As part of the SCLA Conference, I attended a tour of the Riverbank Botanical Gardens and their library. I had visited the gardens before, but found it much more interesting with a tour guide, who knew the plants and what they where. I took a lot of photos. Check them out in Flickr.
Riverbank Biotanical Gardens Wednesday, Oct 31 2007
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SCLA Opening Keynote Address Wednesday, Oct 31 2007
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“People are the Heart of it All” said Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director of the American Library Association at the opening keynote address at SCLA Conference. Mr. Fiels talked about the different challenges that face libraries in today’s world. Some of them we have always faced, other are new challenges that we face with the changing economy and Internet usage of today.
What libraries need to do to keep up with the challenges are
- Serve ALL
- Lead the way in Diversity
- Preserve First Amendment Rights of Patrons
- Fight to Keep information Free
- Lead the World
He also talked about some of the programs ALA is doing including the ILoveLibraries.org site, thier Advocacy Institute, which will teach library leaders advocacy techniques.
Can libraries survive? That is the question that we will be needing to discus in the upcoming future. Finding the funding, staff, and fighters for libraries is what we need and what we will have to maintain and cultivate.
Congratulations to Dr. Curtis Rogers on becoming the President of SCLA next year. We look forward to see what you will bring to the organization. Also, Congratulations to all the other incoming officers.
Congratulation to the Diversity in Librarianship Scholarship winner, Annie Young Patrick.
New Yorker article on Digitization. Monday, Oct 29 2007
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Anthony Grafton published an interesting article on Digitization and its discontents titled Future Reading, in the Nov. 5, 2007, New Yorker. It sparks a lot of interesting thoughts about the course of digitization.
Here is a quote from the article:
“The rush to digitize the written record is one of a number of critical moments in the long saga of our drive to accumulate, store, and retrieve information efficiently. It will result not in the infotopia that the prophets conjure up but in one in a long series of new information ecologies, all of them challenging, in which readers, writers, and producers of text have learned to survive.”
SCLA Thursday, Oct 25 2007
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I will be attending the South Carolina Library Association Conference in Columbia, SC Oct.31 – Nov. 2, 2007. I will post information about the conference here. What I am planning on attending, and what is discussed in the sessions I attend.
Hello Thursday, Oct 25 2007
Well, I started this blog to keep me informed about what I am doing. Also, for those interested in what I am doing. I will post it to my MySpace account and my Facebook account. We well see how well this blogging goes. As I am not one to write, who knows.
