Here’s an assumption of mine: the majority of library professionals expect that continuing education and professional development in the field will be done through formal classes, seminars, and conferences–which cost someone (the library professional or their place of employment) money and require face-to-face, in-person attendance. Technology and society being what they are, this isn’t as [...]
Ann Arbor’s Superpatron and the Ann Arbor District Library are putting on Library Camp, a Library 2.0 Unconference. This is exactly the kind of DIY networking I was thinking of. Rawk!
On the mean streets of the ALA Techsource Blog, Tom Peters has written a spiffy post on mashups. And while I think mashups are heppy and swell, I don’t want to talk about mashups right now. I want to stump some more on the librarian community. Talking about the MashupCamp conference, Tom writes something very [...]
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