Inside ZSR
Trust, the Glue of Effective Libraries Community and Junior College Libraries Crystal Baird (Associate Dean, Library and Planning Services, Davidson County Community College) I’m attending this session because a lot of Library 2.0 is about trust: libraries trusting their users (to leave comments in the catalog, to tag, to write on a graffiti wall, etc)... more ›
Using Technology to Enhance Instruction College and University Section – Bibliographic Instruction Group Angela Whitehurst (ECU), Lisa Williams (UNC-W), and Angela Bardeen (UNC-Ch) Angela Bardeen on Facebook Discussed “Friends Wheel” where you can see the physical network of your friends Letting students advertise for you Shows you who is in what group, can contact president... more ›
Yesterday I went to the “Yes, You Can Be a Leader!” program. The program was designed to share information about the NCLA Leadership Institute. The presentation was really short. The idea for the program was to create an environment for past participants to meet potential participants and tell them about their experience. I had a... more ›
How Do We Get From Here to There: Coping with Future Changes in Technology and Service Delivery NC Public Library Trustee Association Rob McGee, RMG Consultants, Inc. Three important questions What are some new technologies for libraries? What new technologies should my library implement? Should my library partner with other libraries to share new technologies?... more ›
Heather and I are sitting in the main conference room of the Hickory Convention Center, getting ready to listen to the kick-off session. Here are my notes: First time since 1953 to meet west of US-77! Theme: “Telling our story” Several awards, names, involved people, were named. North Carolina Poet Laureate Katherine Stripling Byer Read... more ›
I’m really not going to go into super detail for this session since we talk about a lot of these technologies at Wake all the time. If you want more details, feel free to contact me. I’d be happy to chat about the presentation! Now, onto live blogging: Covered blogs, RSS, podcasting, wikis, flickr, social... more ›
More live blogging… MPS Technologies provides electronic resources in the publishing market. Librarians said they wanted a portal with all stats in one place, that’s self-generating. This is Scholarly Stats. First thing they did in development was to send out an email to a list in the US and UK asking folks to help develop... more ›
This is a vendor demo of the Ares Automating Reserves system (Same folks who bring us Illiad). Works with LDAP. Instructor Side Can post system alerts as well as custom user alerts on front page. Pages are in HTML, so it’s customizable. Same (or similar) Illiad style sheets can be applied to this. Instructors can:... more ›
Live blogging again. As you might imagine, I’m particularly interested in this as a recent MLIS grad… The Future of Library Education José-Marie Griffiths, Dean of SILS at UNC-Ch Future is bright due to explosion in information availability and technology. Discussed that online does not replace physical use of information, in fact, most use both... more ›
I’m live blogging this event, and jotting down the interesting notes (from my perspective) here: Cal Shepard gave a SOLINET update. She talked about the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, probably my all-time favorite reference source. (I say that not just because of topic, but also authority and guiding principles.) SOLINET had matching grants for libraries... more ›