A Wandering Eyre

Today, I saw Dr. Wesch’s new offering about students in a couple different places. I have to say that the man is a genius. This should be required watching for anyone who teaches. It is funny because watching the video made me think of all the lecture halls I sat in while attending college. I [...]

The Future is Not Out of Reach: Change, Library 2.0, and Emerging Trends Change affects each of us in different ways. Sometimes libraries change like turtles. We are the lucky ones. LITA, the techno geeks. Social networking has been taking off in the last 2 years. Our patrons are using things like YouTube, but not [...]

Today started a string of travel for me. I am in Denver until Sunday to attend LITA Forum. I will be giving two talks: David and Goliath take on Social Tools and Learning 2.0 on a Dime. Monday, I leave Denver for Virginia Beach to talk to the public library there about Web 2.0 and [...]

I am a bit behind on my reading for an assortment of reasons, but I just read a post today from The Other Librarian, Ryan Deschamps, entitled We Asked for 2.0 Libraries and We Got 2.0 Librarians. It is a good post, about what Library 2.0 is and why it is still important. However, when [...]

I am working on a big project for some school librarians. It is a learning program, like Five Weeks, that will go through a set of Web 2.0 tools and concepts. I want to, as much as possible, use school library examples in the program. I have a few, but I would love some more. [...]

The La Crosse Public Library, in the Twin Cities area, has a job opening that will make you drool. Not only would you get to have this fun and exciting job, you would also get to work with the very fabulous Rochelle Hartman. –Jane, thinking of all the Prairie Home Companion she could attend

In less than twenty-four hours, geeks from all over the region will descend upon Houston to learn and share all the great stuff they know about technology. All the cool kids will be at BarCamp. Do you want to join us? It is not too late. Just come willing to share tomorrow at 9am at [...]

A thoughtful “column” from The Eclectic Librarian who was actually at the NASIG presentation I discussed in my previous post. Today has been bursting with interwebs hilarity. I was only sorry to be away for most of the middle part of the day and miss some of the fun. –Jane, still smilin’

Either way, you look like an ass hat. On Being a Hypocrite Two things recently popped up that make my want to wash my hands of the constant hand wringing and “I am better then the common man” librarianship that seems to be the common backlash against innovation and free thought. One involves me personally. [...]

sscathai Originally uploaded by griffey Jason and Karen have already posted their thoughts on why we, BIGWIG leadership, chose to plan a program for ALA Annual outside of the normal operating procedure. It all started over pizza and beer the last night of ALA Midwinter. Program planning that requires a topic set a year in [...]