Pivot Points For Change: Libraries And Librarians
The fabulous Buffy Hamilton gave her Pivot Points of Change presentation at my library’s Staff Day last week. The points were inspired by post from Seth Godin in which he states changing everything is too difficult. Buffy applied this to libraries and librarians for the 9 pivot points of change. This is a slightly modified version of her original 9 pivot points of change for school librarians.
- Instead of thinking you can only participate in face to face conferences, consider how you can participate virtually
- Keep your traditional means of connecting with patrons and colleagues, but innovate at every possible touch point through social media and social networking
- Keep reading your print journals, but use a feed aggregator or information portal to access and organize your favorite blogs, journals, podcasts, youtube videos, and twitter rss feeds to stay on the cutting edge
- Keep networking with colleagues face to face, but cultivate a personal learning network to broaden your PLN (Personal Learning Network) to include librarians and other professionals from around the world who can inform your thinking, practice, and philosophy
- Keep your traditional productivity tools, but use cloud computing to encourage collaboration and information sharing
- Continue sharing your library program goals and reports through traditional formats, but also compose these in a different format, such as a mindmap, video, or other multimedia/visualization medium
- Keep your traditional services and materials, but expand those services and “containers” of materials to reflect patron needs
- Keep positing literacy as a primary focal point of your library program, but expand that definition of literacy to include new media literacy and information literacy as mainstream literacies equal in importance to traditional literacy.
- Keep your traditional sources of authoritative information, but let the research topic and mode of research guide the integration of social media information sources and tools for delivering that content in your subject guides
Andy Woodworth’s 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon
Andy has put together a list of 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon Right Now.
- Perception of information is changing
- Literacy is changing
- Libraries are now part of greater information chorus
- Communication is our friend
- The underlying philosophies of the library have not changed
I like the focus on the positive and of course I want to know – do you agree?
Voting is Open for the 2009 Edublog Awards – Go Vote!
Voting ends Wednesday December 18th. Yes even you library people. You’ll find some great new blogs to read and trust me there are names in there you’ll recognize!
The Edublog Award Categories….
- Best individual blog
- Best individual tweeter
- Best group blog
- Best new blog
- Best class blog
- Best student blog
- Best resource sharing blog
- Most influential blog post
- Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion
- Best teacher blog
- Best librarian / library blog
- Best educational tech support blog
- Best elearning / corporate education blog
- Best educational use of audio
- Best educational use of video / visual
- Best educational wiki
- Best educational use of a social networking service
- Best educational use of a virtual world
- Lifetime achievement
My Nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards
My Nominations for The 2009 Edublog Awards are:
Best individual tweeter – Marianne Lenox and her blog
Best new blog - Emergent by Design by Venessa Miemis
Best resource sharing blog – Librarian in Black
Best librarian / library blog – The Unquiet Librarian by Buffy Hamilton
Deadlines for nominations is Tuesday 8 December! Then the voting begins, ending Wednesday 16 December! Award Ceremony: Friday 18. So make your nominations today! PS there are more categories than I listed.
Found out about the Awards on Information Wants to Be Free
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