IL05 - Day 2: What’s Hot & New in RSS, Blogs, & Wikis - Steven M. Cohen
There’s lots of mention (Steven included) about things being in constant beta (GMail, Google News, Flickr, del.icio.us, etc). The reason? Someone stated that these companies are changing so fast, trends are popping up left and right, they simply can’t keep up. The person said the continuous beta trend will most likely continue.
Wikipedia - pointed out:
no [...]
IL05 - Day 2: Social Computing & the Info Pro, Elizabeth Lane Lawley
She has a friend that works at Technorati - cool…
She also mentioned the idea of the “long tail” - something about a curve, links, and blogs… I’ll have to look into that some more.
Yahoo’s My Yahoo helps her find what she wants. Her trusted contacts in My Yahoo help color her search results so she [...]
IL05 - Day 1: Summary
I’m looking back over my notes from Day 1 at Internet Librarian 2005 - if I had to pick one thought that hit on everything I heard today, it’d go something like this:
“Change is coming… no change is already here, and it’s going to speed up even more. Instead of holding onto your hats, strap [...]
IL05 - Day 1: Future Tech Trends for Public Libraries
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 [...]
IL05 - Day 1: Smart Computing at Your Library, Aaron Schmidt, Thomas Ford Memorial Library and walkingpaper.org
Interesting stuff:
Be prepared for:
- saving files to the desktop
- USB storage devices
- IM
- CD burning
- Multimedia content
- Playing games
- Trying to look at TIFFs
- Installing Programs!
If we’re not helping our users, what are we doing?
Have a regular maintenance schedule
Use ghosting software… DeepFreeze and Norton Ghost - wipes the PC clean at each reboot
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IL05 - Day 1: Hardware Solutions - Bernadine Goldman, Los Alamos County Public Library
Some interesting points she made:
Researching a solution
- vendor info at conferences
- library literature
- webjunction
- LITA listserv
- Site visits
- vendor websites
- online demos
Chose thin clients
- not vulnerable to tampering
- can be updated from a single server
- takes up less physical space
- use familiar software applications
- in line with our technology plan
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IL05 - Day 1: Jessamyn West and Jenny Levine
Jessamyn West: Flickr, Tagging, and the F-Word
Gave a great introduction to Flickr
Some highlights:
- other people can add tags to your pictures (if you allow them to do that)
- Tags - click the word, you get your tagged pictures
- Tags - click on the globe by the tag word, and you get everyone’s tagged pictures
- Explained [...]
IL05: Michael Stephens: Ten Steps for Staff Buy-In
Michael first asked “why are we doing this?- Need to answer that question- One answer - it’s for our users.
1. Listen
- listen to conversations in your organization
- you want buy-in
2. Involve staff in planning
- front line staff know what works in your library
3. Tell Stories
- music gets kids into library
- what can you do with [...]
IL05 - Day 1: Digital Content, Digital Audio Books, and iPods
Ken Weil and Joe Latini, South Huntington Public Library
They use iTunes - books from Apple’s online music store. Why?
Audible tends not to sell to libraries
Apple Music Store was the best way to go for them in terms of price
Digital book is usually available much sooner to them than the print version
They buy iPods for circulation
“Currently, [...]
IL05: Web Trends and Innovations
I was able to speak as part of this session - it went well! Here’s what the others said:
Glenn Peterson, Hennepin County Library:
Their Website:
- 3.5 fte for web services - most part time - also reference librarians, etc. Huh
- 6 million visitors
- 70% of reserves are placed online
leveraging staff:
- web application software helps - so [...]
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