Just heard Patrick Danowski, a young librarians from the State Library of Berlin, give an enthusaistic talk at IFLA. He is a Library 2.0 evangelist and talked about using Web 2.0 principles in libraries — being interactive and allowing for user contributions and feedback. He has been involved with the German Wikipedia. He talked about [...]
South African storyteller Gcina Mhlope, also known as the Mother of Books, moderated the opening ceremonies at the World Library & Information Congress. The hit of the morning was Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court of South Africa who lost an arm and an eye in a bomb attack while he was in exile [...]
Isn’t interesting how things come together? Here I am in Cape Town in winter (more like the fall weather in Toronto) at the IFLA preconference workshop for Library and Research Services for Parliaments in the parliament building of South Africa. In late May I was at the CLA conference in Newfoundland (which really felt like [...]
We always knew it, but now the research confirms it: people spend half their time on the web viewing “content” – videos, news, “stuff” (as I so articulately call it….”text” seems rather presumptuous). Interesting implications for libraries……the clients are there, ready to view, watch and read…..do they know that the library is there with “stuff” [...]