CIL'06: Digi Tech Forum: DEAD TECH

• light-hearted, fun panel with:
• Amanda Etches-Johnson (from McMaster...Canuck #1)
• Aaron Schmidt (Thomas Ford Memorial Library)
• Darlene Fichter (Univ of Sask...Canuck #2)
• Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt Univ.)
• Stephen Abram (Sirsi-Dynix...Canuck #3)
• this session was all about Library 2.0
• gaming nights
• rock the shelves
• provide places to create podcasts, videos
• innovate / implement / dream on!
• plan for your USERS!
• 2.0 is all about the SOCIAL...connecting with your users where they are
• eg. newsletters become blogs
• eg. subject guides become wikis
• interactive and fun opacs
• mashups: combining 2 or more applications
• microsoft oragmi
• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. -- Fae Wattleton
• Librarian 2.0 survival tips:
• digital read/write participants
• learning WITH others (sociality of everything)
• facilitators...art of convening converstaions online
• Intercultural Antennae...outside of your default culture
• tolerence for ambiguity...
• feel ok with NOT being in control
• we need to improvise
• learn tools...plaly more...observe
• self-awareness
• Lib2.0 = (books n' stuff + people + radical trust) X participation
• opacs look too much like electronic card catalogues
• need to make the library website a place users WANT to explore more
• we need to do it better
• explose lib content and service through other orgs (eg. City website**)...via rss feed / blog...web services
• next gen OPACS / portals...development cycles too slow on vendor side...+ libs move to new software too slowly
• focus on stratigic, not cool!
• we need to provide the TARGET (like a fly painted on a urinal!)...make it easy for people to find stuff
• be IN your end user's social network