LITA’s Education Committee welcomed all incoming committee members. The main topic of discussion was the planning of a web based course. Results of a recent educational needs survey were also discussed. The areas identified in the survey as topics of interest include: Open Source Software for Libraries; Metadata Structure and

Congratulations to the great people at Ning. Ning Blog » 370,000 Social Networks on Ning! 370,000 Social Networks on Ning! Posted by Gina Bianchini on July 22, 2008 – 4:09 pm We just passed 370,000 social networks on the Ning Platform! Things are hoping fast and furiously over here and the great networks just keep on coming. We love it!

Repository Fringe has a mostly fleshed-out schedule up. Y’know, I could fall flat on my face and this would still be an awesome two days. I am ashamed to admit how much better that makes me feel. (Me? Nervous? Well, um… yeah, actually.) Don’t panic, y’all; I have twenty-odd slides and most of the patter done

Patrick Lambe has reacted to my post on where would we be today if we had no KM movement, would it be any different, would of social networking happened? I agree with the concept Patrick puts forth of , “I’m not sure we would have found our way into the social computing groove if we hadn’t made the mistakes of indiscriminate structure and

Here is the first task for All Together Now: A 2.0 Learning Experience - Blog on School Library Journal. It involves creating a blog and then letting others know about it with some other activities on that blog. I added this blog to the comments section set up for New York State. I like how Michael uses the comments to give out tasks to do

I have always wanted to participate in 23 Things kind of online experience. I am participating in All Together Now guided by Michael Stephens. Here is his first post: Here We Go! And Some Housekeeping - All Together Now: A 2.0 Learning Experience - Blog on School Library Journal.

Just watched a video called Is KM Dead? by Patrick Lambe with Dave Snowden and Larry Prusak. This was alluded to back in 2005 by Martin Dugage, who said businesses were looking at KM as, “processes, engineering and mechanics”, rather they should be looking at it as, “practices, creativity, and social networks

Occasionally I think about the purpose of this blog, and based on the last couple of posts, I'm pretty sure I know. One purpose of the AL is to let librarians vent in the comments, to provide a forum for open discussion and argument. This is of course one of the things that has always bothered my critics. For people who claim not to take anyone

Shawn over at Anecdote has shared the link to his Google Reader Shared Items. This is basically his link blog (similar to del.icio.us) and it’s great that he can also share stuff he finds outside Google Reader into his link blog. I share mine to, if anyone is interested, it’s very similar to my del.icio.us links