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- Trends for the futureJanuary 5
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With the end of the old year and the start of the new, it is the time for predictions. There have been many personal ones, along the lines of new year’s resolutions in a sense, but also many from consultants and experts in the field.
A few of the more noteworthy ones I have come across recently, which are worth checking out (after all, they could be right and be telling us what we will be doing in future) are:
Ross Dawson - Six important forces that will shape 2009
- Constant partial attention
- Half of us sharing online, the other half watching
- Gen Y deals with Gen Z in the workforce
- Outsourcing for everyman
- Companies get social
- Media industry collapse
Pew/Internet - The Future of the Internet III
- Mobile device will be the primary connection tool by 2020
- Personal transparency will increase
- Talk and touch user interfaces will become more prevalent
- l of which I found well worth reading. Check them out for yourselves and let us know which other predictions you have come across that have made for interesting reading.
- Love your Library Management System?January 2
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Satisfied with the cost, the vendor’s service and how your users perceive it when they compare it with the rapidly changing social web? Yes? No?
Add your voice to the confidential 2008 International Library Automation Survey being conducted by Marshall Breeding on behalf of Library Technology Guides . He is interested in tracking how perceptions have changed since last year’s Perceptions 2007: an international survey of Library Automation .
- Virtual Libraries Interact UpdateDecember 29 2008
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Long time readers of our blog will remember that we started the Virtual Libraries Interact blog back in late 2006 as a sister site to our blog.
Unfortunately due to a number of reasons the Virtual Libraries Interact blog has been languishing for a while and no new posts have been added.
It with some regret, and a tinge of sadness, that we have decided to merge the Virtual Libraries Interact blog into the main blog. Do not worry, all of the content has been imported into the Libraries Interact blog.
The posts are still available and they have been aggregated into a new Virtual Libraries Interact category. Also preserved are Australian Libraries in SL and SL Avatar list pages.
In the new year we look forward to posting more information here about libraries and second life. Also, don’t forget that those of us using second life and other virtual worlds may be writing about their experiences on their own personal blogs.
- Flickr Commons cultural heritage photo collectionsDecember 21 2008
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In early 2008, Flickr launched the Commons to showcase the public photo collections of libraries, museums and archives from around the world. The Library of Congress was the first to start adding their collections and New York Public Library (probably) the most recent.
The two main objectives of the Commons are to increase access to publicly-held collections and to enable the general public to contribute information and knowledge about the images.
Christmas on HMAS Benalla, 1944 by Clifford Bottomley
So far there are 17 institutions contributing photographs including from Australia, the Australian War Memorial (photostream), Powerhouse Museum (photostream) and the State Library of New South Wales (photostream). Other contributing institutions are from Portugal, New Zealand, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
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- New Librarians Symposium (NLS4) - reviewDecember 16 2008
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NLS4 is well and truly over, bar the papers, which should be available soon. As usual, I have been busy since it was done. otherwise this post would have been done earlier.
At the NLS4 Cocktail Party, the committee organised a couple of icebreaker events, one of which I just had to share here. We were each given a library based pickup line and had to make up groups of people which gave us the complete set of 12. It definitely got us talking, with the pickup lines just being the means of starting the discussion.
Anyway, here for all to share, grin, smirk and groan at are those pickup lines. Enjoy!
- Pardon me, could you please tell me what kind of card I need to check you out?
- You must have been burning books, because youre looking hot.
- Libraries should allow food in the buildings, because right now I could just eat you up.
- I know what I need to access the Internet, but what do I need to access your heart?
- What book would you recommend to help me sweep you off your feet?
- Can you tell me how to spell love? Im writing a letter to you.
- You must work at a busy library, because baby you just increased my circulation.
- Are you a librarian? Well I really need to be shushed.
- Id catalogue you under Desirable.
- Youre a librarian? If my library lady looked like you growing up, I wold have been an avid reader.