ALA Annual 2009

ALA 2009 wrap up

July 16, 2009
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ALA 2009 wrap up

I survived my first ALA! It was intense and exhilorating and tiring, but worth every minute of it.   When I return from conferences there are always a lot of thoughts rolling around and it takes me about  a week to solidify everything.  But here are the things that really stuck with me and what I’m thinking about.  Expect to see at least some of these as full blog posts when I’ve got my thoughts in line. You may not have signed up for this job but it’s the job you have deal with it admins and managers let your staff go, the worse that could happen is that you have a failed project you learn something from these technologies are not a magic wand, you shouldn’t just have a blog to have a blog, you need to do what your community needs, have a plan a strategy, don’t just jump in without knowing where you’re going how long have we had computers? Why do you still have staff who are intimidated by computers, why did you hire them? Why are they still working there? we don’t have any problem doing what we’ve always done, but if we don’t do anything

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The Great Debate – Has library 2.0 fulfilled its promise?

July 16, 2009
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The Great Debate – Has library 2.0 fulfilled its promise?

This is the last session from ALA I took notes on. It went by fast and I tried to be as accurate as possible. Has library 2.0 fulfilled its promise? Modorated by Roy Tennant The panel consisted of : David Lee King, Meredith Farkas, Michael Porter and Cindi Trainor What is library 2.0 – Cindi – create spaces for people, value participation Michael – what libraries do to fulfill role as community anchors has to change, mentioned KBG text company, they will answer your reference question but you to pay for it Meredith – about being user focus, seeing creation of service as an iterative process, we need to stop making assumptions about users based on articles, assuming services are working without doing surveys David – using wikipedia as an example, it’s a wiki that allows people to edit and access and share info in a way that hasn’t been done before, Michael – library 2.0 is a buzz word more interested in functionality and what works, read some answers from Twitter to Question has library 2.0 fulfill its promise, see responses under #lib20prom Cindi relates library 2.0 to web 2.0 by Tim OReilly, allows us to harness our collective

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Matt Hamilton : Libraries and Innovation

July 10, 2009
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Matt Hamilton : Libraries and Innovation : creating environments for encouraging and supporting creativity and innovation among staff How do we begin the messy job of creating a culture of innovation What will you need? Patience, perseverance, vision and a way to empower staff Patience is hard to come by for innovators, we see something and want it now, and have made the change before others even see it coming Get comfortable with ambiguity incubation Don’t be afraid to use the word – pilot, even if it fails it encourages others to try new things Look before you leap, but don’t be afraid to leap To lead others – we need to create and communicate a compelling vision, build ways to communicate and to listen even if you don’t like what you hear Keep articulating vision until its truly shared, this means address the concerns of people who aren’t on board Look for hidden treasures, mine the skills that already exist, find out what ppl did before they came to your organization, discover passions and hobbies Push power down org chart wherever and whenever possible Empower staff at all levels of organizations Create an environment where people enjoy coming to

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Robin Hastings – Web 3.0

July 10, 2009
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Symantec tagging Microformats – hcard Web as a database – rdf, subset of xml Rdfdata.org Instead of holding all info in proprietary databases data will be coded Data.gov SPARQL – sql for rdf Web as application – mashups Questions: How many security issues are we looking at? Shouldn’t put any info out there that is sensitive Has anyone looked at DDS attacks against this sort of thing, it would be pretty easy to take one down – no that she knows of When you say microformats I think fiche – what does microformat mean in a web3.0 context – way to tag your content in a semantic way, defines text Are we putting metadata in there, like subject headings? \ doesn’t know of one geared towards books Tim Donahue – Zotero (FF extension) uses a lot of microformats Are there any CMS embracing microformats? Drupal has modules that will produce content in microformat and maybe wordpress Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Jessica Moyer – Audio books, ebooks, & online reading impact on library services & collections

July 10, 2009
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All the ways you can read stuff that is not in a book anymore – ipod touch, amazon kindle, has its own wireless network and email address, eink technology, biggest group of kindle owners over the age of 50, price dropped last week to $300 Audiobooks – not just bcds and cassette, but need to deal with drm and compatibility issues, overdrive still doesn’t work with Mac, Playaway – great for Kindle plays audible,com files Over 52% of users get their audiobooks fro a library Do you think the kindle is a step on the way to something bigger and better? Discussing more linked in content – Jessica – no, she thinks all of that could come to the kindle Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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