I recently spoke on a panel for the Society for Scholarly Publishing's Annual Meeting held in San Francisco. I was there to provide the public library perspective. Our panel title was The Extensible Library: Library 2.0 and Patron 2.0. My co-presenters were Matt Goldner of OCLC and Rick Anderson of the University of Nevada, Reno.

I don't have recordings or Powerpoint of my co-presenters...but here are mine:

Slides (PDF)

Wu wei refers to the Taoist concept of inaction or nondoing. Alan Watts, author of Tao: the Watercourse Way says nondoing is what we mean by going with the grain, rolling with the punch, swimming with the current, trimming sails to the wind, taking the tide at its flood, and stooping to conquer.

Hooray, the Berkeley Public Library has launched their new website and it looks fantastic! I'm proud to have had a hand in the project. My partner, Nicole Reinecker, and I worked with BPL to redevelop their site architecture and come up with the excellent design.

I've been developing a lot of material for online courses lately and haven't had a chance to post to this blog. So, I thought I might capitalize on my efforts and rework some of the material for this venue. This is installment one from my four week course on Developing a Library Technology Plan. The course is going to be offered again starting in July 10, 2007.

Installment 2 from my four week course on Developing a Library Technology Plan. The course is going to be offered again starting in July 10, 2007. If you are interested in attending, go to this Infopeople page.

Supporting the Strategic Plan
The primary planning document for any library is the strategic plan.

Installment 3 from my four week course on Developing a Library Technology Plan. The course is going to be offered again starting in July 10, 2007.