I found this blog post, Will It Fly: How to Evaluate a New Product Idea, fascinating, despite the fact that some of what it says may seem obvious to some. The intro paragraph to this post by Evan Williams says,"I've been thinking about a numb… more »

I found this blog post, Will It Fly: How to Evaluate a New Product Idea, fascinating, despite the fact that some of what it says may seem obvious to some. The intro paragraph to this post by Evan Williams says,"I've been thinking about a numb… more »

The morning after Paul Courant?s talk I picked up the Saturday, December 15th edition of the San Francisco Chronicle and read an article that demonstrated many of the points that Paul had made in his talk, in particular, the public good that could be gen… more »

I think in concrete terms, so once again I would like to suggest an idea that we could do without much effort. It would be very convenient if we could make a link to all the wikis that we have been creating recently so library staff and patrons could fin… more »

Gene Koo, CALI Fellow with Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, briefly describes a new program at Harvard Law Library. Despite the law school specific context, this looks like a library's "new direction" well… more »

Two Paul Courant comments about university scholarship are circling [paraphrased here]: Universities are about scholarship and publication. Scholarship is research. Publication is any form of going public...teaching is the public airing of ideas...so is… more »

These are the points that stuck with me after Paul Courant's presentation last Friday...The Library always needs to answer the questions, "how do we serve the interests of scholarship and of the university as a whole?" The Library doesn&#39… more »

The following data was pulled from the UCUES 2007 study, which was administered to the population of all 23,278 UC Berkeley undergraduate students enrolled in spring semester 2007, of which 11,957 (51.4%) responded.  See: http://ucues.berkeley.edu/2007/… more »

At the recent Town Hall, I shared our plans to interview recommended faculty. We are interested in your input for developing the final list of questions to be asked at the interviews early next year. Please comment with revisions or additions to this st… more »

At the recent Town Hall, I shared our plans to interview recommended graduate students. We are interested in your input for developing the final list of questions to be asked at the interviews early next year. Please comment with revisions or addition… more »

The other day, a colleague brought to our attention a new report from the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - Go Illini! It seems they have been discussing "new directions" too - background information… more »

Creativity is great when we need to visualize new possibilties, discover or formulate new links between known items, find solutions to longstanding problems, enliven relationships, and enrich our lives. Dependability is great if we ever want to be able t… more »

To learn what new directions are important for students I would suggest using an invaluable resource: our own student library employees.  They have a unique perspective seeing the library workings from the inside as well as being library users - hopefull… more »

At the Town Hall Meeting on Dec. 4, 2007, we looked at a hierarchy of emerging themes that were gathered from all of the blog posts for New Directions. Another way of gathering this information and creating a more Web 2.0 dynamic with this blog is to add… more »

I'd like to suggest we add a category, something like National and International Impact / Roles Under it I would add ideas like political actionnationwide collaborationslibrary as open access publishercollecting via in-country digitizationintentional… more »

We heard in this morning's town hall about the great number of people who responded to the survey saying, "I'm too busy to participate." Two attendees extended the conversation to say, "Not only are people too busy to talk about ne… more »

Hi All- I was impressed with this idea (putting a Meebo widget into the public catalog), as well as the rapidity with which this library was able to implement it.  Take a look at this blog posting by David Lee King of the Topeka and Shawnee Public Libra… more »