Free Range Librarian

The personal detour
I’m back from giving the closing talk at SOLINET’s annual membership meeting, where I was well-pampered by all involved. I also rented a Prius for the trip, and it was quite difficult to return this lovely car to Avis. I had wondered how I would like driving a Prius, and the answer is [...]

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It is very early Wednesday morning, and I’m feeling some small beads of sweat on my neck. I’m looking for inspiration any way I can get it — from my brain, from divine sources, and of course, from you, gentle reader.
This Friday morning I’m giving at talk to SOLINET about how to market, get [...]

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I put the slides on Google after two uploads to slideshare.net failed abysmally.  (My talk was also greatly enriched by two slides I stole, one from Andrew Pace and the other from Darlene Fichter. Thanks ;-)  )
This was a great experience. I haven’t done a pure “2.0″ talk in over a year, which meant I [...]

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT:
Interview with David Weinberger, Author of Everything is Miscellaneous
(I cribbed this copy from another blog and then had to laugh, since it refers to me in the third person:)
David Weinberger will be discussing [...]

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Here at last are PDFs of the presentations I did for SLIS South Africa in October! I had to reinstall Adobe Acrobat and then update it with a patch… one of those little projects. The files are SO much smaller in PDF. I know there are people who loathe PDF, but I gotta say… small [...]

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Soweto

Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.

Yes, after a week of recovery and catch-up, I have tweaked and uploaded the presentations I gave in South Africa earlier this month! Of course, they’re out of context, since you don’t get my voice-over or walk-throughs… feel free to ask questions. [...]

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Another way for you folks from South Africa to follow up on the ideas from last week’s preconference is to attend Five Weeks to a Social Library, a FREE online class that will take place between February 12 and March 17, 2007 and will be limited to forty participants. So sign up NOW! The instructors [...]

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I have several more goodies to follow up my talk in South Africa–two PowerPoints, and a long post with tips for activities–but the most important tip I have is to buy this report.
I am generally disposed to give friends’ books good reviews (and let’s not pretend that doesn’t happen), but in this case, [...]

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Library 1.0 versus Library 2.0: some examples (some from olden days)…
I adapted this list (which I will also discuss) from the original article about Web 2.0 by Tim O’Reilly… Any other examples?
Closed stacks –> Open stacks
Collection development –> Library suggestion box
Preorganized ILS –> User tagging
Walk-in services –> Globally available services
“Read-only” catalog –> Amazon-style comments
Print newsletter mailed out –> Team-built blog
Easy = dumb users –> Easy = smart systems
Limited [...]

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This Thursday evening I take off on a very long journey to Johannesburg to present to the Special Libraries and Information Services Group. Today, most likely tomorrow afternoon and the weekdays this week, I’m pulling together a four-hour preconference, “Library 2.0 Technologies,” and a one-hour conference keynote, “The User Is Not Broken.”
I can [...]

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