Keeping Your Techies
Over the years, I've watched bright and promising techies from my library's Systems department leave for greener pastures. By "bright and promising," I mean those who are innovative, creative,...
View ArticleInformation Literacy in the Age of Social Scholarship
If you're reading this blog, it's because blogs are a routine part of your professional growth. You view blogs as a valuable bedrock of the professional conversation. You may consider them to be at...
View ArticlePresentation on the Metrics of Social Scholarship at the Charleston Conference
I was pleased to be invited to join Leigh Dodds, Chief Technology Officer of the scholarly publisher Ingenta, to speak at this year's Charleston Conference later in the week. Our presentation is titled...
View ArticleThe Publishing Platforms of Social Scholarship: Opportunites for Partnerships
My presentation at the Charleston Conference, "The Promise of Authority in Social Scholarship," has come and gone. I want to explore the last point I made during my talk. I didn't have time to...
View ArticleOn Being Ahead of Your Time
I was hired by my library a dozen years ago to edit the library's Web site. This was back when the Web was just a couple of years old and Web sites were something new. Being an entrepreneur was...
View ArticleOCLC and the Case of the Missing 2.0
OCLC recently released a report, Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World. The report focuses on use of the social Web and related concerns about information privacy. Over 6,000 users in six...
View ArticleLibraries and Campus Collaboration
I've been imagining the ideal 2.0 library. This would be one that (briefly stated) has determined to forge ahead in a way that works for that library, its local conditions, and its staff. I'm sure...
View ArticleThe Culture of Logging In
Let's begin with a brief quiz. Last summer, the management of my university's dorm network was outsourced to a third party ISP. This has placed the dorms outside of the university's IP address range....
View ArticleZotero Commons: Who Needs Libraries?
An article in Inside Higher Ed just caught my eye, "Pooling Scholars' Digital Resources ". The article described something that is hopeful for social scholarship, ominous for libraries. The brief...
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Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries has been Published
Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries has just been published by ACRL. This is the hybrid book/wiki publication that I've been editing for the past year. You can buy the book online at the ALA...
View ArticleIt's the Mobility, Stupid
I'm sure that many of us remember the mantra of Bill Clinton's campaign workers back when they were running Clinton for president: It's the Economy, Stupid. I was thinking of this when I read the 2007...
View ArticleEvaluating Web Content in the 2.0 Era
Since the early years of the Web, librarians - as well as teachers and instructors - have been posting criteria for evaluating content found on the Web. These have been designed as guidelines to help...
View ArticleOCLC: The Google of the Library World?
OCLC has been making some interesting moves lately. Last spring, Roy Tennant became a Senior Program Manager with the RLG Programs unit of OCLC Research and Programs. Andrew Pace is on his way to...
View ArticleSnake Oil, Bandwagons, and Library 2.0
A couple of recent writings have caught my eye, and for the same reason. They feature both wisdom and misapprehensions. The wisdom impresses me, and the misapprehensions concern me. One of these...
View ArticleI'm Retiring, This Blog is Ending
I'm retiring next month, so it's time to stop blogging and prepare myself for the next phase of my life. My dean has promised that this blog will remain available for at least the next year. Some of my...
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