IL05 - Day 1: Future Tech Trends for Public Libraries
Posted on October 24, 2005
Filed Under Internet Librarian |
Sarah Houghton, Joe Latini, Ken Weil, Jenny Levine, and Aaron Schmidt
Sarah:
Opening up public computers
- drives are locked
- limited software
- very locked down
Use DeepFreeze
OPACs should work just like Google - just as fast, just as relevant, etc.
Citywide wireless - very cool
Aaron:
Serving the information poor
E-ink and E-paper are right around the corner for libraries
Joe
Risk taking is good
Wants to get young people involved - Rock concerts
New technology needs to be experimented with (like iPods)
Ken
Take the initiative and do something!
Charge a fee if needed - it will still be cheaper for customers
Become a distributor - we’ll even come to you
Staffing - use staff correctly
PR and Marketing - we’re weak in those areas
Targeted emails to customers
Get out from behind the reference desk!
We have to be willing to fail - so try new initiatives
They tried mailing DVDs to homes - it didn’t work for them
Jenny
The two way web
the read/write web
the participatory web
web 2.0
In a library - connecting, collaborating, communicating, etc - just like what we already do
within our four walls
Community involvement with local history - www.westernspringshistory.org:
- picture of old house
- comments from the community
AADL
- comments
- don’t premoderate comments
- Director has a blog so she can communicate directly with the community
- 73 comments on the debugging the catalog post
- they have nothing to hide - it’s very transparent
- over 400 comments on one post
ProQuest RSS feeds - content changes on the library website - cool
Put entire library IT support in a wiki!!!!!!!
IL05
IL2005
Internet Librarian 2005
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