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Through an extensive range of practical conference sessions, case studies, Keynotes, hands-on workshops, networking events, and a Sponsor Showcase, Internet Librarian International provides a uniqu...
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Internet Librarian International 2008[Click for larger images] Call for Participants Have you: Got information to share that will be of value to your peers? Completed an innovative project at your ...
(2002). e-Government and the Internet in the Caribbean: An Initial Assessment.Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Electronic Government: First International Conference, EGOV 2002, Aix-en-Provence, F...
Roy L. Sturgeon Foreign & International Law Librarian Touro Law Library • Email Gretchen E. Van Dam Circuit Librarian Library of the U.S. Courts U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit • Ema...
internet addiction word therapy. the boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay. Monday, December 22, 2008. international · Maybe someday when you grow up you can be like me. Posted by ty blues...
The Florida International University Libraries are recruiting an innovative and service oriented Resource Sharing Librarian to supervise and develop library services to support resource sharing, in...
The Florida International University Libraries seeks an energetic, customer-focused librarian for the position of Health Sciences Librarian. The position is responsible for outreach, information an...
Chipwrapper is a Google custom search engine that covers UK news sources on the Internet. Until now, a drawback of the service has been the absence of an option to limit your search by date. You ca...
The 2008 Falsies Awards. If you’re like me, you’re a librarian in part because you have a passion for the right to information, and by information I mean truth rather than lies. One of the books th...
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The Grant Advisor Deadline Memos, broken out into various categories such as Education, Fine Arts, Health, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, International, Minorities/Women, Unrestricted, and...
Fade Library is the Library Service of Liverpool PCT. We act as the North West Grey Literature Service and offer back up library services to the Primary Care Trusts of Cheshire and Merseyside. We p...
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: Historic Archives · It's a Wonderful Internet · Online Advent Calendar · Another online Advent Calendar (with games). Posted by Lore Librari...
When you leave JCU, it won't be long before your computer account (and therefore access to email, homes drive & Internet) becomes disabled. If you are graduating, you are eligible for a JCU email f...
Pingback by paul walk’s weblog » Blog Archive » Library hackers FTW — November 28, 2008 @ 4:37 pm. [...] The homepage of the Mashed Libraries Ning linked to above has a list of blog posts; Paul Wal...
After researching and thinking, I eventually hit upon Ranganathan's 5 Laws of Library Science as a way of thinking about the user need and still relating it to the infrastructure. If you have seen ...
Fade Library is the Library Service of Liverpool PCT. We act as the North West Grey Literature Service and offer back up library services to the Primary Care Trusts of Cheshire and Merseyside. We p...
The Transparent Library: Six Signposts on the Way - By Michael Casey & Michael Stephens — Library Journal, 11/15/2008 We recently presented a workshop in London at Internet Librarian International,...
She received the 2008 Trustees Teaching Award from the School of Library and Information Science in April. She co-organized a panel "Wiki a la carte: Understanding participation behaviors" at the 7...
PR Newswire - "The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) (www.childrenslibrary.org), which is the world's largest collection of children's literature available freely on the Internet, tod...
Google hits to warn of flu epidemics - The Guardian 12th November 2008. Search engine to use online queries to predict health trends before official health bodies. tags: Internet, IHN, Health, News...
No New Lenders; The Facebook Marketing Bible - November 2008 Edition is Now Available; McCain, Obama split on how to rescue mortgages; A New Era For Internet Marketing Has Begun; Currency Movement ...
Instead, Ray phoned his local library’s reference desk to ask about human rights groups, and the librarian referred him to MindFreedom International. Ray called me at our office here at MindFreedom...
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It sounds, in fact, like the financial crisis is being used at the excuse for an enormous push toward more integration of government at the international level. One world government, you might say....
Collins, Maria DD & Patrick L. Carr. Managing the transition from print to electronic journals and resources: a guide for library and information professionals. New York: Routledge, 2008. ...
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Instead, Ray phoned his local library’s reference desk to ask about human rights groups, and the librarian referred him to MindFreedom International. Ray called me at our office here at MindFreedom...
Instead, Ray phoned his local library’s reference desk to ask about human rights groups, and the librarian referred him to MindFreedom International. Ray called me at our office here at MindFreedom...
International Information & Library Review v. 40 no. 2 (June 2008) p. 83-93.
Internet Librarian International 2008. Tag: conferences — Outi Nivakoski @ 11:07 am. Missing Attachment. The 10th ILI conference under the theme Translating 2.0 Technologies for Tangible Benefits &...
This question was addressed in the Internet Librarian International 2008 (ILI-2008) conference held at London between 16 and 17 October, 2008. With the growing number of web applications, changing ...
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Now drinks... signing off
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Gwenda: closing out - transferable skills at heart of librarianship - and this is what keeps us relevant
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Michael Stephens: we will be guides when people need us (addressing my @ostephens comment on Info Literacy)
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Michael Stephens: If you bring your heart to work, doesn't matter where
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Michael Casey: Why should we depend on a commercial company to bring us together?
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Thom: Disagree - everyone in this room is an international librarian (well, not UK delegates) - people who have gone beyond their borders
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Michael Casey: Need an international library association?
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Q: Do we have international librarians? And how would you describe them?
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Michael Stephens: need to teach young people how to manage their digital lives
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we should not be training our users
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Michael Casey: in public library, just want something that works like Google
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Thom: how many people ever used boolean searching? Google never tried to teach boolean. Go read 'Ambient Searching'
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Thom: most people don't actually want to be librarians. We tend to think they ought to be better at searching etc.
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Are we first line or second line support - do we only intervene when the user has reached failure on their own
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Now - What do librarians need to change to ensure they have a role in next gen libraries
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Have to start demanding the products we need - but need to do it together
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We've come to accept bandaids - some of which are really nice - but not longterm solution
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Federated search sucks
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Library acting together have large amount of resource and power - but they don't use it
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Open Source growing - eg Evergreen. But does not handle all requirements. Will it ever get there?
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Michael Casey: Vendors have not put out good products that stay relevant
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Library Schools should be teaching Open Source and using Open Source. Michael S uses WordpressMU over Blackboard 'cos he believes in it
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Aurora = browser of the future
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Michael Stephens: have a look at Aurora product [ http]
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Need to adapt libraries over the course of a day - in the morning people come into read newpapers, but in the evening people using PCs
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Need to get UI expertise into library education (directed at Michael Stephens)
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some librarians in the future will be user interface experts
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Thom saying still too many hits - how many are relevant
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Federated search already here - but interfaces still suck!
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There will be development - but it will take a long time
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Thom: about interfaces - all interfaces today suck. They will continue to suck for a long while We need to keep asking for them to be better
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One of skills needed - trainer - don't rely on vendors
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Response from the floor: In Finland, provide portal through which you can search 20 dbs at once - but you lose some of the finesse
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The news buzzed through the Internet Librarian International Conference. Word of the Norwegian authorities' actions hit a nerve. Not surprising. Many of the information professionals in attendance ...
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how do we solve this problem?
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When users try to use vendor dbs it is a mess - not user friendly etc.
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Question from the floor: spend a lot of time talking about library space. But we don't have control over our content - vendors control this
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Specialisation can backfire - but as long as you are adaptable, you can keep evolving and coping with change
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Diversity very important - library skills, programming skills - young people used to putting together courses to form own education path
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Thom: Norway always envious of Danish libraries! (someone is always doing it better than you)
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Michael Casey: library theory still good - but practice not. In the US, ALA not doing enough - needs to do better continuing prof dev
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(some) Library schools still teaching cataloguing by handing out catalogue cards
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We are not going to need the same cataloguing teaching and reference interview teaching in the future
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Michael Stephens: need a global change of library school curriculum. Coders can change the world - we need to be able to talk to them
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Would love to be able to use the library at 2am
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More from the floor: don't agree all librarians need to communicate - need nerds as well who love cataloguing
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Once a career in librarianship might have been attractive to those who didn't like communicating - not any more
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From the floor: librarians need to be people who want to communicate
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Need to fit people into the right roles!
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Michael Casey: not a single attitude that librarians need to have - unlikely to find all qualities in one person
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OK, we're back. Some questions about LIS qualifications vs Librarian 'attitude' (I think perhaps ethos would be better)
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October 20, 2008, Monterey, CA—At the 12th annual Internet Librarian conference and exhibition, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced the release of ShanachieTour: A Library Road Trip Across Amer...
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@andypowe11 agree there is tension here - suspect it is why we see endless arguments about role of libraries. Perhaps will explore in pt 2
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Now a short break - coffeeeeee
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To the public we are all librarians
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Knowledge of 'library science' is only important within libraries. Users want someone who gets the job done
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To public, a librarian is someone working in a library. period
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Thomas: Dewey did not have library education - and historically most 'librarians' haven't had this
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Not sure library schools are delivering the kind of graduates that libraries need
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There will be non-librarians doing what we might see now as librarian roles
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Michael Stephens: I train librarians for a living. Need trained librarians, but also instructional designers - and people who want to serve
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Michael Casey: Professional librarians will absolutely be needed in the future. Worry that we have people in key positions without lib bg
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What sort of people are providing the services? Who is on the end of the phone/chat/webpage?
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how many saw 'person' when they envisioned a library - answer not many!
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20 yrs from now - coping with the resources at hand - work with what we have
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Michael Casey: some libraries physically v impressive - but physical space costs money - so some difficult choices
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@andypowe11 think space is right - more flexible 'head space' - less implication of physical boundaries
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no matter what we do (new stuff), need to match these to core library values
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Michael Casey: my personal vision of the library changes all the time. Sometimes worried we want to stray too far from core purpose
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Michael Stephens: need to break down more libraries
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@andypowe11 re: where does iphone/web leave the library? Think the answer is that you take library with you.
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More people described 'place' rather than technology
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Michael Stephens: Does 'Information Resource Centre' really describe what we do. Word Library has history, and feels it will stay
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@andypowe11 definitely one of the things the Michaels are saying
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library as a relaxed place - not necessarily having beanbags etc. But somewhere people feel 'at home'
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If we can command attention, we will get resources
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In Thomas's library of the future there is colour. And the library will make him care. Attention will be a rare resource
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Thomas: all visions can exist - there will be more variation within libraries
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Panel responses to audience contributions
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Gwenda: after break will look at sector specific things
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Need to do bread and butter stuff as well as futuristic things
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what is the timescale for the library of the future? 100 years things will clearly has changed, but immediate future still need books etc
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library without computers - in sense of laptops/desktops. Instead IT integrated into intelligent furniture/surfaces etc.
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library - multifunctional area where things happen - which may include study
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@andypowe11 re iphone as library - I think it was more about being connected than accessing the OPAC
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Should we change our image rather than our name
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Word 'library' won't exist - a brand that has had its day
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Not in library, at home but with access
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Now Gwenda wants to know what we saw in the future - from the floor now
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Gwenda asking us to close our eyes and imagine being in the tardis, moving forward in time, arriving at a next gen library - what do you see
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Need to get out to users - schools, bookmobiles, etc. etc. already doing this - need to keep on doing it, and do it more
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Michael Casey: NG library has to be 'relevant', fun, people have to want to go in, we have to avoid telling them how to behave
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Touchy feely bit - the NG library will touch the heart. Beautiful physical or virtual space
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To vendors - give me the capability to embed services into my web pages
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Michael Stephens: 'ask the librarian cart' - like hotdog cart; book vending machines; meebo etc. to make librarians available to users
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Zero emission/Zero energy libraries
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Next gen library will be green - ecological - in tune with how we can best use resources of the world
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There will be no signs saying 'you can only use this table for 30 minutes' - but multiple tables, that can be moved around and rearranged
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Library will be integrated into your life - on your phone, desktop, notebook - access to library services and library employees
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Thomas holding up iphone - this is the next gen library (or at least a part of it)
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libraries and librarians need to understand and respond to local needs
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for e.g. where lack of computers in homes, libraries need computers, in other places children's books/bestsellers more important
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I’m off to Internet Librarian International 2008 tomorrow so maybe I’ll get some inspiration there, I’m particularly looking forward to the sessions on the 23 Things scheme on Track B, I’d love to ...
Internet Librarian International 2008. Kommer til å notere noen små tanker rundt det som skjer på ILI i år. 10 års jubileum for ILI. Keynote speaker: Forfatter Guy R. Cloutier, - The power of the ...
Tomorrow I'm attending Internet Librarian International 2008, and I thought I'd try out a different approach to live blogging.I've been following some of the live blogging that Andy Powell has been...
Tomorrow I'm attending Internet Librarian International 2008, and I thought I'd try out a different approach to live blogging. I've been following some of the live blogging that Andy Powell has bee...
Place: London, Date: 2008-10-15 - 2008-10-17 Internet Librarian International 2008: Translating 2.0 Technologies for Tangible Benefits and Transparencies. Canadian Society for Training and Developm...
[...] really pleased that i’m able to go this year. it’s the 10th anniversary too, as recently blogged about by brian kelly (who unfortunately isn’t able to attend this [...]
i’ve received confirmation that i will be attending internet librarian international 2008! i won’t be attending the full conference but will be there on friday 17th as i’m particularly interested i...
I’ve received confirmation that I will be attending Internet Librarian International 2008! I won’t be attending the full conference but will be there on Friday 17th as I’m particularly interested i...
I’ve received confirmation that I will be attending Internet Librarian International 2008! I won’t be attending the full conference but will be there on Friday 17th as I’m particularly interested i...
For more than 95 years, the corporation has carried out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy by building on his two major concerns: international peace and advancing education and knowledge. As a priv...
Earlier this year I submitted a proposal to the committee organising Internet Librarian International to talk about how Web 2.0 is being used within Law Firms, some of the practical challenges in ...
Librarian I (Reference & Adult Services), City and County of Broomfield, Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library. 40 hours per week. Evenings/Weekends: Some evenings required; Some weekends required. ...
6 Apr 2008 ... Newsweek magazine online plus daily news, features and commentary from our global network of correspondents. Robert J. Lackie's "Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed"...
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