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Inspired by conversations during the California Library Association conference in San Jose earlier this week and by online coursework through the University of North Texas, I’ve been completely immersed in discussions, articles, and examples of how onsite and online reference services are developing. It’s no surprise to discover that much of what works [...]
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Deputy State Librarian Stacey Aldrich and Metropolitan Cooperative Library System Executive Director Rosario Garza were not the only people talking about the future of reference when they offered a “Statewide Reference for Tomorrow” session during the California Library Association conference in San Jose a few days ago. Everyone seemed [...]
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Daniel Pink, best-selling author of A Whole New Mind, takes us on a tour through the world of innovation, competition, and the changing nature of work while entertaining and challenging us. Charting the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies, he outlines six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an [...]
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John Ward, familiar to longtime Infoblog readers from previous postings about his work, wants to leave us with a vision. And if you’re in San Jose this weekend for Infopeople “Master Speaker” series events at the California Library Association 2008 Conference and Exhibition, [...]
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To talk with Infopeople instructor Pat Wagner is to realize that all the world is a project. And if you are not yet convinced, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to experience this for yourself when Wagner offers multiple sessions of “Building Leadership Skills: Developing and Leading Projects” throughout California [...]
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For anyone still in doubt as to how quickly online communities of learning are developing, today’s Infopeople webinar featuring Brenda Hough and Stephanie Gerding from the MaintainIT Project provides a wonderful example of how far we have come. The collaborations between Infopeople, MaintainIT, and a [...]
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If we want to visualize a future drawing upon library mashups—combinations of data from different sources into a newly created tool for training-teaching-learning and many other purposes—we could do worse than to view a few of the search engines which are incorporating mashup technology into the way they display search results.
Jill [...]
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For trainer-teacher-learners who had not yet made time to read the New Media Consortium (NMC) – EDUCAUSE 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies, the California Academic & Research Libraries North Information Technology (CARL North IT) Interest Group workshop “Mashup the Library” last Friday at Santa [...]
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Because I’m a soft touch for creative uses of presentation tools, I was completely taken by New Media Consortium (NMC) Vice President Rachel S. Smith’s use of a cutting-edge online resource last Friday during an onsite event at Santa Clara University.
Serving as the first of several presenters at the [...]
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Readers of the London-based Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s online factsheet “Aligning learning to the needs of the organization,” written by Valerie Anderson, will miss plenty of training gems if they don’t follow some of the links to earlier papers on related themes.
One, for example, leads [...]
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