SL2.0

There haven’t been many posts on here of late as I have been busy blogging up a storm over at SchoolLibraryJournal.com on my Digital Reshift blog [subscribe to the feed]. As I noted there, I am in Colorado today for the CASL (Colorado Association of School Libraries) pre-conference before the TIE (Technology in Education) conference. [...]

Brian Mayer, writing at Library Gamer, has aligned a set of library-friendly board games to the New York State Standards. If you are thinking about gaming in a school library, this is an incredible resource to show how games can be another type of curriculum resource. Brian also provides links to all of the games. [...]

I got a question today about writing Library 2.0 focused job descriptions. Here is the advice and links I was able to provide:
The best place I can send you is a series of posts Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) did for ALA’s TechSource blog. I was actually one of the people he interviewed for the [...]

Here is an Administrators’ Guide to School Libraries that I created as part of an independent study over the summer. I was waiting for the new standards to be released before throwing out a first draft. This is very much a Creative Commons document wherein I am trying to help speak for libraries as a [...]

The line between Library 1.0 and Library 2.0 is somewhere on the continuum between the library as a service and the library as an experience.
Medieval manuscripts created for patrons- commodity
Printing Press makes cheaper books possible – product
Information storage/retrieval libraries – service
User focused libraries – experience
Libraries as learning centers – transformation
Somewhere in there, things shifted into [...]