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June 23, 2006

NJLA Podcast Updated!

The NJLA podcast has some new entries - we recorded some of NJLA's new leaders at the New Leadership Orientation on June 20, 2006, at the Mt. Laurel Public Library.

Subscribe by right-clicking here (or on the "podcast | rss" link on the right) and copying/pasting the address into your podcatcher software. Your subscription will include the NJLA Conference podcasts, just in case you haven't heard them yet! Learn more about subscribing to the podcast.

If you are already a subscriber, your podcatcher should not attempt to download files you already have.

Posted by Jessica Adler at 11:46 AM | Comments (0)
Category: Technology

Balloon Festival Contest

The Read to Fly Challenge is a contest sponsored by NJEA, Saturn/UAW, Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, New Jersey Library Association, and New Jersey State Library. It is open to New Jersey students enrolled in grades K-12 who must read 7 library books in order to be eligible to win a flight on a hot-air balloon at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning. Librarians may distribute the entry form, which has more information and contest rules, to summer readers. Entries must be postmarked by July 9th, 2006.

Posted by Ranjna Das at 10:45 AM | Comments (0)
Category: Children's Services

June 15, 2006

Request for John Iliff Memorial Podcasts

Request for John Iliff Memorial Podcasts

My friend, fellow-blogger, and fellow NJLA IT Section Member-At-Large, Tyler, The Rock and Roll Librarian, has the following posted on his blog:

I received a very nice email from Karen Iliff today, widow of John Iliff. She thanked me for the efforts in trying to create a memorial podcast in her husband's name. She also asked if there was a way to put these on CD as a keepsake.

I would like to give everyone one last chance to visit the Iliff Podcast Memorial and leave a message before I burn the CD. I think it would be an incredible gift to provide Karen. The number is 206-339-7322.

I can admit that leaving a message felt a little weird because I felt like I had to say the right thing. Please, don't worry about it, it really doesn't matter. The point is to just take a moment and relive a fond memory with John. Remember, no matter how it sounds, John would be the first one to smile simply for the fact that you made a podcast!

For information on John, please see here.

Thank you.

Posted by at 5:53 PM | Comments (0)
Category: Technology

June 14, 2006

2007 Ballots: Garden State Book Awards

School and public librarians can download ballots for the Garden State Children's Book Award (GSBA) and the Garden State Teen Book Awards (GSTBA) from the NJLA site.

Each year the Children's Services Section nominates titles on the basis of literary merit and popularity with readers. The GSBA has nominations for Easy-to-read book, Easy-to-read series book, Children's fiction and Children's nonfiction. The GSTBA has nominations for Fiction (Grades 6-8), Fiction (Grades 9-12) and Nonfiction (Grades 6-12).

Deadlines and voting instructions can be found on each ballot.

Posted by Ranjna Das at 12:59 PM | Comments (0)
Category: Children's Services

June 9, 2006

Social Software and Libraries: June 2, 2006

N.B.: This is a guest entry by Marc Meola, whose e-mail address is: meolam [AT] tcnj [DOT] edu.

Edward Corrado (TCNJ) and Jim Robertson (NJIT) provided a useful
overview of some new technologies often referred to as social software or Library 2.0 at a program sponsored by the Technology Committee of the NJLA College and University Section/ ACRL-New Jersey Chapter on June 2.

Social Software is software that supports group interaction, such as
instant messaging, RSS, blogs, wikis, folksonomies, podcasting, photo sharing, and social bookmarking.

Some features that social software have in common are: they are
collaborative and leverage the widsom of crowds; there's a low barrie
to use and adoption; they are open and can be expanded linked or
"mashed"; they foster community; they're fun.

While some of the new software can be frivolous, some creative
librarians have come up with some interesting and innovative library
applications. Check out how users can tag their own items and write mini-reviews in the University of Pennsylvania's catalog, for example (see how the user named "jarson" tags the book Broadcasting It).

What are the implications for cognitive authority and user privacy? As
Bob Dylan says, the answers are blowin' in the wind and the times, they are a changin'! Check out more photos from this event in the CUS Social Software Set at NJLA's Flickr account!

--Marc Meola, meolam [AT] tcnj [DOT] edu

Posted by at 10:34 AM | Comments (0)
Category: Academic Libraries Library 2.0 Technology

June 6, 2006

Libraries Transform Communities

A request from ALA President-Elect, our very own Leslie Burger:

I would like to enlist your help for a very exciting and interactive project that will help transform libraries!

Libraries Transform Communities is the theme I have chosen for my presidential initiative. We know that when libraries are transformed either by new service programs, renovations, or new buildings that the communities they serve are in turn transformed. Part of the initiative is to create a Transformation Tool Kit, which will have tips and ideas for how to transform your library, and stories from libraries that have been transformed.

This is where I need your help, send in your transformation stories and photographs. Explain briefly how your library been changed? How have your library users and community been transformed? The stories and photographs that you submit will be featured on my website, http://lb.princetonlibrary.org. Send all materials to Romina Gutierrez at rgutierrez@princetonlibrary.org as soon as possible.

I hope you share your transformation stories with me and with the library community!

Thank you in advance for your participation.

Leslie Burger
ALA President-Elect

Posted by at 7:44 PM | Comments (0)
Category: ALA