CIL2006, Day 3: Paul Miller of Talis speaking about Web 2.0

Library 2.0:

the open library
push the library everywhere
engage with actual and potential user communities
disaggregate library systems and bring them together
building apps that make sense - like a set of Lego blocks
shared innovation

talk.talis.com - a blog devoted to developing a better catalog (I think)
Examples:

wpopac - search, link, comment - built around WordPress
Greasemonkey widgets - daveyp.com/blog
typepad.com/superpatron - his [...]

CIL2006, Day 3: The Future of Catalogs

Roy Tennant:
What catalogs do well:

inventory control system - what you have, where it’s located
known item searching
… for items within a particular collection

Doesn’t do well (his “short list”):

any type of search beyond known item
anything beyond books and journal titles
not good at displaying results by logical groupings (FRBR)
Faceted browsing
relevance ranking
recommending similar titles

How we got in this mess:

automation [...]

CIL2006, Day 3: Gary Price - Best of Resource Shelf

Most important - why do we need to know all this stuff Gary talked about? Well - we’re the information go-to… we know our collections. We also need to learn online resources, so when people come asking about the web, we can be ready with a good anser, resources to point them to, etc.
trafficland.com - [...]

CIL2006, Day 3: Lee Rainie

Lee Rainie spoke about younger people… here’s what he had to say:
Younger users: they made a recent TIme Magazine cover - “Are Kids too Wired for their Own Good?”
8 Realities of Millenials:

Distinct age cohort: they are not like gen x or baby boomers. They will be a larger generation than the baby boomer generation, and [...]

CIL2006, Day 3: Open Source Software for Libraries, by Glen Horton

Why is Open Source Software so important?

libraries believe information should be freely accessible
preservation relies on open standards
privacy is important… to libraries and patrons [me - so how is open source software better? I don't see how open source software can keep my info private better than, say Microsoft...]
libraries should lend open source software to patrons, [...]

CIL2006, Day 2: My Morning Stroll to the Conference

In my continued experiment with the Treo’s video capabilities, I created a video of my morning walk to the conference. Hope you enjoy it!
I’m deciding that Treo video works great to capture snippets of video, useful for things like video blogs (ie., throwaway video content like what I’ve been making). And it’s useful to quickly [...]

CIL2006, Day 2: more tech training

How to Create a Tech-savvy Staff, Travis Bussler
Why does IT need a tech-savvy library staff? Makes everyone’s jobs easier and provides better customer service to patrons.
Assessments, training and documentation - what we need to do
Assessments: all staff members need to assess where they are when it comes to technology
what to assess: everything… including USB drives [...]

CIL2006, Day 2: Training for Staff & Patrons in Public Libraries

Technology Training for Library Customers, by Janie Hassard Hermann - www.princetonlibrary.org (note to self - look at their website. It looks cool!)
Library customers are becoming more proficient with technology.
Tech training expectation are rising.
We need to evolve…
Looking forward:

classes that focus on digital cameras, MP3 players, etc
instruction on eAudiobooks and legal downloading
RSS, blogging, wikis, etc
lectures and demos [...]

CIL2006, Day 2: Lorcan Dempsey

Structured Data, Web 2.0, Libraries
Web 2.0:

Flat applications - lightweight service composition and web services… info can be “stitched” into other environments . It’s the “flattening” of the web (mashups)
Rich interaction - ajax
Data is the new functionality - make data work harder.
participation - social networking growth

Showed Audience Level - uses type-of-library holdings data in WorldCat to [...]

CIL2006, Day 1: The Video

Here’s my little video snippet of Day One at Computers in Libraries 2006. It was a good first day, as you can see in all the blog posts about it! Make sure to go and read about it.
This video includes (not neccesarily in this order):

The registration booth
My session
lunch with some cool bloggers
the federated search session [...]

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