Today I attended a Librarian as Consultant course. The overall message of the day was that as consultants librarians should be working to change the perception of our role from information provider to information adviser. I think one of the key challenges of this is getting our users to understand what skills we have and how we can use these to help them not only access information but evaluate and manage it as well. Throughout the day the thought that kept coming in to my mind was how this links to the echolib debate that is developing on Twitter. If [...]
January, 2010:
23 Things Oxford
Over the past couple of months I have been working with a team of fellow librarians planning Oxford’s first 23 Things programme. The aim of the programme is to introduce library staff to web 2.0 technologies. We are basing our programme on the original 23 things, or Learning 2.0, programme run by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County in 2006. The 23 Things programme involves doing 23 activities (things) over 12 weeks to give library staff in all roles experience using web 2.0 technologies. Each week, the things will be posted on our blog for people to follow [...]
