Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Web 2.0 and what it means to libraries

Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project
Tom Hogan opened…
2393 people participating in CIL this year (most ever)
Lee said “I adore librarians.”
Showed an Ask a Ninja video on “What is podcasting?”
Starting Point: September 2005, John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly

web as platform
harnessing collective intelligence
data is the next Intel Inside: data on the web is much more [...]

Kansas Tri-Conference 2007: Day 2 - Library Instruction 2.0

A few different things here:
1. Second Life - Bill and Dianna Sowers
Intro’d the Second Life Library Project
Also introduced basics of using Second Life
Discussed what Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library is doing in Second Life (cool)
Toured the Kansas State Library Second Life site
2. Next up: Wikis
brief intro to wikis
How they use Wikis at Washburn

track [...]

Kansas Tri-Conference 2007: Day 2 - Technology in Practice

Andrew Pace
Allowed the audience to pick his topic! How cool is that?
Question - “Do you have a really enlightened dean?” We do… their dean convinced NCSU’s faculty to give their yearly pay raise to the library… amazing!
“The second mouse gets the cheese” - likes to be on the cutting edge rather than the bleeding edge.
Showed [...]

Kansas Tri-Conference 2007: Day 2 - Libraries, Vendors, and the Future of Search

Andrew Pace
Showed a timeline of library automation (that started on 1936!)
Where are we?

the rfp has not evolved
the traditional ILS system is a legacy system
new innovation requires new technology

Discussed the current state of the ILS
what ILS catalogs do well:

inventory control
known item searching

what ILS catalogs don’t do well:

any search other than known item
anything other [...]

More thoughts on speaking at state association conferences

I just sat through a good presentation at this year’s Kansas Tri-Conference on creating online storytimes for libraries. The presenters are doing cool things at their library to the best of their ability, so that’s cool.
They could also do it better (couldn’t we all?). They found tools that would get the job done, and [...]

Kansas Tri-Conference 2007: Day 1 - Promoting the State Library Databases to YOUR Library Users

Sherry Backus
Intro to databases that libraries can access through the state
State is working on a federated search type thing for all databases they offer
Discussion of internet vs articles in library databases… (ie., teachers don’t want students using internet to find info - they want articles… that type of discussion)
Mentioned the John Kupersmith info about getting [...]

Kansas Tri-Conference: Day 1 - IM (Instant Messaging): 101

Kristin Whitehair (K-State)
Gave history of IM
Gave a couple of examples of IM reference questions at K State
IM in Libraries

our users are using it
42% of all online users use IM - Pew
90% of teens using IM (AOL IM Trends)
all age groups are using IM

IM is:

immediate
real time 
point of need (answer question when customer needs the answer)
interactive

Virtual Reference [...]

Kansas Tri-Conference 2007: Day 1 - Participating in a Dynix Consortium

Susan John-Smith, Pittsburg State University
Consortium - you must:

play well with others
have a sense of humor
live for daily surprises

Much joking about SirsiDynix…
Policy:

know your current policy
get it on paper
make sure you’re compliant with local and state governing boards
what can you hand your patron?
collection codes - think about naming schemes - ie., sun room instead of [...]

Kansas Tri-Conference 2007: Day 1 - Online Storytime - One Step Toward Making Your Webpage a Branch of Your Library

Mary Markwalter & Melissa VanTassel, Coffey County Library (www.cclibraryks.org)

wanted to do an online storytime - staff member figured out how to do it for free.
They use Frontpage!
Copyright issues - you can use public domain fairytales and not worry about copyright
If a publisher doesn’t allow something, they went directly to the author - the author said [...]

Fun with my New Mac and File Conversion

Update: Yep - it was the Word 2007 problem. On the Mac, I saved the
file as a normal Word XP doc and as a normal Open Office doc (and
emailed the text to myself as well) - all worked perfectly!
I’m another one of those pesky new mac owners… and I’ve been experimenting with something on and [...]

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