Telling the Library's Story Online
From the Big Picture to some of the Nitty-Gritty
Jessamyn Westlibrarian.net/talks/mla24
MLA Think Space - 20feb24
Slides
Links & Notes
cites from talk
- Flickr Commons: Participating institutions
- "Twitter main character" meme
- ALA Center for the Future of Libraries - trends not necessarily up to date but future-planning tools still useful
- Zoom community (where employees also work) fixed my whiteboard issue!
- CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
- Sustainable Libraries Initiative
- Helpful advice I received via Mastodon (some of which is in this talk)
- Mychal Threets, Milwaukee Public Library, punk rock library shirts
- Flickr Foundation's "flag posting" Instagram account
general resources - further reading
- Real Life: The Great Offline by Lauren Collee
- Let Me Get There: Deanonymizing Sherman and Hine's photographs - Guadeloupe women [1911] by Louis Takács
- Jeanne Moore Writes: What's in a Name? "Her name wasn't Helen. She wasn't a telephone operator at the Many Glacier Hotel in Montana."
- Designing Tomorrow: Alone together? How social technology is influencing human connection and loneliness by Matt Motyl and Juliana Schroeder
- ALA: Turning Outward Community Resources for Libraries
- Library Philosophy and Practice: The Library is a Growing Organism: Ranganathan's Fifth Law of Library Science and the Academic Library in the Digital Era
Image credits
- Zoom map of Michigan (original)
- Flickr Commons: 220 Years of the Library of Congress
- Flickr Commons: Overlander Motor Lodge, Jasper National Park, Alberta, 1964
- Flickr Commons: African American Portraits - Girl & Ice Cream | Missouri State Dessert - Ice Cream Cone
- Flickr Commons: Scott's Run, West Virginia. Miner's child - Miller Hill Camp., 03/19/1937
- Flickr Commons: [Guadeloupean woman.]
- Flickr Commons: ICESCAPE Researchers; Ponds on the Ocean
- Flickr Commons: Manly Harbour pool, 193-
- Flickr Commons: Town Talk Diner
- Flickr Commons: Diving Platform
- Flickr Commons: woman in model shoot with stuffed animal
- Flickr Commons: ACME sign
- Flickr Commons: Apple sharing
- Flickr Commons: Welcome Boat
- Mastodon: blue books image
- Noun Project: Spin Icon from Adrien Coquet
- Noun Project: Hidden Icon by Vittorio Longo
- Noun Project: laptop icon by WEBTECHOPS LLP
- Noun Project: lightbulb icon by wahya
- Need Not Reply image by Dan Hon