http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/89 Why stop dreaming when you wake up? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:43:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/89/comment-page-1#comment-302 Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » The tutor and his pupil? Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:39:23 +0000 http://localhost/remainingrelevant/?p=89#comment-302 [...] The latest version Michael Habib’s Academic Library 2.0 Concept Model comes to me this morning by way of Jennifer. I find it one of the best and clearest explanations of why we, as librarians should care about the current online social trend. I wonder, though, how does it change when applied to public libraries of all sizes? My first inclination is just to point out that it gets longer. Communities that public libraries serve are so diverse - how can you serve both the house-bound elderly who’ve grown to use the library as their main social contact and now can’t as well as the college bound student? The tutor and his pupil? The answer is that Library 2.0 doesn’t mean that Library 1.0 (or Library B.C.?) stops - it simply embellishes. It provides tools for reaching out to more patrons in a way that you haven’t done before. [...] [...] The latest version Michael Habib’s Academic Library 2.0 Concept Model comes to me this morning by way of Jennifer. I find it one of the best and clearest explanations of why we, as librarians should care about the current online social trend. I wonder, though, how does it change when applied to public libraries of all sizes? My first inclination is just to point out that it gets longer. Communities that public libraries serve are so diverse - how can you serve both the house-bound elderly who’ve grown to use the library as their main social contact and now can’t as well as the college bound student? The tutor and his pupil? The answer is that Library 2.0 doesn’t mean that Library 1.0 (or Library B.C.?) stops - it simply embellishes. It provides tools for reaching out to more patrons in a way that you haven’t done before. [...]

]]> http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/89/comment-page-1#comment-301 Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » Because XXX said so, that’s why. Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:38:41 +0000 http://localhost/remainingrelevant/?p=89#comment-301 [...] Picture this: a girl up late hunched over her desk in her pjs. Lights are low. House is cold (it’s winter in New Hampshire and, honey, it’s cold outside… but heat costs money). And she pens an empassioned plea - okay, not the empassioned and not really a plea, but marginally clever and insightful. Anyway. Within moments of posting, still high on her own righteousness, she encounters Jenny’s Online Library User Manifesto, answering my question before it was even asked and knocking my ego down a few necessary notches. [...] [...] Picture this: a girl up late hunched over her desk in her pjs. Lights are low. House is cold (it’s winter in New Hampshire and, honey, it’s cold outside… but heat costs money). And she pens an empassioned plea - okay, not the empassioned and not really a plea, but marginally clever and insightful. Anyway. Within moments of posting, still high on her own righteousness, she encounters Jenny’s Online Library User Manifesto, answering my question before it was even asked and knocking my ego down a few necessary notches. [...]

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