Two weekends ago I attended PodCamp Boston 3, with some general sense that I might learn something useful, but an increasing uncertainty about what that might be. The first few sessions I attended had a pretty strong focus on using social media for marketing purposes (blech), increasing your “followers,” and, well, podcasting. Which I don’t [...]
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Students as Technology Leaders
Posted in education, technology on July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Podcamp Boston
Posted in technology on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is anyone else going to Podcamp Boston this weekend? Billed as “the new media community unConference,” it’s taking place in the Longwood Medical Area this Saturday and Sunday, and we’re going. It should be pretty interesting, although I’m not always so awesome about that networking stuff. I’m shy.
Registration closes tomorrow (Wednesday, July 16), so [...]
Everything is Miscellaneous
Posted in books, cataloging, education, technology on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I picked up Everything is Miscellaneous to read while on vacation, and was promptly made fun of by my library school colleagues, because, apparently, it’s an assigned text in one of the cataloging classes. Well, I commend the person who’s assigning this book, because it’s really excellent. David Weinberger does a great job talking about [...]
Students Disappoint Me, Yet Again
Posted in academia, technology on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Twenty-four students at the University of Central Florida accepted a challenge from one of their teachers to go tech-free for five days. No cell phones, no email, no computers, video games, television, iPods (well, you could use your phone or computer for work or school, but that was it). Only two students made it through [...]
The Digital Divide: Some thoughts on our panel discussion
Posted in library stuff, technology on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Our panel discussion last Monday went well, despite our rather haphazard planning process. Of course, my foray into moderating exposed some of my lack of public speaking abilities: I completely jettisoned the whole introduction I spent the weekend writing in favor of letting the speakers get right to it, and most of the questions we [...]
Small Libraries and the Digital Divide: Jessamyn’s Slides
Posted in technology on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The panel yesterday on the Digital Divide went well, though I kind of chickened out and neglected to deliver my carefully crafted introduction. Doh. I’ll have more to say about what was discussed when i have a few minutes (hopefully tonight), but I wanted to be sure to link to Jessamyn’s slides, which are worth [...]
The Digital Divide: Rural, Urban, and International Issues
Posted in library stuff, technology on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Can’t believe I haven’t posted this here yet! Bad blogger.
If you’re in Boston on Monday, Simmons College GSLIS is hosting a panel discussion on the Digital Divide. Come and hear Jessamyn West of librarian.net, Susan O’Connor of the Timothy Smith Center, and Pat Oyler, Simmons GSLIS faculty member, talk about access issues in the US [...]
Conversants and more stuff about library school students
Posted in technology on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The first issue of Conversants, a journal focused on participatory networks, came out on Friday, and it features an editorial by Andrea Mercado, “Making Library Schools Smarter.” Mercado touches on a lot of the things I’ve been thinking about lately: The fact that librarianship requires higher level computer skills, and the unfortunate fact that library [...]
Where are all the techies?
Posted in library school, technology on March 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I’ve been contemplating this question since I started library school last semester, when I was enrolled in my program’s basic technology course, the only technology course students are required to take. Where are all the next system designers and OPAC developers and library tech programmers? They certainly weren’t in my class.
Lately it seems a [...]
Beginning Ruby: Some Serious Praise
Posted in technology on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been working now as the Assistant Systems Librarian for about a month, and I can safely say I’ve never had a job as challenging, occasionally frustrating, and sometimes satisfying as this one. I should preface that by saying I’ve never had a job that involved work I didn’t already know how to do, and [...]
