Jeeze, I just notice that it’s been almost a month since my last LIT blog. Well, I’ve been busy! I’ve been working on the Phase 3/4 planning, ordering staff computers (which took way longer than expected because of the local interpretation of the Governor’s directive), upgrading student computers, overseeing the Pharos Printer changeover, changing the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Strategic Planning’
June 10, 2008
ACRL Webcast: Coming of age online
I’m sort of liveblogging (without the snark) from the ACRL Webcast of their study called “Coming of Age Online.“
A couple of highlights so far:
They mention that they found students use what they call “cell phone culture” to kick off their research.
Basically, the students would call friends and family and ask “what do you think of [...]
April 29, 2008
Lynda Gratton: Competition or Collaboration?
I was up late a few nights ago because (I don’t know if you know this) my pregnant girlfriend has a bladder the size of a pea. I guess carrying around little Bostelle 2.0 tends to squish up all the other organs. Any way, she needs to get up every hour or so, [...]
March 14, 2008
exabytes, zettabyte, yottabyte, oh my
It turns out that human being are creating a LOT of data. 180 exabytes in 2006 to be exact. And we’re creating data faster than we can keep up with the storage medium needed to store it, much less the people needed to maintain and protect it.
Which makes me wonder about libraries, librarians, and librarianship.
70% [...]
February 19, 2008
3 meetings later…
I have had three meetings about the new space and right now there’s so much stuff swimming around in my head it feels like it could explode. But I guess I can report this:
The Architects are very familiar with building libraries. They are here to assist and I am in contact with them through Catherine [...]
February 7, 2008
iPod Touch, bigger bandwidth, and your cable company
One of the emerging trends in the cable industries is toward differential charging for internet usage. In other words: give you all the pipe that you can afford. Already Time-Warner is trialing hard bandwidth caps and tiered pricing for data in Texas (is Texas the harbinger of ALL evil?) where they limit downloads and charge [...]
February 7, 2008
Learning Caves
I met yesterday with Beckie Etheridge and Stern Neill in order to talk about their idea to apply for a Founder’s Endowment Grant that would transform some spaces in the library into “Learning Caves.” Basically, what they want to do is take the area currently housing the maps collection and the ADA workstation (and a [...]
February 6, 2008
Literature review for building planning
As William S. Burroughs once famously said “Well, this is insane.”
I can’t believe how much information there is available on the Information Commons (Learning Commons, etc) idea. So many places have been ramping up on and studying this idea since it first burst on the scene in 2004 (ish — it’s actually a much older [...]
January 31, 2008
So much stuff for a Thursday!
Hey, yeah, I’m BACK.
I have a meeting in 20 minutes to get trained on how to do the one-on-one interviews that the library is going to be conducting for our strategic planning process. I planned on blogging about strategic planning and to that end created a Strategic Planning category in the blog. But [...]
