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Thanks to the California State Library’s Rush Brandis, many of us received this presentation in email form today. The story told by these new figures, and suggested applications for creating a responsive information future, include an array encompassing health, education and much more besides commerce and entertainment.
In one interesting section of [...]
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Next week, Infopeople is sending a few California librarians to a new and unusual library conference. “R-Squared” (Risk x Reward) promises an exciting “mountaintop experience,” both in that cheesy life-changing sense and also in a completely literal sense, as we’ll be spending a few breathless days in Telluride, Colorado, at close to [...]
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Dan Pink is coming out with a new book on December 31, 2012. It’s called, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others. To “sell”, for him, includes much of what we do all day which is convince, persuade and motivate people to do what we want or need them to do.
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My colleague Gail Griffith and I did a preconference at ALA called Mental Model Busting. One of the mental models we explored was community engagement. As you might guess, people’s mental models of community engagement were all over the map. Not that there was disagreement, just wildly different assumptions about what is meant by “community [...]
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George & Joan just finished presenting a very thought-provoking webinar on Libraries in a Post-Print World (the archive is available now). There waas more chat than any of us could keep up with during the webinar. We’ve added a link to a transcript of the text chat for those who would like to [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, Joan starts the ball rolling by reflecting that she still views the start of the new school year as the start of her new year, with thoughts of what she wants to learn and what she wants to achieve. Both George and Joan have [...]
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In this podcast, George and Joan use this blog post from In the Library with the Lead Pipe as a jumping off point for a far reaching conversation about what libraries really are all about, and why they should continue to exist. There’s lots of great food [...]
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In this podcast George and Joan put on their futurist hats and ponder the question, “How would a library accommodate a post-print culture in the future?” Is a library without books still be a library? What defines a library? Is it the books and materials that make the library, or is [...]
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Infopeople’s podcasting pundits George Needham and Joan Frye Williams recorded a segment for NPR’s Here and Now program recently about a favorite topic of theirs: the future of libraries. Give it a listen! (Scroll about halfway down the page to find their segment.)
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan continue the conversation about Taiga Forum that they started in their last podcast. This time around they focus on the Forum statements that look at what the library as an institution may be like in the future. And exactly [...]
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