CIL2008, Day 2: Transparency, Planning & Change: See-Through Libraries

Speakers:
Michael Casey & Michael Stephens
This session is a standing-room only session!
Organizations are starting to let their staff blog - huge change from not long ago
Not always easy to implement new things
Quote: “Every time people really like something, we get rid of it.” real quote from librarian at PLA. Ouch.
Showing signs from libraries - bad signs [...]

CIL2008, Day 2: Innovation Starts with “I”

Speakers: Helene Blowers, Tony Tallent
How do we get the innovation and change to occur? This track is about that - how to move our organizations forward.
Talking about the ingredients of innovation
What’s innovation NOT?
process improvement
strategic planning
best practice
benchmarking
etc…
What is it?
it’s an intersection
a pivotal point
Creativity is thinking up new things.
Innovation is doing new things. It’s action.
Book to read [...]

CIL2008, Day 2 Keynote: “The Dutch Boys”

Two years ago, Delft bought a mobile recording facility - to teach kids how to tell their own stories via sound and video.
These guys do a fun presentation. They talked about the documentary they made, visiting libraries across America. Their first stop was New York - so Eric asked if anyone was in the audience [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: User-Generated Content

Speaker: Roy Tennant
Why?
more content is better
more access is better
can help provide personalized service
Kete
kete.net.nz - not heard about this. Looks like a web app for housing digitized stuff, that’s more social than the usual. EX - some people can create ads on the site…
Descriptive Contributions
ex - allowing customers to add content to old photos (ie., who [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: Widgets, tools and doodads for library webmasters

Speakers: Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone
Firefox tools:
safecache: protects privacy, defends against cache based tracking techniques
safehistory: protects your privacy by defending your history cache
FoxMarks: automatically synchronizes bookmarks
FEBE: Firefox Environment Backup Extension - syncs extensions between computers
Other webtools for collaboration
meebo chat widget
LInkBunch: lets you put multiple links into one small link
DocSyncer: automatically finds and syncs your document files [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: Fast & Easy Site Tune-ups

Speaker: Jeff Wisniewski
Keep content fresh
- Update your copyright date! You can use code to do this
- add a last updated script to your page (do it as an external script so you use one script in many places
- add photos to contacts! Goes a long way in increasing user’s trust in a website
Turn boring old [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: Hi Tech + Hi Touch

Speaker: Jenny Levine
Computers and the Internet will not save the world (Clifford Stoll, from 1995) - what’s missing is human contact. This is also true in libraryland.
We know how to do this in our buildings:
- Delft Public Library (DOK)
- they have electronic based contextual digital signage (run off a Wii, of all things)
- they integrate [...]

CIL2008, Preconference: Podcasting & Videocasting Bootcamp

David Free and I had a great time with our preconference workshop yesterday. Here’s a link to my presentation, and David Free’s post on the session (includes a link to his presentation and a link to the podcast we made). And of course, the video we made is at the top of this post.

Video on the Web Presentation

A couple days ago, I gave a workshop on videos and videoblogging to the fine folks at the Long Island Library Resources Council. It was a fun presentation to give (see the video above)!
Here’s a list of videos we watched during the class:

Me - Changing a Tire
Rocketboom
Steve Garfield
Jay Dedman
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library - [...]

Gadgets and Gaming at Computers in Libraries 2008!

If you’re going to be at Computers in Libraries 2008 on Sunday (April 6!!!), then stop by this cool new event (swiped from Aaron’s blog):
What: Gaming (& Gadgets!) Night
Where: CIL 2008, Jefferson Room
When: Sunday, April 6th, 5:30-8:00 pm
How much: FREE
Who: You and other people interested in gaming
Jenny Levine and I have given a [...]

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