Sciences Council held a discussion recently on the New Directions Framework, focusing on eScience, new services for students and other ideas. Among other things, our discussion revealed strong interests in eScience, staff training & development, coor… more »

Recently, I've seen several blogs mention the Library Arcade at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. The games, "developed by graduate students from the Entertainment Technology Center, in collaboration with the University Libraries, and the ge… more »

from NYT (January 20, 2008) Thumbs Race as Japan's Best Sellers Go Cellular by Norimitsu Onishi TOKYO ? Until recently, cellphone novels ? composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens ?… more »

As we continue down the New Directions path, I think we're seeing some pretty clear trends. Libraries are changing, whether we like it or not. Kevin Guthrie showed that faculty use of libraries is declining across disciplines. Peter Brantley point… more »

Hi All-- The link below seemed a timely one following Peter Brantley's presentation on the future of libraries. While Berkeley may never totally subordinate the library to our IT department as is described in Strains and Joys Color Mergers Between… more »

Closely linked to Gail's post - Culture of Contemplation - I've been inspired to transcribe a passage from a short essay-length book I stumbled across today and by a former AUL at UC Riverside. It touches on one of the most fundamental roles of l… more »

The Administrative Services Council has held the first of several facilitated discussions about how New Directions might guide the future of a variety of Library support services. At this point we have only asked questions, the most prominent of which a… more »

Notes on"What Rupert might tell the DLF: Why libraries are like newspapers, and how we avoid lining the pet cage"presented January 15, 2008by Peter Brantley, Executive Director, Digital Library Federation All quotes are approximate, but pret… more »

The following ten priniciples were developed by three Booz, Allen and Hamilton consultants for organizations going through programs of change.  They relate in various degrees to many of the attitudes and approaches our library organization may need to co… more »

The position appearing below is currently being recruited for within UC Berkeley's Educational Technology Services to work on Berkeley's contribution to the Kuali Student project. It struck me that the library should be creating complimentary pos… more »

In November, ProQuest published a study titled "Observing Students in Their Native Habitat." Their press release doesn't specify the exact population, but does contain some provocative results. Most of this will not come as a surprise i… more »

As a library staff member why should I be interested in New Directions? I come to work everyday, do my job, contribute to the library's goals as best that I can, and really don't understand much of anything about how the library needs to change t… more »

Guthrie is an entrepreneur and founding president of Ithaka (www.ithaka.org), an organization providing research and strategic services to higher education.  He was also the first employee and president of JSTOR. He began by observing that we are struggl… more »

Here's a website mit blurb about a learning tool for library staff that might be promising... a program The Library could adapt to launch our own x-week primer in discovery and experimentation with Library 2.0 tools and concepts...  http://plcmcl2-t… more »

I ran into a friend-member of the faculty at our favorite coffee bar. She is in the humanities. She offered this about the stacks: For research purposes, what's shelved on campus shouldn't be the often-used material but the rarely-used and perhap… more »