Idaho Commission for Libraries

Hello there,

Pretty spiffy, this new website eh? I'm glad you stopped by and signed up for all sorts of goodies available to you via the good folks at ICFL and WebJunction. I'm also glad that you and I will be sharing our collective wisdom, stories, and experiences with everyone in Idaho libraryland.

So, tell me your story...

Well, if you can't attend an actual World Cafe conversation, why not attend a virtual one? The good folks at the World Cafe have just announced they're on Second Life!

Well, after percolating and flinging about ideas as to what I learned at Pegasus, I suppose I should explain what I thought Pegasus was going to be like. See, I had this notion that Pegasus--and this was my first impression--was all about corporate thinking, maximizing profit, enhancing the profit machinery to produce faster; managerial best practices, keeping the employee performing at optimal levels, etcetera, etcetera. I mean, what would you think when you read sentences like this:

How Relationships Shape Our Brains—and Our Organizations
Elaine Johnson

On my second day here in Seattle at the Pegasus conference I’m starting to make the theoretical connections between the various sessions. Concepts like systems thinking, conversation as a radical act, personal relationships, organizational gestures, etc., are words to describe the current that charges our personal view of the world, and our place in it.

On Sunday evening I was supposed to go to a team learning workshop but instead attended, totally unintentional on my part, the “Building the Conference Community” session, presented by two very creative and friendly people, David Isaacs and Nancy Margulies.

From the Blogjunction listserv, on savvy marketing to focus on libraries: The Wyoming Libraries Campaign. Similar in scope to Washington's efforts from my previous post on creating a recognizable, fun, and innovative way of showcasing the importance of libraries.

Memo

Many of you heard Joe Janes, iSchool professor from my alma mater the University of Washington, at the Think Tank talking about libraries and the issues surrounding future changes to library services. If you liked his talk, you can now hear Joe talk about Google in the first inaugural online radio show from the iSchool, called InfoSpeak.org.