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Trip to Bavarian State Library – Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Traditionally innovative – 450 Years of the Bavarian State Library   Munich celebrates. In the Bavarian capital the year 2008 – at least within the city’s thriving library network – marks a very special birthday. The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) is celebrating 450th anniversary. The history of the present-day Bavarian State Library (Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, [...]

SUNYLA 09 Keynote – David Lankes: Einstein Goes to a Party

Keynote:  R. David Lankes – Syracuse The Mission of Librarians:  To Improve Society Through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=760 See Join the Mission – http://www.DavidLankes.org Serve Innovate – bring about change Lead – Librarians are trusted 3rd party source, lead on campus, obligation to say “you can be better” … global mission [...]

IIC 2009: Competition for Library Services

Competition for Library Services  – Dr. Larry Nash White Not only provider May not be best Not First provider (14th in OCLC Survey) We compete with each other (libraries) Staffing: poaching & book publishing Competitors: (Options) Bookstores (Physical and online) Mom & Pop LSSI – outsourcing lib services (public, small academic, special libraries and they do it well) [...]

MBTI – thoughts

Allows people to be who they are, not what you want them to be

David Lewis Workshop:

David Lewis (dlewis@iupui.edu) “Innovators Dillema” see site .. “Public Lib of Science” see Price for Open Source Publication Fee  (ie: $2500 .. editorial board) Beware of “corporate capture” … Find Open Source Publishers / Fees .. I need samples Publishers who only do – Print on demand – ebook only ?? CC – Noncommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 [...]

Idea: Mine TED Site for libraries

Mine “Ted” For Ideas and applications in Libraries

Idea: Photosynth

Where is a place for photosynth in the library? http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html http://livelabs.com/photosynth/ http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photosynth/synth