 2006 at 9:49 pm ¶I’ve collected more Camp Darfur photos from our real world camps and the Second Life camp here; we also published 3000 of the real Camp Darfur Comix as a way to educate kids on what’s happening in Darfur today. Thanks for blogging and sharing this project with others.
Posted 29 Nov 2006 at 1:52 am ¶Happy holidays.
Posted 26 Dec 2006 at 10:28 pm ¶Will be happy to add you in linkedin, send me email at mt2222 yahoo . com
As a librarian who believes in knowledge sharing, I wish to share something with you.
My 2007 resolution is a friendly deal to get more comments at my blog and promptly reciprocate.
Best wishes for 2007.
Hello Lauren!
If you are interested in “the social nature of knowledge on the web” I would recommend the articles of Nancy Van House about the sharing of knowledge in network communities and the implications for the design of digital libraries.
I am very interested also in the area of IL, I think that there is no so much literature about the relation between SE and IL. If you know some sources on the subject I will be very grateful to know.
Regards, PM
Posted 09 Jan 2007 at 9:16 pm ¶Thanks for sharing! I’ll be sure to look up Nancy Van House’s work! It sounds excellent.
I haven’t found a lot on SE and IL, but I’ve found some. I have a list of articles I’d like to find on another computer. I’ll see if I can get it tomorrow to share with you.
Posted 10 Jan 2007 at 12:17 am ¶My list had less information than I remembered, but it looks like it would be worth looking into E. Whitmire.
Epistemological beliefs & the information-seeking behavior of undergraduates in
Library and Information Science Research 25(2003)
The Relationship between Undergraduates’ epistemological beliefs, reflective judgment, and other information-seeking behavior
Posted 11 Jan 2007 at 6:53 pm ¶Information Processing and Management 40(2004)
Thank you very much Lauren! I will read the articles you recommended.
About your questions:
“For those who are interested in the theoretical underpinnings, what shortcomings do you see? What areas need to be developed?”
I find that they are difficult to answer, but very interesting. I think the area of feminist epistemology in social epistemology related to LIS has been not explored until now.
I will think more on your questions and write some responses in other messages.
Regards, PM
Posted 13 Jan 2007 at 3:13 pm ¶Thanks for your interest in Art Librarians & New ARLIS* Professionals (ArLiSNAP)!
Cheers,
Posted 14 Jan 2007 at 5:31 am ¶Bryan Loar
Thanks! I’ll try to think and post more on this topic, too!
Posted 16 Jan 2007 at 11:40 pm ¶I have read the two articles of Ethelene Whitmire. I think it would be interesting to add the social aspect to her analysis. She is centered on individual performance but she doesn’t mention the possible influences of social aspects in these mental processes or information-seeking actions.
Posted 18 Jan 2007 at 10:31 am ¶What do you think?
Hi, you and I never really spoke, but John and I were good friends in college. I was digging through old paperwork after a recent move and having gotten nostalgic, decided to peer around the web and see if I could find out what was new with old John Borwick. Lo and behold, you two are married! Good lord you looked gorgeous! Just wanted to pass on my belated congratulations and wish you both the best. (Your blog is pretty interesting too, got caught up reading it for quite a while).
Well, back to organizing junk.
Cheers again,
Posted 07 Feb 2007 at 9:38 pm ¶Renee Joy Racine
It’s gotta be a shared responsibility. I teach a professional development class on IL and librarians really resist giving up the complete and total ownership of IL, which is a huge mistake, in my opinion. Faculty are in a better position to hit at certain standards than we are–they know the literature of their field, etc., in most cases, better than we do. I also believe that this is something that must happen everywhere on our campuses… NOT just “in the library.” Do we, will we still have the biggest role in this? Yes. We create awareness, identify and assess, and ultimately, we know our stuff!
Posted 13 Feb 2007 at 10:05 am ¶Thanks for your comments! I’m not arguing against shared responsibility. I think that can be where the strongest programs are formed. I think that in having the biggest role (through creating awareness, identifying and assessing, and through our knowledge) we sometimes are in a position to have the larger impact. Like many trends and interests, I think that it’s most useful to look at the community and see what approach works best there. If the community is looking for IL leadership from the library, then, to me at least, it makes sense for the program to primarily reside there. If a faculty is in a position (and interested) in taking a lead on IL, then a collaboration is the way to go. Great comments, and worth further exploration. Thank you!
Posted 14 Feb 2007 at 11:48 pm ¶I certainly am interested in seeing what social aspects could be included. Is there any research you’re aware of in this sphere?
Posted 14 Feb 2007 at 11:49 pm ¶My take is this: essentially we’re going to need new tools to help us deal with the proliferation of information on any given person. My current belief is that pseudonymity is the way to go. Check out http://www.globalpov.com. The guy who writes the daily blog, David H. Holtzman, also wrote a book on this topic called Privacy Lost, and it’s his take on this issue of Pseudonymity that really interests me. The phrase I keep hearing “Attribution without retribution” the creation of pseudononymous identities which allow people to try on different viewpoints as they are learning and building their perspective seems almost obvious when you think about it, yet nothing provides a solution to this large and looming problem today.
Posted 15 Feb 2007 at 2:20 pm ¶Interesting point! I can see how this makes a lot of sense. Teenagers, it seems, often do try on several different personalities/hobbies/etc while figuring themselves out. Using pseudonyms would allow for this experimentation in a truly anonymous way on the web.
It’s tricky, though, since social networking sites require you to make contacts with friends. I wonder if there would be a way to retain some level of anonymity while still allowing online connections with friends.
Posted 17 Feb 2007 at 7:15 pm ¶I agree that librarians should be concerned with the preservation of information, however, given the ephemeral nature of information, especially information that exists only in digital form, I don’t believe the emphasis on collecting and preserving in libraries is something that is sustainable. Today, libraries are the conduit or signpost to information. We aren’t pack rats just collecting stuff that nobody will ever look at. Not every scrap of information needs to be saved. Culture is embedded within all information resources such that we shouldn’t be overly concerned with the transience of any particular piece of information. I like what the internet archive is doing and if libraries want to invest the time, effort, and money into preserving blogs, that is well and good. But I don’t see it as a pressing social need.
Posted 08 Mar 2007 at 4:28 pm ¶I came across this last week too! Having seen it twice I agree with you that the point which comes across strongly is that students of the future will need to be able to make sense of their world and the evaluation and critical information literacy angle is the key! Therefore I think that we IL champions have hit the nail on the head (as we British say). The stats in the little film are straggering and would be good to provoke lively debate : I’m sure that some of the predictions could be questioned. I loved the bit about England being top nation in 1900 (to be picky it ought to have been Great Britain or the British Empire) but it caught me out cos I thought they were talking about the present!
Posted 13 Mar 2007 at 5:22 am ¶Thanks for commenting, Peter! I’m with you, some of the video is probably quite questionable, but the boldness and extreme qualities of the video is part of what makes it so thought-provoking, too. I checked out your blog and added it to my reader. I’m looking forward to following your blog… your interests are similar to mine!
Posted 15 Mar 2007 at 7:51 pm ¶Thanks for commenting, Robert.
I agree, focusing on saving every scrap of digital information isn’t sustainable. I, too, like what the internet archive is doing. We differ, though, in that I do see a need to preserve this digital information. Digital information, as we’ve all experienced, can be here one day and gone the next. For this reason, I’m really happy that my home state is archiving North Carolina government websites. Not all blogs and social media will be worth the effort to archive, but some will be. I think of all the political campaign blogs that will be useful to political science scholars. I also think of local blogs that are another type of media that makes sense to keep in local special collections. But, it’s just my opinion.
Thanks for the conversation and the opportunity to further the discussion!
Posted 15 Mar 2007 at 8:00 pm ¶You can read first Patrick Wilson’s “Bibliographic Instruction and cognitive authority” in Library Trends, v.39, no.3, 1991, 259-270. And then, the more recent work of Soo Young Rieh. Check her homepage at: http://www.si.umich.edu/rieh/
Posted 25 Mar 2007 at 11:22 am ¶Thanks! I’ll check that out!!
Posted 31 Mar 2007 at 9:57 pm ¶Lauren,
I have just read your paper about “Social Epistemology in Library and Information Science”.
Of course, I have comments on it.
I find it very interesting mostly from the point of view of the context and actual applications of social epistemology in library practice.
I don`t agree, however, on the relationships you established between sociology and social epistemology. Shera explained the difference between those fields of inquiry in “Sociological Foundations of Librarianship” (1970, New York: Asia Publishing House).
Usually, philosophy is considered -methodologically speaking- conceptual and normative; and sociology, empirical and descriptive (I think the best explanation of that idea is in: Resnik, D. 1996. Social epistemology and the ethics of research. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 27(4), 565-586). Fuller is a sociologist of science who claims that social epistemology must be normative. So, I think the most sociological approach to social epistemology is that of the construtivist views. Normative research seek to evaluate practices (Goldman) or organizations (Fuller) for recommending the best ways to acquire knowledge. Descriptive ones, in turn, analize and explain the ways knowledge is socially constructed (see for example Tuominen & Savolainen).
I think we as librarians could follow any of these three options, as Fallis (following mostly Goldman), Zandonade (in agreement with Fuller) and Van House (agreeing mostly with constructivist theories) have done.
I hope it can be useful to you. Sorry if it is a too long comment.
Posted 04 Apr 2007 at 2:21 pm ¶Thank you for your comment, of course it is not too long. I really appreciate your input! This paper was done as an independent study, with minimal guidance, and I was doing it mostly as an exploration so that I could have a basic understanding of these ideas. Your points are well taken, and I appreciate the insights you suggest.
Posted 15 Apr 2007 at 2:34 pm ¶Thanks for sharing your presentation. I think many others will find your work useful!
Posted 23 Apr 2007 at 12:55 pm ¶Thanks so much, Sarah!
Posted 23 Apr 2007 at 9:14 pm ¶Congratulations! I was IMing with a mutual acquaintance the other day and we both said, “Whoever gets Lauren when she’s done with her degree is going to be so lucky!” So nice that your current employer thinks the same thing.
Posted 23 Apr 2007 at 10:31 pm ¶Aw, shucks, Megan! Thanks for your kind words! It is really exciting to be at a place where I’m able to do interesting things and where they like me enough to keep me around.
Having a job lined up makes the whole graduation thing a lot more fun, too. 
Posted 23 Apr 2007 at 11:22 pm ¶I’m interested into what courses you teach? Drop me an email as I’m keen to share resources and knowledge.
Posted 24 Apr 2007 at 5:27 am ¶Hi Dallas, I teach a one credit hour information literacy class. It’s a introduction to research class that focuses on print, database, and web resources. I tend to focus on the total information environment, which is why I talk about Web 2.0 as part of the research process.
I do workshops on emerging technology and web 2.0, too.
Lauren
Posted 24 Apr 2007 at 10:24 pm ¶What you are linking to is a paper done by R. David Lankes and colleagues at Syracuse University for the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy on impact of participatory technologies on libraries — “the library as conversation.” I’d be interested in your feedback on the concepts discussed. mg
Posted 25 Apr 2007 at 1:43 pm ¶Media Literacy Clearinghouse #1 US based website for teaching resources and information
Posted 01 May 2007 at 9:06 am ¶thanks for your presentation
Posted 09 May 2007 at 1:49 am ¶Too bad David Sedaris likely won’t see this…
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 5:33 pm ¶I thought the same thing!
Posted 07 Jun 2007 at 8:57 am ¶Also look at the Four Resources Model @ http://www.readingonline.org/research/lukefreebody.html, found by following the link from ‘Asking Questions…’
Posted 08 Jun 2007 at 4:52 pm ¶Thank you! I’ve posted again on the topic here. and will send you an email, too!
Posted 08 Jun 2007 at 5:09 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
I just read the report as it was cited by David Pimentel in his paper for NASKO 2007. I’ll be commenting on it my “Some Things Read This Week…” post for this week.
I, too, am new to Conversation Theory. While it seems quite useful, I also worry that it has makes practically everything into conversation. And while metaphors are good they always break down at some point. Perhaps I’ll just have to read the Pask book.
Posted 09 Jun 2007 at 1:18 pm ¶Thanks for your comment, Mark. I’ll look forward to reading your “Some Things Read This Week” post.
I can see your hesitation with Conversation Theory. I have to admit that my tendency is to rather enthusiastically embrace ideas that appear promising, then to read up on them, then to draw my “real” conclusions. I’m in the enthusiastically embracing phase for CT, and need to read some Pask. I’d most like to read his Conversation Theory: Applications in Education and Epistemology, which my library doesn’t carry. It looks like I’ll need to look into ILLing it. When I do, I’m sure I’ll have more to say here!
Posted 10 Jun 2007 at 10:22 pm ¶Thanks, Alice! Interesting site and concepts! Is this something you have presented/consulted on? Thanks for pointing it out!
Posted 10 Jun 2007 at 11:12 pm ¶I do think it would be wise to teach children how to exercise traits, but if we do not at the same time give them a skill set — however transient — with which to practice and hone those traits, then would any of what they were taught about exercising traits stick?
Posted 18 Jun 2007 at 2:42 am ¶“Recently, American social scientists of a neo-Tocquevillean bent have unearthed a wide range of empirical evidence that the quality of public life and the performance of social institutions (and not only in America) are indeed powerfully influenced by norms and networks of civic engagement.” By Robert Putnam.
Posted 28 Jun 2007 at 8:56 am ¶Is there a relationship between the rise in the number of women in the work force and the changes in the civic engagement?
First off, you get to teach a credit course on information literacy? I’m so jealous. I agree with you about the need to address Web 2.0 sources in information literacy classes. It’s my gut feeling that students and most faculty don’t really grasp that these technologies can be sources of scholarship or that they can be used as avenues for scholarly communication. One thing I try to stress to my students about research is that there is some information that is only available in electronic form. Likewise, there is some information that is only available in print. A comprehensive understanding of their subject will likely lead them to information in multiple formats.
I’m getting ready to read Weinberger’s book and am looking forward to see how he addresses the issue of order. As for extinction, don’t fret. AI has some significant leaps to make before being able to replace librarians.
Posted 30 Jul 2007 at 7:56 pm ¶This is very interesting. I have given a number of presentations around this topic recently in the UK : Information Literacy and Web 2.0. I have taken the line that Web 2.0 affects us first of all as information professionals and that we have to investigate these new tools, acquire them as we can, and that Web 2.0 ( as you say) affects the content of our teaching (eg Wikipedia as a valid startup source, blogs for up to date infgormation) and the means that we can teach eg using blogs, YouTube, wikis, podcasts etc.
Posted 31 Jul 2007 at 4:03 am ¶I must admit that I get very bored with endless debates about what IL is, and suspect that many of these debates arew sterile! Taking the SCONUL Seven Pillars model as a starting point what I can detect is that the emphasis which we give to each “pillar” is changing. We have to spend more time on what constitutes information, teaching a sense of context, critical thinking about which media to use and its validity and above all the ability to evaluate and choose from the material we find. I guess its less about the vagaries of the databases that we subscribe to, because these are only one plank, albeit an important one, in the information scenario that our users can choose from.
So thank you for this post : perhaps I am on the right track and the book that I am currently co-editing on IL meets Library 2.0 will be useful…
Jason–
Thanks, it is really exciting to teach a credit course. We’re lucky, at MPOW. There is real support for the course among faculty and advisors. I know other schools have tried to start a course but have had an uphill battle. Good point to stress: that just as some information is only online, so is some only in print. I hope you enjoy Weinberger’s book. It really blew me away.
Peter–
Posted 31 Jul 2007 at 9:46 am ¶Thanks, your presentations sound very interesting! I appreciate your take on IL and the “big” questions: “what constitutes information, teaching a sense of context, critical thinking about which media to use and its validity and above all the ability to evaluate and choose from the material we find.” I look forward to your book once it’s out. It sounds like it will make some interesting points!
I don’t think the concept of information literacy is as ethereal as many think. To put information literacy in a context that my students can understand, I liken it to investigative journalism. You need to know what you don’t know, uncover what you don’t know, and decide how you’re going to use what you find. Of course, those are loaded statements. Where do discussions of authority fit in? Media literacy? Communication theory?
Now you see why I’m jealous of Lauren’s credit course. It would take some time to teach a comprehensive course on info lit.
Posted 31 Jul 2007 at 5:51 pm ¶Thanks Jason, I agree, info lit really is more like journalism or detective work than some theoretical concept that is hard to pin down. I’ve recently been thinking about the importance of critical thinking and media literacy skills that are cornerstones to what I consider information literacy. Since I’m spending time thinking about this, I include it in my course. However, I wonder if this is an area were we are stepping on the toes of other disciplines. Should it be housed in communication? If so, would as many students take the class since it would appear tied to a major? For now, though, I’m going to continue including anything along these lines that I can. It just seems too important not to.
Posted 01 Aug 2007 at 11:52 am ¶I love Google, too!!!!
Posted 22 Aug 2007 at 9:17 am ¶i’m so jealous you can use google calendar with outlook. i’m stuck using meetingmaker at work, and while i’m very comfortable with it, i’d MUCH prefer to use google calendar. alas, i don’t think mm will ever talk to it. sigh….
Posted 22 Aug 2007 at 11:26 am ¶thanks for the comments! i have very little faith in the big vendors making their calendars compatible with google’s, but i wouldn’t be surprised if google tries to do their best to make their products compatible with others…. if ever they make it compatible with meetingmaker, i’m sure they’d announce it here: http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new.html fwiw!
Posted 22 Aug 2007 at 11:19 pm ¶Lauren, you said the exact same thing I was thinking: If people are playing on their laptops instead of taking notes, you are boring them. Do something different.
Posted 29 Aug 2007 at 2:43 pm ¶exactly! thanks for the comment!
Posted 29 Aug 2007 at 11:54 pm ¶In fact, Twitter just IMed me that you posted a blog entry!
Posted 17 Sep 2007 at 9:37 pm ¶
so useful!
Posted 17 Sep 2007 at 9:43 pm ¶Hi,
I am using both Slideshare and authorSTREAM.
But , I find the audio presentations upload using authorSTREAM have an edge …. The audio quality and sync is superb on navigation between in authorSTREAM but in slide share whole presentation goes out of sync….
I have tried the trial version of authorPOINT 3.8 for capturing my presentations with audio …. and uploaded the audio is great and superb sync is there …. Animations are there … narrations are supported , animated gifs too are supported… I think the slideshare users have to move to authorSTREAM … now
Posted 19 Sep 2007 at 11:09 pm ¶Creative Commons rock’eth! Have you ever done any Creative Commons training with faculty?
Posted 26 Sep 2007 at 8:22 am ¶we just used this video in lab today with a group of first-years! i love CC.
Posted 26 Sep 2007 at 7:31 pm ¶Thanks Jason, Megan! I’ve not done CC training with faculty. Have you had the opportunity, Jason? Did they find it useful? I bet the first years enjoyed it, Megan. It’s certainly more interesting than a dry lecture!
Posted 26 Sep 2007 at 9:44 pm ¶Lauren, I had some similar thoughts while watching The Office last night. I think in some ways we tie technological diversity to age because different generations often come to the table with different comfort levels with different technologies. However, this is dangerous because there are plenty of younger technophobes and older technophiles.
I thought the funniest part of the episode was Creed’s attempt to be 30. I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Thanks for the thought-provoking post.
Posted 05 Oct 2007 at 9:46 am ¶Thanks for the comment, Jennifer! I loved Creed’s attempt, too…. sooo funny! Sooo Creed!
Posted 05 Oct 2007 at 11:31 am ¶Congrats! I hope that you get a lot out of the program….
Posted 10 Oct 2007 at 1:52 pm ¶Congratulations!
Posted 10 Oct 2007 at 4:19 pm ¶Congratulations! I look forward to meeting you!
Posted 10 Oct 2007 at 5:20 pm ¶Congrats Lauren!
Posted 10 Oct 2007 at 5:57 pm ¶Thanks everyone! I look forward to meeting you, too, Linda!
Posted 10 Oct 2007 at 7:50 pm ¶Fantastic!!
Posted 11 Oct 2007 at 5:29 pm ¶Whoo-hoo! Hopefully we’ll get to work together on your project!
Posted 11 Oct 2007 at 7:46 pm ¶Thanks Molly & Jenny!
Jenny: Yay! I’m looking forward to finding out more about the projects!
Posted 11 Oct 2007 at 10:18 pm ¶Just catching up here. BRAVA!!! Have fun with it!
Posted 14 Oct 2007 at 11:11 pm ¶Thanks Karen!
Posted 14 Oct 2007 at 11:46 pm ¶Interesting to here your approach to conferences!
Posted 18 Oct 2007 at 10:15 pm ¶Sorry I missed meeting you at this one! (I’m already back home in Raleigh now. We have to cover the desk tomorrow for others who are “just” going to the NCLA conference tomorrow!)
Michelle – (mlcz on Twitter)
Blah! Sorry for the typo… “here” should have been “hear”… I think I need to go to bed…
Posted 18 Oct 2007 at 10:16 pm ¶Hi Michelle, I’m sorry we didn’t cross paths at the conference… hopefully we will sometime soon. I’m back at Wake today, too, for pretty much the same reason… two hours at the reference desk!
Posted 19 Oct 2007 at 10:05 am ¶I think you’ve identified an important point about the lists being communities.
One of the key reasons (I think) that lists continue to be so popular is that they deliver the conversation into one’s inbox. You subscribe, and there it is. Many of my colleagues still have no clue about using RSS. I just discovered RSS and the blogosphere early this year, and I’m so hooked that I never have time to read my email lists. I managed to subscribe to a few of them on RSS, but I can’t post from there to join a conversation.
I really wish all the lists would “convert” to a different format. There are other ways to host a discussion list– it’s just that they haven’t caught on yet by the user base of the lists. I think they will, eventually. It’s just that people are slow. I’ve been reading and participating on email lists since they first came out in the 90s, but many people have only started more recently. Email has been around for a long time, but there are still people who can’t use it correctly, as is evidenced by all the junk that shows up on the lists.
Posted 20 Oct 2007 at 6:59 pm ¶Thanks for your comments, Patricia! I agree. The uptake for new technologies can be really slow. I’ve been talking about RSS for at least three years now, and I know just a very small number of the folks I talk to about it have begun using it.
An interesting thing to me about RSS is that so many people use it (or something a lot like it) without knowing that’s what it is. I’ve talked to a number of students about the feeds in Facebook, and most say something along the lines of “it’s so easy… one stop and you see what all your friends are doing.” I’m like “that’s exactly what rss can do for you!”
Perhaps when a majority of folks are used to getting centralized updates through Facebook feeds, Google news, or whatever, they’ll start to see that RSS can actually make their lives easier.
Posted 20 Oct 2007 at 10:03 pm ¶Don’t forget, now people can FOLLOW you in new ways, too! Keep on twittering!
Posted 26 Oct 2007 at 1:07 pm ¶Thanks Abby! Good point! The communication goes both ways!
Posted 29 Oct 2007 at 8:11 pm ¶Hey, that’s my hometown. Where did you wind up eating?
I only get back a few times a year to visit my folks, but I have to say I really miss it this time of year. The colors in Richmond are nothing compared to that vibrant display you get in the mountains.
I have to admit that I leave all my computing behind when I go on vacation (no matter how long). I take my cell phone and that’s about it. We always take pictures though and upload them to our flickr account when we get home.
Honestly, I find that I don’t miss it all that much.
Posted 02 Nov 2007 at 11:27 am ¶What a small world! We ate at the Laughing Seed, Early Girl, Jerusalem Garden, and a Noodle place. I love Asheville for a lot of reasons, one of which is the amazing food.
I can only imagine how much you’d miss it if you came from there. Good to know that I’m not the only one that enjoys leaving the computing behind on vacation. I think I need to get better at clicking the “mark all as read” tab in my rss reader. Thanks for your comment!
Posted 02 Nov 2007 at 11:44 pm ¶Yes I too think so . authorSTREAM is much better approach as compared to SlideShare as authorSTREAM suppport narrations,animations,animated gifs,rehearse timings and also supported by free tool called authorPOINT Lite .
Posted 03 Nov 2007 at 7:25 am ¶Hey there, thanks for linking to the video. It can also be seen on YouTube possibly with a little less load time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw
Posted 08 Nov 2007 at 1:31 am ¶Hey there, thanks for linking to the video. It can also be seen on YouTube possibly with a little less load time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw
Posted 08 Nov 2007 at 1:31 am ¶You’re welcome!
Posted 08 Nov 2007 at 7:57 am ¶Oooh – great post! I’ve put mine into a blog post: http://www.librarygrrrl.net/2007/11/08/422/.
Posted 08 Nov 2007 at 9:38 pm ¶Thanks for the YouTube link Arin…. that’s much faster! I have to say, I found your site because of your Net Neutrality video, but now I’m interested in your film as well. Thanks for all you’re doing!
Posted 10 Nov 2007 at 12:55 pm ¶Thanks for sharing Megan! It’s fun to see how we all customize our internet experience… and I really like seeing what others have discovered that I might have missed!
Posted 10 Nov 2007 at 12:55 pm ¶Thanks for the tip!
Posted 12 Nov 2007 at 7:22 pm ¶No problem! I think it would be awesome if the winning entrant had worked with a librarian… but I think all the entries will be fascinating to watch no matter what!
Posted 13 Nov 2007 at 12:31 am ¶He he, have you noticed how many librarian bloggers are posting that they are the Annoyed Librarian? Just to be clear, I have blogged about it as well…
http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/
Posted 13 Nov 2007 at 1:59 pm ¶Indeed authorSTREAM is awesome
Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 2:51 am ¶Great response. Banning is no substitute for good teaching.
Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 11:28 am ¶Congratulations on being named LITA’s Emerging Leader!
Posted 25 Nov 2007 at 9:25 am ¶Thanks Patricia!!
Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 10:41 pm ¶Another great example of this is TechSmith offering a free, older version of Camtasia. Now that I’ve downloaded it and tried it, I’m more likely to shell out for the full version – when I can afford it, that is. And until I can afford it, I’ll be recommending the software to others.
The problem with the Kindle is that I can’t head down to a store and see it in action. I could do that with the Sony Reader, at least (and I still kinda want one). $400 is a lot to spend on a product sight unseen. Of course, the DRM stuff would keep me from buying anyway, I’m kind of hoping they’ll ease up a but in firmware updates.
Posted 04 Dec 2007 at 10:27 am ¶Thanks Karin! Your Camtasia example is exactly what I’m thinking about! I, too, am a much bigger fan of Camtasia now.
Another good point re: seeing the Kindle. Sadly for Sony, since there was a Reader at the local Borders, I had seen e-ink which actually made me more interested in the Kindle. If I hadn’t been able to see a working example of e-ink in person, I wouldn’t have been interested at all. But I think you’re right; the interface is much different, and it’d certainly be good to see the annotation features and ability to buy over wireless first hand. Let’s hope they get the DRM stuff figured out soon!
Posted 05 Dec 2007 at 12:53 am ¶Hi, this is a free site teachers and their students might enjoy: http://www.interactive-learning.com.au (grades 5-9)
Posted 12 Dec 2007 at 2:17 am ¶See also Why are there so few female computer scientists.
Posted 20 Dec 2007 at 11:37 am ¶Thanks so much for posting this link, David. The report looks very interesting (and lengthy!) so I’m putting it on my holiday reading list.
Posted 20 Dec 2007 at 11:57 am ¶Hey, thank you, Lauren… for proving my point! Also, I look forward to seeing you at the LITA Town Hall… my first ever.
Posted 20 Dec 2007 at 1:59 pm ¶Most excellent, Lauren!
Posted 21 Dec 2007 at 2:27 pm ¶Thanks!
Posted 21 Dec 2007 at 2:33 pm ¶The “human search engine” aspect of Twitter can’t be overlooked, and it is one of the reasons I follow you and another librarian
I also use Twitter as my own personal RSS aggregator of sorts. I track keywords and while I often get to busy (or just forget) to check my Google Reader, my iPhone is always with me and makes it easy to quickly scan a lot of relevant info that I otherwise would have missed.
Posted 21 Dec 2007 at 4:31 pm ¶Thanks. Is nice. And true.
Posted 22 Dec 2007 at 6:14 am ¶Love it! Great job!!! Nice visual musing…
Posted 31 Dec 2007 at 5:41 pm ¶Sure thing, Karen! I think it’s important to raise this point ever so often… David’s recommended reading is really interesting (in case you’re interested).
Looking forward to seeing you at the Town Hall… hopefully it’ll be a good one!
Posted 02 Jan 2008 at 10:57 pm ¶It sounds to me like you have everything in order. Sometimes you can become so busy and engulfed in life and work that the time will fly past you. If nothing else take time out for yourself and enjoy life a little.
Posted 02 Jan 2008 at 11:24 pm ¶I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I even have a half finished blog post to the effect in the works, but have not been able to finish it. We got our first computer much sooner though- my mom was a techno-phile.
I remember playing Oregon Trail in the library for 25 cents an hour.
-Karin (b. May, 1979)
Posted 10 Jan 2008 at 10:20 am ¶Thanks Karin! I look forward to reading your post!
Posted 10 Jan 2008 at 1:38 pm ¶I too have been thinking about our generation lately, but more so about the implications our digital/print fence strattling has on our professional expections, and how our outlook may differ from that of the generations on either side of us – even those separated by only a few years.
Oh how I loved playing Oregon Trail in the school library…
Molly (b. July 1981)
Posted 11 Jan 2008 at 6:46 pm ¶I found your website and thought you may be interested in MyiCourse.com, a free, web-based, e-learning platform that is “just right” for those faculty members who want the freedom to create their own on-line educational site, but do not have the budget, servers, IT department support or programming skills to access the typical e-learning solutions. Yes, I did say it was free. No limits. No contracts. No stripped down “free version” with the “real version” requiring money. MyiCourse platform allows a multi-media approach using video, audio, images and PDFs. We emphasize accountability for the students. Students are timed, tested and they can send their transcripts after course completion. MyiCourse.com also allows sharing of academic courses for all to use. In short, a great course on one of our sites can be imported and placed in the course catalog of other MyiCourse sites. MyiCourse also allows you to create a public site for everyone, or a private site that is closed and password protected.
I would invite you to drop by MyiCourse.com and click on the Learning Center link. Another option would be to Google Myicourse and see what others are saying. I would be most pleased to spend some time with you or others on the telephone and give you an online tour. Let me know what you think. MyiCourse.com, flattening the world one course at a time.
Thanks for listening.
Steve Foreman
Posted 13 Jan 2008 at 5:36 pm ¶steve@myicourse.com
very handy! I like twitter for troubleshooting-with-other-librarians during the work day, and keeping up with friends / former students as well. Plus finding out what’s going on at Midwinter in a tweet-by-tweet.
Posted 14 Jan 2008 at 8:25 am ¶Nice, write-up, Lauren. This is a very thorough and accurate set of notes on the meeting.
Posted 14 Jan 2008 at 10:22 pm ¶Oh Lauren! I am so sorry to hear that we were a room full of strangers. Shame on us, for not being more welcoming and gracious! And your name is so familiar to me–did we meet at one of the 5 Weeks forums? You were a presenter there, weren’t you?
I know how hard it is, though, to show up at an event where you don’t know if you are going to know anyone, and don’t know what it’s going to be like. (jeans? suits? in between?)
We missed you, and yes please Twitter me ahead of time. You’ve got a lot of cool stuff going on–I’d love to hear more about what you’re doing with new tech tools and designing training for students…
And thanks for the kudos on the blog salon!
Posted 15 Jan 2008 at 5:43 pm ¶Thanks Lauren. I couldn’t make TTT this year, and your summary gave me a great overview and some good things to think about!
Posted 16 Jan 2008 at 8:20 am ¶I’m at a small library and we’re working on a technology wish list for teens. Getting 2 new teen computers and interested in your ideas for upcoming trends.
Posted 16 Jan 2008 at 5:40 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
Posted 20 Jan 2008 at 8:57 am ¶what a wonderful list of ideas! Great input for discussions in my library on future directions.
I agree, Stephanie! Twitter makes it easy to follow along at conferences if you aren’t there, and makes them more meaningful if you are!
Posted 21 Jan 2008 at 7:41 pm ¶Thanks!
Posted 21 Jan 2008 at 7:41 pm ¶Hi Alice, thanks for your comment! No problem at all! I really appreciate what you all are doing, and after this blog post a number of folks were interested in meeting up ahead of time for the next one. I imagine you’ll have a number of first timers then!
You’re right, I did participate in 5 weeks! Such a small online library world!
Posted 21 Jan 2008 at 7:47 pm ¶Thanks for your comments!
Ann, I wasn’t actually on the panel… just reporting on it. However, one of my areas of interest is the evaluation and implementation of technology for specific groups, so if you’d like to chat I’d be happy to. My email is lauren@laurenpressley.com.
Posted 21 Jan 2008 at 7:54 pm ¶I really like the term “bridge generation.” I’ve definitely felt that way in many of my work interactions. I was born in 79 too and always felt that I was neither a Gen X-er or a Millennial (or Gen Y which is what they were calling the next one along, back when the Gen X-ers were in their 20s). I often find myself struggling trying to explain why when students are searching our various databases some things are going to count as an encyclopedia article and others will be a journal. They never used a print encyclopedia, so that background experience isn’t there when I start talking about the online version. I’m still working on my new approach.
Your family must have been near bleeding edge. I was one of the first people in my school to have internet access, but I didn’t have it until 11th grade. I pretty much exclusively used it to look up bands and movies. (Although I did play with my Encarta disc too.)
That year for Christmas I gave everyone all kinds of different printouts – one person got a photo album of pictures of her favorite band along with some interviews, one person got the script for his favorite movie, one person got a 2 binder print out of the entire Heavenly Creatures website. It’s funny how awesome they thought those were then when they couldn’t get to those things themselves and how lame they would be now. 
And since you mentioned Oregon trail, I have to share my story of how I was a student aid at a summer camp and would swap computers with the camp kids so that I could get my name on the high score board on every computer in the room (about 40 of them). It started random since I’d be on a different computer each day, but by the last few weeks I was actively seeking out the few computers left. I had kids rooting for me and others trying to knock me off. It was great fun. (and I did succeed)
Posted 24 Jan 2008 at 11:36 am ¶Lauren,
You are exactly spot on. Games teach the player in ways that fit naturally with the content and apply directly to the situation. James Paul Gee calls some of this “just-in-time” information. I believe and I’ve written about it, that we can make information literacy instruction “just-in-time.”
In addition by looking at the strategies games like Mario Galaxy use to teach like: slowly building skills, adding on previous skills, keeping the challenge high enough to encourage the player to move forward, providing feedback along the way with each new star collected,and lowering the barriers of failure (how many extra lives can a player build up in some levels?).
All of these strategies can and should be applied in our information literacy instruction.
Posted 24 Jan 2008 at 2:39 pm ¶What he said.
I talked with a guy last year who said he’d played videogames a lot in his youth but then moved away from them as he grew up. He recently tried them again and the thing that impressed him most about modern videogames is how they progressively teach you what you need to know in order to succeed and advance.
In the “old days,” you had to spend hours figuring out what to do or you had to read the manual and hope. But today’s games assume you know nothing, throw you into situations, and then help you learn as you go so that you succeed. It’s another one of those things you don’t really understand unless you play games or someone tells you. Thanks for telling everyone.
Posted 24 Jan 2008 at 8:52 pm ¶Thanks Paul & Jenny!
It’s funny, even when playing the wii sports games, I didn’t *get* the whole learning-in-the-game dynamic. In fact, it took a few hours with SMGalaxy to put it together and to begin to trust the game to teach me. Like you’re saying, Jenny, it takes playing the game to really get that. Or hearing it from someone.
And I love the “just-in-time” concept Paul. That’s dead on. People do learn best when they’re motivated, and “just-in-time” speaks to that.
Posted 24 Jan 2008 at 10:42 pm ¶Thanks Molly! I really appreciate your point about how these perspectives shape our expectations in the work environment! I do think that is really interesting (and think it will be even more so as the workforce gains millennial workers).
And Ellie, I’m with ya! I think it gives me some empathy for my older colleagues to be on the cusp. If it’s a little difficult for us to differentiate between encyclopedia and journal articles with college students… I’d imagine there’d be even more conceptual hurdles to jump if the technology all came after one graduated from college! Congrats on Oregon Trail! That’s an awesome story!
Posted 24 Jan 2008 at 10:56 pm ¶I understand completely! It seems like, even when I am not “at work,” I constantly encounter ideas that I think might be good to incorporate into my work-life, and vice versa.
Perhaps it is a sign that we truly enjoy our jobs. I remember having jobs that completely drained me, instead of energizing me, as my current one (usually) does. In those past positions, I tried not to think about work while at home.
Posted 12 Feb 2008 at 9:26 am ¶I find this particularly interesting as librarians seem to go one way or the other with almost no grey area in the middle. The bulk of my friends from library science school are the kind of people who are “all in.” They read library journals at home, they browse library related websites, they attend conferences, etc. However, there’s an entire compliment of librarians that I’ve met in the years since graduation who see their career as a nine-to-five thing (many are public librarians, by the way, though I’m not attempting to draw a conclusion by saying that).
For me, the entire discussion gets even murkier when you begin considering subject librarians (which I’m one of) who work in very specialized fields (which I do), because it’s like having two distinct jobs – I’m viewed as a librarian and a genocide expert. This means that even if we are fully immersed (as I think I am), it might not be library science as such, but possibly a subject area that we cultivate in order to become even better experts at shepherding information.
The conferences I attend, the presentations I give, the articles I write, and even the blogs I read, wind up being a fairly mixed lot of the two. On the surface, you’d think that everything I’m writing, attending, and presenting was simply Holocaust/genocide related – The Origins of Violence in Darfur, Finding Primary Sources for Holocaust Research, Following the Paper Trail of Modern Genocide — but in truth, they straddle that line between information and subject specialization.
At the same time, you could just as easily find me at an Intellectual Freedom Committee meeting (state or national), which, now that I think about it, kind of bridges the gap as much as any of subject specific things I do.
Posted 12 Feb 2008 at 1:41 pm ¶Thanks for your comments! Michelle, I know what you mean– I feel my work energizes me, too. I like that about library work. So much of it resonates with my larger world view that it just makes sense to have integrated some of it into my personal life.
Tim, I think you make interesting points! I hadn’t thought of the potential to be a leading expert in a subject area (mine in Women’s and Gender Studies), but I can see how that could be the case, particularly in a field like yours. It sounds like you have very interesting work!
Posted 14 Feb 2008 at 12:07 am ¶I’m active in my day job as well as on a national professional level, but for most nights and weekends, I spend my time on other things. I have a wide array of interests that keep me busy outside of my working hours, and just like your professional activities, they can inform my work as well. These are not mutually exclusive lifestyle choices.
Posted 14 Feb 2008 at 4:30 pm ¶There’s a reason why I went with “eclectic” in my blog title. Don’t feel like you have to specialize just because some (or many) have done so. If you’re unhappy with your blog title, change it, but don’t feel like it has to also be your mission statement.
Posted 14 Feb 2008 at 4:55 pm ¶Gah! Would like an edit button, please. “Don’t feel like” in successive sentences… I can has grammer? kthxbye!
Posted 14 Feb 2008 at 4:56 pm ¶I think that if you just focus on projects that interest you (and that you can get support for in your organization) you’ll just sort of fall into a niche — however narrow or broad. My title — Librarian for Digital Technology and Learning — is so broad I get to justify doing almost anything with it. Very cool. It also means I get pulled into all sorts of task forces — gotta watch that! I think you’ve got the same covered with “Instructional Design” librarian. With all your interests, that’s a great first job to have! So expansive!
No need to change your blog title, imo…or go with something expansive rather than specialized.
Posted 14 Feb 2008 at 6:59 pm ¶Thanks for your comments… and reassurance! I guess I get so used to the conversations about specialization that I begin to see that as the One True Path. Eclectic and expansive interests and titles do have quite a few desirable qualities. Thanks for reminding me.
Posted 16 Feb 2008 at 3:07 pm ¶Hey, Anna. I didn’t mean that everyone has to spend ever waking minute of the day on library-related work. And I think we’re saying close to the same thing, just coming from different perspectives. For me, a lot of the involvement is a hobby and a diversion from the day-to-day library work. Broad involvement (being diverse hobbies or more focused in one area) means that there are more opportunities for interesting activity at any time. And, really, we can sometimes learn the most from things outside of the field. Everything enriches everything else. Thanks for your thoughts.
Posted 16 Feb 2008 at 3:19 pm ¶I’d not worry about using your name. It is your weblog. Weblogs reflect the person behind them. Nothing egocentric about putting your name up front. On a community weblog, like LISnews, it is different. It is also different on a work sponsored weblog.
I’d think twice about changing the name. Will you confuse your readers? Prehaps lose some? What is to be gained by a name change?
Posted 19 Feb 2008 at 7:13 pm ¶Thanks David. I like that nuance; it makes sense.
Posted 22 Feb 2008 at 9:12 pm ¶TED talks are awesome. if you’re every cranky, watch Ze Frank’s talk.
Posted 26 Feb 2008 at 6:08 pm ¶gah! i adore ze frank! thanks for the reminder! is this the one you were referring to?
Posted 26 Feb 2008 at 7:36 pm ¶that’s the one! love it love it love it
Posted 01 Mar 2008 at 12:58 pm ¶Lauren, I am so glad everything went well with your dad! I’m trying to make an effort to improve my diet and level of exercise myself.
Posted 08 Mar 2008 at 7:57 am ¶I’ll be interested in how the Virtual World conference goes, too, so will be on the lookout for folks who are blogging it.
i’m playing with CoverItLive and live-blogging some of the sessions in SL. i’ll archive them to my site too – but if you’re online and want to check it out the live-blogging will start back up at 4pmSL.
Posted 08 Mar 2008 at 6:37 pm ¶I agree to some extent, facing the same situation this week with my MacBook Pro. But…
As much as I would prefer to buy in store (for the instant gratification) I have to admit that Apple’s emphasis on acquainting newcomers to the brand with the ins and outs and whys (using way more in-store reps than previously) is a much better use of manpower than trying to customize at the store.
The last time I was there it was quite amazing actually… all down the side were people sitting next to Apple reps learning about the Macs. There were families who seemed to have made coming an event, all the kids in tow. There was even a small crowd at the iTunes presentation going on at the back projector.
Anyway, in the end, I think I prefer the store the way Apple’s done it as a showcase with most of the standard configuration products, rather than emulating factory/warehouse if you know what I mean.
Posted 16 Mar 2008 at 10:08 am ¶Thanks, Morris. Those are good points. I agree that it makes good sense for the to focus on those who don’t know/aren’t sold on Apple products. It just seemed strange to me that they can fix some internal problems in store and not upgrade a hard drive. Good to know I’m not the only one facing this situation with a MacBookPro this week.
Posted 17 Mar 2008 at 8:50 pm ¶One of the things I remembered from my past MLIS class was how the library was not seen as a source of information due to, like you said “Information isn’t scarce any longer.” However, Google or other search engines are not the end all and be all information gathering. I agree with you that libraries and librarians serve a greater source by helping those patrons to find valid and accurate data.
In addition, libraries need to expand itself to other services it can provide to the community it serves. Here in Miami, all libraries have tax forms and provide tax assistance through AARP volunteers every friday. When there is an issue to vote on, early voting can be done at libraries. As long as this trends continues and the needs are met, regardless of what happens to information gathering, the library will still be around for many generations to come.
Posted 20 Mar 2008 at 9:22 am ¶Thanks for these thoughtful notes about the book.
I agree with you that Wikipedia is a very useful tool for teaching students information literacy concepts. Most students — and most people — approach Wikipedia as consumers of the information with little clue about how the information even got there in the first place. I believe that even drawing students attention to the Discussion and History tabs can deepen their awareness of what’s going on in Wikipedia and (hopefully) use it more mindfully — or at least get a better grip on what all the fuss is about it. They’ve all heard they should be cautious about using Wikipedia and that anyone can create content, but most students and also faculty have never even noticed features of the wiki besides the Article tab itself. But peeking into the Discussion tab exposes the biases and struggles of the authors to attempt some sort of “neutral point of view” and the History tab reveals the anonymity of authors (and edit done by an IP address!). You can totally leverage the interest students have in Wikipedia to teach concepts such as peer review vs. the seemingly collective review happening in Wikipedia and discuss the pros and cons. I’ve also discussed the scholarly vs. popular dichotomy and then asked students to think about whether Wikipedia is scholarly or popular, neither or both while talking about the Wikipedia guidelines (NPoV, no original research, etc.) and showing them how the wiki works beneath the surface of what they read. Fascinating stuff! A whole arsenal of rich material for engaging students!
Posted 20 Mar 2008 at 10:54 am ¶I like it Lauren. I can’t tell which screencasting tool you’re using, but if Camtasia you could also go for a menu as in http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/libcon/links/ (sorely in need of updating). Camtasia Studio 5 also allows you to pan and zoom automatically, good for showing URLs and such… You might also consider hosting somewhere other than YouTube to aid in readability – I like Viddler.com because it doesn’t compress nearly as much, thus rendering the videos much more legible.
Posted 20 Mar 2008 at 2:35 pm ¶Thanks for your comments! I agree. It’s really worth thinking about what services a library can provide for the local community. Tax assistance, early voting, etc. are great services from public libraries. Some of the information environment issues I discussed (I think) make a lot of sense within information literacy. It’s certainly an interesting time to be navigating changes and creating a new path!
Posted 25 Mar 2008 at 9:07 pm ¶Thanks Paul! The site actually had examples from several different screencasting tools we’ve experimented with. Thanks for the advice on Camtasia 5. I need to upgrade.
Also great tip about Viddler.com. We intentionally chose YouTube for the findablity factor, but there’s nothing to say we can’t post material in a different location for embedding as well. I’ll be sure to look into it.
Great recommendations!
Posted 25 Mar 2008 at 9:12 pm ¶Hey Kim, thanks for your comments! I’m with you! I’ve actually gotten a fair amount of mileage out of Wikipedia at the reference desk, too. It’s amazing how a short one-on-one conversation about the tabs, works cited section, and a little bit about the Wikipedia culture can change how someone sees the source. It’s a great one, if it’s used thoughtfully. (Which is the key for most things, isn’t it?)
Posted 25 Mar 2008 at 9:19 pm ¶Wow, sounds like a great day! Looks like an impressive facility! Is ZSR planning a rennovation?
Posted 26 Mar 2008 at 7:39 pm ¶That’s all well and good. But were they Hot, Hot, Hot!?
Posted 26 Mar 2008 at 8:06 pm ¶It was a great day! ZSR is planning to remodel our 24 hour study rooms and add a cafe/coffee shop. No immediate plans for the rest of the building, but we’re always interested in learning from others!
& Steve… what a video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Posted 26 Mar 2008 at 9:09 pm ¶I’m experimenting with screencasting and am struggling with how sterile it can feel. Any ideas about how librarians can communicate authenticity through video?
Posted 27 Mar 2008 at 9:22 am ¶Hi, Jason. Isn’t that the question! I’m a fan of more conversational and less scripted, but I don’t (yet) have evidence that that method communicates authenticity. Are you having any luck?
Posted 29 Mar 2008 at 4:03 pm ¶Lauren, Thanks for sharing your notes about the visit to Appalachian and posting those great shots, especially the view from Special Collections. We enjoyed showing off our building and having a chance to talk with you about library services and buildings. We will be following your progress with interest and hope to hear from you as your plans for renovation develop.
Posted 31 Mar 2008 at 5:47 pm ¶POWERBOOKS FTW!!
Posted 08 Apr 2008 at 4:54 pm ¶OS 10.5.2 and Parallels running Vista Ultimate.. who could ask for anything more?!?
I don’t think anyone could.
Posted 11 Apr 2008 at 9:49 am ¶We need to shift – the message is clear. As regards to the importance of our profession – I am quite sure that its diminishing – how many knowledge or information management panels do have librarians as members? Are curicula has to change – include more techie items …. LIS teachers have a bigger role to play to keep our “so called profession” afloat.
Posted 11 Apr 2008 at 9:49 am ¶Thanks for your comments. I agree, there are some things in the basic LIS curriculum that need to change… starting with more emphasis on tech. I’d love to see more courses about how to evaluate new technology in light of a specific community, for one!
Posted 11 Apr 2008 at 10:14 am ¶I feel you. Same thing happens with me. I take a day off and get maybe 2 hours of “book” work done. I did that for a year and had little to show for it. Now I just stay an extra hour at work and aim for a page a day — I also get up early 7:30ish on weekends to write for an hour and then snooze a little after that burst is gone.
You’ll find the pace– just keep typing!
Posted 11 Apr 2008 at 5:50 pm ¶Thanks, Brian! This is good advice. I think that you’re onto something with the chipping away each day. I’ll have to attempt to get up a bit earlier tomorrow to see if I can make some kind of progress that way, too!
Posted 12 Apr 2008 at 12:52 am ¶I had more success taking a full week off at a time for writing (3 weeks over a year). That enabled me to get more of a momentum going than a day at a time did. Of course, you also have to let the housework go and have a supportive husband to pick up the slack (which I know you do!). Keep plugging away.
Posted 14 Apr 2008 at 8:21 pm ¶Thanks Susan! John and I actually were talking about how a week off might make more sense than five Fridays…. I’d have to wait until the semester is over, though!
Very helpful!
Posted 14 Apr 2008 at 10:47 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
Thanks for sharing this Tech Therapy talk – I found it so interesting that I intend to listen to prior talks, as well.
Mary
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 9:18 am ¶Thanks Mary! It really is a great series… I’m enjoying the Chronicle Podcasts in general.
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 4:02 pm ¶Great stuff! So many are so “stuck in the gerbil wheel” that if they jump off for 1 second to “learn something” there is an assumption, that it is better to keep running then stop for directions.
I think if things can be shared in snippets (like this) there is more hope. Self-initiated learning goes a long way….sometimes we have to give people a snack rather than a 112 course meal
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 9:56 pm ¶(of information.)
Hi Tara, thanks for commenting! I’m with you on the snippets and self-initiated learning!
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 10:42 pm ¶w00t!
Posted 24 Apr 2008 at 4:54 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
I like what you wrote about the differences between kids and adults in the online world. Have you heard of a new online service that bridges the digital divide by providing every child with their own virtual laptop on a USB bracelet and while the child is surfing their protected by WiHood.
http://www.WiHood.com
More parents need to be informed about the available services that are out there to help them even when they are not home.
Take care!
Posted 25 Apr 2008 at 2:55 am ¶Hi,
I’m the product development manager for Connotea. Thank’s for trying us out. We are continually developing and improving features, but I’m particularly interested in where we can go to support university communities.
If you have any feedback I’d love to hear it, you can contact me at i dot mulvany at nature dot com.
- Ian
Posted 25 Apr 2008 at 4:30 am ¶Thanks for sharing this!
Posted 29 Apr 2008 at 11:06 am ¶okay, i really like the content of this post and i don’t want to detract from your message, but i just want to say that i was already planning on using futura medium for my passion quilt piece if i got around to it.
re: the content. you’re right. libraries don’t exist in a vacuum. i sometimes wish that more librarians would realize that we need to evolve with the rest of the information world.
Posted 02 May 2008 at 1:10 am ¶I really like this, too. And it can also be applied on a personal level, as well: Are my actions as a library employee working towards the library system as a whole? Am I a good team member?
Posted 02 May 2008 at 10:15 am ¶Well, Aaron, I guess I need to tag you so that we can see how you were planning on using futura (if you get around to it)! I like font-minded folks.
Thanks for extending the point, Marianne. I am there with you. I think systems thinking can be useful for both organizations and individuals.
Posted 02 May 2008 at 11:10 am ¶Welcome to the Comment Challenge Lauren. I also use co.mment to track my comments and feed it into my Google Reader. It’s had a big impact on my ability to respond to comments. I also use cocomment due to it’s community aspects.
Posted 02 May 2008 at 6:50 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
Posted 02 May 2008 at 7:00 pm ¶Welcome to the Comment Challenge. I’m working on the challenge as an individual and also with my class. We were busy today commenting to our blog partners all around the world. My students and I are always so excited when people read our blog posts. There is nothing more thrilling than receiving feedback on what you’ve written.
I’ve never used co.mment but it sounds interesting.
Kimberly
a.k.a classroomqueen
Thanks Sue and Kimberly! It looks like we’re in this exciting adventure together.
Posted 02 May 2008 at 8:16 pm ¶Lauren, I’m so glad you’re doing this, too!
As far as those questions go, I hardly ever comment on other blogs. I read alot, but….I don’t know, I end up hitting the back button alot. Would that be something like Commenters Remorse? And I use Twitter too much. There, I said it.
And I’d not kept up with my comments before I started using CoComment for the challenge. I’d started to do it on del.icio.us but it was kind of a pain. The CoComment browser extension does it for me though. Cool.
Posted 03 May 2008 at 10:21 am ¶Some people are such prolific commenters and I’m really impressed by that. If I’m interested in something enough to comment, I tend to do it on my own blog and just link back to their post. But some of my own posts get so many comments that I feel badly for not reciprocating. I guess that’s why I decided to do this challenge as well. It’s an awesome idea!
Posted 03 May 2008 at 5:05 pm ¶Haha, Commenter Remorse and too much Twitter, I am SO there, Marianne!
I know what you mean, Meredith! So often I see my thoughts (or at least most of them) mentioned in the comments that I don’t add my own… and if my thoughts are particularly detailed or sufficiently different, I try to post and use trackback links. I’m glad you’re on board for the commenting challenge…. I think it’ll be a fun one. (I’ve already seen changes in my own blogging behavior because of it, fwiw!)
Posted 04 May 2008 at 8:42 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
I’m not far from you–Greensboro, in fact. I’m really intrigued by your post. I have always thought of library people as the ultimate in detail orientation, but your post makes sense. I particularly like thinking about the library’s place in the community at large, which leads to my question for you, which is: how big does the picture get? Where is the point at which you have to stop expanding the circle ?
I can’t figure out if I am a big picture or little picture person–I seem to vacillate wildly, depending on what is going on. Although in either case, I seem to head for the extreme side.
Nice to “meet” you!
Posted 04 May 2008 at 10:21 pm ¶Sarah
No, thank you! Glad to see I’m not alone in seeing the potential for multiple styles of commenting. Kudos.
Posted 08 May 2008 at 12:59 am ¶“They’re not moving away from that, but are thinking about rethinking the approach”
Love that bit. Enjoyed your presentation too!
Richard
Posted 08 May 2008 at 9:08 am ¶Wonderful sentiment and perfect picture choice. I’ve really been enjoying following this meme.
Posted 08 May 2008 at 10:26 am ¶If done right, I could see potential for this sort of technlogy in distance learning. As an example, a professor (or librarian) could post a lecture (or information literacy session) and then students could send back video comments or questions about various topics covered. This would ensure a more active communcative by-play, allowing students to feel more involved in the learning process (and perhaps better able to retain what they learn).
I guess one concern might be the learning curve for this sort of technology; it isn’t for beginners. And, what is the point of an instructional technology session in which people spend most of the time resolving whatever technological bugs come their way?
Another concern would be the volume of students (i.e. if 200 students are participating in the class remotely) and how to effectively manage their feedback.
All in all, I think it has great potential!
Posted 08 May 2008 at 7:20 pm ¶thanks, ellie! i’m enjoying this meme, too!
Posted 10 May 2008 at 12:10 am ¶Thanks! Hopefully we can cross paths again, soon!
Posted 10 May 2008 at 12:10 am ¶Greg, expect video comments here soon!
Karen, I think there’s good potential for video in distance learning, too! As far as learning curve, I’m guessing we’re a few years out from mainstream use, but for some computers it’s a seamless experience. Macs come with a built in camera now, so to make the comment I literally just clicked “record.” It would have been a hassle with my old Mac. I would have had to find my camera, make sure it was charged up, connect it to my computer, make sure the computer knew it was there, and *then* click record. In a few years I’m hoping/guessing the camera integration will be more widely adopted.
As for the numbers, that would be a concern in a 200 person course! I can think of a few ways that could be potential answers, but all would require some sacrifice (in total watched, length of time, etc).
Interesting comments! Thanks for bringing them up!
Posted 10 May 2008 at 12:16 am ¶This is great Lauren. Thank you. The only trouble I’m having determining whether to include my home address (it’s public anyway, but…). Since nobody in Ojai is using Brightkite yet, there isn’t really a reason to include the street address. However, if I ever get trusted friends in Ojai, then I could include it so I show up in the “Around Me” tab.
This site does take some mental grasping, but seems to have considerable power. One thing you forgot to mention was how important using SMS can be for managing your account. If you want to set your location and it is one of your placemarks, just send an text that says “@lax” and the cool thing is Brightkite sends you an SMS right back that tells you how many other users are in your location.
So, for me the two areas to grow and learn about are SMS and privacy settings.
Posted 11 May 2008 at 10:24 am ¶Thanks for posting about this, Lauren. I’ve been trying to figure out how I want to use BrightKite and how much, especially since (as you note) there aren’t good widgets for it yet.
Right now, I’m trying to figure out how to friend you on BK. Any ideas? When I put in my username in “discover friends,” it says it couldn’t find anyone I know on the service, which is obviously baloney since you’re on both.
Is the second graphic above the right one? Should it maybe show the “sharing” tab for Twitter?
Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts about BK, and I hope to learn more from watching your use of it.
Posted 11 May 2008 at 3:39 pm ¶Thanks for your comments!
Kenley, I know what you mean about home address. No one here (except for 2 people I invited, and trust) is on the service either, but I think a little bit about technosavvy people with bad intentions knowing exactly when I am out. My hope, there, is that they might know if I’m out, but they hopefully won’t know if *both* my husband and I are out. Thanks for adding the point about SMS! I’m still working out that aspect of the site, and didn’t even realize that I could find the number of users in the area using SMS. I’m using the iPhone interface, mostly, which is really nice, too. I wonder if since there is so much to learn that this service won’t catch on as much…
Jenny, thanks for pointing out the picture issue! I’ll fix that right now! As for the discover friends, that could use some work. After poking around, it looks like the address bar at the top of the page can be used to find people, too:
It’s an interesting experiment, for sure!
Posted 11 May 2008 at 5:48 pm ¶Update! It looks like BrightKite refreshes invites after so long… I have three again if anyone wants one!!
Posted 11 May 2008 at 5:53 pm ¶Sarah,
Good to meet another local interested in this stuff! Libraries are evolving… while there are detail folks, there are other folks, too. It’s an interesting time to be in the profession! As for me, the picture is very large! I like to think in terms of the entire information ecosystem. Can someone in California access our information online? Can I find a copy of a rare book, that we don’t own, for a patron using Google Books? Where is the first place anyone goes for information… can we make a difference in that location. Of course, not everyone thinks in those terms, nor should they. But I do think that examining a system larger than the library building makes a lot of sense, particularly if you’re trying to reach people that don’t currently use library services, and also in light of the likelihood users are spending most of their information seeking time online.
Good to meet you! I’m adding your blog to my reader!
Posted 11 May 2008 at 7:09 pm ¶Lauren
Would you be able to share more of the discussion about the brainstorming and planning you went through? What were some of the ideas that you came up with? How does your framework tie into the discipline you selected?
Please let me know if you are able to talk more about your process.
Paul
Posted 16 May 2008 at 1:19 am ¶There is also a concept called the AIR Equation: the 3-part formula for happiness at http://www.AIRequation.org. The formula says happiness is based on 3 states of being, and to concentrate and building up ourselves and others in these areas.
Posted 16 May 2008 at 6:08 pm ¶Thanks for the post! I just started checking out BrightKite last week and I wondered how everyone was sending their posts to Twitter – now I know! The trick now is to get more people who are actually my “friends” to sign up and start using it.
Posted 19 May 2008 at 10:37 am ¶Thanks for posting this. I got my invite a week or two ago but haven’t spent much time on it. I’m pretty sporadic on Twitter, though so I don’t know if I’ll get hooked on brightkite, but I’m off to revisit it!
Posted 19 May 2008 at 3:55 pm ¶Thanks Jennifer & Bobbie! I’m glad it’s helpful. It’s true… the trick really is to get more friends to use it. Hope to see you there!!
Posted 19 May 2008 at 4:22 pm ¶Ok, so, oddly enough I was just talking with John (..my John) about life in general, and I think that this applies. Gonna have to try and implement.
Posted 21 May 2008 at 4:10 pm ¶Yeah, it really does, doesn’t it!? Sounds like a plan!
Posted 22 May 2008 at 12:31 pm ¶I’m reading your paper entitled “Social Epistemology in LIS”. It is an interesting and useful paper for the readers of both disciplines. For my research purpose, I would like to use your paper as a reference. Would you please provide me the bibliographical details of your paper? I would highly appreciate your cooperation.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 1:34 am ¶Thanks Md.Roknuzzaman! Sure, you can use it as a reference. What bibliographical details are you looking for? I submitted it as part of a graduate program, so I suspect you could treat it as a white paper…
Posted 27 May 2008 at 4:45 pm ¶Technically, gMail is still in beta and institutions of higher education are switching all their mail services to this beta product. Who would have thought?
Thinking, analyzing, planning all have their place but at some point you just have to do it. In some institutions one can spend so much time with those steps that you miss out on the opportunity to be innovative. To be exciting. To have a pulse. I want to have a pulse and I want the organization I work for to have one too.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 11:53 pm ¶Okay, Lauren.
I appreciate your sharp response!
Thanking you.
Posted 28 May 2008 at 12:06 am ¶Hey Kenley, good point re: gMail!
I’m with you on the exciting/pulse/innovation line of thinking. Innovation is one of my primary motivators, and I’m a big fan of trying out new things and seeing how they go.
Lately I’ve been wrestling with the issue of assessment and planning. I see some colleagues in the field looking for more processes and plans for implementation of services they plan to use, which makes me think that there are less “culture of beta” people than I might have expected. I’m trying to figure out how to bridge their work needs with the “culture of beta” idea.
I also see great value in focus groups and having conversations with our users, so I am thinking a lot about that, too. However, I think that a lot of those conversations and focus groups can meet around new services and projects as they arise, not slowing down the process in the planning phase.
I particularly like your “I want to have a pulse and I want the organization I work for to have one too.” Amen to that!
Posted 29 May 2008 at 8:23 pm ¶Congratulations, Lauren! You should be very proud to accomplish this. Love the glossy graphics too! I’m a sucker for using them to bring attention to good content. Way to go, Susan
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 5:42 pm ¶Thanks, Susan! The graphics are a fun touch. Very different feel to reading than reading the Word doc I submitted!
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 10:12 pm ¶We’re not here yet but here’s what I envision. Removing large reference desks and reclaiming that space for the public or just putting up a small staff kiosk. Staff connected with wireless headsets and PDAs or tablet PCs roaming or on call from their work areas.
In the far future we may have walk up terminals with voice recognition where patrons can ask questions and the computer will answer or if it can’t answer transfer to a librarian…kind of like what happens now when you call a bank or insurance company.
I’m not saying any of this is better or worse. It’s just different and we have to be willing to explore new territories to stay relevant and vital to the communities.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 10:28 pm ¶Congratulations! That is such a great feeling! I can’t wait to read it.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 10:32 pm ¶Hi Lauren
Was trying to subscribe to your blog – but got a whacky error message – not sure if it was me or you, but thought I’d let you know in case something’s busted on the blog. : )
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 8:41 am ¶Hi Kelley,
I think I’ve fixed the problem… Thanks for letting me know!!
Lauren
Posted 26 Jun 2008 at 10:57 am ¶I still belong to ALA (as well as VLA: Virginia Library Association) but I’m not as involved as I used to be because I went from being an academic librarian, which was well served by individual divisions and round tables, to my current position, which is a redheaded-stepchild if there ever was one.
Posted 27 Jun 2008 at 7:44 pm ¶Sorry I missed you at the Lita Happy Hour. After I’d had a drink or two, I sat down in a corner with some new friends and stopped circulating. I’m thinking I missed a bunch of twitter peeps because of that!
Posted 28 Jun 2008 at 11:35 am ¶I totally agree about twitter. It helped me meet up with people, decide what sessions to go to (or NOT go to) and even helped me win a $100 B&N gift card. All in all, a HUGE SUCCESS- even with the service going down periodically.
It was nice to meet you, BTW.
Posted 02 Jul 2008 at 11:07 am ¶Thanks, Karin! You’re right… can’t beat the $100 B&N card! It was good to meet you, too!
Posted 02 Jul 2008 at 11:53 am ¶Lauren,
Thanks for the post. Note, though, that “Jim” O’Neill is actually “Jill.”
Also, one question: In what context did Harvey Gover mention the NAL “Blue Print for Success”? I’m not quite seeing the connection between that paper and a discussion of distance learning, other than that it includes the quote from Jill O’Neill.
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 10:48 am ¶Hey that’s a totally fun idea. I think I’ll join in!
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 9:07 am ¶Thanks Lila… I’ve corrected it… serves me right for relying on my hearing rather than asking for names for the blog post!
Harvey had very positive remarks for the NAL “Blue Print for Success.” As you can probably tell from the program notes, the program was about the nature of distance learning today. Many traditional students expect access to the same services that distance service students have, which often means more librarians embracing technology that used to be primarily for distance students. I can’t remember exactly what he said about the report, but, for example pages 26-27 talk about technology investments over the next five years. Full text and enhanced online catalogs are important to both distance and local students. Is this helpful?
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 9:28 am ¶Count me in! : )
jez~
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 1:50 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
Thanks for highlighting this, I hadn’t read Librarian by Day before (new feed added to my GReader) but I especially love this idea. Since I have an unusual position it’s always great to see what other folks are doing with their time and how they manage it all. I can’t wait to see the results!
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 2:04 pm ¶I’m so excited to see this idea taking off! I was thrilled to see that Lori put the wiki together, I should have been doing that instead of playing videos games this morning. Now I just have to get added to it LOL
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 2:26 pm ¶Yay! So glad to see this idea resonates with so many people! Looking forward to reading the posts!
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 7:16 pm ¶Everyone likes to know what other people do, so I’m not surprised it’s so popular already. I’m looking forward to it!
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 7:27 pm ¶I’ll be playing along
Posted 12 Jul 2008 at 2:23 pm ¶I’m really enjoying these posts, and am so glad you participated.
It is really great to see what professional librarians do throughout the day. I especially like your focus on your task system, because mine needs a major overhaul. I need all the hints I can get.
Posted 14 Jul 2008 at 9:13 pm ¶I’m so glad you participated. It was an atypical week for a lot of us which is good. I think we should do this quarterly/every season.
Posted 18 Jul 2008 at 8:03 pm ¶I am so glad that this meme/project has been started. For those of us that are starting a career in libraries, it is very helpful. My question is sort of a pros and cons type of question. I haven’t fully decided which avenue I want to take with my MLS program…public or academic. Would you mind giving me a rundown of some pros and cons of your academic setting?
Thanks!
Posted 19 Jul 2008 at 5:55 pm ¶Becca in Indiana
I think technology is probably the trigger. It influences how organizations will spend money and direct resources. So, if an organization is seeing online social media as a competitive advantage in attracting younger workers (perhaps because they’ve read they’re all on Facebook), then they’ll naturally attach the media.
I’ve never been a big fan of lumping people into categories either. I just think the link is strategically-driven.
Posted 29 Jul 2008 at 2:41 pm ¶This is great! Thanks for sharing.
Posted 31 Jul 2008 at 6:58 pm ¶Ooh, do I see our NetVibes portal in there?? This is great!
Posted 01 Aug 2008 at 11:13 am ¶Lauren, great post! I’m interested in the fact that the presentation rehearsal space could only be booked by students! I really like the idea of having students do research projects on the Library!
Posted 01 Aug 2008 at 2:43 pm ¶Thanks, Giz! I’m with ya, saving the presentation room is a great idea… and I’m all for student projects that teach them skills and have real world possibilities. Love the idea!
Posted 05 Aug 2008 at 10:35 pm ¶Thanks, @ellie!
@Jenny, you do, indeed! This group liked the idea, too, though for a totally different purpose!
Posted 05 Aug 2008 at 10:36 pm ¶Whew, quite a question. It could be an entire blog post in itself. Would you mind shooting me an email? lauren@laurenpressley.com These last few weeks (and coming 2) have been crazy, but I’ll try to get in touch as soon as possible.
Posted 05 Aug 2008 at 10:52 pm ¶@karin, it was good to see what you were up to, too. If you ever want to talk task management, tweet, email, or IM me!
Posted 05 Aug 2008 at 10:53 pm ¶When I first read the title of this post I thought it was about making beer and realized maybe I’ve been going to the wrong conferences.
Posted 09 Aug 2008 at 9:55 am ¶Haha, that would be a great conference!
Posted 10 Aug 2008 at 10:52 am ¶Glad you found it worthwhile. Thanks for posting about it without mentioning the wireless problems;->
Posted 10 Aug 2008 at 7:14 pm ¶The picture shows two people taking notes while a presenter talks over a bulleted PowerPoint. That seems ironic to me since he was apparently talking about how irrelevant lectures are. You said that some presenters used clickers, and that some sessions were only 15 minutes long. Besides that, was there evidence that presenters were themselves employing some of these new techniques to engage you? Just wondering, since this was a conference about new teaching techniques.
Posted 11 Aug 2008 at 10:00 am ¶Hey Carol, this photo was taken as the speaker gave an overview in preparation for collaborative work. That being said, plenty of presenters (us included for this conference) gave lectures. This is pretty standard for education conferences in my experiences.
Most people who are in academia excelled in a traditional-lecture based environment. They wouldn’t have gone on to grad school if they didn’t. But then, as we teach, we realize that a majority of students aren’t like us, and most don’t pay attention to the lecture-style format. So, perhaps ironically, a lot of education presentations are given in lecture format to best reach the audience, while the topic might be about using newer methods. Some speakers, like the one above, lecture enough to get the (more traditional) audience on board, but then move in to a modeling mode, demonstrating newer methods to make their point. However, I’ve seen a lot of more traditional faculty get very frustrated in these sessions, so it’s kindof a gamble.
An interesting issue, though!
Posted 11 Aug 2008 at 2:22 pm ¶Great observations! I SO agree with the low periods and high periods and it’s so important to capitalize on those highs to really get some good work done. Editing sucks. I don’t think anyone is very good at editing themself, which is why it’s so important to have other people looking at it (though they’re not always right either — I mostly agreed with my editor, but I totally disagreed with many of the edits my copy editor made). Just remember that it’s your name on the work and don’t let anyone turn it into something you don’t believe in.
I think everyone’s different when it comes to writing something so huge. Some people can do that “I’ll write 500 words every day” thing and get a little bit done each day consistently. I’m one of those people who needs a good, long, uninterrupted period of time to write. When I did my book, I tended to do research and organize my thoughts during the week and then I’d actually write an entire chapter in the course of a weekend. I found this helped to make each chapter pretty cohesive and it kept my attention. I can’t write with distractions and I need to be “in the zone” or I can’t write at all. I envy people who can just sit down and write for a bit before work or after work; I’m not in the right headspace at those times.
Best of luck on getting totally done! It’s an amazing feeling to print out the whole damn thing and just look at what you’ve accomplished. YAY!
Posted 15 Sep 2008 at 7:21 pm ¶Lauren,
If you are interested in “association” via wiki, the Foresight Education Project has just been launched at the U of Houston, home to the longest running Master’s program in foresight education.
Check it, kay, aka Professor Wantanabe
Posted 17 Sep 2008 at 4:53 pm ¶Thanks, Meredith! It’s interesting how similar and different people’s experiences can be. I like your idea of research throughout the week, and writing on the weekend. At the end of the day, some days, my brain seems to stop working on detail grammar issues. I’m looking forward to getting there. It’s gonna be nice!
Posted 17 Sep 2008 at 5:27 pm ¶Another good biblio social network site is MyBookLog.com
Posted 22 Sep 2008 at 4:18 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
Nice presentation. I love the look of it–great design aesthetics. How did you create the photoalbum photo look? Well done!
Posted 24 Sep 2008 at 3:24 pm ¶Hi Peter– Thanks! I used Keynote (on the Mac). In fact, these days I make most of my presentations in Keynote, and export them in some format that will work on a PC.
Posted 25 Sep 2008 at 4:43 pm ¶I’ve noticed the same things lately. While I know I’m still productive I’m frustrated with myself for being so easily distracted & check FF & Twitter so often when I should be working on a presentation. I’ve pretty much done what you described set aside time for Facebook, FriendFeed & Twitter and tried to stop checking them so often. I’m interested in how it works for you and for me. I wonder if we were Digital Natives if it would even bother us? I think it wouldn’t it would just be part of our day & how we operate. Is that good or bad? I don’t know.
Posted 30 Sep 2008 at 8:21 am ¶i absolutely know where you are coming from, and it’s a dichotomy I struggle with, as well. I know that social networks take care and feeding… read, react, think, add, participate… but sometimes I’m just too busy or wrapped up. Sometimes I’ll check my txt and have 200+ tweets, which I’ll scan and delete, since it’s hard to react to something someone said 12 hours ago. Sometimes I’ll think of something to add, but there’s already 12 plus comments on Friend Feed, or someone else offered up the same tidbit. Does it make me feel out of the loop? Yes. But what do I do about it? Keep up the best I can, and jump in on the party line when I’ve got them time.
Keep us posted on how your “twitstriction” goes. : )
jez~
Posted 30 Sep 2008 at 9:58 am ¶I so totally know where you are coming from. Multitasking is overrated. I try to limit twitter and FF to nights when I am at home, but there are times when I need the feedback and opinions of colleagues while I’m at work.
If you use Outlook I highly recommend the book Take Back Your Life. When I followed that book I was the most productive ever and I only checked email twice a day.
My mentor constantly reminds me to focus on accomplishments not tasks.
Good luck!
Posted 30 Sep 2008 at 10:21 am ¶Lauren, I’ve been working on similar things. I’ve given up looking at FriendFeed totally and started paring down Twitter followings.
If you aren’t already, you should be reading Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders. He’s been writing a lot of about similar issues lately. http://www.43folders.com/
The irony of recommending another thing to read to help you get more done is not lost on me.
Posted 30 Sep 2008 at 11:18 am ¶Lauren, I have been thinking the same. I was totally not myself, when I had to turn in my laptop for repairs and had no internet for two weeks.
Posted 30 Sep 2008 at 3:07 pm ¶And worst of all, new restricted internet policies at work make it impossible for us to use the internet or email accounts for private purposes at work, without risking your job. And hey, I work in media after all! It still makes us really mad, because you are totally cut off until you get home at night and switch on your own laptop, to follow up with your private life. So, just checking mails and readers turns into 1 hour.
Thanks for the comments! I’ll look into Take Back Your Life, and into 43Folders. (I’d been keeping up with the conversation there, but cut the feed a few months back… looks like I’ll add it back to my reader!)
Glad to know that I’m not alone. I look forward to seeing what works for you all, and I’ll post about my Twitter diet after I’ve been on it a while and have noticed a change (one way or the other).
Posted 30 Sep 2008 at 5:37 pm ¶Lauren,
Great post. I’m way behind in my blog reading so missed the survey. But I would say it sounds like you’re on the right track. While we do have a duty to help students in the here and now to be able to use our resources and succeed in their academic career, the simple fact is that without a solid base of theoretical skills like critical evaluation, knowing the practical stuff like the where and how of searching library resources can be rendered useless.
The real challenge as I see it is making the theoretical stuff interesting and relevant, and making sure students have the chance to put those theories to practical use so they can see the real-life value of learning them. This is very hard when not given the benefit of a semester-long course (which I don’t have). As you point out – the time issue is always the one that forces us to sacrifice a lot of theoretical stuff…
Peace,
Posted 04 Oct 2008 at 6:39 pm ¶Dana
I read about a site on John Chow’s blog today called http://www.43marks.com – its like Pageflakes and iGoogle but better cuz you can add you all your bookmarks and the bookmarks can be websites not just gadgets and RSS feeds although you can upload your favorite RSS feeds too. Its free and totally customizable re-arranging categories and bookmarks in anyway you want. I really do like 43marks much better. It’s great for teachers! They give you a unique URL (43MARKS.com/username) where you can upload bookmarks that are of interest to the class your teaching Just give out the URL so the the whole class can see the bookmarks
Posted 18 Oct 2008 at 7:12 am ¶Lauren, what a great post. I tried hard to adapt GTD for my work. Part of the problem is that I like compartmentalizing work and home, at least in email and to-do lists, and GTD seemed better suited to people who melded work and life together, or who worked from home (though this may be a mis-read on my part).
What I did take from GTD was the concept of having a capture. I now carry around a moleskin that I use for my work/life/errands capture. Before I always felt like I was forgetting something. I would go to the store and have no idea what I really needed. Now I organize these jumbled thoughts as soon as I remember them: my notebook has sections for work to do, life to do, stuff to buy, long term dreams/goals (the someday list), and blog ideas. This way, if I think of a home thing at work, I jot it down. If I think of something I need to buy when I’m commuting, I jot it down. I never take the next step of really organizing this stuff, except that when I get to work I transfer any notes into my work system. This is what has worked for me: having it all in one place instead of maintaining multiple lose-able lists. And I have almost completely lost that feeling that I’ve forgotten something. I think my memory has even improved.
About two weeks ago I started using Remember the Milk, integrated into my gmail. It’s fantastic. Before I was committed to a paper to-do list for work, but I really like how I set priorities and due dates in RTM, and then it’s right in front of my face. I find it harder to ignore my most important tasks with RTM.
Posted 25 Nov 2008 at 6:32 am ¶I use some combination of systems. I work on keeping down the number of things I expect to do; I usually base it on the week. What do I need to get done this week? I’ve learned to give myself fewer things than I think I can get done, because so many little things (reference questions) tend to come up unplanned.
Posted 25 Nov 2008 at 10:33 am ¶I just opened Thinking Rock up (GTD software) and created a project called ‘Life’
This is my second look at this software and I realise now that you don’t have to capture every single thought you have, but instead just use it as useful project software, where you can work on projects that you plan to do in the future as well.
Still looking at it but I may use.
Posted 25 Nov 2008 at 11:27 am ¶I too have been rethinking my “system” lately- though I never fully implemented GTD. Like Joan, I was never quite happy with merging my work and personal to-do’s, and never quite got around to the weekly review. I also found I was adding a lot of tasks that just weren’t important to the to do list.
I have been doing the 3 important tasks thing the last two weeks and It’s been helping a LOT. Not only because it forces me to sit down and take stock of what is important at the start of the day, but because I have a focused reason to give people when they wonder why I can’t do their Very Important Task RIGHT AWAY.
Since I’m done with school in December, I’m also planning to do a major overhaul of my filing and organizational systems to get me in gear for a new job, new responsibilities, and new professional development goals.
Posted 26 Nov 2008 at 1:21 pm ¶There’s something in the GTD book about “cleaning the garage, but not today.” The point was that you didn’t have to do everything on your list. I like GTD because it enables me to make sure that the little things — like filling out a vacation form — don’t drop through the cracks. I still haven’t gotten to the point where I feel that I’m making a lot of progress on some old projects, but that’s OK. I know the really important stuff is getting done.
Maybe we should have a productivity/GTD rap session at the library some day. (But don’t feel like I’ve just put another thing on your list!)
Posted 26 Nov 2008 at 5:57 pm ¶Lauren, I marked this post to read later, and finally just did.
This is exactly the conversation we’ve been having at my university regarding our semester-long class. The problem I’m having is that we have a unified curriculum, and while my inclinations are more towards your thinking, that is not necessarily the same for my colleagues. This semester we had students submit written assignments via individual blogs through WordPress. There was a bit of a learning curve early in the semester, but by the end of the semester, it seems they enjoyed it. But my colleagues want to do away with it the blog and have students submit assignments via Blackboard. Our class isn’t about blogging, but I feel they learn so much by having to do their homework via blogs.
I did have some success with this during our session on news sources. We talked about Google News, Lexis Nexis, and Library Press Display. They got the concept that they can use Google News most of the time (and it’s better than a regular Google search), but that Lexis Nexis is where they should go for comprehensive searches or when they aren’t allowed to use the internet for an assignment. Framing it in those terms seemed to help them get it.
A like-minded colleague and I are both teaching a winter session version of our class, one hour a day for about three weeks. It’s a time for us to experiment more with this newer approach. At the end of this semester, I was disappointed to realize our students still couldn’t differentiate between a website, a PDF, and a journal collection online. I like the idea of teaching life-long skills, even at the expense of library resources.
Posted 01 Dec 2008 at 8:01 am ¶Interesting comments! I think a common theme here is that we all take the aspects of different time management systems that are most useful in our own contexts. Joan & Karin, the combined personal/work tasks is something I feel resistance to, too. But I think in my situation it’s better that way (otherwise, I forget all about the personal tasks that have to be done and just focus on the work list). Derik, I’m with you… I am having a hard time understanding just how much is realistic, but I am realizing that it’s a lot less than I thought it was! & Carol, maybe we do need a rap session! I won’t put it on my list now, but I’ll file it away in my staff development folder for the next committee meeting.
Posted 01 Dec 2008 at 11:48 pm ¶Joan! It sounds like we’re having a lot of similar discussions at our respective places of work! I’m interested in how your class goes. With a like-minded colleague you’re sure to be able to do some interesting work! If you want to trade ideas sometime, just let me know!
Dana, I think you’re right… the semester long course makes it much easier to approach some of these topics. With a one-shot library instruction session, you have to make the faculty member happy with what you’re teaching, and they might have different ideas about the research skills they want their students to have. For what it’s worth, I often work in things like RSS by comparing them to the Facebook news feed or talk about alerts using google news alerts for personal names to make journal/database alerts more interesting. The trick (for me) is finding out what’s interesting enough to the students to provide a hook for the research skills and theories.
Posted 01 Dec 2008 at 11:57 pm ¶Great info, Lauren. You are singing my song. I’ll be sure to share my paper when its done.
Posted 03 Dec 2008 at 10:21 pm ¶Whenever this question comes up, I can’t help but think about one of the cousins to the reference desk — namely, the customer service department of a typical business. I can think of nothing more frustrating for me as a consumer than to contact a business with a question that requires thought and judgment only to find a slug on the other end of the transaction who automatically refers me to an inscrutable Web site. Based on such evidence from business, it is likely that many libraries will use the changing nature of the reference desk as a cover for providing less service. Maybe one question to ask is what standards of old-fashioned reference need to be transferred to new technology?
Posted 04 Dec 2008 at 7:40 am ¶We (at the U of Denver) changed our “Reference Desk” name to the Research Help Desk, and students understand that terminology a little bit better. We also changed our service model to just have grad students (LIS for the most part) work at the Research Help Desk, while the reference librarians schedule 30-60 min consultations for the more in-depth questions.
In August of 2008, BCR and RUSA sponsored a conference called the Reference Renaissance. I was not able to attend, but this (and other) PowerPoints might be of interest — Amelia Brunskill, Dickinson College, PA, “The Desk is Gone” — http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance/docs/BrunskillReferenceRenaissanceFinal.ppt
Tootles, Joe
Posted 04 Dec 2008 at 12:40 pm ¶Mary Beth: I can’t wait to see the paper!!
George: Good points. I especially like your last question. I do think a lot of this is institution specific. Laurie left a good point on my Facebook about how her public library has a very busy reference desk (with questions we just don’t get). I agree, the stereotypical customer service, refer to a website, have a horrible experience, is something we don’t want to imitate. But with evidence that a lot of college library users want to help themselves, I think a really well designed library website (with built-in excellent training materials) can help, particularly if the web design process includes usability testing… which I wish more places would do in general.
Joe: I love the terminology change, much more user-centered! I also think that your grad model/consultations is a good one. We use a consultation model in addition to the ref desk hours, and our consultation stats are increasing at an amazing rate. I think we might see this emerge as a practice standard. Thanks for reminding me about the Reference Renaissance. I’ll check out the powerpoint right away!
Posted 05 Dec 2008 at 12:00 am ¶Ditto! I’ve had a Sony eReader for 6 months, and the 4 libraries I belong to are useless for content – I’ve talked to them all about it, and in the “ebook” category they are all choosing to focus on audiobooks in various formats. One is even a member of NCDL, but there’s just not much to choose from there. I read the free ebooks that are mostly in the sci-fi and fantasy genres (those authors seem to understand free content), but will end up using the eReader mostly to read purchased ebooks when I travel, rather than taking 6-8 hardbacks from a library. It’s quite frustrating – I have this *great* tool that I really like and can’t use as much as I’d like to. (I chose the eReader over the Kindle to avoid being tied to Amazon-only content.)
Posted 05 Dec 2008 at 10:58 am ¶I’m in library school at the moment and I was wondering if anyone thinks that the reference desk will use webcams at some point to conduct reference interviews?
We use email and instant messaging so it seems that to use technology at its fullest for a perfect technology-orientated interview we would use webcams.
Thanks! I really enjoyed reading your blog and comments
Posted 05 Dec 2008 at 2:56 pm ¶Emily, good point! Char Booth is doing some interesting work using Skype for reference at Ohio University. I often wonder if it would be useful for our study abroad students.
For what it’s worth, the students I talk to say they don’t call the reference desk from the library because of the noise they would make on the phone. I think that they would have a similar reaction to using video within the library. However, from residence halls, apartments, and other countries, it could be a good fit.
Thanks for your comment!
Posted 08 Dec 2008 at 12:46 am ¶Rachel, I’m glad I’m not alone! You’re right, it does seem like the scifi and fantasy authors are there much faster than the rest. Hopefully it’s like the sciences and the ejournals (that got there so much faster, but paved the way for other disciplines).
Posted 08 Dec 2008 at 12:48 am ¶Good luck with these new projects! I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on the Instructional Tech one. It’s a shame that it’s usually the staff development stuff that goes by the wayside when we get too busy with other things, but obviously, services to patrons have to come first.
Posted 17 Dec 2008 at 9:19 am ¶Lauren: Thanks for the Stanza recommendation! I have downloaded it to my iPhone and it looks promising!
Posted 24 Dec 2008 at 3:29 am ¶I can’t say much about Google Books (haven’t really kept abrest of it lately), but I have mixed feelings about the Life Archive. I just hope they don’t rely on digitization to preserve everything. I mean, Google has some awesome search alagorithms, and lots of money to ensure everything stays well-maintained, but part of me is afraid that they are going to treat the archive as just more stuff to crawl.
Here’s to hoping that they avoid that “evil” thing you talk about. For better or worse they are the public shepherd to a cultural treasure.
Posted 05 Jan 2009 at 4:20 pm ¶Laura, could you come on the next T is for Training and talk about Instructional Design? Every other friday at 2 eastern. Next one on 30th. Love if you could come and talk about id. Thanks.
http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com
Posted 16 Jan 2009 at 5:55 pm ¶Hi Maurice, that would be fun! Looking forward to it! Anything I should plan on ahead of time?
Posted 18 Jan 2009 at 2:13 pm ¶It would be nice if academic libraries could work with their respective campus bookstores to provide textbooks in digital formats that students could “rent” for the semester at a cost that is more reasonable than purchasing the book (which is usually relevant for one semester, anyway).
Posted 22 Jan 2009 at 4:57 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
Posted 29 Jan 2009 at 9:31 am ¶Thanks for your great posts! I wasn’t able to attend MidWinter this year but have enjoyed keeping up vicariously through you and Susan.
Thanks, Mary! I hope we’ll meet up at another conference, soon!
Posted 31 Jan 2009 at 8:15 pm ¶The probably with Twitter as primary conference communicator is for those who don’t attend or follow in real time and for the archive. Blog posts can be found, saved, tagged, commented, etc. Tweets tend to disappear if you don’t see them right away.
I would hope all the twittering would lead to better post-conference thoughtful blog posts, but I’m not sure that’s the case.
Posted 09 Feb 2009 at 10:30 am ¶Thanks for this blog Lauren. I also love GTD! I found Outlook Track-It through it. It’s a small toolbar for outlook that reminds you to followup to emails. easy to use! hope you have some info on that.
Posted 12 Feb 2009 at 2:27 am ¶Not sure if you read Wired, but current issue has good article and some cool apps. It’s a good read: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_10coolapps
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Hi, Kristen:
Thanks for all of the good work you are doing as co-chair of the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group.
I have the pleasure of working on the following. Would you evaluate and consider sharing this information with both LITA Distance Learning Interest Group members and others associated with distance education within your scope (either via list post or other means)? It would be excellent to have a number of research examples/best practices from the LITA membership to include in the issue. Please let me know if you have questions:
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The International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education publishes articles, papers, manuscripts, and book reviews promoting the advancement of teaching with technology at all levels of education encompassing all domains of learning. The primary mission of the IJICTE is to serve as a medium for introducing, collaborating, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating new and innovative contributions to the theory, practice, and research of technology education applicable to K-12 education, higher education, and corporate and proprietary education. Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts of the highest quality not currently under review by another publication.
The IJICTE journal would be pleased to receive original materials concerned with the theoretical underpinnings, successful application, and potential for advancing technology education within formal education, corporate training, higher education, professional development, and proprietary education. The IJICTE publishes contributions from all disciplines of information technology education.
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Sorry, Lauren:
I identified you as Kristen in my message (…one of the colleagues with whom I work in OH)! Please accept my apologies! Thanks for your assistance/interest.
Posted 17 Feb 2009 at 8:10 am ¶Thanks for the link, Brian… I do read Wired (on paper, even!) and immediately downloaded several of the apps. Much of the usefulness is in others using them, too, though, so not all were as useful for this experience. May in the future….
Derik, I am totally with you. I would have expected (1) a better way to get back to older Tweets and (2) more thoughtful/reflective blog posts… however, I know I’m not doing that as much as I like, and I suspect many are in the same boat.
Posted 22 Feb 2009 at 5:21 pm ¶Hi Lauren,
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 12:14 am ¶you have gone so far beyond me with the internet savy stuff, it is not even funny. But, good for you, I have no clue!!!! I hope you are well and you are still happily married, as I am sure you are! I would love to keep in touch, but I really don’t know how, perhaps you do.
Love Always,
Wendy Woolfolk Gast
I just had a personal tipping point yesterday. I was at a library conference and in each conference satchel was a different bestselling paperback donated by a publisher. I looked at mine and instantly thought “well, I like the title, but that’s a bit useless for the plane”. I realised then that Stanza on my iPhone had crept up as my preferred way of reading fiction….
A couple of months ago I would have thought “oh great, just what I want for a long plane trip”.
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 12:22 am ¶Hey Wendy! It’s good to hear from you! I’ve left a note for you in Facebook… we should get together sometime!
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 11:11 am ¶Glad to hear I’m not alone in finding that it’s creeping in like this! I think it’s a good point that different formats might be better for different types of reading. I, too, am mostly reading fiction using Stanza. I wonder at what point I’ll convert to wanting to do most reading that way.
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 11:14 am ¶That is one nice CV. An interesting use of Wordpress.
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 11:28 am ¶Thanks, Derik!
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 11:39 am ¶Hi Lauren
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 2:23 pm ¶I follow you on Twitter and saw your blog post link. I’ve got to put my own CV together, so this is a great template to follow. Do you mind if I copy your idea?
that’s stunning, Lauren! well done. lately I’ve been looking for ways to repurpose one of my domains into more of a lifetream and less of a blog and seeing your awesome CV site has given me all sorts of ideas. nice job
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 3:17 pm ¶You could have a very high density of information on a page that way: feeding in Twitter, Flickr, delicious, etc, etc into small stacked columns.
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 3:30 pm ¶Thanks Chaunacey & Amanda! Of course, Chaunacey… go for it! Amanda & Derik, I love the idea of using a format like that for a lifestream. Very cool, potentially very fun to look at, and more interesting than a static page. Good stuff!
Posted 09 Mar 2009 at 10:47 pm ¶Wow, Lauren, this is great, and very inspiring. Thanks.
Posted 10 Mar 2009 at 5:38 am ¶Hi Lauren,
Interesting questions.. I’m currently thinking about all these questions as I’m coming up for tenure soon myself. While I don’t actively academically blog (and thus I need to think on your question a bit more), a first thought I had was that I expect one place where blogging could be evaluated in the tenure process is in feedback from external references. If those references feel such work is a real contribution to the general public and the community, their comments in their review could act as a quasi-peer review in a sense.
Posted 11 Mar 2009 at 2:14 am ¶Congrats again Lauren. I’m really, really pleased for you!!
Posted 16 Mar 2009 at 5:07 pm ¶Thanks, Peter!
Posted 17 Mar 2009 at 9:58 pm ¶Thanks for your comments! It’s a good point you make about external references. It’s interesting, because one could request letters from people they know who read the blog, could post a request for anyone with an opinion to send something to the committee, or the committee could ask someone in the field to take a look and make a recommendation (in order to get a non-reader to review it). I wonder if any institutions are taking an approach like this. Good food for thought! Thanks!
Posted 17 Mar 2009 at 10:17 pm ¶author must start a second blog, it’s great!
Posted 18 Mar 2009 at 5:47 pm ¶Thanks, Lauren, and congrats!
Posted 20 Mar 2009 at 11:47 am ¶Thanks, Lauren. I’m glad you like Connect so far. We’re pretty excited about it ourselves, and we’re eager to get feedback and see how folks use the site.
Posted 20 Mar 2009 at 5:19 pm ¶Lauren, I love the idea of two tracks for the Cyber Zed shed–because the most relevant technologies for our libraries may not be the cutting edge.
While I suspect ACRL couldn’t do this, as it would compete too much with ALA, I would love to see an annual ACRL so I could bypass ALA entirely. I can’t go to two-three conferences a year, and ACRL would be my top choice every year it was available.
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 3:10 am ¶I’m giving ALA Connect a try. Since I’m overseas, I’m always looking for good ways to connect with other librarians, especially those whom I know but not necessarily well enough to friend on Facebook, and those who aren’t already on Twitter.
I’m not sure who is in the database though–is it current ALA members? I searched for a few folks, and I found two out of eight. I also stumbled over deciding how to label people–and how this will matter eventually. There are several people I think of as friends who are also former colleagues or classmates.
I was surprised not to find any groups connected to instruction, nor to individual LS programs.
I guess these things will evolve with time, but right now it has so few people that it’d be great to see an early adopters group, just to get things going.
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 7:49 am ¶Great point about the tags. It was something I took for granted but you are right; it really does help bring content together. As you know, I loved the focus group too and think it has a lot of value (especially because we connected there!) As I said there, and in my own post on the this topic, I’d love to see more opportunities to discuss ideas, technologies, challenges, etc. Let’s use conferences as a way to not just share but discuss our own successes!
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 12:08 pm ¶Congratulations Lauren!
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 8:48 pm ¶Thanks Rachel and Lori!!
Posted 24 Mar 2009 at 11:50 pm ¶Hi Joan… I’m glad you’ll give it a try… add me as a friend!
I think you’re right…. it’s still in the early days. We should look into how to create groups… it would be nice to pull together the early adopters in some way!
Posted 24 Mar 2009 at 11:50 pm ¶Thanks for your comments Joan & Sarah! Joan: you hit upon something I think a lot about lately… it’s impossible to attend all the interesting looking conferences out there. I would love to attend LITA and ACRL in addition to ALAs… not to mention Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, and LOEX. However, since I serve on ALA committees, I mostly go to those. I would love to attend conferences where I could bring back lots of ideas, but instead I spend most of my conference time and budget in meetings.
Sarah, I’m with you, too. I would love to see more opportunities to discuss. I (personally) mostly see that type of opportunity online at this point. How would you envision it looking at a large conference?
Posted 24 Mar 2009 at 11:53 pm ¶Lauren, this is terrific. So glad you are taking a lead on this, because now I can just watch and learn. This SMS reference service might be do-able now for us. Bless you! Betty
Posted 25 Mar 2009 at 8:29 am ¶Thanks, Betty! I’ll be sure to let you know when I find a good solution & Google Voice is available publicly!
Posted 30 Mar 2009 at 12:03 pm ¶Hi Lauren!
Thanks for blogging about CIT, the sessions you attended sounded really interesting. I’m especially interested in playing around with FeedWordPress, what a neat tool!
You’ve convinced me that I should go next year. I work at UNC HSL so I’m pretty much a stone’s throw away from Duke.
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 9:57 am ¶Thanks for reading, Lisa! I’m glad it was interesting… maybe we’ll cross paths next year.
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 10:29 am ¶Thanks for bringing up FERPA – I was unclear how student’s educational records are protected on public sites/tools, too. I’ll see what I can find out and would like to hear more on your concerns.
Posted 28 Apr 2009 at 12:10 pm ¶Establishing a blog is way easier than maintaining one. Be sure you have the passion of keeping up with updates and have the focus of maintaining your own topic.
But teaching through blogging is a very good channel if properly structured.
Posted 03 May 2009 at 3:06 am ¶It is nice to note that your interest revolves around teaching computers to the beginners. Teaching is always great fun and very satisfying thing to do. And of all the subjects, you have chosen computers which is very apt at this point of time.
Posted 05 May 2009 at 6:12 am ¶What is Thinking Rock? I feel like I’ve heard of that. It’s for GTD? and Bacarli, I use Outlook Track-It for my ebay business. It’s a great little toolbar for Outlook. The followup reminders are great.
Posted 05 May 2009 at 12:21 pm ¶Even though I’m not a parent, while reading Outliers I couldn’t help thinking how it validates the odd child, the one who is curious and thoughtful, maybe doesn’t quite fit in – those are the ones that grow up to be Bill Gates! I have a niece that fits that description. She may end up curing cancer
Posted 13 May 2009 at 9:06 am ¶Outliers blew my mind as well. I find myself STILL thinking about it. And he makes a great case; working hard, plus talent, plus OPPORTUNITY makes for a meteoric career rise.
Posted 13 May 2009 at 1:00 pm ¶It’s somewhat rare for students to enjoy their jobs in college. I know my first internship in college showed me that I didn’t want to work in that industry.
Sometimes just working at the school cafeteria can be the perfect fit for a student. It beats filing papers all day in a cubicle, and you usually get some free food!
Posted 14 May 2009 at 8:13 pm ¶Congrats Lauren! Just placed my order- looking forward to the read
Posted 01 Jul 2009 at 7:37 am ¶Congratulations, Lauren!
Posted 01 Jul 2009 at 9:14 am ¶Congratulations!! I’m definitely going to get a copy!
Posted 01 Jul 2009 at 11:50 am ¶Congratulations!
Posted 01 Jul 2009 at 1:22 pm ¶Congrats!
Posted 01 Jul 2009 at 1:50 pm ¶Congrats! Now that this is done we can start working on our project
Posted 01 Jul 2009 at 2:57 pm ¶Thanks everyone! You guys are great!
Posted 01 Jul 2009 at 11:03 pm ¶Congrats Lauren. What a great accomplishment! Can’t wait to read it.
Posted 02 Jul 2009 at 6:56 pm ¶I hope this doesn’t sound too stalkerish or weird, since I found this blog entry from a google search on brightkite and how it could know my location from my phone, but …
I’m a Raleigh-ite too! It made me smile to see someone else from my neck of the woods who wrote such a good and convincing blog entry.
I hope you don’t mind if I read your link on what twitter can do.
Posted 02 Jul 2009 at 11:41 pm ¶Thanks! I tend not to post on blogs but I had to give you the thumbs up, keep up the good work!
Posted 05 Jul 2009 at 2:41 pm ¶Congrats!
Posted 07 Jul 2009 at 5:59 pm ¶Twitter is more fun than ever since most I follow are at ALA. Thanks for sharing tweets and pics. Will be at the exhibits on Monday.
Posted 12 Jul 2009 at 9:21 am ¶ALA, ACRL, AASL are great resources for Libraians!!!
Posted 16 Jul 2009 at 8:57 am ¶Does everyone at your library report back after conferences via blog post? What a great idea.
Posted 16 Jul 2009 at 7:57 pm ¶It was great to finally meet you F2F!
Posted 17 Jul 2009 at 10:18 am ¶I am ordering your book tonight! Recently, I have become very interested in moving away from English (I finished my MA in May) and moving in the direction of Library Science. Considering going for an MLS right now and I hope your book will be helpful. Thanks.
Posted 28 Jul 2009 at 1:22 pm ¶Thank you for all your kind words, everybody! William, let me know if you want to chat libraries sometime!
Posted 03 Aug 2009 at 10:26 pm ¶Bobbie, It was great to meet you IRL, too!
Michele, yes we do! When we get any funding for professional development we report back via a staff presentation, blog post, etc. The blog posts are the most popular option though, and over the years they’ve gotten much more detailed and even more useful. I highly recommend it!
Posted 03 Aug 2009 at 11:06 pm ¶That was so cool. Thanks for making us aware of it.
Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 8:10 pm ¶Lauren after I finish your book I am sure I will have plenty of questions for you. I will let you know then.
Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 4:55 pm ¶My turn to catch up after being away, so I just came across this post.
Lauren, your compliment made my day — thanks for watching the video and for sharing it.
Posted 07 Aug 2009 at 12:32 pm ¶I really like these, I think I can find a use for something similar in my ENG courses when we get to discussing research.
Posted 09 Sep 2009 at 9:17 pm ¶These are fantastic, and so are all the assignments on the blog. You are an inspiration!
Posted 23 Sep 2009 at 5:57 pm ¶Thank you for doing this, Lauren! This is the closest thing to getting a transcript of the talk. Mucho gracias.
Posted 03 Oct 2009 at 12:49 pm ¶Thanks for the notes, Lauren.
Posted 03 Oct 2009 at 1:34 pm ¶Thank you for breaking this down and for pointing us to the report Lauren. This is important!
Posted 03 Oct 2009 at 8:58 pm ¶Here is my response:
http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=1722
Posted 04 Oct 2009 at 8:51 am ¶Hi, saw the mention of the Merck Manuals in your post. Just wanted to let you know that today we launched new Merck Manual Home Edition and Professional Edition iPhone apps:
http://agilepartners.com/apps/merckmanuals
Here’s Merck’s press release:
Posted 08 Oct 2009 at 1:48 pm ¶http://www.merck.com/newsroom/press_releases/corporate/2009_1008.html
That video is just way too long…
Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 12:39 pm ¶Thanks so much for coming Lauren! It was a great presentation, lot’s of food for thought!
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Thanks, Beki! I really had fun!!
Posted 10 Nov 2009 at 3:05 pm ¶Congratulations, Lauren! That’s wonderful news. All the best to you and your growing family.
Posted 13 Nov 2009 at 12:56 pm ¶Congratulations! I had the same thing in the first trimester — the only things I could stomach eating were crackers and potatoes. I didn’t even like sweets, which is bizarre for me. Later on, I became ravenous. Good luck on staying vegan — I’ve never been a big meat eater, but I wanted it all the time when I was pregnant. I ate a hamburger for the first time in about 15 years and couldn’t get enough of them. But you never know what your cravings will be for — could be hummus or bean burritos or something! Your body will tell you what it needs to keep that baby happy and healthy.
Good luck to you and your husband. It’s been without a doubt the most stressful experience of my life and it turns everything in your world upside down, but it’s so worth it. Babies are amazing and it’s so much fun to watch them grow and develop a personality and new skills every day.
Posted 13 Nov 2009 at 1:13 pm ¶Love it. Congratulations!
Posted 13 Nov 2009 at 3:03 pm ¶Hey, congratulations!
Posted 13 Nov 2009 at 3:21 pm ¶Congratulations!!! It’s a wonderful and life-changing event.
Posted 13 Nov 2009 at 9:17 pm ¶Congrats!!! I’m so very happy for you! Sorry your first 3 months were rough but glad you see light at the end of the first trimester tunnel. I fell off the vegan wagon after a bit when I became really adverse to soy and then diabetic in the last few months…
Let me know when/if you are in the Triangle area. I’d love to get together!
Posted 14 Nov 2009 at 1:26 am ¶Take care and happy pregnancy!
Thanks Megan, Meredith, Sarah, Paul, Samantha, and Brandi!
Meredith, I’m sorry your first wasn’t too fun either, but it’s nice to know I was in good company. And eating is even more fun than before now.
I’m watching for cravings. So far nothing animalish, but I’m certainly not going to be fanatical about it if I do start feeling that way. If I have to, I hope to crave eggs or something, though. 
Brandi, oh my, it sounds like some crazy food issues for the last few months! I keep wondering if I’m going to develop something just because I’m eating more food than normal lately, which also means more soy. We’ll see…. I actually am going to be going to the Triangle a bunch over the next few months. I’ll Facebook you to see if any of the times would make sense. It’d be fun to get together!
Posted 14 Nov 2009 at 9:35 am ¶Congratulations, Lauren!! Fantastic news! How exciting for both of you!!! Wishing you all the best for a smooth pregnancy!
Posted 14 Nov 2009 at 11:25 am ¶Congrats! Welcome to the library mom club. I seriously want to start a library moms blog. I hope the ms gets better. Feel free to contact me for tips, support, etc. I still have it 2 years later.
I’m so happy for you! P.S. I have tons of baby stuff if you ever make it to Charlotte.
Posted 18 Nov 2009 at 8:59 am ¶Thanks so much, Mary and Lori!
& Lori, I’ll let you know if I make it to Charlotte sometime soon.
I’m sorry to hear about the ms lasting so long…. I’m not exactly myself yet, but I expected that at this phase… it never occurred to me that it might go on for so long. You might be onto something with the library moms blog idea… 
Posted 23 Nov 2009 at 9:15 am ¶Congrats x 2 for the upcoming baby and for staying vegan!
Posted 28 Nov 2009 at 12:53 pm ¶Thanks, William!
Posted 29 Nov 2009 at 8:04 pm ¶Wonderful news! I am so glad you survived the first semester. I thought that three months were the worst, the barfing and the tiredness and the secrecy. By then end, when you were feeling better, people were nice to you and helped you with things like doors, but you really needed the help more at the beginning.
Good luck! All of your readers are cheering for all three of you…!
Posted 30 Nov 2009 at 4:39 pm ¶Thanks, Suzanne! That’s exactly the weird thing about the first trimester! You put it much more succinctly.
Posted 30 Nov 2009 at 6:40 pm ¶Congratulations Lauren! I’m so happy for you. I’m glad you survived your first trimester, I hope its smooth sailing from here on out.
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Posted 13 Dec 2009 at 7:37 pm ¶Lauren,
See this few links from my Diigo library re: Digital Humanities. It’s an area I’m pretty passionate about and plan on exploring when I enter library school next year. Peace.
James
http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=my&what=digitalhumanities
Posted 13 Dec 2009 at 8:54 pm ¶RT @james3neal: Insightful @laurenpressley – “foundational” Digital Humanities texts & digital scholarship in general – http://bit.ly/5Pdhl0
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Posted 13 Dec 2009 at 9:00 pm ¶Links to introductory readings on “digital history” and “digital humanities” http://bit.ly/4UFFOD courtesy of @laurenpressley
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 at 2:45 pm ¶RT @gordonbelt: Links to introductory readings on “digital history” and “digital humanities” http://bit.ly/4UFFOD courtesy @laurenpressley
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 at 4:15 pm ¶Feeling like learning something new… http://bit.ly/4zHDmb #postrank #library
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 at 9:42 pm ¶RT @pr_library: Feeling like learning something new… http://bit.ly/4zHDmb #library
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 at 12:11 pm ¶I can’t wait to see what you work on as you enter library school!
Posted 23 Dec 2009 at 1:52 pm ¶RT @james3neal: Thank you @laurenpressley for the “scoop” on LITA Top Tech Trends panel at ALA Midwinter 2010 – http://j.mp/5mEKXD #alamw10
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Posted 06 Jan 2010 at 2:59 pm ¶Too much East Coast / South East bias on that panel
Re: tech trends, don’t sleep on voice-searching!!!!
Posted 06 Jan 2010 at 5:02 pm ¶Congrats! Looks like an interesting panel. Is it 100% first-timers?
Posted 06 Jan 2010 at 5:20 pm ¶Bravo, you! I hope to be there to cheer you on!
– Karen, TTT Emerita
Posted 06 Jan 2010 at 5:38 pm ¶Thanks all!
But Brian, there are just two from the South East, and one from the North East… I actually thought it was pretty good distribution.
And you watch, I have a blog post brewing on voice-searching!!
Brett, indeed it is. I think they were interested in seeing what perspectives a new group would bring. Should be interesting!
Karen, it would be good to see you! I always enjoyed your perspectives at the TTTs I’ve attended!
Posted 06 Jan 2010 at 6:23 pm ¶just blogged: amplifying scholarly communication http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/01/amplifying-scholarly-communication/
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Posted 06 Jan 2010 at 7:02 pm ¶Lauren,
If you haven’t already, you might want to check out the MLA’s wiki on evaluating digital scholarship: http://wiki.mla.org/index.php/Evaluation_Wiki
I found the page on Documenting a New Media Case especially helpful as I consider my own new media endeavors in light of self-evaluation and promotion.
Posted 07 Jan 2010 at 1:06 pm ¶Thanks KG! That is awesome!
Posted 07 Jan 2010 at 9:55 pm ¶New blog post: My Library Roots and Routes http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/01/my-library-roots/
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Posted 08 Jan 2010 at 8:00 am ¶Thx! @james3neal Nice to see @laurenpressley’s contribution to the Library Routes project “My Library Roots and Routes” http://j.mp/7JV1bO
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Posted 08 Jan 2010 at 8:59 am ¶Your class sounds great! I agree, it'd be extremely useful for all SLIS students to have a background in these elements. Not only do they have an impact on our users' information context, but they're excellent ways for us to learn more about our own profession!
Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 7:36 pm ¶Thanks for the comment, Travis! I'm going to look into the Hardt/Talking with Talis podcast (as well as all things Identity 2.0). I look forward to checking out your blog for thoughts on Identity 2.0, too.
Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 7:36 pm ¶Thanks, Lauren! Let me know how I can do better…
Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 7:36 pm ¶Lauren-
I also heard and enjoyed the Basbanes talk. I remember when his earlier book- A Gentle Madness-was published, my supervisor at the time felt the book was dangerous!
Imagine that! Gentle Madness mentioned several norious library thieves-and that nfo out there might be bad for library security or something..not sure.
anyway- great site!
Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 7:36 pm ¶Thanks for doing this. We were told it was going to be a txt chat and sort of were not ready to blab on about this topic. Looks like you captured it all very well– and fast!
Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 7:37 pm ¶Did you find anyone that blogged “Leadership for Learning”?
Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 7:37 pm ¶I've collected more Camp Darfur photos from our real world camps and the Second Life camp here; we also published 3000 of the real Camp Darfur Comix as a way to educate kids on what's happening in Darfur today. Thanks for blogging and sharing this project with others.
Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 7:37 pm ¶RT @laurenpressley: New blog post: Talking to Computers http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/01/talking-to-computers/
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Posted 11 Jan 2010 at 9:43 pm ¶You forgot the Nexus One, which has added the feature that’s soon to come to all Android devices: Universal Text recognition. Any text field at all can be voiced, anywhere on the phone, built into the OS. And thanks to a two-mic noise cancellation system, it works even in noisy environments. Take a look at the Nexus One video I shot at CES for an example: http://bit.ly/perpetualbeta
Posted 11 Jan 2010 at 10:55 pm ¶Bah, and how could I have forgotten!! That is totally awesome, and clearly where it’s going. I actually remember being a little disappointed with the iPhone because that’s what I *expected* the voice control to do.
Thx for the video… going to check it out now!
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Posted 12 Jan 2010 at 11:51 am ¶New blog post: Midwinter Meeting: Distance Learning Interest Group http://bit.ly/7v9HHZ
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