Marianne Lenox

Alternative Literature (Or Why I Love XKCD Comics)

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:16:49 PDT

Blogger's Dynamic Views are Awesome until they Suck

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:24:40 PDT

I couldn't stand it and had to play with Blogger's Dynamic Views after their last update. While it's moving more towards customization by allowing header images and other basic deviations from the templates in the Template Designer, it's still very, very buggy.

Comments are totally screwed and the form doesn't always show up below the post in some. I did have Discus commenting installed, and they show up fine in the mobile view.

Huh.

In the meantime, and if you don't see a comment form below, please feel free to contact me through this site, on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. Reactions to posts should show up, but I can't really tell. Either they'll figure it out by listening to users or I'll find the time to revert to one of the more stable templates....

One Halloween, in a Parisian Bookstore...

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:31:28 PDT

I adored this stunning Spike Jonze Film titled "Mourir Auprès de Toi" Set in a Parisian bookstore, the Ghost of Macbeth, a very randy skeleton, finds true love in Lady Macbeth. They get delightfully raunchy at the end!

The Celebrated Filmmaker and Designer Olympia Le-Tan Co-create a Tale to Pierce the Heart Designer Olympia Le-Tan's embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers. "It's such a beautiful and romantic place,” offers Le-Tan of the antiquarian bookstore. [Nowness]

Are you concerned about Freedom of Access to Information? Google Reader Isn't.

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:44:49 PDT

Many of you know that I'm a huge fan of Google Reader and have taught several sessions on using it for keeping up with your learning network or for mass information retrieval from trusted sources.

Google, however, plans to remove its sharing capabilities when they integrate Reader into Google Plus. Initially, I thought Google Reader's users (including myself) would just have to adapt, but then I learned that Google Reader is the #1 website in Iran because it's citizens use it to get unfiltered information from an otherwise oppressive government.

As explained by Amir on Amirhm.com, Google Reader is not a separate domain (i.e., it’s available at www.google.com/reader) and it’s available behind a secure URL beginning https. This setup makes it hard for the government to directly block and filter Reader, even though many other social services, including Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Tumblr, Flickr and Picasa, are routinely banned in Iran, a country that’s ranked as the world’s worst oppressor of online freedoms. [TechCrunch]

If this troubles you, read more about how The World Is Surprisingly Angry About the End of Google Reader. Join The...Whatever Percent Who Use Google Reader. Let's let our voices be heard to Save Google Reader by signing the Petition to Google: don't kill Google Reader!

Is Siri an Evolutionary Milestone?

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:28:32 PDT

Having just upgraded to the iPhone 4S, this review might just as well say two words:

Holy crap!

I've played with the 4S for about a day and a half, and yes... I'm blown away. I've had smartphones for years and have never experienced this level of intuitiveness in its' design. It's like I can see the future of human-computer interaction and am a part of it. Siri, the virtual personal assistant available on the device has gotten a lot of much deserved press since the announcement and release, I'm finding her to be quite pleasant, with a decent sense of humor for a robot.

Perhaps she's meant to be personal, so that we can get to know her and become comfortable when verbally asking, (instead of using a keyboard or mouse) our devices to do things and have them intelligently respond.

Read this article on how the iPhone4S will reaveal the Mac of the future and apply it to the larger evolutionary process of humans in the digital age.

Your thoughts?

Digital Library Books: DMZ to the Kindle App on an iPhone

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:40:03 PDT

The Kindle iPhone App provides a great way for those of us who don't actually own a Kindle to download library books onto our iOS devices. Here's a quick, impromptu screencast to show how our digital library patrons can benefit from the Overdrive / Amazon partnership...

Transcending the worldview of librarianship today, one radical comic frame at a time

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:35:47 PDT

From The Atlas of New Librarianship, headed by our 2010 Staff Day keynote Professor R. David Lankes
Happy Friday!

Improvements to Google+ Hangouts make it a potentially awesome free training tool

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:16:46 PDT

From Lifehacker:

We've always been keen on Google+ Hangouts, but a recent update provided some extras that make the experience even better. Now you can share your screen, collaborate in Google Docs, and even draw together in SketchUp. Additionally, the Hangouts API provides developers with the ability to integrate Hangouts into their own web apps. This could become a very interesting way to not only collaborate on work, but also share media and play games with other people across the web. More »

What a great tool for in-house staff development and training! I've been using Livestream's Procaster for a while and am very unhappy with the ads and consistency of the recordings. But now, the screencasting, document collaboration, whiteboard and archiving capabilities in Google Hangouts could very well replace those other on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and videoconferencing applications for free. Woah.

Update: I've been playing with Hangouts quite a bit this morning and definitely see the potential for learning with this tool. Currently participants must have a Google Identity and the voice and video plugin. Soon, we're told, they'll roll out "Hangouts on Air" for everyone and the training sessions could be broadcasted on live on youtube.

That? Will indeed be awesome.

Borders’ Last Gasps of Irony

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:43:40 PDT

Bye, Bye Borders

Image and title courtesy mthruf.com

Reflections on my recent Personal Learning Presentation

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:05:57 PDT

I had such a great time at WebJunction / ALA Learning Roundtable online conference Trends in Library Training and Learning 2011. Thanks to the excellent production team, the whole conference was a real learning bonanza for those interested in library training and instruction. My session, Happiness through Personal Learning, went well, I think. My voice wasn't in best form, but for the most part I was pleased as I listened to the archive.

I've done quite a bit of thinking on my own Personal Learning habits in the days since the presentation. During the second half of the session I discussed how I use Google Reader almost exclusively as my communication hub and pointed out the question mark around Blogger's icon in my model...

I do want to document the changes in my process from the 2007 model, since analyzing one's methods is such an important part of the Personal Learning Environment. In the webinar I said I don't really use my blog as a reflective tool any longer and that I wasn't sure of the reason why, I think I've figured out that it's because lately I've dedicated more personal time for that pursuit of happiness in my analog world than in this one. Also, as those in my Learning Network may know, I am not a prolific writer by any mean, and the 140 character limit on Twitter or a shared link at Facebook or Google Plus seems to suit the reflective requirements for me right now.

If you attended, (or view the archives) I'd love your comments on the presentation. For evaluation purposes, did you remember my three main points a week later? What did you like or dislike about my delivery? The content or premise? Really, I'd be very interested in your comments and welcome any critique. As a trainer, your evaluation of my presentation is a very real way for me to learn and improve my skills. My subjective well-being can take it, I promise. :)

I'd also love to hear of your own Personal Learning process if you'd like to share!

"Learn" is compelling, indeed

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:43:59 PDT

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Discription: 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ....into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films.....

= a trip of a lifetime.

Just beautiful!

Can you really find happiness at an online conference?

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:18:22 PDT

I'm so excited to be a part of a collaborative online conference titled "Trends in Library Training and Learning: Developing Staff Skills for the 21st Century" slated for August 10 - 11 of this year! WebJunction and the ALA Learning Round Table come together to offer two days of free learning that will "help library trainers, managers and staff to find new ways to train, learn and keep up" according Sharon Morris, ALA Learning Round Table President 2010-11. And what a line-up! I'm honored to be among those very smart people who know a whole lot more than I do.

For several years I've been thinking about happiness and how I could ever possibly achieve it. I've also been passionate about personal learning, or the ability to better myself with only a few simple online tools. Several months ago a great big light went off inside my head and showed me the connection between the two. When Sharon wrote and asked if I'd do a presentation I knew I had something to share...

Happiness Through Personal Learning
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - our unalienable rights. While life and liberty are often dictated by circumstance, happiness usually remains a goal. How do we obtain it? What makes us happy? No matter what your answer to this question, one thing is certain, happiness and the things that make us happy are learned. Using online tools afforded to us by the digital century, in this session, Marianne Lenox will help you define your own unique learning methodology and set you on a course for pursuing both personal and professional happiness.

Can you really find happiness at an online conference? Join us and find out!

If you're ready for a zombie apocalypse or the 2nd deadliest tornado outbreak in recent history...

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:22:49 PDT

... then you're ready for any emergency.

If our library had an Emergency Manager, it would be me. I've been the lead on writing and implementing our disaster plan. First, the committee and I enacted a comprehensive emergency plan in 2008 and then ultimately rolled in into a full disaster and recovery scenario. I'm very pleased to say that the disaster plan was finally published and approved by our board and the State library service.

The most difficult part to convey was the section on "Shelter in Place". Our plan states that if our local Emergency Management Agency gives the order, we're to lock the doors, seal them as best we can, and move into protective areas. No one gets in... or out.

When training for the plan I used the Zombie analogy for staff. Not a pleasant thought, but it does well exemplify what we'd have to do if there were a major toxic threat in the area. Coincidentally, this week, the CDC even made it official with this blog post and social media campaign.

Also coincidientally, three weeks ago today, April 27th, I was to introduce the overall plan and conduct another session of "Person in Charge in Case of Emergency" training after our monthly manager's meeting. The first round of tornado warnings came in as we concluded the meeting and took a break before training. Staff and patrons went into our protective areas, we ultimately closed the library early in the afternoon during a break in the storms. It got worse, but fortunately none of our staff were hurt and none of our libraries were hit by the storms. Statewide, the official death count stands at 238 and there is an estimated 2 to 5 billion dollars in damage. Only the Super Outbreak of 1974 beats this in tornado event history.

Alabama is still recovering and will be for a long time.... but recover we will. You can help at http://www.servealabama.gov/.

Locally, our planning committee meets next week, the first since the tornadoes. A part of the disaster planning process, we have to analyze what we did right and what went wrong. And find out what we can do better, despite those things of which we had no control.

In both cases, there's still so much to be done.

Infographic: Anatomy of a Librarian

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:38:59 PDT

How could I not post this from Infographics Showcase? It's sexy and smart, just like librarians. You'd think though, with the title "Anatomy of a Librarian," that we'd get more stats on how many of us actually wear glasses or what percentage of us can use a mouse, write and talk on the phone at the same time. I do like the left brain / right brain section, as highlighted in the thumbnail to the left.

See the entire chart below, or click to the original at Masters Degree Guide.

The Future of Books (According to McSweeney's)

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:28:58 PDT

McSweeney's Contributing author James Warner contemplates the Future of Books in what might be the the most ~~hilarious~~ ~~frightening~~ apropos article you'll read today....

2020: All Books Will Be Cross-Platform and Interactive.
Future "books" will be bundled with soundtracks, musical leitmotifs, 3-D graphics, and streaming video. They'll be enhanced with social bookmarking, online dating, and alerts from geo-networking apps whenever someone in your locality purchases the same book as you— anything so you don't have to actually read the thing. Authors will do their own marketing, the reader will be responsible for distribution, the wisdom of crowds will take care of the editing, and the invisible hand of the market will perform the actual writing (if any). Writers will respond either by going viral or by going feral.

2030: All Books Will Be Crowdsourced and Cloud-Based.
Novelists will start out designing their characters in the form of sets of vinyl figurines. If these generate enough buzz, fans will produce the actual novel collaboratively as a wiki. As you read it, thermal cameras will measure your physiological signals, including flickers in eye movement, facial muscle contractions, and heart rate, to determine where you want the story to go next—it will be expected to read itself to you, explain itself, and unobtrusively weave your incoming text messages into the dialogue. You will also be able to fine-tune details of how the characters are digitally rendered, fire at them, and (when imperative) indulge in cybersex with them. If a novelist is posthumously discovered, his or her vinyl figurines may wind up as collector's items.

2040: Authors Will Become Like Tamagotchi.
Having determined that what readers want is a "sense of connection," publishers will organize adopt-an-author promotions, repackaging writers along the lines of Webkinz and other imaginary pets. "Feeding" your favorite authors by buying their books will make their online avatars grow less pale and grouchy. If they starve to death on your watch you will lose social networking points. Book clubs will cultivate with their favorite writers the warm, fuzzy, organic bond a trainer develops with his or her Pokémon, a process that will culminate in staged fights-to-the-death between your author and the author sponsored by another book club. These fights will occur offline, since there will be one or two bookstores left and something has to happen there.

2050: Analog Reading Will Be Digitally Simulated.
As people spend more and more of time immersed in massively multi-player role-playing games, they will begin to crave some downtime. Virtual simulation worlds will start to include hideaway "libraries" you can lock yourself into. There you'll be able to climb into a virtual bath and lovingly turn the pages of a pixilated representation of one of those dog-eared tomes—reliant on old-school linear narrative— that by this time will have been made illegal in the real world. Perfectly reproduced will be the sensation of turning the pages, the crack of the spine, and even the occasional paper cut. By 2052, 95% of the activity of 73% of role-players will take place in these hideaways, since they'll be the only place to escape the incessant building of community and connectivity that will by then be such an infuriating aspect of offline reality.

2060: Physical Books Will Make a Comeback in Annoying Contexts.
As printed matter gets harder to obtain, Antiquarian Archipelago will become a popular infotainment show, starring heavily-armed archivists who teleport from island to island in search of rare gems. Meanwhile new printed works will continue to be released—in the form of dust jackets made from edible fungi—as faux-antique treasures at Renaissance Fairs and related nostalgic historical reenactments. The last bibliophile will traverse the city in a daze, wondering where the bookstores went. Meanwhile all of human knowledge will be encrusted onto a chip and sent into outer space by sixth graders, as a ploy to get out of doing their homework.

2070: We Will All Become Cyborgs.
New brain-computer interfaces will redefine narrative, as electrodes implanted in the neocortex induce stories to form, without the intervention of a third party, as sustained hallucinations. Hence the "readers" of the future will spend most of their time in an epileptic fugue state. Artificial intelligences will use deep-structure pattern-recognition, predictive modeling, and information theory to ensure each new trance state is popular enough to get upvoted on the hottest content-ranking platforms. Nanobots in our bloodstream will inform us how to behave, coordinating our actions with real-time marketing data on behavioral and attitudinal trends, until the very concept of individuality is reconfigured, resulting in the death of independent thought and the elimination of many of our descendants by transpersonal mindviruses.

2080: A Golden Age of Informational Fluidity.
For the benefit of those people at future-of-publishing panels—there's always one, for some reason—who insist it's really not about the text but the smell of the book, books will by this time be available exclusively as lines of fragrances. Subsequently, humans will modify themselves into a species with a powerful olfactory sense, able to read underwater by decoding strings of pheronomes. Aroma-bibliography will triumph, as vast epics are composed for newly developed scent receptors, transforming the rising seas into a giant bath of community-assisted transmedia content. Also around this time, the oral literature of dolphins will be deciphered and will turn out, inexplicably, to be all about vampires.

(© James Warner. I think.)

I, for one, welcome our Nanobot overlords.

And your point is? Exactly.

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:36:15 PDT

How To Have A Rational Discussion by Thought Catalog

Congratulations to Ros Lett, 2011 Mover & Shaker!

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:29:03 PDT

I was thrilled to just read that my friend and co-worker, Rosalind K. Lett, has been named as a Library Journal 2011 Mover & Shaker.

No matter what role I play," Lett says, "I will always be advocating for the right to information access for all citizens and making sure that I can help facilitate seamless access to information." Library Journal, 3/14/2011

Ros is HMCPL's Associate Director for Library Services and I am honored to work with her on a daily basis. She is inspiring, smart and funny... and wholly passionate about her work. Congratulations, Ros. Well deserved!

Librarians Against DRM and The Readers' Bill of Rights for Digital Books

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:02:16 PST

http://readersbillofrights.info/: We have constructed the Readers' Bill of Rights for Digital Books as a set of guidelines that can be consulted when purchasing a digital book, a collection of electronic books, or an ebook reading device. We especially hope it will be useful for those who purchase said items for permanent library collections. As readers of traditional print materials, we are already guaranteed all of these rights--and we should not be denied them due to the medium in which we are reading.

The Readers' Bill of Rights for Digital Books:
Ability to retain, archive and transfer purchased materials

Ability to create a paper copy of the item in its entirety

Digital Books should be in an open format (e.g. you could read on a computer, not just a device)

Choice of hardware to access books (e.g. in 3 years when your device has broken, you can still read your book on other hardware)

Reader information will remain private (what, when and how we read will not be stored, sold or marketed)

We invite conversation and discussion of this document. It is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlikeLicense.

For more information visit: http://readersbillofrights.info/, developed by librarian Alycia Sellie and technologist Matthew Goins, who can be reached at the contact page.

Alycia also has a great delicious feed which includes many takes on the Harper Collins Take-Down Fiasco.

40 Years of E-books [Infographic]

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:41:16 PST

via ebookfriend.ly

Google Search vs. Microsoft Bing: PWND

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:46:45 PST

What are you and your patrons using for basic web search? If you're using Bing you may just be using Google after all. I've had a few conversations about this and for those of you who prefer Microsoft's search comes this from the Official Google Blog:

"Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it: "By now, you may have read Danny Sullivan’s recent post: “Google: Bing is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results” and heard Microsoft’s response, “We do not copy Google's results.” However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google. I’d like to give you some background and details of our experiments that lead us to understand just how Bing is using Google web search results. It all started with tarsorrhaphy. Really. As it happens, tarsorrhaphy is a rare surgical procedure on eyelids. And in the summer of 2010, we were looking at the search results for an unusual misspelled query [torsorophy]. Google returned the correct spelling—tarsorrhaphy—along with results for the corrected query. At that time, Bing had no results for the misspelling. Later in the summer, Bing started returning our first result to their users without offering the spell correction (see screenshots below). This was very strange. How could they return our first result to their users without the correct spelling? Had they known the correct spelling, they could have returned several more relevant results for the corrected query.

This example opened our eyes, and over the next few months we noticed that URLs from Google search results would later appear in Bing with increasing frequency for all kinds of queries: popular queries, rare or unusual queries and misspelled queries."

Read more...

Stupid Future

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:05:31 PDT

Andy Daly on Twitter

Via This isn't happiness

Photo Essay: A Library Trainer's Day in the Life [#libday6]

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:17:33 PST

I participated in Round 6 of the Library Day in the Life Project today by once again taking photos all day long. It was alot of fun! I took the pics on my iPhone, then batch uploaded them to Picasa. The thumbnails below turned out rather smaill, but you can view a slideshow if you prefer...

As requested on the project wiki:

My name is Marianne Lenox and I am the Staff & Volunteer Coordinator for the Huntsville Madison County Public Library in Alabama. This is a day in my life....

Arrived at the staff parking lot and unloading breakfast items for the Manager's meeting.

Clock in at 7:44. Late, since I have an 8:30 meeting to run and lots of things to do before hand.

The vending machine guy I see almost every morning.

Good morning Linda!

My office. A mess, I know.

Martin offers to help get ready for the meeting and makes coffee. Thanks!

I haven't seen my friend Kathy in a week and a half!

Loading a cart for the meeting.

Hi Brigitte!

The first of two of these today. Note the ceramic Starbucks mug. I love it.

View of downtown Huntsville from our staff lounge.

mmmm. Office supplies

Hi Patty! Hi Geoffrey!

Good, they like the food.

My POV during the Manager's meeting.

Meeting's over, time for clean up.

A couple of people have said they like my boots and skirt. Thanks. :)

Beware the Acquisitions Department!

Back in my office to run a webinar.

Staff participate in a Ken Blanchard & Company webinar in my office.

I check email while they learn.

A tweet about taking pictures of #libday6

Mentions! Thank you!

Check our Intranet and work in our staff development day group blog.

In the staff training database I have to add a couple of fields in Access's design mode.

A Wonder Woman™ Database

Quick check Google Reader during the webinar.

Ooh, I have a package!

Sharing... something.

The Read 1, Knit 2 book club is meeting outside my office. Hi ladies!

I have to see the boss about something. She won't let me take her picture but offers to take mine. Ok.

Maybe one day this will be mine... nah.

Deliveries!

A quick run to Checkers for lunch...

Yum. I'm starving.

Hi ladies!

Hamburger and loaded fries. Excellent.

Ironically, this is a chart on each state's worst trait. Alabama's is stroke...I just ate enough carbs to drop a horse.

Clock in... clock out... clock in...

More deliveries. I've been ordering service awards for Staff Development day

Folders, Awards!

HR has asked that we update our emergency contact info.

Sure... I'll teach a public class in Excell in February...

Scheduled an Ebook summit for staff. Everyone with some kind of reader meets in my office and we compare devices. I'll broadcast it to the rest of the staff on Livestream. Fun!

Teaching a public HTML class in the Computer Training Center.

My POV during class.

Reference & Adult Services was hopping today.

Here I am, in front of class. Note the three-day dirty but still wild hair.

Excellent class evaluation. :)

One last email check before I go...

And she's off! Heading North at 5:09pm. Good night!

InfoPorn: The History of Social Networking

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:15:11 PST

I joined Yahoo! Clubs (for mothers of toddlers who were a venting online instead of IRL) in 1998. Yours?

created by OnlineSchools.org

via Mashable

Of course it was recorded in the Shoals...

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:47:55 PST

John Peets/Courtesy photo "This is an article on the Black Keys" Times Daily, 5/16/10

I've added several cuts from The Black Keys "Brothers," recorded primarily at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, to my YouTube playlist I call "That Muscle Shoals Sound." Nominated for five Grammy's, "Brothers" is definitely my favorite CD of 2010. As I read the liner notes and realized where it was recorded I knew why I loved the bands' throwback boogie blues so much. You will NOT believe this is two white guys from Ohio. The added controversy of their stay in the Shoals is just a perk. Heh.

related: That (Hometown) Muscle Shoals Sound

Any suggestions for the playlist? I'd love to hear them!

Libraries are Screwed

noreply@blogger.com (marianne@mariannelenox.com) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:42:21 PST

I attended the LJ/SLJ Ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point Summit last September and one of the most memorable talks was given by Eli Neiburger, Associate Director, IT and Production for the Ann Arbor District Library. I was glad to notice a video of his talk in Google Reader this morning and created a playlist of the entire presentation.

YouTube Description: "The world of content is changing quickly; how do eBooks impact libraries? A tipping point is upon us, are libraries screwed? And if so, what can we do about it? " ulotrichous