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Comment on Awesome Blog Post of Awesomeness: AKA Life-streaming Week by tandblekninng med laser

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Comment on Week 14: Conclusions, Goodbyes, Farewells by nmarlowe

nmarlowe — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:01:28 +0000

I love your tag at the end, there! “end_of_fims”! I agree with your (and Peggy’s) idea for opening up the last week (13) to discover more technology that we haven’t discussed yet. Good luck to you, too! Definitely- hope to see you at OLA’s Super Conference in February! Nat

Comment on Leap Before You Look and Never Hesistate by alannah

alannah — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:21:43 +0000

Hey Joey! You did a really good job exposing some of the challenges libraries face when they implement these technologies, and more importantly when they don’t. I suppose we shouldn’t think less of libraries that use these tools not merely because they want to, but mostly because they feel they should or must. I guess the important thing is that they do. But, you raise an important point, and that is to not fear change. I can see that fear dwelling in many libraries, specifically, as many people are afraid to jump into something that they not only know little about, but also things that may alter or change they way the library functions, or the ways in which services and resources are used, or made available. Chanage is feared, but should be welcomed. The library should, and ultimately needs to, change as the communities and societies around them do. Thus, as technology develops, the library should find ways to embrace these developments in ways that will enable them to remain current and ways that will reaffirm their roles are information specialists. As you say, change is good!! Great final post Joey, it really made me think about these tools in an alternative way, as modes of innovation and progression. Best of Luck!

Comment on Leap Before You Look and Never Hesistate by peggy thomas

peggy thomas — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:34:30 +0000

I agree, Joey, risk taking is not necessarily a profile of librarianship that springs to mind when thinking of the profession. And using social media is definitely (at least at this point) taking a risk. Soon it will be a part of the normal give and take of operating a public space, but now, early adoption means taking a risk.

I would add to your list regarding implementing social media by adding it is important to also hire people who not only embrace the technology but will support it on an ongoing basis.

Comment on Woah! Isn’t that cool?! AR, RQ codes, and Ubiquitous Computing by Dave

Dave — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:39:10 +0000

Hey, Joey

It is funny that you mentioned the augmented reality segment reminded you of Gibson’s book, it immediately made me think of many other sci-fi books and movies as well. I agree with you that there is so much potential here to be unleashed, I think the first libraries which start to use the ideas you (and other class blogs) identify will get a lot of praise from users as being futuristic. Long-term, after these augmented realities are built, I think it will be important to keep up the information provided. Immediately when I saw the example in the lecture (that had store hours, etc.) I thought hopefully those adding the data keep up with changes. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to look up store hours or restaurants online only to find the places have closed down or the information is out of date.

Comment on Awesome Blog Post of Awesomeness: AKA Life-streaming Week by nmarlowe

nmarlowe — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:23:34 +0000

Awesome!!! I agree with you- Twitter’s success recently must be due to instant messaging and texting from mobile devices. I can see barriers being broken down and connections being made as the interacting is happening!! Natalie

Comment on Online communities? Lets get them through the doors! by katie

katie — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:40:26 +0000

I really like your point here – i’ve been so caught up in trying to think about online communities in ways that will appeal to users, that I have forgotten about how important it is to get people to the library – not just for circulation stats, but for the sake of our jobs! those are definitely not virtual!

also, if we are throwing all we have at new online initiatives, we neglect the largest patron base present today – seniors! although some are tech-friendly, many just want real life interaction and a hard copy of the newspaper to read!

Comment on Online communities? Lets get them through the doors! by peggy

peggy — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:01:33 +0000

Interesting you say that an online presence is meant to bring patrons through the doors. I am not sure I entirely agree with you. I think it is time for the library to see itself without walls and anyway that we connect with users is a valid interaction. We are not just about our circulation stats, but we are all about informing, connecting, bridging and communicating with our patrons. This can be accomplished in face to face interactions but also in online interactions as well.

Comment on More Transparancy with Wikis by Paul

Paul — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:18:49 +0000

Amanda, my idea for what that Wiki might involve is to make the libraries decision making more transparent for the public. The wiki itself would function almost like an intranet but it would be viewable to the general public. The idea came because public libraries should have all their information viewable for public record and I thought a wiki might be a good way to organize all of that information for how the important library decisions were made.

Comment on Structure? Who needs it! The people are running the show now by Paul

Paul — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:16:16 +0000

Honestly Wilda I don’t use portable browsers at all so I have no idea about the displays on them. And thank you fenderbirds.