Posted on March 31st, 2009 by ruth
Helene Blowers, Director of Digital Strategy, Columbus Metropolitan Library
She blogs at librarybytes.com. See her presentation slides here.
Our focus is on knowing the realities of digital natives and keeping those realities in mind when planning library services.
“Joey” video on YouTube demonstrates the skills mastery of a child at only 18 months old.
Joey is a digital native [...]
Filed under: CIL2009, change, conference notes, libraries, library 2.0, technology | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by ruth
It’s been almost one year since we launched our library toolbar @MPOW. To celebrate, I’ve submitted the toolbar for consideration as an “official” Firefox Add-on. It’s in the sandbox/nomination stage right now. If you’re feeling adventurous (and your system isn’t so locked down that you can’t install FF extensions), please give it a shake and [...]
Filed under: 2.0 in action, @my library, CIL2008, libraries, library 2.0, marketing and outreach, plugins and widgets | No Comments »
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by ruth
Sarah Houghton-Jan, Senior Librarian for Digital Futures, San Jose Public Library
Program description on the CIL2008 website.
Presentation slides on LibrarianInBlack.net
Online marketing is a new topic in libraries. Has blossomed more than other marketing techniques.
Purpose of online marketing: to connect users with library services and library staff
place teasers where the users are
bring them to the library
everyone’s patrons [...]
Filed under: CIL2008, conference notes, library 2.0, marketing and outreach, social software, web resources | 2 Comments »
