futures

Do you remember how to dial a phone or carefully place a needle on a record? While I may be a young whippersnapper, I grew up with rotary phones and the beautiful sounds of Joan Baez and the Weavers coming from my parents’ record player. If you are struggling to explain these incredibly foreign concepts [...]

AASL President Sara Kelly Johns has charged a task force led by Joyce Valenza to tackle the ideas and possibilities for AASL in a 2.0 world. I was greatly honored to be asked to be a member of this group. Our charge is “To scan the 2.0 environment for effective participation by AASL, develop guidelines [...]

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 [...]

All the talk about top library technology trends gets a geek thinking. Oh sure, there are the easy ones like the iPhone changing everything and more libraries embracing alternate worlds like Second Life, but what comes next? More importantly, what comes next when we look beyond the technology itself? Instead of focusing on tools like [...]

I am at the spring meeting for the School Library Systems Association of New York State – a group for the directors of the School Library Systems. Today we are engaging in a panel discussion about information fluency in New York. As a state, we lack a statewide curriculum document or set of standards. Many [...]