2009

Plinius on Sunday

• PS 11/09: Maps and statistics. Balance demand and supply.
• PS 10/09. IFLA 1.5. Half the way from 1.0 to 2.0.
• PS 9/09. Skills and commitment. Learning under new conditions.
• PS 8/09. LATINA/lingua. A multilingual development project.
• PS 7/09. Blogging in context. Using blogs in teaching and learning.
• PS 6/09. Learning from LATINA. From shortage to surplus of knowledge.
• PS 5/09. Big change. Introductory notes for LATINA lecture in Cracow.
• PS 4/09. Tim O’Reilly in action. The main promoter of Web 2.0 takes the stage
• PS 3/09. Work/study scholarships. LATINA offers support for its summer course.
• PS 2/09. Private lives and public libraries. Proposed paper on traffic count for Northumbria
• PS 1/09.  How to win friends. Proposed paper on statistical indicators for Northumbria

December

• PL 72/09: Statistics for library advocacy. Paper proposal for IFLA
• PL 71/09: Blogs in library learning. Paper proposal for IFLA
• PL 70/69: Global population statistics. Relate your statistics to the social environment.
• PL 69/09: Appropriate learning and teaching. How education is changing – a story from Rwanda.

November

• PL 68/09: Learning by translating. Our Erasmus interns study the educational role of translation tools – like Google Translate.
• PL 67/09: Learning by blogging. Our Erasmus interns explore the educational role of blogs.
• PL 66/09: French, Polish and Spanish. Introductions to LATINA in three languages
• PL  65/09: Plan for Erasmus Mundus. New trainees from Benin, Cuba, the Ivory Coast, Poland and Venezuela

September

• PL 64/09: Phones for development. Excellent survey from The Economist – and its library relevance.
• PL 63/09: The net is a conversation. It is easy to predict the future of the web – if you understand its social impact
• PL 62/09: Libraries in Spain. Loans and visits in Spanish regions.
• PL 61/09: Difficult statistics. Uncertain data in Mexico
• PL 60/09: Global chatter. Twitter stats map global conversations
• PL 59/09: Living and Learning with New Media. Summary of well-written US report on digital youth culture.

August

• PL 58/09. Blogging bounty. When will the world’s bloggers be properly rewarded for their (our) tremendous contribution to peace, science, democracy and international library statistics?
• PL 57/09. IFLA blogging 2009. Variable blogging – but massive twittering – in Milan.
• PL 56/09. American corner. American embassies invest heavily in libraries and library cooperation abroad.
• PL 55/09. Cultural heritage statistics.  Link collection to the IFLA papers 2009.
• PL 54/09. Global Statistics phase 2. Documenting the work of libraries.
• PL 53/09. Children’s share up by 50% in the UK. Substantial shift in demand.
• PL 52/09. Beyond the bubble.
• PL 51/09. Reading and library use in Italy.  Big national survey in 2006.
• PL 50/09. Memory of the Netherlands. Low traffic to broad portal.
• PL 49/09. Norwegian IFLA-papers 2009

July

• PL 48/09. Changing lives in Poland. Rural and small-town libraries make a differece.
• PL 47/09. Statistical agendas. IFLA papers for the “agenda” session are now availanble.
• PL 46/09. New indicators for public libraries. Two new papers on library statistics.
• PL 45/09. Translations from LATINA. Resources in four scripts and five languages.
• PL 44/09. Bread and circus. A brief class exercise from the LATINA summer course.
• PL 43/09. Roman shoe. A photo exercise (collage).
• PL 42/09. Transparent and open. The spreading of cloud computing.
• PL 41/09. Work in progress. Lots of work – lots of fun – and quite a bit of learning.
• PL 40/09. Learning from mistakes. Success by failure.
• PL 39/09. Big change in 2009. When web 1.0 meets web 2.0 in practice.

June

• PL 38/09. A story from Spain. Education is changing in many countries
• PL 37/09. Multilingual LATINA. Wikipedia + Google Translate.
• PL 36/09. When did the course start? Formal and informal processes.
• PL 35/09. Trolls. Forest and mountain creatures.
  

May

• PL 34/09. Twelve days to go. LATINA Summer starts on June 22.
• PL 33/09. Ten European city libraries. Data from the Tibidabo project.
• PL 32/09. Computers everywhere. Mobile PCs on campus
• PL 31/09. Portfolio. A LATINA work task
• PL 30/09. ICT and global learning. Resource links from China, Hungary and Spain.
• PL 29/09. Students in action. A traffic study at Oslo University College.
• PL 28/09. LATINA Spring – the third week. Concluding the course.

April

• PL 27/09. LATINA goes to Krakow. Paper on Education 2.0 completed
• PL 26/09. Knowledge society. A new historical stage.

March

• PL 25/09. Ada Lovelace Day. Kudos to digital dames.

February

• PL 24/09. Web 2.0 digs deep. Good article on change management.
• PL 23/09. Social data sets. I’d like to show you some fascinating numbers …
• PL 22/09. LATINA meets Marie Bergman. The Swedish singer/songwriter is still going strong.
• PL 21/09. LATINA update. Four Chinese media students join LATINA Spring.
• PL 20/09. Statistics and advocacy. Seven papers accepted for IFLA in Milan.
• PL 19/09. Private, personal, public. Blogs move boundaries, but do not abolish them.
• PL 18/09. The image of knowledge. From books til networks.
• PL 17/09. Understanding Wikipedia. Encyclopedic exercises for LATINA students.
• PL 16/09. European public library research. A new gathering of researchers in Oslo.
• PL 15/09. Bend the rules, apologize later. Good advice from Leslie Burger – former ALA president.
• PL 14/09. LATINA Spring opens. Nine participants – from Hungary, Spain and Norway.

January

• PL 13/09. One billion internet users. Latest statistics on global web traffic.
• PL 12/09. Parma next! BOBCATSSS 2010.
• PL 11/09. Blogging and pictures from Porto.
• PL 10/09. Live blogging from Porto
• PL 9/09. Traffic counting in Porto.
• PL 8/09. BOBCATSSS opens in Porto
• PL 7/09. Read and learn together. Obama on libraries.
• PL 6/09. Statistics for action. Twenty-two submissions for our session in Milan
• PL 5/09. Trend-spotting. Featuring Michael Stephens.
• PL 4/09. Libraries and the public sphere.  New spaces for public debate.
• PL 3/09. Multilingual learning. Google Translate sets the pace.
• PL 2/09. IFLA blogging most popular,  Visits to Plinius in 2008.
• PL 1/09. Easy access to statistics. Announcing Plinius Data Bank.