Screen gaze and play with intent

At the Library web 2.0 thing I went to at the SLV the other day, I felt that part of my job was justified when a leader in the Library 2.0 field, Helene Blowers, recommended that librarians spend at 15 minutes a day "playing" online (here's her presentation).

The thing is, we all should.

Need more reasons? Try Kathryn Greenhill's 20 reasons why learning emerging technologies is part of every librarian’s job. Kathryn was also at the L2.0 thing @ SLV and I even got to walk around the block with her and some others of local L2 mafia like Michelle Mclean (name dropper).

Don't know where to start? Here's Helene's 23 Things to give your L2 learning some structure.

Glenn

L2 updates

I've made some changes to the sidebar (left).

There is now a Google Reader clip, with headline links from various blogs that specialise in library info and specifically Library 2.0 kind of ideas, discussions, news and tips - things like Library2.0 on under $5 a day, which is a nice intro to things L2.

To facilitate browsing, I've also created a blogroll with links to these and other library blogs. Of particular note at the moment is the Connecting Librarian, written by Michelle McLean from Casey Cardinia, who has just toured the USA investigating best L2 practice over there. It's chockers with fun stuff.

Please read, imagine, vision and share.

Enjoy,

Glenn

Library of the future ideas

Hi all,

Here's some library of the future ideas from a Singapore "liblogrian", the Rambling Librarian. It's base around a video tour of the Geek Terminal, but it may have something in it for us too.

Go wild.

Glenn the Blograrian