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Presentation to University of Manitoba Libraries by Karen HuntTRANSCRIPT
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How would you see your role as Head of LETS in helping the Libraries use information technology to enhance public service?
Karen HuntActing University Librarian, University of Winnipeg 2006-2008Information Literacy Coordinator, University of Winnipeg 2000-2006Collection Development and Access Services Coordinator, Red River College 1994-2000Reference Librarian, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba 1989-1994Systems Librarian, Dept of Finance / National Library of Canada, 1988-1989
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A Bridge✆ between traditional library services and new models✆ between library and campus services
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Interpreter ✆ what our clients need and what is possible✆ what is possible and what our clients need
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Cheer Leading✆ communicating success✆ changing perceptions
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Predicting
✆ what are the implications of new technologies?✆ what do we need to let go?✆ usability testing and KIS feedback
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Connecting
✆ facilitating connections within the libraries✆ enabling collaboration between the Libraries and other campus units
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Catalyst
✆ A substance, usually used in small amounts relative to the reactants, that modifies and increases the rate of a reaction without being consumed in the process.
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Examples
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Then: people were prepared to build their workflows around library services.
Now: the library must be prepared to build its services around people's workflows.
Lorcan Dempsey's weblog, Workflow is an intermediate consumer, May 31, 2008
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Learning Management System Integration
• Should be priority to get library embedded into courses
• Where else do students go?
• Social networking?
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Library toolbar
• Need to promote
• Need to get feedback on how it is working
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Really Intuitive Search & Retrieval
• Ask students
• Listen and act on feedback from librarians, staff, faculty and students
• Stop pretending we need to fix our students and fix our systems instead
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Richer catalogues, please
• Add “amazon” and tagging to our catalogues
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New Devises - New Services
• Don’t stop at chat
• Cell phones are virtually ubiquitous for our students
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Get into the Research Flow
• data-driven science
• institutional repositories
• open source and open access proponents
• new forms of scholarly communication
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Questions?
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Role Examples
✆ Bridge✆ Interpreter✆ Cheer Leader✆ Predicting✆ Connecting✆ Catalyst
✆ Learning Management Systems
✆ Library toolbar✆ Really intuitive search and
retrieval✆ Richer catalogues, please✆ New devices - new
services✆ Get into the Research
Flow
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Attribution
• Bridge - by yuzu http://flickr.com/photos/khardy/55867082/
• Translator - Rico Shen,http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:2007TaipeiOlympicDayRun_SignLanguageTranslator.jpg#metadata
• Cheerleaders - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Yokota_cheerleaders.jpg
• Back to the Future - http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s272/abelkems/Demotivational%20Posters%201/time_travel.jpg
• Connecting http://chinaworldbestkama.com/images/Forgins/origin/Connecting%20rod%204.jpg
• Students www.sixthdecade.uwaterloo.ca/.../students.jpg
• Cell Phones http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2054017988_0a851b321e.jpg?v=0