Author Archives: Robin Hastings

Collaborative Writing – Concrete tips from Rachel Vacek

Rachel Vacek has put together a slide show that gives some excellent advice to those who want to collaborate on a writing (or presenting) project with another person/organization. She points out both the pros and the cons and provides some advice on finding and working with others in a collaborative writing project.

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Collaboration, the Hive Mind and Women

In a recent Read/Write/Web article called The Hive Mind Needs More Women, the author discusses the state of collaboration over the Internet and how the lack of women in the conversation is hurting collaborative efforts (Wikipedia and eBay were two examples given in the article). The author’s point is backed up by a recent study by MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence that found that collaboration can be immediately improved by adding more women’s voices to the mix.
As librarianship is a field dominated by women, this reads to me as a call for us (men and women both, really) to get involved with collaborative efforts both within and outside of libraries. Our voices are important and necessary for the new “hive mind” of the Internet!

Thinking of federal and special libraries

Collaboration requires, by definition, more than one person on a project. Why don’t we branch out and make that other person (or other people) librarians from different types of libraries? Kendra K. Levine, in a recent blog post, writes passionately about the fact that federal and special libraries seem to be off of many librarians’ radar. She points to a FriendFeed discussion where a question was asked about Federal libraries and no responses were forthcoming. The point of her article is that we (meaning public and academic librarians, of course…) don’t think of special librarians; not their needs or their unique skills and resources. Those skills and resources could be a big help to your next collaborative project, so consider what a federal or special librarian could do for you!

Collaboration with Faculty

The blog, In The Library With A Lead Pipe, is running the first of a two part series on librarians collaborating with faculty. Kim Leeder begins the post with an excellent definition of collaboration at its most basic:

connecting with others on both a personal and professional level. Collaboration is based on building relationships with others and finding mutual interests or goals that we can help each other accomplish.

Part 2 of the series will be posted in June.

Web Worker Daily’s coverage of Net:Work 2010

Web Worker Daily (WWD – http://gigaom.com/collaboration/) has done a nice job of grabbing the sessions from the recent Net:Work 2010 conference and writing them up for us. The first post, the one with the links to all the other posts, is at Net:Work 2010: Live Coverage and includes links to all (22!) of the Net:Work sessions that WWD covered. Lots of great reading here with lots of collaboration tips and tricks that would be relevant for everything from the enterprise to the library.

Collab-orama at the Adventures In Library Instruction Podcast

This episode of the Adventures in Library Instruction Podcast, a monthly podcast about teaching information literacy in libraries, contains all kinds of information about collaboration among and within libraries. The 54 minute podcast’s “blurb” is:

Rachel, Jason, and Anna talk collaboration — with faculty, with graduate students, with community organizations, with other librarians, etc.

and it’s chock-full of interesting talk about collaboration in libraries!

Collaboration and teamwork in libraries

Kendra Levine, the Research, Outreach and Web Services Librarian from the Institute of Transportation Studies Library, University of California Berkeley, has posted an excellent blog post about teamwork, collaboration and how librarians can make use of less formal collaborative opportunities. Her main point? We should be sharing what we are doing – even the minutia of our day-to-day work, more readily in order to make other librarians aware of possible collaborative opportunities. My favorite point in the whole post is

If you value the community, you need to be a part of it. Networks need nodes to have value, so be a good node!

Go ahead, read the whole post and then give some thought to what it is you share about your work and how you can do more sharing so that we can all get more opportunities to collaborate on our work!
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