Internet Librarian2009

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Keywords for 2010

• Mobile

• Social

• Social Mobile

• Cloud

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Keynotes• Is cloud computing the answer to bit

rot?

• Net neutrality will impair anti-competitive behavior

• Live from New York Library - Interviews not lectures

• Libraries are a place of ideas -- more     than books

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Gary Price Resource Shelf

• Gary’s Tip: There is a big role for us to teach public about social tools

• http://bit.ly/resourceshelf09

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Usability

• 5 second test

• 3-4 people give 90% results

• Wayfinding, not clicks

• Follow the scent

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Content

• User submitted photos of reading in favorite spots http://www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/

• Use whimsey - Make it fun

• EBSCO RSS feed by topic?

• Nav bars that change as page changes

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Hennepin Book Space

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Whimsey at DC Library

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The Cloud

• Embed Google calendar onto Intranet?

• Google Mobile, Google Books

• Hosted in Canada

• Montana State totally in the cloud

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Social

• Social Reference: Harnessing the hive mind

• Combine our community of experts and librarians as moderators to create a topical knowledge base

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Mobile• Mobile access for ebooks essential

• Worldcat mobile search -- map link to your library and catalog

• Mobile app that notices when you are near library and says “Hey, you have a book to pick up now”

 

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Tank U

• Digital Downloads

• Bluetooth

• Movies, film trailers, lectures....

• In train stations, hospitals....Flickr photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/drhenkenstein/1414014718/ 

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Tank U

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Stormy Weather• Libraries in danger -- perception is

libraries = books

• Google, Amazon, B&N gearing up with eBooks

• Change perception of the value we provide

• Home delivery, collaborate with publishers

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Stormy Weather cont.

• Create value that we are uniquely positioned to create

• Create conversations at the locus of community

• Not a time to be timid or panic

• Look at what is going to save our bacon

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

21 Century Library• Apply for a card online? Use it as a

marketing opportunity

• Allow unmoderated comments with word filters on

• Staff requirement to work on the digital branch

• Weekly manager meetings to discuss digital branch content

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Closing

• “Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations” by Clay Shirky

Wednesday, January 13, 2010