Word 'library' won't exist - a brand that has had its day
- 10/16, 7am
Now Gwenda wants to know what we saw in the future - from the floor now
- 10/16, 7am
Michael Stephens: 'ask the librarian cart' - like hotdog cart; book vending machines; meebo etc. to make librarians available to users
- 10/16, 7am
Zero emission/Zero energy libraries
- 10/16, 7am
Next gen library will be green - ecological - in tune with how we can best use resources of the world
- 10/16, 7am
Library will be integrated into your life - on your phone, desktop, notebook - access to library services and library employees
- 10/16, 7am
@ostephensili08 but in networked age, how do you define your 'users' - what are the boundaries?
- 10/16, 7am
for e.g. where lack of computers in homes, libraries need computers, in other places children's books/bestsellers more important
- 10/16, 7am
'The future is here, just unevenly distributed'
- 10/16, 7am
Thomas Brevik starting with Ranganathan's 5 laws
- 10/16, 7am
@ostephensili08 felt that Andy Burnham's comments were a bit out of date! Our local library is not a quiet place, esp not when our son is in
- 10/16, 7am
@ostephensili08 perhaps they ought to be projecting a backchannel behind the panel?
- 10/16, 7am
What Constitutes a Next Generation Library pt I: panel Michael Stephens, Michael Casey, Thomas Brevik, Gwenda Sippings
- 10/16, 6am
Q: Does pricing vary across different countries
- 10/16, 6am
@andypowe11 they mentioned AthensDA on the slide
- 10/16, 6am
Stats show blackwell dropping in usage, while others increased
- 10/16, 6am
How they learnt about subscribed dbs: 27% said from library web page, only 7% from library events
- 10/16, 6am
Main reasons given - not aware of subs, believe they can find everything on internet
- 10/16, 6am
Carried out survey of use and demand for databases in libraries in Lithuanian Higher schools (I think this is Universities?)
- 10/16, 6am
In 2001 consortium founded to subscribe to e-resources
- 10/16, 6am
In Lithuania, 15 state universities
- 10/16, 6am
Management of e-resources: Planning; Eval and Select; Purchase; Admin; Coordination; Dissemination; Archiving
- 10/16, 6am
Increasing number of resources electronic in 21st C
- 10/16, 6am
A: Company of 18,000 people, just one person until 8th Sept! Now 2 people - one in US, one in Israel
- 10/16, 6am
Q: How many people running library?
- 10/16, 6am
@ostephensili08 sounds like a much tougher environment than HE in some ways, but also more black and white - use or lose not true in HE
- 10/16, 6am
At end of year have to decide which subs are dropped based on annual usage
- 10/16, 6am
Also looking at at Athens and SAML (not entirely sure she understands the latter - sounds like she is repeating something?)
- 10/16, 6am
Should say, this is a corporate library service
- 10/16, 6am
Challenge: merge 2 libraries in 2 countries into single unit
- 10/16, 6am
DLF Report 2002
- 10/16, 6am
E-Resource lifecycle: Acquire; Provide Access; Administer; Provide Support; Evaluate/Monitor (EBSCO Chart [ http])
- 10/16, 6am
32 blogs currently (1 external)
- 10/16, 4am
recommendations out of project: use Wordpress as blogging platform - WordpressMU, any member of library staff can have a blog
- 10/16, 4am
how project working. Using Scrum Agile approach [ http]
- 10/16, 4am
No real budget though :(
- 10/16, 4am
User Model includes: person characteristics, general interests and preferences; proficiencies; current goals and plans; specific beliefs
- 10/16, 4am
APUA: Adaptive Personalisation based on User Activity
- 10/16, 4am
Types of personalisation - customisation; adaptive personalisation based on User Activity; adaptive personalisation based on other data
- 10/16, 4am
Personalisation - big JISC topic at the moment
- 10/16, 4am
want to unlock copac database - but this means devolving control. copac team not control freaks! but how best to leverage network effect?
- 10/16, 4am
need balance between openess and control
- 10/16, 4am
copac 2.0 - how can copac exploit web 2.0 functionality. Not a question of whether copac does this, but how - what functions etc.
- 10/16, 4am
OPAC not just library catalogue but possible basis for participative network
- 10/16, 4am
LibraryThing and Amazon recommendations show clearly users want new roles of resource discovery
- 10/16, 4am
Should libraries really be going 'where the market is' - need to be careful as to what we regard as 'market' - what is it?
- 10/16, 4am
Stephen Abram talk - "if we don't invest in the future, it will happen to us anyway" - these things are happening whatever we do
- 10/16, 4am
copac was originally very focussed - but now more difficult to know what to focus on
- 10/16, 4am
copac most likely to be compared to Worldcat. Different content - esp. now specialist libraries in there. But copac functionality poor cf WC
- 10/16, 4am
Deduping is one of biggest problems and challenges
- 10/16, 4am
copac suffering from growing pains and age - 12 yrs old. Overhauling db and service big job - big job.
- 10/16, 4am
Changing from COPAC to copac - losing acronym - now just a name/brand
- 10/16, 4am
In last year, COPAC has: added 12 more specialist libraries; added access to 19th C digitised pamphlets; exploited GBS API for linking
- 10/16, 3am
Complicated diagram on screen - wonder if it is online anywhere?
- 10/16, 3am
Enhance data with Nielsen Bookdata - cover images etc.
- 10/16, 3am
Number of interfaces - SRU/SRW, Z39.50, OAI etc.
- 10/16, 3am
How does COPAC work? Complicated process - bring stuff in from libraries into MARC21 db, then dedup and convert to MODS XML
- 10/16, 3am
Plans to have Google spider COPAC - expect impact on stats, but don't know what this will look like!
- 10/16, 3am
Current stats from COPAC don't give enough detail - need to be able to tell more about user behaviour
- 10/16, 3am
Looking at how 2.0 stuff impacts on COPAC, and how COPAC can incorporate
- 10/16, 3am
Joy Palmer based at MIMAS, responsible for COPAC [(http])
- 10/16, 3am
This talk - Joy Palmer: The OPAC and Library of the Future
- 10/16, 3am
Back on wireless - have had to move chair to place where I can get good signal (by the door)!
- 10/16, 3am
thanks @transparentlibrary. Thanks @mstephens7. Thanks Michael Casey (don't have your Twitter id to hand)
- 10/16, 3am
A: give personal answers. Explaiin decisions. Look motives not just comments. If you can't do it now, can you plan long range? Be open
- 10/16, 3am
Q: what if you can't do something that staff or users ask for or suggest?
- 10/16, 3am
A: sell cost benefit. Often issues are money/resource related
- 10/16, 3am
Q: tips on working with IT depts who have a lockdown approach
- 10/16, 3am
don't be afraid to admit something hasn't worked - tell people what you are going to do instead
- 10/16, 3am
communicate vision to staff - make sure they understand it
- 10/16, 3am
@ostephensili08 I monitor Twitter for myibrary, but so far only one comment apart from my own!
- 10/16, 3am
try searching for your library on Twitter. Opportunity to monitor and answer - be proactive
- 10/16, 3am
salt lake city public library when advertising for director asked for details of their digital prescence (blog etc) as well as cv
- 10/16, 3am
open door means stakeholders as well as staff - open forums etc. Show them what you at doing and what the issues are
- 10/16, 3am
facilitate conversation. Use office hours - time when people can come and talk to you
- 10/16, 3am
have an open door policy - Michael S telling story of being told by Director "you don't need to disturb me"
- 10/16, 3am
if you ban cellphones it just shows you don't understand what cellphones are and how they are used
- 10/16, 3am
Overheard by Michael S "everytime our users like something, we take it away"
- 10/16, 3am
14 days to have your say - an example of an opportunity for students to provide feedback on any aspect of library service
- 10/16, 3am
sign example "don't use this table for more than 30 minutes"
- 10/16, 3am
include community. Share numbers and evaluation with them
- 10/16, 3am
tell the truth. Be honest - builds buy-in, buy-in creates success
- 10/16, 3am
eg Virginia beach public library - anonymous q and a. Enables questions that people wouldn't ask in meetings. This is open to the public
- 10/16, 3am
don't be afraid of anonymity. Good because encourages honesty. Bad because can be hurtful. Need to look beyond comments to reasons
- 10/16, 3am
need to get stakeholders on board - need people fighting your corner
- 10/16, 3am
Staff should play nice - good ideas are hard to ignore, but have to be presented in good way. Use evidence, talk their language
- 10/16, 3am
@ostephensili08 but often administrators listen but can't always fulfil the desires of staff - comes across as not listening
- 10/16, 3am
don't ask staff for input if you aren't going to use it
- 10/16, 2am
administrators need to 'get into field'. Meet staff, understand their roles, problems, issues etc
- 10/16, 2am
talk to people. Don't forget face to face - one on one time. But people won't always be honest. Need to build trust
- 10/16, 2am
first thing is to say "yes". Then 12 signposts to transparency
- 10/16, 2am
can be security and privacy issues - often come up in libraries
- 10/16, 2am
tendency for evangelists like the Michaels to say "it's really easy" - realize it isn't always
- 10/16, 2am
chief of police in Nebraska blogging eg death investigations, report on suicides in Nebraska
- 10/16, 2am
companies used to have control over all communication out of the business. Now everyone has a voice and any employee may be blogging etc
- 10/16, 2am
problems with wifi may challenge live blogging this session - currently using iPhone
- 10/16, 2am
Time for coffee
- 10/16, 2am
A: Invest. Google Personal Project. Physical training. Best thing, bring different people, with different mindsets, together
- 10/16, 2am
Q: How can you stimulate others to be innovative?
- 10/16, 2am
End of Keynote
- 10/16, 2am
You achieve your dreams by helping others achieve theirs
- 10/16, 2am
Network - talk to people - bring people together - have joint vision
- 10/16, 2am
@ostephensili08 really starting to hate the phrase "don't know what you don't know" - not sure it actually means anything?
- 10/16, 2am
Work on something that you don't know that you don't know
- 10/16, 2am
Need to understand our fears to surpass them. Need to take risks
- 10/16, 2am
Librarian's need to add value to clients - for e.g. corporations setting up intranet wikis - how can librarian's insert themselves?
- 10/16, 2am
What are the keys for librarians of tomorrow: Technology, Your clients, Yourselves
- 10/16, 2am
Bring together industrial people (want to make money), 'ingenious' people (have ideas), engineers (want recognition)
- 10/16, 2am
SMEs have problems - not enough money, and not enough to invest in R&D
- 10/16, 2am
Go and see the people you are going to work with/sell to
- 10/16, 2am
Need will power to achieve your objective
- 10/16, 2am
Need desire to achieve your objective
- 10/16, 1am
To do something special need to have an objective - focus - don't have 100 inventions - have 1
- 10/16, 1am
Librarians have history - need to see 'Return of Experience' - otherwise will repeat problems of past
- 10/16, 1am
What you don't know that you don't know is your future - librarian's need to work out what this is
- 10/16, 1am
What do you don't know that you don't know? (!) That's where imagination is needed
- 10/16, 1am
We don't live 3 months at a time - which is how accountants (and all of us) tend to view it - always working to end of Q
- 10/16, 1am
Take chances - 'jump' in life - 'do something'
- 10/16, 1am
@ostephensili08 only 15 mins for 'pleasure pause'? Not enough by my reckoning. I try to take 1hr at lunch whenever I can and read a book etc
- 10/16, 1am
3. Pleasure Pause: 15 mins, read a book, do yoga, whatever you like
- 10/16, 1am
2. Think Pause: 15 mins, shut down PC/phone/everything. Close eyes, ask 'is it going well in my life today' and think about reasons yes/no
- 10/16, 1am
@ostephensili08: Neil armstrong was the first controlled flight of an indigenous people.
- 10/16, 1am
1. Tender Pause: 15 minutes to say well done to people (Guy now going round the audience thanking them for coming etc.)
- 10/16, 1am
3 things Guy does every day to 'gain time'
- 10/16, 1am
People need autonomy at work - gives freedom to be creative
- 10/16, 1am
Time is key issue - don't have enough of it
- 10/16, 1am
@ostephensili08 Not completely sure this talk is that useful - all motivational speak, and not bad, but I've seen better. Nothing new here
- 10/16, 1am
These two things are fundamental if you want to understand other people- what are they aiming at, and what are their strengths/weaknesses
- 10/16, 1am
Know what you are aiming at
- 10/16, 1am
Know your strengths and weaknesses
- 10/16, 1am
Bic pens always work - and cost 15p
- 10/16, 1am
Never disturb a Frenchman at the weekend
- 10/16, 1am
+ve attitude - listen to people's needs (your clients, your employees etc.) - what can you do to help them, to put a smile on their face?
- 10/16, 1am
The three aspects to being more creative 1. Energy, 2. be contagious, 3. +ve attitude
- 10/16, 1am
@ostephensili08 but we don't enjoy everything 100% of the time surely? Is this a bit like saying 'have a nice day'?
- 10/16, 1am
If you want to attract good people you have to have fun at work
- 10/16, 1am
He's getting us to do exercises - really - does he not know I'm trying to blog? Apparently we need energy - become contagious - have fun!
- 10/16, 1am
3 major aspects to be more creative
- 10/16, 1am
Need to move from GNP (Gross National Product) to GNH (Gross National Happiness)
- 10/16, 1am
People more important than numbers - need to unleash their creative powers
- 10/16, 1am
btw, everything from this account should be me reporting on what the speaker is saying, if I want to comment I'll try to use @ostephens
- 10/16, 1am
Opening Keynote: Guy Cloutier "People at the Heart of Innovation"
- 10/16, 1am
Introduction listing all countries represented - someone says 'Scotland' - speaker: 'That doesn't count does it'
- 10/16, 1am
switching over to @ostephensili08 for live blogging of #ili08 - hope some of you can make it
- 10/16, 1am
Setting up @ostephensili08 account which I'll use to live blog #ili08 tomorrow
- 10/15, 2pm
Live blog stream from ILI08 (by @ostephens)
- 10/15, 2pm
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