Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Students from the “Design and Implementation of Web-based Services” class summarized the semester’s self-initiated, self-directed group project in a presentation to the OU infrastructure committee this past Friday. I was gravely disappointed as anticipated exuberance was deflated when focus turned away from positive ways to improve our current SLIS site and utilize the web for [...]
Posted in 2.0, Communication on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Doc Martens asked me to pinch hit at the Oklahoma Library Association annual convention this past Wednesday. The topic of the panel discussion was open source software, i.e. OSS. I was the clean-up batter, and my mission was to summarize my conversion from an open source technophobe to an open source/open access evangelist.
Although simple, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For those of you who have been following my “saga” regarding the MSKM comprehensive exam, I’d like to report that at 3:40 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2008, I found out that I DID in fact adequately answer all three questions, thus passing the exam. Yeah!
This leaves me with completing a relational database management [...]
Posted in Future Libraries, Information Users, Libraries, Open Access, Seeking Information, tagged Information Seekers on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s post comps. Still don’t know how well I faired. I’ll let you know when I know. For now, I’m sorting thru old articles, ridding my library of unnecessary papers, and preparing to write a paper on open access and the PKP (Public Knowledge Project) for my design project.
While doing a “formal” academic database search [...]
Posted in Knowledge Management on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
People + process + technology = good KM!
Did I miss something somewhere? When was KM ever NOT “a concerted effort to improve how knowledge is created, delivered and used?” When was it NOT recommended that “organizations adopt a management strategy that addresses each of those three key activities?”
A recent Wall Street Journal article–Knowledge management can [...]
