Author Archives: Michael Sauers

Central Community College Summer online classes in Library and Information Services are open for registration on April 5, 2013.

Classes offered:

• Foundations of Library and Information Services
• Reference Resources and Services
• Library and Information Services Capstone Practicum

For more information concerning Admissions or Registration contact: Dee Johnson, djohnson@cccneb.edu , 402-562-1418 or 877-222-0780 ext. 1418

Have you listened the NCompass Podcast lately? Here are the episodes from March 2013. To get all of the episodes delivered to you automatically be sure to subscribe via RSS or iTunes.

[wpaudio url=”http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nlcpodcast/NCompassPodcast222.mp3″ text=”Episode 222: Digital Preservation, Part 3: Management and Providing Access”]

[wpaudio url=”http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nlcpodcast/NCompassPodcast223.mp3″ text=”Episode 223: Nebraska Legislators Database”]

[wpaudio url=”http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nlcpodcast/NCompassPodcast224.mp3″ text=”Episode 224: Tech Talk with Michael Sauers: Narrating the OPAC”]

[wpaudio url=”http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nlcpodcast/NCompassPodcast225.mp3″ text=”Episode 225: Get ready to celebrate El día de los niños/El día de los libros”]

[wpaudio url=”http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nlcpodcast/NCompassPodcast226.mp3″ text=”Episode 226: RDA is Here: Are You Ready?”]

Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other

In this presentation at the Library of Congress, Cory Doctorow discusses the challenges facing authors and cultural heritage institutions with the increasing use of electronic texts.

Nebraska Learns 2.0 is the Nebraska Library Commission’s ongoing online learning program. It is a self-discovery program which encourages participants to take control of their own learning and to utilize their lifelong learning skills through exploration and PLAY.

Each month, we offer you an opportunity to learn a new Thing (or lesson). You have all month to complete that Thing and receive one CE credit. You may choose which Things to do based on personal interest and time availability. If the Thing of the month doesn’t interest you or if you are particularly busy that month, you can skip it.

* The Thing for March is: WeGIF

Animated GIFs are either an art form or an annoyance, depending on both who you ask and what the content of the image is. In either case you can think of them as digital versions of those cartoon flip-books you created back in school in the corners of your textbooks. This month we’ll be playing with the WeGIF service which allows you to make simple animated GIFs of your own.

Another facet of Nebraska Learns 2.0 is BookThing. Each month we pick a single title that we feel has relevance to librarianship and/or information theory. Some of the titles will be very obviously related; while others may not seem so on the surface but there is a connection. Your assignment will be to read the book and create a blog post answering some questions about the title.

* The BookThing for March is: The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

If you are new to Nebraska Learns 2.0, your first assignment is to sign up to participate.  This program is open to ALL Nebraska librarians, library staff, library friends, library board members and school media specialists.

We hope you’ll join your library colleagues in the fun as you learn about new and exciting technologies!

Have you listened the NCompass Podcast lately? Here are the episodes from February:

Episode 216: Tech Talk with Michael Sauers: Bring the Funny – Humor and the Library

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Episode 217: Tech-Savvy Trustees: Advocating for the Library’s Technology Needs

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Episode 218: Digital Preservation, Part 1: Inventory and Selection

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Episode 219: Seed Saving for Libraries

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Episode 220: Digital Preservation, Part 2: Storage and Protection

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Episode 221: Tech Talk with Michael Sauers: Anythink Libraries’ Studio Initiative

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Nina Simon, executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, presents “Igniting Customer Curiosity Through Participatory Design” during Day One of the Customer Curiosity Experience at R-Squared — The Risk & Reward Conference held in Telluride, Colo., Sept. 9-11, 2012.

Have you listened the NCompass Podcast lately? Here are the episodes from January:

Episode 212: 23 Things The Next Generation

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Episode 213: Internships: Cultivating Nebraska’s Future Librarians

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Episode 214: A Day-in-the-life of the Scholarship Student Conference Attendee

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Episode 215: NEworks: Unemployment Insurance & Job Searching

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“Instant photography at the push of a button!” During the 1960s and ’70s, Polaroid was the coolest technology company on earth. Like Apple, it was an innovation machine that cranked out one must-have product after another. Led by its own visionary genius founder, Edwin Land, Polaroid grew from a 1937 garage start-up into a billion-dollar pop-culture phenomenon. Instant tells the remarkable tale of Land’s one-of-a-kind invention-from Polaroid’s first instant camera to hit the market in 1948, to its meteoric rise in popularity and adoption by artists such as Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, and Chuck Close, to the company’s dramatic decline into bankruptcy in the late ’90s and its unlikely resurrection in the digital age. Instant is both an inspiring tale of American ingenuity and a cautionary business tale about the perils of companies that lose their creative edge.

Roy Freed visits Google Cambridge to discuss computer law. Freed introduced the world to the concept of computer law in his article, “A Lawyer’s Guide Through the Computer Maze,” in the November 1960 issue of The Practical Lawyer. He is a member of MIT’s Biotechnology department and a fellow at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

You’ve heard about Big Talk—that online conference for and by the people who run small libraries.  Why would you submit a proposal to make a presentation?  Because small libraries are full of big ideas—and because sharing what you’ve accomplished is not only a chance to strut your stuff, but to inspire others and be inspired as well.

Be proud of what you’re doing, and tell folks about it.

Big Talk From Small Libraries 2013 will be held on Thursday, February 28, 2013 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (CT) via the GoToWebinar online meeting service.  Speakers will be able to present their programs from their own desktops.

To send in a proposal, just fill out the simple form (all it asks for is contact info and a short explanation of what you’d like to talk about) at http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk/call-for-speakers/.

Hope to see you there,
Michael, Christa, and Laura

Registration for the 2013 Big Talk From Small Libraries conference is now open. Details can be found on the registration page on this site.

As a reminder: The schedule of presentations has not yet been set and there’s still time to submit a proposal. The proposal deadline is Friday, January 11th and we hope to have the schedule finalized within a week of then.