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How to Introduce Participatory Service to the Public
Participating in creating online content has become quite common but how can we get people used to the idea of creating content at the library? People will generally have a set idea of how a library...
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Curation Nation — A Context Book Report
With the amount of information on the Internet growing at an exponential rate, search engines’ indexing and algorithms can’t keep up, leaving users unable to get the information they need when they...
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Books… of the Future
If the library brand is books, then changes to books will lead to changes in the image of the library. But what does the future hold? Well, this video has some ideas beyond a straight conversion. All...
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Reflections on Transparency
This week’s articles that talk about transparency make the point that the Internet and social media have made having widespread conversations easier and faster than enough before. The foundational...
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Reflections on Reaching All Users
Historically, libraries have been considered a worthwhile public good. This started to change with the Internet and the erroneous view of many people that libraries were no longer needed as everything...
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RHU Library Social Media Policy
For my library setting, I selected the Royal Harbour University (RHU) Library. This is a fictitious library, serving a small university of about 2000 Full-Time Equivalent students (FTE). For the...
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Reflections on New Literacies
A standard definition of literacy is “The ability of carefully read and write a contemporary spoken language” (Prensky, 2012, p. 193). The concept of literacy has been expanded to types of...
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Reflecting on two books
One common take-away from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink was the idea of thin-slicing, where someone would quickly look at a situation and come up with an evaluation as accurate as someone who studied...
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Virtual Symposium – “Best of Norman’s HyperBlog”
For my contribution to this symposium, I decided to do a “best of” blog post. It feels very vain, evaluating my own work like this, but here it goes. I think I did my best work when I had to put the...
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Reflections on the course
Looking back to the foundational readings and using Buckland’s terminology, I grew up in the eras of the Paper Library and the Automated Library. Later, from 2000 to 2002, I did a Library and...
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