How can you speed up your OODA loop?

Question:
How can you speed up your OODA loop?

Answer:
First, Orientate. Then, act. Google it -if you don't know what an OODA loop is.

Link:
Librarians & IM
"...Please take just a few moments to complete this little survey about librarians and IM. I'm doing some background work for a brief talk at Computers in Libraries 2006 as well as collecting some data for my upcoming Library Technology Report 'Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software.' I'm interested to see how many librarians are using IM at their desks to communicate with colleagues and as a reference point.
Thanks! :-) ..."

Thoughts:
So, I IM and use it to talk to different departments all over the university and to people in my own department -the library.

www.meebo.com
Meebo's an ajax web-based aggregator of IM Names/clients; Therefore, you install no software. Goto their website, sign-in and your IMIMIMIMIMIM-minng. I have some purely pratical techniques for using meebo that work great. Like it's the only site I use in IE because when you get a new message the task bar flashes -but if you're in Firefox and launch meebo in a tab, you can't see when someone sends you a new message. Get it? I know I'm assuming a lot of things about that whole process: like, you're using Firefox right?

Tags: im instant message, web 2.0, library_2.0, aggregator, iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

Does hybridity mean anything?

Question:
You remember something from years before and are trying to relate it something you know now; how do you look to make connections?

Define: hybridity: a hybrid condition.

1837 DARWIN in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 8 It would lead to closest examination of hybridity. 1842 PRICHARD Nat. Hist. Man 12 Briefly surveying the phenomena of hybridity. 1890 STUART GLENNIE in Nature 2 Oct., The Aryan languages present such indications of hybridity as would correspond with such racial intermixture.
Oxford English Dictionary hybridity

Tags: hybrid, iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

Why search for meaning and purpose?

Questions:
Why search for meaning and purpose? These are not mine; but I sure wish they were.

Quotes/Questions:
"What is the level and intensity of spiritual experiences among today’s college students? How are spiritual searching and behavior changing on campus? And what does this mean for higher education institutions and students? Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, this major new program of research tracks the spiritual growth of students during their college years."

Summary and Asnwer:
"A National Study of College Students’ Search for Meaning and Purpose"

Tags: spirituality, iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

What is to come?

Question:
Are libraries and librarians relevant? Are libraries needed? Are libraries outdated? Are libraries old-fashioned? Are libraries necessary? Are libraries obsolete? Are libraries dead? Are libraries good for anything anymore?

Summary:
Yes, yes they are. Not because I have vested interest in seeing my profession continue (while that's not totally irrelevant) but because the library profession must become the transcendent bridge between old world information and new world information. I am a blended librarian as much as I am a transcendent-information-professional. Transcendent means: to cross what seems to be a limitless chasm.

Quotes:
Katz has this to say: "The Reference desk ...[read library]... in it's present form no longer is important. Granted a central point is needed to answer directional queries, as well as short reference questions, but beyond that the old ...[library]... will be modified into an electronic data center ...[or an information collaboration center]..."
ISBN 0070342776

Bell and Shank say this:
LearningTimes Network: Library Online Community: "The Blended Librarian: A Manifesto for Redefining the Role of the Academic Librarian for 21st Century Higher Education "

Tags: iblee

Tags: Katz Bell Shank, iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

What are the ways?

Question:
What are ways that we integrate student learning using various technologies while integrating/incorporating the libraries resources?

Answer:
Tools that capture content; librarians that ride along virtually adding resources to the subject matter; fusing multiple methods of content into a coherent, easy-to-use electronic packaging.

Quote:
"Mightier Than the Pen Alone"
"...computerized system enables students to view course lectures alongside their own notes..."

Tags: iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

Can you beat the averages?

Question:
You're a library. You do things the way everyone else does them? What happens? Can you beat the averages?

Anwswer:
This happnes, and I quote Paul Graham again,

Beating the Averages: "The average big company grows at about ten percent a year. So if you're running a big company and you do everything the way the average big company does it, you can expect to do as well as the average big company-- that is, to grow about ten percent a year."

What is a good way to understand things?

Question:
What is a good way to understand things?

Answer:
Question, write, question write, talk, question write and talk.

Quote:
The Roots of Lisp: "In 1960, John McCarthy published a remarkable paper in which he did for programming something like what Euclid did for geometry. He showed how, given a handful of simple operators and a notation for functions, you can build a whole programming language. He called this language Lisp, for 'List Processing,' because one of his key ideas was to use a simple data structure called a list for both code and data."

Tags: iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

ACM Crossroads: Issue 12.3/ 2006

ACM Crossroads: "ACM Crossroads
The Student Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery"

Question:
What's a great interview meaning what are great questions to ask and great responses to get?

Answer:
Read the ACM Crossroads: Issue 12.3/ 2006. "The future of programming: An interview with Paul Graham."

Tags: programming, iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

O'Reilly Radar

Question:
How do you monitor/ track the pulse of change?

Answer:
I would bet everyone has their own system of information-amalgamation and processing. But, could the best way be to center it around a set of guidelines that you match to your needs, desires, interests, and relevancy to what you want out of life?


O'Reilly sources/ writer/ people who link to them
O'Reilly Radar: "CampfirePermalink
By marc on February 15, 2006

"Our friends at 37signals just launched Campfire, their latest product (following on Basecamp and Backpack). I've been testing this product"

Who's bubblin'?

Question:
How do you know when something is true?

Answer:
Sometimes, someone, somewhere in some way says what you're thinking -it is possible to know things in another person's mind. Other we would never really be able to communicate and we can.

Information Takes Over » Blog Archive » Library 2.0 bubbling away: "Perhaps there really is more to do in our libraries than we had thought, and the fear of being left behind has kick started our desire to make everything better. Reading through Walt Crawford’s cites and insights shows a myriad of good ideas spread all over the library, but tagged with the same Library 2.0 ticket.

And now, having just read David King discussing the confrontational aspects of Library 2.0 we begin to see why this reaction might be. That same fear that galvanises some of us, is battening down the hatches in others."

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Tags: library_2.0, life, library, librarians, libraries, information, iblee