The Center for Information Research and Innovation (CIRI) at the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science fosters research in our field, aimed at generating exemplary new practices and innovative products to benefit a global audience. We invite you to explore CIRI and learn more about our projects and our partners. [...]]]>

The Center for Information Research and Innovation (CIRI) at the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science fosters research in our field, aimed at generating exemplary new practices and innovative products to benefit a global audience. We invite you to explore CIRI and learn more about our projects and our partners. If you are interested in joining us on our research journey, we’d like to hear from you.

http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ciri/

Please check out the various pages – Current Projects for sure! –  and don’t miss our blog. Faculty will be sharing information and insights about research and teaching in LIS with the greater community. I just contributed my first post on Learning 2.0:

http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/blogs/wp/ciri/2012/05/13/learning2-0/

This semester, I’m teaching a new class based on Mezirow’s concepts of transformative learning, the work of Char Booth in the arena of user instruction, and the Learning 2.0 model…. We’re working with consultant Polly-Alida Farrington, who teamed up three [...]]]> In Library Journal this past month, I explored the concept of “learning everywhere.”  Here’s a snip:

This semester, I’m teaching a new class based on Mezirow’s concepts of transformative learning, the work of Char Booth in the arena of user instruction, and the Learning 2.0 model…. We’re working with consultant Polly-Alida Farrington, who teamed up three groups of my students with two libraries and a school library consortium in New York State. Over the course of our 15-week semester, each group is adapting, designing, and running a “mini-23 Things” for its assigned organization.

It’s been a fun, chaotic, and messy experience. In our weekly group chats online, the mantra has become “Learn by doing….” Real-world messiness offers a level of experience unmatched by classroom activities. This high-tech/high-touch experience sets the students on course for getting jobs and taking on future projects.

The class has been incredible. Three groups of students created Learning 2.0 websites for three insitutions:

• Bethlehem Public Library – Opening Doors to the Future
• Crandall Public Library – Create +8
• Oswego County BOCES – Expand Your Toolkit

Here’s the cool thing. We’ve archived all of the modules the students created for their programs here: http://thehyperlinkedlibrary.org/learning20/

We want them to be available for any future Learning 2.0 programs or just for individual library staff to explore. Please share far and wide.

I also want to take a bit of space here to thank some important folks:

• Everyone at the project sites above who worked with my students and participated in the programs. I took a step back and let the groups interact and plan with the point people and I am most pleased at how successful it was.
• Special thanks to Polly-Alida Farrington, who volunteered her time to work with us – coordinating the project sites and meeting with us in our online workspace throughout the planning stages of the projects.
• A huge shout out and thank you to Char Booth. We used her incredible book Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators as our text. Char also gave her time, lecturing for us and coming back to answer questions during a project debrief.
• And, of course, a big thank you to the brave students who took this class. it was the first time I had ever done such a project-based learning experience. I am knocked out by their work and the high quality of their reflections of the process. They also designed their own online personal learning networks as part of the course. Very impressive work!

Attendance was light in the early afternoon, but began to pick up as …. — “Wait!” I know you’re all saying, astonished: “The Portland Public Library???!!”

Sonya [...]]]> The Portland Regional Chamber held its annual business expo on Wednesday, and booths included the usual: credit unions, hotels, sign shops, telecom companies, the Portland Public Library.

Attendance was light in the early afternoon, but began to pick up as …. — “Wait!” I know you’re all saying, astonished: “The Portland Public Library???!!”

Sonya Durney, who is the Business and Government Librarian at my library just recently did something super awesome.  She took her show on the road the Portland Business Expo and talked to local small businesses about the benefits of using their local library.

Durney explained: “If we can help local businesses, it’s helping the community. It’s a very symbiotic relationship – the community thrives, the library thrives. Everybody’s happy.”

Click here for the full article and for the WONDERFUL photos our Business and Government Team took at the expo, click here.

-Post by Justin Hoenke, Tame the Web Contributor

Well done!

TADL is my home library here in northern Michigan.

This morning I presented at the IU Libraries staff institute day. It was very cool to visit the IU Campus in Bloomington after being away for so long. The talk was in the Whittenberger Auditorium, the same location where Union Board Films showed movies in the 80s. I served with the film group throughout [...]]]>

This morning I presented at the IU Libraries staff institute day. It was very cool to visit the IU Campus in Bloomington after being away for so long. The talk was in the Whittenberger Auditorium, the same location where Union Board Films showed movies in the 80s. I served with the film group throughout my undergrad experience. Thanks to all who attended. I was especially glad to meet some recent IU SLIS graduates.

The slides are here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/IUBloomington.pdf

Nice to revisit the work Mick Jacobsen did back in 2007. Time and Technology fly!

Internet Reference Services Quarterly is a refereed journal that presents research and practical information about reference librarianship in the digital age. The journal offers studies and articles on technology and innovations related to the delivery of library user services, including reference, [...]]]> Internet Reference Services Quarterly (http://goo.gl/Q0np0) is now accepting manuscripts for the 2012/13 volume year.

Internet Reference Services Quarterly is a refereed journal that presents research and practical information about reference librarianship in the digital age. The journal offers studies and articles on technology and innovations related to the delivery of library user services, including reference, research consultation, instruction, information literacy, user design and usability, and electronic reference materials and sources.

Internet Reference Services Quarterly welcomes articles covering topics on the online, electronic and digital aspects and nature of library reference and information services, including reference practices, research consultations, reference sources and tools, professional librarianship, electronic communications, information literacy, instruction, online searching, training and education, managing reference services, evaluating information services and sources, software and technology, and user populations.

Internet Reference Services Quarterly receives all manuscripts electronically via the journal’s ScholarOne website:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/WIRS.

The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2012. Please send questions to IRSQ editor Jason Sokoloff at sokolojk(at)jmu.edu.

For more information about Internet Reference Services Quarterly, including complete submission instructions, visit www.tandfonline.com/WIRS

http://justinthelibrarian.com/2012/05/01/bibliothekartag-in-hamburg-germany-may-20-25-2012/

You can find more information about the conference here:http://www.bibliothekartag2012.de/

I will be in Hamburg from May 21th to the 25th to attend and present at the conference.  During my time there, I will be presenting on the following [...]]]> Great news! In partnership with the Zukunftwerkstatt, TTW Contributor Justin Hoenke will be speaking at the 2012 Bibliothekartag!

http://justinthelibrarian.com/2012/05/01/bibliothekartag-in-hamburg-germany-may-20-25-2012/

You can find more information about the conference here:http://www.bibliothekartag2012.de/

I will be in Hamburg from May 21th to the 25th to attend and present at the conference.  During my time there, I will be presenting on the following topics:

•  Help unveil the German/American Gaming Library/Museum/Archive League, which was developed in collaboration with Eli Neiburger and Christoph Deeg.
• Present on the topic of gaming in libraries and share my experiences with implementing video game programs and collections with German librarians.
• Participate in a workshop for librarians on how we can possibly  change the management structure of libraries in the future (for more information, please see these two posts: http://goo.gl/DI0cc and http://goo.gl/Cxpqv)
• And finally, of course, enjoying some video games with librarians from Europe!