So I’m on the ALA Task Force on electronic member participation, and one of our tasks is to survey the members about e-participation. I volunteered to spearhead the task, and a few other folks are chipping in. You can see the really early it-could-go-in-entirely-different-directions rough draft.
What questions should we ask? What do you wish you [...]
“I don’t know which is the greater task: to decentralise a top-heavy civilization or to prevent an ancient civilization from becoming centralised and top-heavy. In both cases the core of the problem is to discover what constitutes a good civilization, then proclaim it to the people and help them to erect it.”
Over on Pattern Recognition, [...]
For decades (if not longer), the ALA conference meeting schedule has remained unchanged. For six months the pupae lie dormant. The week prior to the conference, they begin wiggling in their pupal cases, responding to the faint clarion call of hotel room reservations and vendor cocktail parties. The ALA creatures emerge all at once, and [...]
I’ve been explaining for years that ALA Council is broken, and even suggesting how to fix it. If Council is too darn busy to hear from a member on an issue he knows something about, that just underscores everything I’ve been saying.
Aaron Dobbs has run for Council twice, and lost. I look at some of [...]
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Note: I had another article published today, in IT Manager’s Journal. You may recognize some of the IT managers!
I’ve written about the cone of confusion before. I see other uses cited on the Web, and have no reason to disbelieve them, but the definition I was taught [...]
I’m pasting in Karen Coombs’ announcement of a Social Software Showcase at ALA Annual (already linked here and there on the Web), which is the epitome of all that is epitomizable, and in which (as I have not yet resolved that unable-to-be-in-two-places-at-once issue) I will participate in via a YouTube video which I have yet [...]
Here’s the rough outline of my schedule at the American Library Association 2007 annual conference (DC)… Marilyn, Michelle, Lori, and anyone else trying to vector with me, take a look at see what fits! Note that the social events (PUBLIB, LITA Happy Hour, OCLC Blog Salon GLBTRT) are great places to meet up.
Friday 6/22/2007
Arrive mid-afternoon, [...]
Ninety-five percent of ALA is stuck in the antebellum period, but Jim is communicating by YouTube. Gets it. Seriously. Knows getting it equals doing it.
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I’m on a committee–the ALa Member Participation Task Force–that just put up a blog andn then back-filled it with earlier discussions we’ve had about moving ALA forward (which is a phrase that brings to mind pushing a comatose elephant uphill, but no matter…).
You can read my comments (because of course you want to [...]
I felt it was a squeeze to get to LITA Forum this year–both financially (I would have to foot my own way entirely) and in terms of time (in the middle of my last few days at MPOW, and between two conferences).
Of course, having made that decision and pretty well cast it in stone–at this [...]
