Tuesday, April 25, 2006

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

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