Category: ALA
June 15, 2007
Not Attending ALA? Here's an Alternative...
This is posted many places but I want to be sure that no one misses it!
This is FREE and doesn't require you to leave the comfort of your home or use any gas!!!
Not able to attend ALA but still want to find out what's going on in cutting edge technology and social software!? Well check out the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase...
From their page:
The Social Software Showcase is an online unconference occurring on and during the time of ALA Annual 2007.
On this wiki, you will find eleven wonderful presentations on cutting edge technology and social software by librarians and leaders in the field. Regardless of where you are in the world, you will have the opportunity to discuss the presentations here in this space.
We will also be having a face to face roundtable discussion with some of our presenters at ALA Annual in Washington D.C. on Saturday, June 23rd, from 1:30-2:30 in the Renaissance Mayflower Cabinet Room. If you are in D.C. please come and join us.
This wiki will be a work in progress as we iron out a few things, including the embedding of the presentations. But we'll be ready and running before ALA! [end]
This is a revolutionary way of presenting information! Please do check it out.
The presenters include the VERY excellent:
Michael Casey - Library Crunch blog
Michael Porter, aka Library Man! - Library Man blog
Jessamyn West - Librarian.net blog -
Karen Schneider - Free Range Librarian blog
Her post on this.
AND MORE!
You can read another excellent post on this for some more information on the Information Wants to Be Free blog here
The Bigwig Social Software Showcase is here
Check it out! :-)
Happy Weekend!
Posted by Amy Kearns at 9:03 AM | Comments (0)
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)