The Call for Speakers for the Internet Librarian 2011 conference (Monterey, CA, October 17-19) has been extended to April 4.  Here is the announcement:

***Call for Speakers extended until April 4***

Share your Ideas and Champion New Practicesat Internet Librarian 2011
Theme: Revolutionizing the Net with Content, Connections & Conversations
The deadline to submit proposals to speak at Internet Librarian, which will be held October 17-19, 2011 at the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey CA, has been extended.  This is your opportunity to bring your expertise to the ONLY conference for information professionals who are using, developing, and embracing Internet, Intranet, and Web-based strategies in their roles as information architects and navigators.Internet Librarian caters to all interests and all levels of knowledge with five simultaneous tracks, including Internet@Schools, plus many workshop and networking opportunities.

Click here to submit a proposal

Applications for the 2011 ALA Emerging Leaders (EL) program are now open. APPLY! If you haven’t heard about this program, here is what it’s all about.

The ALA Emerging Leaders (EL) program is a leadership development program which enables newer library workers from across the country to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with peers, gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. It puts participants on the fast track to ALA committee volunteerism as well as other professional library-related organizations.

The participants are selected on diversity based on geography, gender, ethnicity and type of library. Particular attention is given to candidates’ personal statements as well as those of their references. No more than one person from any institution can be selected for participation in the program.

Also, In order to be eligible for participation in the program, those selected must meet the following criteria:

1. Be under 35 years of age or be a new library professional of any age with fewer than 5 years of experience working at a professional or paraprofessional level in a library and
2. Be able to attend both ALA conferences and work virtually in between the two conferences and
3. Be prepared to commit to serve on an ALA, Division, Chapter, or Round Table committee, taskforce or workgroup, or your state or local library organization upon completion of program, and
4. Be an ALA member or join upon selection if not already a member.

Deadline for submission of online application and all references is July 30.  All reference letters should be submitted online by the same deadline.

I wish everyone who applies for this great program the best of luck!

List of 2010 Class of Emerging Leaders

2009 Emerging Leaders Information

2009 Poster Session Photos
Chicago EL times and places: Friday 8:30-5:00, and Salon Saturday 1:30-3:00: both at McCormick Place West W185
2009 Emerging Leaders Program
2009 Participants
2009 Projects
Salon Notes January 2009
Salon Notes July 2009
Poster Session Information

2008 Emerging Leaders information

2008 Emerging Leaders Program (Completed June 2008 at ALA Annual in Anaheim)
2008 Participants
2008 Projects

2007 Emerging Leaders Information

2007 Emerging Leaders Program (Completed June 2007 at ALA Annual in Washington D.C.)
2007 Participants
2007 Projects

This is the 40th anniversary year of the GLBTRT and the the round table has lots to offer. If you would like to learn a little bit more about what we do, here is our mission statement. Also, feel free to check out the newsletter, resources, general information, events and meetings, or become a member.

In addition to this feel free to check us out on Twitter, Facebook, flickr, ALA blogs, del.icio.us, livejournal, and Myspace.

If you would like any other information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Information fluency and Imagining the internet  Lee Rainie

From the Pew Internet and the American Life Project

Technology is a queer thing is brings you gifts with one hand and it stabs you in the back with the other – C.P. Snow

Librarians are primarily the stake holders and most important consumers of our work

If you would like to follow them on Twitter you can do so here:

@lrainie

@Pew_internet

However please don’t Tweckle

Tweckle – the chronicle of higher education

2000 – slow stationary connections built around PC

46% of adults use net

5% have broadband

50% have cell phone

0% wireless

2010 – built around outside servers & storage

75% of adults use net

62% broadband at home

80% cell phone

53% wirelessly

Digital Divide is still real, there are populations who need and want help, librarians are essential to this because we can teach and can make people comfortable in ways that others can’t

Handheld  services are changing the digital divide especially when it comes  to online access within the African American and Hispanic Communities. This Shrinking of the digital divide is due to the access to the the internet through smartphone technology now.

Media ecology of the American household

Sanford C. Berstein

Fluency and navigating the new demands of this area and environment

Network creators

Info fluency – how libs can make a difference

57% of adults are social network users

37% of share photos – Life Logging

30% share personal creations

30% contribute rankings & ratings

28% create content tags

26% post content on blogs

19% use twitter – Gen X is the dominant user base

15% have personal website

15% content mixers

14% are bloggers

Manuel Castells

Four cultures shaped the intenbet

1.Techno-elites peer review built the internet

intrernet Openness, Enshired a sense of the Scientifiic method, peer review, Meritocracy

2.Hackers Freedom ” free speech”

3.Virtual Communitarians horizontal free communication

Entrepreneur Generate money

5tnh culture is identifable

4.Network creators

Democratized the voices in media

Challenged Traditional media gatekeepers

You become more engaged and someone that has a stake in the culture

about a 5th have created health contentr

Reshaping the relation ships between Dr.s and Patients

Online patient communities

1. Produce cont that helps them expand the SN and increase their social standing

Beyond Reality – Janet and Maddie

Macfound.org Digital literacy program

13 elements

Using it to build reputational capitl

2.Produce content to create Social posses to solve problems ( Jesse Hersch Blogger in Toronto)

Chrowdsourcing wisdom especially among strangers who share a common purpose

Fast checking an transparency

Production and accumulation

3. Produce content “Just in time just like me spaces “

Community building in the most profound sense

” Birds of a feather” Homophily that are “spaceless”

Communities of Pratcie

4. Produce content unlike the news media

Technorati and Ice rocket

only about 30% in traditional media was covered in the social media sphere

off-beat storied

American exceptionalism

Cultural clevages and social issues more than economic issues

You can be a node in people socail networks as they seek info to help them solve probs. and meet their needs

you’re their smarter friends Velocity anbd volume are groweing and they need you more than ever andf they need tou to help them nacvigate them.

Alert maker and helper in theis environment Pam Berger

Henry Jenkins 13 literacies

Screen literacy matter Graphics and symbols

Navigational literacy

Connections and context literacy

skepticism

Value of contemplative time How to create content

Ethical behavior in the new world

Participatory divide is as if not more important than the digital divide

Ways to access and value have changed

Multi audiences, platforms, and educational levels

We are the Anchor for our community

Therefore, a transliterate person is one who is literate across multiple media. Well, nothing hit it home more to me then how people communicated their best to me yesterday.

Each person had a choice as in how to say Happy Birthday to me and they picked a way that was not only comfortable to them, but also a way that they knew I would get it, understand it, and appreciate it. Many of my friends that are considered “Millennial” used social media/software like Facebook, Twitter, and Friend Feed even though a majority live relatively close. I received emails, ecards, and quick chats from others letting me know they cared via my gmail service. Others opted to text message, call, or send me picture mail through my phone. One friend even used Skype to video conference with me. Lastly, the good old face to face and postal cards rounded out the expressions of good will for the day.

The impetus of this is that each person was able to communicate the same message to me across a wide range of media in which the felt comfortable using, and knew I would be able to understand and respond. This simple and innoxious act of saying Happy Birthday is a fantastic way to see how we use Transliteracy to communicate in everyday life.

“Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers.” – Wikipedia

Too many people are applying this to their existing service but are still using it as industrial media. Granted these services require time and effort to work accurately and effectively and most people don’t have/aren’t interested in the time it takes to maintain and cultivate relationships within their community. Creating something because its new and “sexy” to just have it is more of a hindrance than a help for many reasons.

Treating social media as sales process engineering. Spending too much time trying to sell people with your content instead of participating and finding out what people want.

Not using social media as a customer service platform. Focusing on marketing and promotion, but failing to engage customers when it comes to concerns they bring up.

Underusing social media sites by not knowing how to use all the features and don’t use a site to its full capability.

Joining social media sites without a strategy, process, or training.

Misunderstanding social media behavior by treating it as technology, without recognizing norms that influence interaction.

Making it about vanity instead of learning about the people they follow.

Focus largely on Return of Investment without recognizing that social media is about relationship building, and it will take time for this.

The impetus of this post it that if you are going to utilize social media services, make sure that you fully understand the work involved and try to learn more about the community in which you operate. Realize that you have to put down the megaphone and really engage the people around you.

Here is a brief description of our program: With the current advancements in ebook services and the deluge of ebook reading devices into the market, the choices are endless. This session looks at the current state of ebook technology: devices available, vendors, incorporating ebooks into your collection, and considerations when circulating ebook readers. It helps you understand the options and implications for dealing with ebooks in your environment.

I hope to meet many of the people that I connect with through social media  face to face. See you there!

I started this morning off like ever other morning for me by check my gmail, google calendar, twitter account (strng_dichotomy), and Facebook. After that I looked at what I had listed as my set tasks and goals for the day.

This day was going to be primarily focused on finishing up on the staff training day for our system planned for February 22. This was given to the  CVL LEADS! Program participants as our first large project. I was appointed project manager and must make sure that the day goes off without a hitch.  The first thing that I do is look at the wiki we created to see if anyone has made changes and where we are with certain sections of the day.

I contact the person handling the lunch catering and discuss where he will be setting up, what the planned menu will be, how long he will need for set up, and that I have the finalized contract.  I then review the contract for the catering company that will be suppling breakfast and our snacks for midday, making sure that the numbers for both work within the amount I have allocated for food in the overall budget.

Then I review the contracts for the presenters making sure that the times listed match the master schedule. Making sure that all the paper work and budget request form for our Keynote speaker Lydia Ramsey are in order and finalized (I’m very excited to have Buffy Hamilton, Pat Carterette, andDarin Givens among others doing breakout sessions). Fill out my purchase request for folders and other paper products we will need, began creating my registration forms for the staff in Access, created a template for the letter explaining the functions that each branch will be responsible for on the 22nd, and speak to my deputy director about the status of the staff day.

Look over the dates to present our bicycle safety courses for adults and children that we are doing, in conjunction with, River Valley Regional Commission. The one hour workshops will focus on the skills necessary for riding on the road (such as signaling, scanning in front and behind, stopping quickly and turning), road rules for bicycle riders, as well as tips for cycling throughout our community. All of this is in preparation for the Annual Bike to Work Day.

Then I check over my email and respond to what I need to, take a copy of my approved travel packet for Computers in Libraries 2010 to my deputy director, and finalize my time sheet for finance.

I start the evening off by picking up, scanning, and reshelving our NF materials.  Help patrons while doing roving reference on the second floor and then take my shift at the reference desk.

While at the desk I deal with helping set up email accounts, creating resumes and cover letters, navigating job sites, school projects, reports, research projects, and a plethora of other computer related questions.  All the while answering phone calls, reserving materials for patrons, and reserving meeting rooms and study rooms.

At the end of the night I shut down the computer lab, restock the 4 printers and 3 copiers in the reference department, make the end of day announcement and head home.

When I get home I eat and start to ready myself mentally for my interview at the Simon Schwob Memorial Library.  I put out the clothes I plan on wearing and then enjoy the rest of my evening by watching The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie before heading to bed.