David and Sarah are ramping up The September Project this year. If your library is doing something on September 11th, let them know. If you haven’t yet thought about it, now would be a good time to get started. If you need ideas, they’ve got ’em. In 2001 librarian.net didn’t even have permalinks yet. Keeping focused by providing access to the content that others were creating was a way of making sense of the chaos that was unfolding, not just on 9/11 but in the world since then. The September Project’s events are “…activities of reflection, discussion, and dialogue about the meaning of freedom, the role of information in promoting active citizenship, and the importance of literacy in making sense of the world around us.” and it takes place throughout all of September, not just Sunday the 11th. You can keep up with the progress of the project on The September Project Blog, of course.
Category: events
save the date, blogger get-together at ALA
The folks from the It’s All Good blog are sponsoring a libraryland blogger get together at ALA, Sunday, June 26, beginning at 5:30 pm, final exact location TBD.
Happy 43rd Rochelle!
Please wish my co-Councilor, fellow blogger and librarian, and friend Rochelle a very happy birthday today.
check out this all-star cast at Internet Librarian
Yes, that’s me among other luminaries speaking on technology trends in public libraries, this Fall.
also, wikipedia talk
Also, I did not make it to Jimmy Wales’ talk on Tuesday. I was having a nice evening with my sister and I just don’t see her often enough as it is. Jessica did an IRC transcript of the talk so I can at least get the gist of what was said. The last line of the transcript is “the price of admission to the talk is to edit” so I’m already paid up.