Mentee/Mentoring opportunity with ArLiS/NA!
Posted: April 13, 2012 | Author: Suzanne C Walsh | Filed under: Advice, ARLIS/NA, ArLiSNAP, Art Librarianship, Museum Librarianship, Opportunities: Professional Development, Opportunities: Volunteer, Professional Associations, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0 | Tags: advice, art librarianship, help, mentees, mentoring, mentors, Professional Development, virtual | Leave a comment »The ARLIS/NA Mentoring Subcommittee seeks applications for the new Virtual Mentoring program. You can apply to be a mentor, mentee, or both using our online form.
Both the mentor and mentee benefit from a successful relationship.
• Mentors provide mentees support, insight, and expertise.
• Mentees offer mentors information about emerging professional trends and technologies, a renewed enthusiasm for issues in art
librarianship, and new perspectives.
We believe that mentoring is not only valuable for the mentor and mentee, but for ARLIS as a whole.
A healthy organization supports mentoring to ensure that individuals coming up in the profession are well-positioned to carry out the goals
of the organization.
See below for additional information or visit: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Xuxf7c-mxCxWQhTl3ynetmk6HHrDEzni-BRhx4KTQcU
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Who’s using Twitter?
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Author: Meredith Kahn | Filed under: News, Social Networking, Technology | Comments OffInteresting piece in the New York Times about social networking tools and user demographics:
As the Web grows up, so do its users, and for many analysts, Twitter’s success represents a new model for Internet success. The notion that children are essential to a new technology’s success has proved to be largely a myth.
Serendipity, Lost in the Digital Deluge
Posted: August 3, 2009 | Author: ccannon | Filed under: Discussion, Information Literacy, Social Networking, Technology | Tags: information management, serendipity, Technology | Comments OffIs the digital age stamping out serendipity? New web services are trying to balance information management with randomness.
Twitter in the (Art) Library
Posted: May 11, 2009 | Author: Meredith Kahn | Filed under: Discussion, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments »As I’m sure we’ve all heard, Twitter is The Next Big Thing. This micro-blogging site allows you to post 140-charater messages to your “followers” and in turn follow the “tweets” of others.
The New York Times has published several great pieces about Twitter in the last few weeks:
- “Gadgetwise: Twitter for Beginners” [a great how-to for those new to the site]
- “All you need to know to Twitter” [a more comprehensive guide, including tips for Facebook integration, tweeting from a mobile device, etc.]
- “Putting Twitter’s World to Use” [yeah, that's great; but what can it do?]
- “The Chatty Classes: Why Twitter is the last thing D.C. needs” [Matt Bai discusses how politicians use and misuse Twitter]
- “Twitter’s Trouble with Repeat Users” [but is it going to be the next Friendster?]
After reading all that, I’m sure you’re asking how this shiny new Web 2.0 tool could become a Library 2.0 tool. Here are a few examples of twittering libraries:
So what do you think? What can art, architecture, and visual resources libraries do with Twitter that perhaps hasn’t been possible before? How does tweeting support our basic mission(s)? Know of a particularly good example of libraries or librarians using Twitter? Let’s talk about it (and more) in the comments below.
Aggregating Conference News
Posted: March 27, 2009 | Author: Bryan Loar | Filed under: 2009 ARLIS/NA Conference Indianapolis, RSS, Social Networking | Tags: arlisna09 | 2 Comments »All,
In an attempt to aggregate more than just the conference news coming out of ARLIS/NA, I’ve created a widget that pulls RSS information from Flickr, YouTube, Technorati, Google Alerts, Delicious, Twitter, as well as the conference’s blog. Of course, there is also a link to the official conference site.
The aggregation is based on the protocol for previous years’ metadata tag. This year’s being “arlisna09.”
Please see my post demonstrating the widget located here – http://tinyurl.com/dedfz5
I’ve also set up a couple of groups. We now have Flickr and YouTube groups for this year’s conference. Please feel free to join and post.
Student-designed ARLIS/ANZ Website Prototype Chosen
Posted: December 14, 2007 | Author: Carter | Filed under: Blogs, International, News, Professional Associations, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, Wikis | 3 Comments »Since September of this year, the ARLIS/ANZ President’s blog detailed the exciting process of choosing a new website designed by Communication Design students at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
In September President Ellen Thompson reported that students were,
“looking at ways to incorporate blogging, wiki and forum technology into the Arlis/ANZ site itself, so that eventually we don’t have to hang third-party freeware off the site, and can communicate with each other and our Chapter colleagues from within our ‘home’. The only way is up, in terms of the functionality we can expect from our future Arlis/ANZ site”
Indeed, the chosen website design does everything mentioned above, and more! Check out the prototype, which is up for demonstration purposes, but awaiting more substantial content. They’ve incorporated space for an image gallery, videos, discussion forums (with spaces for each chapter), a wiki, and more!
Best wishes to the ARLIS/ANZ group on their stunning new web presence!
Libraries and Social Networking
Posted: December 11, 2007 | Author: mmacken | Filed under: Professional Literature, Journals, Publications, Social Networking, Web 2.0 | Comments Off 
“NextSpace (The OCLC Newsletter) asked nine experts to explore and comment on the trends and behaviors of users of the social Web.” Read Gerry McKiernan’s summary: OCLC NextSpace: Libraries and Social Networking
Here is the original OCLC article: http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/007/1.htm
