Along with Chris Keene and Paul Stainthorp, I was recently asked by Craigie-Lee Paterson to present to around 20 people at a CPD25 training event at Goldsmith’s (University of London) on the theme of mashups and Web2.0 tools. The audience was mainly made up of academic and health library staff, so as a public librarian it was an opportunity [...]
All posts for the month April, 2011
Mashups At CPD25
Posted by garygre on April 26, 2011
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/mashups-at-cpd25/
Books From My Childhood
I’m thinking about all the books I remember from my childhood… Books that I enjoyed and stuck in my mind. They were books that I either owned or were read to me at primary school. I still have a few of them now and open them up once in a while to read a story [...]
Posted by garygre on April 20, 2011
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/books-from-my-childhood/
Whither, librarianship?
Libraries need to reinvent themselves to become more relevant in today’s world. via Whither, librarianship?. Personally I don’t think they do need to reinvent themselves – most libraries don’t need to start from scratch to improve their services. Most of them have the basis of a great service, they just need to tweak them [...]
Posted by garygre on April 15, 2011
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/whither-librarianship/
Voices For The Library Presentation At Pancakes and Mash
Recently I was asked to provide the keynote presentation at ‘Pancakes and Mash’ (Lincoln University, March 2011) by Paul Stainthorp, based around the theme of library campaigning, Voices For The Library and the use of online media. It was a mashed libraries event – these events are based around the creative use of data in [...]
Posted by garygre on April 2, 2011
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/voices-for-the-library-presentation-at-pancakes-and-mash/
