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I am very pleased—and amazed—that Stephen Abram has invited me to do a SirsiDynix Institute webcast with him. He and Jonathan Lorig and I had a great time doing the book, Out Front with Stephen Abram: A Guide for Information Leaders. (It is a collection of Stephen’s writings and presentations.) Stephen and I both blog (and love doing it). So, Stephen thought we’d answer all those questions we get about how we write, blog and communicate and share some of our experiences. Here’s all the information. (BTW—it’s free!!)
Writing for the Library Profession
Date : 10 July 2007, 11:00-noon, Eastern Time
You can register (remember, it’s free) at http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/seminar_page.php?sid=90
Do you want to inform and influence your colleagues? Do you have a story to tell? Have you done something innovative that delighted your users? We don’t have a paucity of ideas and innovation in Libraryland, we do have a problem with diffusion. We need to share our ideas and experiences more. From blog postings, to periodical and newsletter articles to website content and even to books library staff are increasingly being asked to write. With the dynamic and rapid change happening in our sector, we have an increasing obligation to share our knowledge and experiences. It’s an exciting time to be in libraries.
This SirsiDynix Institute brings together two library leaders, authors, bloggers and journalists to share their secrets and tips. Both share the experience of putting together this year’s bestselling Out Front with Stephen Abram. Judith Siess’s latest book is The New OPL Sourcebook: A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries . Their blogs are among the most popular—his is Stephen’s Lighthouse. Both share their knowledge, insights and opinions openly. Want to know some of the secrets? With all of the great innovations happening around the world in libraries, we have to start sharing more. If we don’t take our candles out from under the basket, who will?
Stephen’s Bio (short version)
Stephen Abram, VP Innovation, SirsiDynix, Chief Strategist, The SirsiDynix Institute. a leading international librarian and lighthouse thinker in the North American library community, leverages his extensive experience in library technology and trend forecasting, new product conceptualization, and market development to ensure that SirsiDynix products and services continue to be the most innovative in the library market and meet the needs of library directors, library staff members, and library users. Abram works on strategic projects in all areas to advance our vision. Abram has more than 25 years in libraries as a practicing librarian and in the information industry. His most recent role was as vice president of corporate development for Micromedia ProQuest. Abram’s other roles include publisher for Thomson Carswell and director of Information Resources for the Hay Group. He is a frequent keynote speaker on issues that affect libraries, their communities, and librarians. In addition, Abram was named by Library Journal in 2002 as one of the key people who are influencing the future of libraries and librarianship.
URLs:
Out Front with Stephen Abram: http://www.alastore.ala.org/SiteSolution.taf?_sn=catalog2
&_pn=product_detail&_op=2238
Stephen’s Lighthouse: http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/
Register for the Institute: http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/seminar_page.php?sid=90
“Trippish is a free service that gives you driving directions with weather forecasts along the route. Trippish not only tells you what the weather is likely to be during your drive, but also allows you to determine the best time to leave based on current forecasts. This product has been developed by Cyberferia and is released in the US by UrbaTron LLC.”
URL: http://trippish.com/
Guy St. Clair, the father of the OPL movement, has issued a report on a summit on the future of special libraries. The summit was held on 30 March 2007, with some of SLA’s most eminent leaders participating. St. Clair facilitated the session. He is kindly making it available to us at no cost. I consider this must reading for all of us.
URLs:
The report: http://www.smr-knowledge.com/articles/
SMR_SLA_Summit_Report_4-15-07.pdf
SMR International (St. Clair’s firm): http://www.smr-knowledge.com
http://news.google.com
Journal Review
http://www.journalreview.org/
“JournalReview.org is an online forum dedicated to the medical literature. One can utilize our website to perform a complete PubMed query, read and rate articles, as well as participate in discussion of current and past articles. The forum is open to all fields and should help to stimulate critical discussion. Through this venue, we hope users may gain a better understanding of medical literature and practice evidence-based-medicine.”
“This site was envisioned and created by a small group of four individuals. The founders and programmers behind JournalReview.org realize the important roll that this site can play in the shaping of medical practice, research, and health care policy and have provided personal funds to make this site possible.”
“Open Medicine is a new general medical journal. It will be paperless and available without charge or any other barrier to access online. We will publish peer-reviewed science and analysis as well as clinical articles. We will provide a forum for informed and inclusive debates on medicine and its application. Open Medicine will be independent of any commercial publisher or association ownership.
“Open Medicine, although launched in Canada, is an international endeavour. Its strength will be a connected global community of interested, committed health workers. Like the country that birthed it, it will remain open, inclusive, and independent but its eyes, like those of its readers, will be on the world. We hope that you share our excitement about the future and being part of it."
URL: http://www.openmedicine.ca/
“RedAtlas.org is a highly interconnected, visual atlas of ophthalmic diseases.” “The images are available in medium and high resolutions for use in lectures and presentations” You can browse by disease or clinical findings and there is also a quiz section. There is no search function (yet). The site is supported by grants and The Wilmer and Doheny Eye Institutes.
URL: http://redatlas.org
Mount Barker's living library
by Ian Hildebrand [Mount Barker Community Library, South Australia, Australia], inCite 28(4):19, April 2007.
“On Australia Day 2007 the Mount Barker Community Library invited residents to borrow a Living Book from South Australia’s first Living Library. The aims of a Living Library are to bring people into contact with someone they might not meet or associate with in their ordinary day-to-day-life, to break down barriers and dissolve stereotypes.
“Readers of the Living Library could check out a Living Book for a half-hour chat, and ask questions about that person’s life. Some of the ‘Books’ in the Living Library were people representing groups frequently confronted with prejudices and stereotypes. Others were South Australians with interesting life stories to share. Living book titles at the Mount Barker Living Library included old people; hippies; a human rights activist; a human zoo participant and animal rights activist; an indigenous woman; a Jewish couple, a Muslim, a Catholic nun, a Chilean refugee, a Vietnam war orphan and a witch.
“All books got a good reading with at least seven loans per title. Best sellers were the Muslim (29 loans); indigenous woman (19 loans); witch (18 loans) refugee (15 loans) and Vietnamese war orphan (13 loans). In total, the 16 Living Books received 152 loans from 58 registered readers during the five-hour duration of the Living Library.
“Lismore [New South Wales] was the first Australian library I know of to hold [a Living Library event] (November 2006). Bayside in Victoria have on planned for Library Week this year (Mount Barker’s second one will also be held during Library Week 2007). A Living Library was held at the Malmo [Sweden] festival in 2005 and they have been operating at youth festivals in Denmark since 2000."
