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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 [...]

As you read this post and the links provided, please keep in mind that this whole discussion is simply a proxy for the root problem that we need to address. Are libraries relevant? That, however, is one of those big scary Essential Questions that can only be discussed, but never answered. We can, however, address [...]

Whether or not you are overloaded by information isn’t even up for discussion. Being a librarian is all about having information overload…and managing it. Finding the important bits within the swirling maelstrom of information that we face every day. That really was the original discussion purpose for this blog. Infomancy, I proposed, was the magical [...]

Actually, it might be more accurate to say that this is a a cause for good, as opposed to evil. I wrote a while back about “grey areas” on the internet – most notably that they are all grey. This is not to trot out the simplification that digital information is contained within 1s and [...]

A librarian recently asked about how to get into MySpace.com to view pictures and information posted by young user that probably should be removed. Here is a quick and dirty travel guide for MySpace.
1) Getting to your Destination.
So you want to visit MySpace.com…okay, fire up the browser and head on over, right? Wrong! Like any [...]