Both entertaining and enlightening, the Library 101 project has just been launched by David Lee King and Michael Porter. Aimed at inspiring us to integrate past, present and future librarian skills in order to continue thriving in a changing environment, the project is collaborative and ongoing. Check out their ‘music video’ below for a fun [...]
Posts Tagged ‘digital age’
Learning our Library 101
Posted in Videos, tagged change, digital age, librarian 2.0, library 101, skills on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The library – warehouse for books or community gathering centre?
Posted in Articles, tagged digital age, librarian 2.0, library 2.0 on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CNN has an interesting article looking at the ways in which libraries and librarians are continuing to evolve in response to increased digitisation of information and use of social technologies. Highlights include: Library 2.0… People used to go online for the same information they could get from newspapers. Now they go to Facebook, Digg and [...]
Librarians responding to the digital age
Posted in Interviews, tagged digital age, librarian 2.0, library 2.0, public libraries, school libraries on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bloggers from Follow the Reader have posted a recent interview with two library professionals about how they are perceiving some of the challenges of the digital age for libraries. From the blog post: As digital publishing options become more and more prevalent, libraries of all kinds are working to incorporate digital into their collections and [...]