Shift happens

Shift Happens is a new movement aimed at getting policymakers /legislators/educationist etc to rethink how education is approached, based on current statistical population and technology trends. This pretty impressive 8minute presentation is worth watching and will get you thinking about the importance of generic skills and our efforts at embedding etc.

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in our networked world

OCLC have just published a report on social networks and their potential for libraries. People from Germany, France, Canada, Japan, the UK and the US were interviewed to study practices of social networking and privacy issues from both the client and librarian's point of view. The report is very long at 280 (!) pages and I've only just started flicking (or scrolling) through it so I can't really comment on its contents yet.

For anyone who is interested it can be found at:

http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/

Library Arcade Games

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries in Pittsburgh have produces two Library arcade games. Go to:

http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/index.html

See how fast you can reshelve book using LoC or how you can answer a multitude of reference questions as well as keep the people waiting happy.