In the fall of 2013, I will co-teach a 12 week MOOC version of ”The Hyperlinked Library” for San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science. Find out a bit about my motivations for working on this project and how you can participate as a student.
22
Feb
Digital Learning and Badges
I’m in the midst of prepping my syllabus for a summer course entitled “Digital Tools, Trends, and Debates.” One of my modules – in fact, one I’m most excited about – is focused on digital learning and digital literacies, so I think it’s relevant in this week’s worth of material to include in our conversation [...]
21
Oct
The Power Shift in Patron Privacy
In response and extension of Sarah Houghton’s livid take on the patron privacy in the wake of the Overdrive and Amazon eBook agreement, I suggest that we use the opportunity not to reform commercial privacy issues but instead to educate library users on the issues at hand.
12
Oct
No, Libraries cannot be Netflix
Library Renewal asks a provocative question in their post responding to the recent UCLA case regarding streaming of DVDs: If streaming isn’t copying, can libraries be Netflix? It’s a question that I’d bet many libraries would love to have answered in the affirmative. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
05
Nov
UW Gets a New OPAC
UW-Madison and UW extensions are working in cahoots on Forward, a new OPAC for the UW system. In their own words, Forward is a Resource Discovery experiment that builds a unified search interface for library data. Today Forward is 100% of the UW System Library catalogs and two UW digital collections. The project also experiments [...]