When a writer goes looking for young Turks (my words, not Scott’s), you should expect the story to include some brash quotes (writers are supposed to have a chip of ice in their hearts, after all). On the other hand, we’re librarians, so how brash can we be?
Scott Carlson’s Young Librarians, Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Generation [...]

Posted October 16, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: Chronicle of Higher Education, future, information architecture, interview, lib20, libraries, library 2.0. One Comment.

My Dutch skills are weak to non-existant, and without a Google translator for MacArena.be, I’m pretty much stuck with staring at the above video and contemplating the short description provided:
A movie about the technology which Apple has recently patented. It is not a movie made by Apple but by some researchers.
Fortunately, this is an [...]

Posted March 23, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: alan baker, apple, future, hci, human computer interaction, information access, information manipulation, multi-touch, multitouch, near future, patent, touch, touch screen, touch sensitive, touchscreen. 2 Comments.

So, the report was released Monday, and it’s actually titled Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), but the part I’m highlighting here is the results of the question that asked users to compare their experiences with search engines against their experiences with libraries.
Here’s the quesiton:
Satisfaction with the Librarian and the Search Engine — by [...]

Posted December 6, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: compare, future, google, google economy, internet, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, oclc, oclc report, perception, perceptions, Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (200, report, search engine, search engines, user behavior. 4 Comments.

I feel a little misrepresented by a post from Talis’ Richard Wallis claiming you don’t need technology for Library 2.0 - but it helps, but the company blog doesn’t allow embedded URLs, so I’m posting my comment here:
Richard, please don’t misunderstand me. Technology is the essential infrastructure for Library 2.0. My point was that technology [...]

Posted December 6, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: future, ils, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, open systems, talis, vendor, vision, web 2.0, web20. 2 Comments.

Rochelle worries that all this Library 2.0 talk is lost on her library. Ross tells us why he hates the Library 2.0 meme and Dan reminds us it’s not about buzzwords. But Michael is getting closest to a point that’s been troubling me for a while: Library 2.0 isn’t about software, it’s about libraries. It’s [...]

Posted December 2, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: art, challenge, future, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, photography, web 2.0, web20. 16 Comments.

I hadn’t seen Ryan Eby’s post at LibDev that connected ILSs with WordPress before I posted that library catalogs should be like WordPress here. It connects with a my comment on a post at Meredith Farkas’ Information Wants To Be Free. My comment there goes in two directions, but I’d like to focus on the [...]

Posted November 27, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: catalog data, coders wanted, future, future of libraries, future of library catalogs, future of the ils, future of the opac, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalog, library catalogs, library technology, library20, opac, programmers wanted, smart software, software design. 13 Comments.