My Presentations for Internet Librarian 2006

Here are the PDF files of the presentations I did at Internet Librarian 2006:

10 Ways to Keep Techies Happy
The Basics of Web-Based Experience Planning
Introduction to Videoblogging

Enjoy!
il2006

David’s internet Librarian 2006 Wrap-up

Click To Play

I usually do a conference wrap-up post after Internet Librarian… this year, I decided to post in a videoblog format.Enjoy!

IL05 - Summing up the Internet Librarian 2005 Conference

If I needed to sum up this year’s Internet Librarian conference in one word, it would be:
CHANGE
And the word would have a few different meanings attached:

Change in our users: a majority of our users are online every day. Those users visit our libraries online. They interact with our libraries online. And they want to do [...]

IL05 - Closing Keynote: Competing with Google: Library Strategies, Stephen Abram

Stephen’s presentations, articles, conversations, etc are always both highly entertaining and educationsl at the same time, and this one was no exception.
Here are his Top 10 strategies for libraries to remain relevant in the Google age:
1. know your market

we suck at knowing our markets
we have an imperative to aggregate our data
Walmart does this… we do [...]

IL05 - Day 3: Web Winners!, John Blyberg

John started off by showing two older versions of Ann Arbor’s website (via the Wayback Machine, I think) [Dave's aside - my but haven't we come far in 10 years!].
The previous version of their site used Userland/Frontier as a CMS. It was a proprietary, closed system.
Their current design started out with the library redesigning their [...]

IL05 - Day 3: Fueling Engines for the Future

Very interesting session on a “year down the road look” at search engines. Here are some (pretty meager) notes from the session:
A9:

Introduced Open Search
Common format for search requests for their partners
It lets you search things like white pages, flickr, nytimes, etc.
They are adding over one search engine a day to Open Search
Microsoft is building OpenSearch [...]

IL05- Day 2: Blogs & Wikis Face Off, Jenny Levine and Steven M. Cohen

Successful Library wikis:
1. Library Success wiki works
2. Unofficial ala wiki also works (both created by Meredith Wolfwater)

included calendar of events, personal schedules, blog links, etc.
set up before conference - seemed to work well that way

Delicious and Technorati play well together
Interesting side note - someone actually asked for print handouts in the blog and wiki session. [...]

IL05 - Day 2: Evening Session - Google-brary: The Status Quo of Tomorrow’s MEGALIBRARY

Very fun, interesting session. Here are some sound-bytes from the panel:
Adam Smith from Google:

Wants to dispell misinformation about Google Print
What it is: Their effort to make all books digital (indexed by google) - doesn’t mean they have to digitize it
Public domain - fully available
Copyright - three short snippets from the book

The question was asked, “how [...]

IL05 - Day 2: The Design & Management of Great Information Services, Matthew Manning

improve the user experience
- clean interfaces
- unique data
- unique functionality
- awareness of user’s work setting
Clean Interfaces:
- A great user experience is both boring and satisfying. It’s like turning on the tap and getting a clear, steady flow of clean water… [that must be the boring part?]
- clean design where tasks are easy to accomplish.
- white [...]

IL05 - Day 2: Library Blogs - Ethics & Guidelines, Karen G. Schneider

“Formost readers,you are the last stop between the reader and the truth.”
Five Rules to Blog By:
1. Transparency (include an about page - can be humorous - also full disclosure and honesty about who you are and why you’re writing). Transparency can be strategic.
2. Cite it
3. Be Accurate. “There is nothing more pathetic than a librarian [...]

keep looking »