Davis Forum, Spring 2008:
Digital Literacy
14 Feb 2008
Part 1 of 3
Ivan Chew
www.nlb.gov.sg

I am a librarian
from Singapore

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Outline
My personal reasons for Blogging
S’pore public library’s digital experiments
Senior Citizens & Blogging

My personal reasons for Blogging
S’pore public library’s digital experiments
Senior Citizens & Blogging

I have a blog
RamblingLibrarian
among others

I have been
blogging since 2004

I said to this guy
“blogging = platform
for verbal diarrhoea”

He said:
“I take issue with your comment!“

I was wrong
(about blogging)

He went on to write this book

I ended up with
Nine blogs
One podcast

I asked myself:
Do users know
about
our library services?

Do users know
librarians
existed?

Do users feel
the need to have
librarians?

Can we try:
Blog
+
library services
+
librarians

One hour
+
233 words
later

More personal digital experiments:

More personal digital experiments:

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More personal digital experiments:

More personal digital experiments:

(Thanks to David & Sarah for
The September Project collaboration)
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More personal digital experiments:

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More personal digital experiments:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=33401368772625832&hl=en

More personal digital experiments:

More personal digital experiments:

More personal digital experiments:
Music mash-ups

More personal digital experiments:
Collaboration via Email
Red Umbrella
White Nights
Seashore Days

More personal digital experiments:

More personal digital experiments:

More personal digital experiments:
Focus remains on Libraries

Sharing personal stuff
as means
to connect as a
Person

I didn’t think
“being a Librarian”
is just about
“books”

I saw
“being a Librarian”
synonymous with…

Learning

Creating

Sharing

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What did I get out of
my digital experiments?

Personal
Professional
Development

cited by other professionals

“Why focus only Local,
When you can go Global?“

publicise
libraries
librarians

value
meaning

When I shared why I became
a librarian…

I received emails like this:

And this:

My blogs
allow me to say things…

… that I’m uncomfortable
saying face-to-face

Part 1 of 3
ivanchew@nlb.gov.sg
ask@nlb.gov.sg
RamblingLibrarian@gmail.com
ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com