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 writings is a blog posting, the other is...
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 becoming OCLC's Executive Director for Networked...
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. For the first time ever, more...
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 we've all noticed that many...
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 countries and 382 U.S. library directors were...
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 expected...
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, forward-thinking, and productive. How do you keep such people? Can you?...
I lead a charmed life. Most days, I bring my homemade lunch to work and eat at my desk while catching up on my professional reading. Yesterday, I was reading the October 15 issue of Information Week and an article...
Last month, we received the report from our consultants. The report was based on two days of visits at the end of July. I refered to the consultants' visit in my post on Talking to Consultants. The main thing my...
I've spent many hours over the past few days creating a tutorial for my colleagues on importing RSS feeds into a Web page. No, this is not a tutorial on how to use a remote service such as RSS-To-Javascript. Those...
I've been invited to keynote at the first annual conference of the SUNY Library Software Users Group (LiSUG) on Friday. I've been asked to talk about the future of libraries and how 2.0 can shape this future. It's always fun...
Labels, labels, labels. This morning, I had planned to write about something that happened at my library a couple of days ago, but first I went through my RSS feeds. I found Michelle Boule's We Got 2.0 Librarians, Not 2.0...
This is my 100th blog entry. It seems like a good time to share a couple of things that have heartened me about the growing interest in Library 2.0. Last week I received an e-mail message from a media center...
Yesterday, I was invited to speak to a group of middle managers in my library about possible planning for and implementation of 2.0 initiatives. We took a look at my Action Plan for a 2.0 Library as a point of...
Right from the start, there has been a reason why I've maintained a blog about Library 2.0 from the perspective of an academic librarian. Over the months of blogging, and reading other librarian blogs, I've learned a lot about attitudes...
I heard with interest the recently recorded remarks by Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, who was asked to define Web 3.0 at the Seoul Digital Forum. Of course, any definition by a public figure is bound to generate comment. Hey, even...