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Rebecca Jones posted this in Featured, Lib, IM, KM on March 9th, 2011 McMaster University in Hamilton is hosting Library Journal’s Future of The Academic Library, sponsored by Gale/Cengage and Ingram Coutts. This free, yes FREE symposium features some of the foremost thought-leaders in academic libraries: Mike Ridley, CIO & Chief Librarian University of Guelph, Arnold Hirshon, Asst Provost & University Librarian Case Western Reserve University, James Neal, VP Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University David Lewis, Dean of the IUPUI University Library, Michael Stephens (he’s practically an ICON!) and others, including Joan Lippincott, CNI’s Associate Executive Director talking about student behaviours, and Kate Wittenberg and Roger Schonfeld discussing the all-important Ithaka Report. Plus there are researchers discussing “new models of research” which is critical for libraries to understand. I registered immediately and “shared” this incredible event on Facebook. And what did I hear? Admittedly, I heard from a few people that they were registering and looking forward to this opportunity to hear from and discuss these issues with these individuals. But I also heard complaints that there were too few females as well as too few staff from McMaster speaking.
I fully acknowledge that my tendency is to see the glass half-full. In fact, my tendency is to be happy that there IS a glass — that there IS water — and that there are people paying attention to the glass and the water. So, even at my ripe age, I’m continually blind-sided when people point out the issues with the glass even being there. I appreciate it when people point out risks
Continue reading McMaster’s Future of the Academic Library Symposium: I’m looking for quality not gender
Rebecca Jones posted this in Featured, Tech & Tools on February 7th, 2011 Lora Baiocco, Online Services and Archives librarian at the Westmount Public Library in Westmount, Quebec talked with me at OLA 2011 Superconference about our common interest in getting some of our professional colleagues to recognize that “critical thinking” isn’t about “being critical” — it’s about seeing possibilities, recognizing our built-in biases, replacing “but” with “and”, AND, as Lora told me — just saying YES, through a technique she learned from Bugs Bunny. Talk about “seeing possibilities” — that was Bugs, right?
Ok, so Lora didn’t learn the technique from Bugs; she learned it from his creator, Chuck Jones, in his autobiography, Chuck Amuck
Thanks, Lora, for letting me re-post your insights & instructions (we all need instructions to apply the insights, at least the first time round!)
Creating Bugs….
…Because this was not a brainstorming session in the usual sense, it was a “yes” session, not an “anything goes” session. Anything went, but only if it was positive, supportive, and affirmative to the premise. No negatives were allowed…. The “yes” session imposes only one discipline: the abolition of the word “no”. …if you find you cannot contribute, then silence is proper, but it is surprising how meaty a little old stringy “yes” (which is another name for a premise) can become in as little as fifteen or twenty minutes, when everyone present unreservedly commits his immediate impulsive and positive response to it…A good premise always generates the most astonishing results. Jones, Chuck. Chuck Amuck: The life and times of an
Continue reading Just Say “Yes”: Thx Lora Baiocco!
Rebecca Jones posted this in Featured on December 22nd, 2010
Rebecca Jones posted this in Change & Innovation, Featured on November 4th, 2010
Jane Dysart posted this in Conferences, Featured on October 25th, 2010 Pat Martin of Litlamp Communications and author of Renaissance Generation: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer & What it Means to Your Business was a lively opening keynote speaker for Internet Librarian 2010 this morning. She talked about the renaissance generation, which reflects a rebirth, regeneration, creativity, innovation but also requires the shedding of some things. She suggested three ways for libraries (or any organization I would say) to create value for their community, and not be shed in the new renaissance generation:
* Put the user at the center
* Let the user collaborate on the user experience in your organization
* Curate the human interface
Other suggestions included getting out of the library building and becoming community managers and hubs of information. Libraries can do this very well as they are respected and credible for giving neutral information. The Edmonton Public Library hired 11 community managers last year who are doing wonderful things in their community.
I loved Pat’s comment that “the story is the new killer app” — what a great message for libraries. See her presentation here, but fast forward through the part where I pretend to be Tom Hogan Senior! Watch for an interview with Patricia Martin coming soon from the Shanachies on TWIL, This Week in Libraries.
Jane Dysart posted this in Featured, Leadership on October 25th, 2010 See James Carville and hear his comments about libraries and suggestions for getting the message across to those who finance libraries. What a great advocate for libraries!
Continue reading James Carville on Libraries & Library Closings
Rebecca Jones posted this in Change & Innovation, Featured on October 20th, 2010
Now for sale in a few select stores, including the Library of Congress Gift Store is “The Little Librarian” kit. A finalist in the Disney Family Fun Magazine Contest, this kit was developed by a mother and daughter — and comes complete with ideas for kids to “play library”, including turning your car into a book mobile, or hosting story time. What a hoot!
Why didn’t those in libraries think of this? Sigh….. this is innovation and play at work!
I am very excited about the upcoming Internet Librarian 2010 in Monterey CA next month. This post looks at the first events of the conference — Saturday morning’s free Library Camp Monterey, Saturday afternoon and Sunday workshops, Sunday evening networking and welcome party — Games & Gadgets Petting Zoo, and Monday’s main conference kick off! There will be more posts more posts here and at the conference blog about specific session themes and speakers, our Tuesday night session, Rip Van Winkles’s Libraries in 2510 (and if you haven’t entered the video/podcast contest, please do), and our first virtual conference, Mobile Monday Online.
Continue reading Adding Value @ Internet Librarian 2010, Oct 25-7
Rebecca Jones posted this in Conferences, Featured on August 27th, 2010 Information Today has redesigned its Taxonomy Boot Camp site, and networked with LinkedIn. This boutique conference holds its own in this economy as it brings together those working on taxonomies, metadata, repositories and any way to harness and organize information. They come from libraries, corporate environments, government departments and professional services to gather in Washington, DC this year November 15-16 —- cleverly co-located with KMWorld, Enterprise Search Summit and SharePoint Symposium.
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