A group of five Erasmus Mundus students at Akershus University College will be working as interns with LATINA/lab in November.
In this project the interns will work on the development of teaching materials in English – as well as on translations into Spanish, Polish and French – for the LATINA summer school. This includes the development of a course module for a training course in evidence-based advocacy based on library statistics.
As an introduction, I’ve summarized the project setting:
How do “ordinary people” – I really mean the growing global middle class – or people like Plinius – spend their free time?
We used to watch TV a lot. We still do. But the web is invading our homes and phones.
There are several new ways of mapping the ordinary interests of ordinary people in the aggregate – like
Earlier this year I wrote in my Norwegian blog that 2009 would be a turning point.
We have had digital technologies for a long time, but now they turn mobile and social – and become a normal part of everyday life. Schools, colleges and universities are forced to ask:
Today, March 24, is Ada Lovelace Day, Jill Walker Rettberg reminds me.
It is a day to commemorate women in technology. For me it is natural to mention colleagues that work at and with the interface between technical systems and social processes:
They do not work at the cutting edge of technology as such, but at the cutting edge of socio-technical change – where we struggle to master tools and overcome inertia – and worse – at the same time.
Congratulations!
People like to talk – and the web gives us more things to talk about.
All types of web objects can trigger conversations:
To understand libraries we need to know what our customers are up to.
Public library in Oregon.
The Northumbria conference is a good place to discuss research methods and data sets. I have sent in two alternative proposals. The first one was posted last Sunday. This is the second one.
The full title is
Private lives and public libraries. A quantitative approach to the study of user behavior
Librarians love to organize collections – and also people, it seems.
In the United States, Leslie Burger, past president of the ALA, has initiated a program to recruit and train new leaders for the organization (picture). Karen Keys, “a young adult librarian at Queens Library in New York”, reported from the ALA mid-winter meeting in Denver:
Berger Burger stated, “ALA is structured in a way that only librarians could have come up with.”
This year the Northumbria conference is held in Florence, just before IFLA in Milan. I have sent in two proposals – intended as alternatives. Here is the first one.
Kittiwakes from Northumbria.
The full title is
How to win friends and influence decisions. A statistical framework for analysing public libraries
More than one billion people are now using the internet. One out of six come from China – which has just passed the United States in the total number of users.
Girl from Hainan.
This is reported in a press release from comScore on January 23, 2009.
The next BOBCATSSS meeting will be held in Parma, Italy.
Jazz dance studio in Parma.
Anna Maria Tammaro introduced the city to the Closing Session.
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