Chad Mairn and Brian Pichman shared their incredible expertise in Extended Reality. We’re grateful they were willing to be part of our introductory pilot of Nexter Chats. Watch the chat…
Cybersecurity: 10 Apps to Protect you Working Remotely
SLA Canada’s first Chat is here for your viewing – and your protection. Cybersecurity is always essential and more so now, working remotely. Brian Pichman, Director of Strategic Innovation @…
Best Covid-19 Resources: Curated
Nothing makes librarians happier than being able to quickly and confidently turn to a reliable list of sources on a topic. Right now that topic is Covid-19. Communities, students, faculty…
Talk About Using VR & AR Now
Talk with Chad Mairn (St. Petersburg College, Innovation Lab Manager & Instructor) and Brian Pichman (Evolve Project) about using virtual and augmented reality technologies to deliver library services, teach courses…
Work Virtually: 9 to do’s
Working virtually is all about connections. Jane and I have been working virtually since 1992. At Imperial Oil Ltd/Exxon virtual work had already became the norm in Canada in 1988…
Game changers! 3 Ways for Everyone to Win
With public, academic, corporate and other work spaces closed, librarians and information professionals can create the engagement environments that we have as yet only imagined. More than ever we need…
LLEAD2021: leaders for complex times
Privacy: 3 Critical Tools
Next week at Internet Librarian 2019, Gary Price (Infodocket), Susan Schramm (GoToMarketingImpact.com) and Lilian Pintos (Web Services, Vancouver Public Library) look at privacy and libraries. In the same way that…
Post-Secondary Ed’s Coming Crisis
Dr. Tony Bates, Research Associate with Contact North/Contact Nord has posted a 3-part series, “The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education“. This is must-reading for anyone in Canada’s libraries. Not…
Did You Know 2019
The latest update that I can find of this 6 minute video. It’s a quick way to see the technological and demographic developments. And it’s a good way to consider…