Here are is an interesting (and short) video series about IT and Librarians from the ACPL’s Innovation through Technology blog.
#1 - http://blog.acpl.lib.in.us/blog/?p=93
#2 - http://blog.acpl.lib.in.us/blog/?p=96
#3 - http://blog.acpl.lib.in.us/blog/?p=101
#4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6uWmT2TXlQ
It’s going to be OK.
One of the things that librarians frequently deal with (or should be dealing with rather than turning a blind eye to) is copyright. It’s a tricky issue, as the rules have many grey areas with decisions buried in case law.
ALA’s Office of Information Technology and Policy run the “Copyright Advisory Network, ” which has a number of resources, including a blog and a wiki, where folks with copyright issues can post them seeking advice and help. This would be a great place to start your explorations on those tricky issues.
One of the new activities we have started at Syracuse is the Library and Information Science Interest Group. It’s designed to bring together
- Library students
- Faculty, and
- Librarians
together once a month to talk about issues related to librarianship and library science. Discussions tend to center around issues in local libraries or interesting things in the world of library science, and usually ends up somewhere in the middle with everyone contributing from their perspective.
The next meeting is Tuesday, Feb. 20th, at 1pm in Bird Library, 6th floor, Hillier room
Our own David Lankes was down under presenting on Participatory Librarianship. If you are interested he’s posted slides and audio from his presentations to the Australian Library and Information Association’s Information Online Conference
and the TAFE New South Wales Librarians
This is a very well done video about what Web 2.0 is.
As you watch it, think about what roles that libraries could play in this world…
Direct Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
One of the research fronts being explored here at Syracuse is that of Participatory Libraries. How do you make a library space that brings the users in and has them participate in the creation of the experiences (instead of just being a receptor of the experience)?
You can learn more about that at
http://iis.syr.edu/projects/PNOpen/
Along these lines, there is a video blog called “The Show with Zefrank”. It’s usually entertaining and sometimes enlightening. His episode for 2/5/07 has a message that we need to think about in regard to how we can survive this changing information landscape.
Now, I hear a lot about different search tools. But there’s one new one - http://www.collarity.com - that has caught my eye. Give it a try and see what you think. What I like is the slider that allows you to adjust the context of your search from personal to local to global; this is a feature that has been missing. One of the main roles of the library is to select a subset of information that is relevant for the local community, and Collarity is trying to do that.
There’s an interesting set of articles posted on the blogosphere..
First, this one from LISNews questioning the future of libraries…
http://features.lisnews.com/features/05/10/07/0921246.shtml?tid=18
and this response, with 33 Reasons why Libraries and Librarians are still extremely important.
http://www.degreetutor.com/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed
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