I just love it where there are library Friends shops, and especially when they are near the library coffee shop! This is a set of signs from the Greenville County Public Library main library in Greenville, SC.
August 31, 2006
bibliostat collect training
Yesterday and the day before, two training sessions for both academic and public library staff were held in Goose Creek and Greenville on the new Bibliostat Collect data collection tool. I'm very pleased that we have moved to this online statistics reporting tool and hope it will make things easier for SC libraries to report to us their annual statistics. Much thanks goes to Michael Ervin who conducted the training. If you have any questions about Bibliostat Collect, feel free to contact me.
August 28, 2006
Our first wireless network user
Too Cool! We've just added a wireless network for our patrons, and haven't even advertised it yet. I guess people now expect wifi in a lot more place so they just ask for it when they need it! I'm so pleased that someone even asked! This is great. Soon we will be promoting this to our patrons.
Dr. Aubrey Daniels Speaks
Check out my first time video blogging! This was a great presenter who talked about leadership and management. The point being is that positive reinforcement of what staff members are doing well creates an atmosphere where employees feel more empowered to do a good job and make productivity-improving suggestions.
Check out my first time video blogging! This was a great presenter who talked about leadership and management. The point being is that positive reinforcement of what staff members are doing well creates an atmosphere where employees feel more empowered to do a good job and make productivity-improving suggestions.
August 25, 2006
Gotchya!
One of the greatest things I heard today at the SCSGIN meeting was from Tom Terez who said that it's better to catch people doing things right! He reinforced the importance of being positive with staff and the more they are praised for doing things well, the more things they will do well! I think this is important for library managers to keep in mind - some managers who go around just looking for people who are doing things wrong leads to people who do more things wrong, low morale, and low productivity. If you concentrate on the positive, overall, things will be positive in general - however, this has to come from the top... Tom's web site is http://www.betterworkplacenow.com.
Leadership and Management
I heard a great speaker, Dr. Aubrey Daniels, speak about leadership and management. This is one of his ppt slides. he made some very interesting points about positive reinforcement and how it gets positive responses and that positive behavior modeling on the part of the supervisor makes for a more productive workplace. People who receive mostly positive reinforcement, ie, "job well done, keep up the good work", etc., tend to do better overall. They offer more suggestions for doing things better too! This all translates to library management and that library managers need to do all of these things to have happy staff members which then translate into happy patrons! Tell your staff today what a great job they do! And, don't forget to reward good behavior at the library!
August 24, 2006
Clusty!
Give this neat meta search engine a try - and remember, not everything on the web is findable via Google alone...
Mobile Library
Yesterday I visited the Clarendon County Library's new Mobile LIbrary and it is a really nice one. I really liked how the door is in the middle of the vehicle. It has the capability to access the internet via satellie and at the back has a very neat lift to switch out the collection. There are more detailed photos in my SC Libraries flickr set.
August 18, 2006
1947 library requests
Isn't it interesting to see how libraries asked patrons what they want, then we take about 50 years to do it? We can't be slow about things - we need to jump into new technologies and make things happen if we want to stay vital. This was a slide from George Needham's recent presentation at the NCPLDA meeting in Asheville, NC. We also need to ask the question, Why is it that it only takes one author to write a book but 10,000 librarians to catalog it? Hmmm, something doesn't sound quite right here! :-)
myspace stats
Librarians, don't overlook the power of MySpace! We need to stay ahead of the curve and learn about MySpace instead of worrying and wringing our hands about it what the media and DOPA is trying to do to thwart social networking. Get a MySpace account, learn about what it does, and talk intelligently about it - don't discount it. If you block it, you're missing out on being able to serve the millions of people who do use it...
6 big questions
With Library 2.0 upon us, libraries are facing some major issues, especially if we want to keep ahead of the curve and give our patrons what they want - Stephen Abram posed these 6 questions and they really do need to be addressed in our strategic plans for the coming year.
Library Development discussion topics
When both SC and NC library development staff met before the NCPLDA meeting recently, a list of discussion topics was posted on flip chart paper. This is a great way to facilitate a discussion because each participant gets some sticky dots and then you go up to the flip charts and put your dots next to the topics you're most interested in discussing. You can see from this list that LSTA, PR and Continuing Education were a few of the topics most of us were interested in. I highly recommend this technique for your next discussion session!
August 14, 2006
online sexual solicitations decrease
The decreasing trend is interesting - I spoke to a 14 year old about her myspace account and she said she has it set to 'private' and only allows her friends in... She said, "What do you think I am, crazy?" Which I thought was a great response - we need to trust that the majority of teens out there in MySpace know what they are doing and can protect themselves from online predators. So much of the media focuses on the small percentage of tragedies out there that we tend to lose sight of all the interesting and good things that are taking place online for teens...
August 10, 2006
Zimbio
This is a neat wiki/bloggy kind of web tool our Library Development staff have been playing with. Very cool! and very Library 2.0 - check it out!
http://www.zimbio.com/portal/South+Carolina+Public+Libraries
http://www.zimbio.com/portal/South+Carolina+Public+Libraries
SPECFLIC 2.0
Very interesting stuff libraries are doing now a days - notice it's late at night even!!!
August 09, 2006
Sony Mylo
Interesting new product from Sony...
What are the implications for libraries? More people who might want to use IM Reference??? www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/mylo/prod/index.html
What are the implications for libraries? More people who might want to use IM Reference??? www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/mylo/prod/index.html
August 08, 2006
Wikimapia
This is a very interesting new tool! www.wikimapia.org
It blends cartography and wiki so you get tagging and much more! Find your library or add it!
It blends cartography and wiki so you get tagging and much more! Find your library or add it!
ISBN-13
Don't forget to attend the ISBN-13 session on OPAL - August 15th from 3-4pm East Coast time! www.opal-online.org
Ohio Library Government Information Services Blog
This is a wonderful way to reach new patrons in state government! Way to go Ohio!
renegade encyclopedia
i love the word renegade next to encyclopedia - check out this article - if you don't regularly read the MIT technology review, start! :-)
August 07, 2006
Visual Storytelling
What could be a better use for a library program for teen photographers? This flickr group is a great opportunity for teen librarians to explore not only opportunities in the exploration of photography but also to combine it with storytelling. Give it a shot!
Librarian 2.0 Nancy Pearl shushing Siena
Ok, to be a Librarian 2.0 you've got to have the two F's - For some librarians, this is next to impossible! However, if you have the two F's, Fun and Flexibility, you can have a great career as a Librarian 2.0. Join Flickr, then join the Nancy Pearl action figure group - and post your favorite photos of Nancy around the world! Being a Librarian 2.0 represents a paradigm shift in the profession. Don't forget everything you learned in library school and on the job, just make it better. Learn everything you can about what's hot and cool on the web, start IMming, find something on YouTube to show at staff training day, get on to OPAL and attend some training sessions - get a PC gaming headset with a mic (under $20.00 at Target) so you can take advantage of free audioconferencing on Trillian. Be flexibile enough to give something new a try, and most importantly, have FUN!!!
August 04, 2006
Debbie does DDR
Ok, so librarians 2.0 actually do DDR - I learned that you do NOT call it, Dance Dance Revolution, but instead, just DDR, especially if you want to sound cool to Teens! Way to go Deborah!
ImaginOn - Charlotte, NC PL Technology Summit on Library 2.0
Notes from the PLCMC Technology Summit Library 2.0
The session began with an introduction from Charles Brown, Director of the library system. The ImaginOn location is a very new facility.
Michael Stephens began by taking photos of the audience. He showed us
Last.fm web site, flickr, etc.
Comments, tagging, content rss, etc.
The principles of library 2.0 seeks to break down barriers: barriers librarians have places on services, barriers of place and time barriers inherent in what we do. In this user-centered…
Ok, from here out, I decided to just kind of take notes in poetry form:
Librarian 2.0
It’s about the people
Harnesses social tools of web 2.0
Wisdom of crowds
Technology is ONLY a tool
Aadl.org
The director is blogging,
The director is blogging
Book discussion blogs
opac blog
iTues podcasting
Story times
Bloglines
IMing
Free
Reference
Library
…on my buddy list
Text a librarian from your phone
Mash it up
Web 2.0 goodness
Technolust
Sexy technology
technomust
Techno-divorce
Cabinet of dead and dying technology
Am I in your Biblioblogosphere?
Find ways to give them what they want.
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing
Lock the bookdrop?
Don’t you dare!
Don’t place a barrier between the library and the user!
Netlibrary?
iPod?
Millenials
Cell phone – device, texting, teens
Culture of trust – build the trust
Trust the users
Flickr
Wikipedia
Trendspotting
LITA top trends
Cluetrain manifesto
Future of music
Content
Content
Content
Offer it
Create it
Beer or iPod?
iPod
Ponder Content
Training
Online
Staff development
Continuing education
Make librarian 2.0 and part of this
Show the library staff the technology
Take a tech express!
Recipe wiki
Sandbox – practice
Reach young people
Right now, its their #1 tool in their lives
DOPA is DOPEY
Intervention
What are the users saying?
Listen to the users
Listen to the staff
Learn from the gamers
Nothing is perfect
It’s ok to fail
Learn from it
Tell stories
Be transparent
Have a sense of play
Second life avatar
Understand it
Don’t be afraid of it
Celebrate successful projects
Keep them coming to the library
Conversations
Converse
Talk
Chat
Digital ethics
Ethical digits
Cluetrain manifesto
43 places
librarycrunch.com
techsource blog ALA
dream
squidoo.com/library20
Michael Casey
Gwinett County Library:
Change
Change
Global local
Demographics
Change
Customers
Business 2.0
Web 2.0
Life 2.0
Talk
To each other
To ourselves
Manage time
Manage knowledge
Purposeful contact change
Collaborate
Reaching
…new users
Embracing
…new technology
Horizontal Communications
Staff to staff
Community Policing
De-Dewefication
Zoho IM Chat
Skype
Need for a place to discuss troubleshooting
37signals products
basecamp
campfire
backpack
writeboard
ta-da list
The session began with an introduction from Charles Brown, Director of the library system. The ImaginOn location is a very new facility.
Michael Stephens began by taking photos of the audience. He showed us
Last.fm web site, flickr, etc.
Comments, tagging, content rss, etc.
The principles of library 2.0 seeks to break down barriers: barriers librarians have places on services, barriers of place and time barriers inherent in what we do. In this user-centered…
Ok, from here out, I decided to just kind of take notes in poetry form:
Librarian 2.0
It’s about the people
Harnesses social tools of web 2.0
Wisdom of crowds
Technology is ONLY a tool
Aadl.org
The director is blogging,
The director is blogging
Book discussion blogs
opac blog
iTues podcasting
Story times
Bloglines
IMing
Free
Reference
Library
…on my buddy list
Text a librarian from your phone
Mash it up
Web 2.0 goodness
Technolust
Sexy technology
technomust
Techno-divorce
Cabinet of dead and dying technology
Am I in your Biblioblogosphere?
Find ways to give them what they want.
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing
Lock the bookdrop?
Don’t you dare!
Don’t place a barrier between the library and the user!
Netlibrary?
iPod?
Millenials
Cell phone – device, texting, teens
Culture of trust – build the trust
Trust the users
Flickr
Wikipedia
Trendspotting
LITA top trends
Cluetrain manifesto
Future of music
Content
Content
Content
Offer it
Create it
Beer or iPod?
iPod
Ponder Content
Training
Online
Staff development
Continuing education
Make librarian 2.0 and part of this
Show the library staff the technology
Take a tech express!
Recipe wiki
Sandbox – practice
Reach young people
Right now, its their #1 tool in their lives
DOPA is DOPEY
Intervention
What are the users saying?
Listen to the users
Listen to the staff
Learn from the gamers
Nothing is perfect
It’s ok to fail
Learn from it
Tell stories
Be transparent
Have a sense of play
Second life avatar
Understand it
Don’t be afraid of it
Celebrate successful projects
Keep them coming to the library
Conversations
Converse
Talk
Chat
Digital ethics
Ethical digits
Cluetrain manifesto
43 places
librarycrunch.com
techsource blog ALA
dream
squidoo.com/library20
Michael Casey
Gwinett County Library:
Change
Change
Global local
Demographics
Change
Customers
Business 2.0
Web 2.0
Life 2.0
Talk
To each other
To ourselves
Manage time
Manage knowledge
Purposeful contact change
Collaborate
Reaching
…new users
Embracing
…new technology
Horizontal Communications
Staff to staff
Community Policing
De-Dewefication
Zoho IM Chat
Skype
Need for a place to discuss troubleshooting
37signals products
basecamp
campfire
backpack
writeboard
ta-da list
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