Our district is participating in the Texas Library Snapshot Day, part of ALA’s Snapshot Day, an effort to gather data on libraries around the country. We used both a paper survey and an online poll to gather student data this past Monday(and our questions were based on the statewide poll) . The responses were somewhat what [...]
Entries from April 28th, 2010
Welcome to the profession in 140 characters
April 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
Getting Started On Monday, a group of library school students is coming to visit my library, so today I asked my colleagues on Twitter to share their advice to new or incoming librarians. And since @karlfisch said they should just listen to me, I’ll add my two cents worth before sharing the tweets I received [...]
What are you doing?
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Web 2.0
We are taking a snapshot of our library today for Texas Library Snapshot Day, part of ALA’s National Snapshot day. To gather information from students we’re using this survey(on both paper and on our library website) I came to the library today to:online survey
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Rethinking library advocacy
April 18th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Marketing, Web 2.0
With the cuts facing libraries around the country, how to improve our advocacy methods has been a paramount topic lately. On Monday, I’m cohosting a webinar in the TL Virtual Cafe featuring Buffy Hamilton and Chris Harris on the crisis in staffing cuts many libraries around the country are facing and some proactive measures to [...]
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Libraries are “passion centric”
April 10th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Design, Web 2.0
What does it mean to live your passion? Recently, Joel Adkins and I met at Texas State University to hear Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element, who was speaking there as part of their lecture series. His entertaining lecture was about the importance about schools helping students find their passion. He spoke up against [...]
Using design to make you credible
April 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
“The ‘art of presentation’ transcends technique and enables an individual to remove walls and connect with an audience to inform or persuade in a very meaningful, unique moment in time.” Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen When working with our students recently on website evaluation, it struck me that they weren’t taking blogs all that seriously as [...]
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