Google Voice Search Demo…06.15.11

60 Apps…06.14.11

Sla 60 apps_murphybrown_june2011

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America’s Digital Inclusion Summit…06.14.11

Libraries and ROI (Return on Investment)…06.14.11

ROI and Beyond – Klang

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Highly Effective Website Habits…06.14.11

Seven habits of highly effective library website cilips conference – 7 june 2011

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Gamification…06.14.11

Gamification: Future or Fail?

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BC100 Book Capture System…06.13.11

Scoup.it…06.13.11

An Optimist’s Tour of the Future – What’s Next?…06.13.11

Biggest Websites Compared…06.13.11

Understand collective curation in under 90 seconds…06.13.11

Using the Internet to Research Private Companies…06.13.11

Using the Internet to Research Private Companies

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How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn…0.12.12

Dallas City Council Committee on Quality of Life to Hear from Dave Lankes Monday…06.12.11

From the Dallas Observer:

“Only yesterday I watched as my son’s school’s librarian begged the Dallas ISD school board to reinstate 42 librarians likely to be let go next school year. Trustees who agreed were told: Fine, but we’ll have to fire 42 teachers to make room. Trustees who disagreed insisted: Why do we even need librarians when we have computers? Some also said, look, isn’t it enough that the library’s doors remain open, even if there’s no warm body to keep the books company?

On top of that, year after year after year, dollars are lifted from the Dallas Public Library System’s budget. Librarians are laid off, materials are reduced, hours of operation are cut back. Again, the refrain from the peanut gallery remains a constant: To the Google Machine!

It was surprising, then, to sneak a peek at Monday’s Quality of Life Committee agenda and find that from noon to 12:45 p.m., R. David Lankes, a professor in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, will give a presentation to the council called “Dallas and the Opportunities of a New Librarianship.” This is no small deal: Lankes is the author of the just-published — and well received – Atlas of New Librarianship, for which there is a companion website in which it’s easy to get lost and a series of accompanying videos. Lankes, who travels the world speaking on the subject, imagines a future in which libraries are very much part of everyday life, but only if there are wholesale changes made between now and then.

I called the engaging Lankes this afternoon to sneak preview his presentation, and to find out how he came to be asked to speak at City Hall, where quality-of-life briefings are usually glum, pedestrian affairs. Our Q&A in advance of his talk follows….”

New Seafloor in Google Earth Tour…06.11.11

Culture of the Future Trendhunter…06.10.11

Jody Turner at 2011 Yale Symposium

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This Week in Libraries from Berlin: Social Media and Gaming in Libraries and More…06.10.11

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction…06.09.11

“A vigorous and friendly exhortation to get back into the kind of reading that made you a reader in the first place.” –Library Journal

Change is Constant…06.09.11

SLA RGC Universe

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How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets…06.09.11

Academic Libraries on the Edge…06.09.11

Yale 2011

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Evernote Peek…06.09.11

Global Internet Traffic Expected to Quadruple by 2015…06.09.11

Librarians as Thought Leaders…06.09.11

Myths of Technology and Learning…06.09.11

Conquering the Myths of Technology and Learning

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Emerging Technology Role in Libraries…06.09.11

Role of Emerging Technologies in keeping the Library current

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Leverage Social Media to Engage Library Users…06.08.11

Leveraging Social Media to Engage Library Users

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A New Model for Social Branding…06.08.11

A new model for social branding.

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Librarians – Avoiding the Idea Graveyard…06.08.11

Avoiding the Idea Graveyard

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How Libraries Can Lead in Open Courseware…06.07.11

What, Who, Why of OCW (and how Libraries can lead)

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