WNYLRC-Conference

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[edit] 2006 WNYLRC Conference - Library Adaptation: Evolution of a New Species

[edit] WNY-Lurking Video

Directed by Lawrence R. Napoli

Produced by Lisa Forrest and Dean Hendrix

Executive Produced by Jessie Dunbar and WNYLRC

The series of two videos interviewed people in Buffalo about their feelings and perceptions about libraries.

The questions:

1. What do libraries mean to you?
2. How can libraries improve their services?
3. What will the library of the future look like?
4. If libraries were to disappear off the face of the Earth, would you miss them?

[edit] Donna Fernandes - Director, Buffalo Zoo

Managing Change in a Non-Profit Organization: Lessons from the Buffalo Zoo

Strategies to Initiate Change

1. Survey the landscape
2. Build on your strengths
3. Be mindful of your internal and external audiences
4. Have a realistic vision

[edit] Steven Bell - Director, Paul J. Gutman Library at Philadelphia University

Academic Librarianship by Design: Evolving Through Design Thinking

Design matters. Almost anything you touch, see, wear, and many of your daily experiences are they result of purposeful design. In our complex information landscape the library profession must avoid allowing its evolution to be influenced by chance or external forces. By applying design thinking to our practice we can shape the evolution of our professional services and resources. This session will use Blended Librarianship as a framework to explore how understanding the principles of design can enable us to create a better library experience for our user communities. Steven Bell will use case studies and profiles of Blended Librarians to illustrate how design thinking is being applied to help librarians move their libraries beyond the design of interiors and exteriors, and into the thoughtful design of learning experiences.

Presentation handout and slides - scroll down page to "WNYLRC Links"

Inflection point

Video of Seth Godin discussing how your organization is broken. Seth Godin's book, the Purple Cow, was recommended by Steven Bell.

[edit] Stephen Abram - Vice President of Innovation, Sirsi Dynix

Web 2.0: the Library 2.0 in Your Future

There is a global conversation going on right now about the next generation of the web. It's happening under the name of Web 2.0. It's the McLuhanesque hot web where true human interaction takes precedence over merely 'cool' information delivery and e-mail. It's about putting information into the real context of our users' lives, work and play. Concurrently, a group of information professionals are having a conversation about the vision for what Library 2.0 will look like in this Web 2.0 ecosystem.

[edit] Sharing Roundtables

[edit] Evolution of Library Careers

[edit] Evolution of Our Users

[edit] Evolution of Library Instruction

[edit] Evolution of Information Technology/Web

[edit] Evolution of Library Space as Place

[edit] Raymond Santiago, Director, Miami-Dade Public Library System

Library Adaptation: The Challenges Ahead

What you get if you sit in the front row of one of Raymond Santiago's presentations.

[edit] The User is not Broken

By Karen G. Schneider aka the Free Range Librarian

• All technologies evolve and die. Every technology you learned about in library school will be dead someday.

• You fear loss of control, but that has already happened. Ride the wave.

• You are not a format. You are a service.

• The OPAC is not the sun. The OPAC is at best a distant planet, every year moving farther from the orbit of its solar system.

• The user is the sun.

• The user is the magic element that transforms librarianship from a gatekeeping trade to a services profession.

• The user is not broken.

• Your system is broken until proven otherwise.

• That vendor who just sold you the million-dollar system because "librarians need to help people" doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, and his system is broken, too.

• Most of your most passionate users will never meet you face to face.

• Most of your most alienated users will never meet you face to face.

• The most significant help you can provide your users is to add value and meaning to the information experience, wherever it happens; defend their right to read; and then get out of the way.

• Your website is your ambassador to tomorrow's taxpayers. They will meet the website long before they see your building, your physical resources, or your people.

• It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find a library website that is usable and friendly and provides services rather than talking about them in weird library jargon.

• Information flows down the path of least resistance. If you block a tool the users want, users will go elsewhere to find it.

• You cannot change the user, but you can transform the user experience to meet the user.

• Meet people where they are--not where you want them to be.

• The user is not "remote." You, the librarian, are remote, and it is your job to close that gap.

• The average library decision about implementing new technologies takes longer than the average life cycle for new technologies.

• If you are reading about it in Time and Newsweek and your library isn't adapted for it or offering it, you're behind.

• Stop moaning about the good old days. The card catalog sucked, and you thought so at the time, too.

• If we continue fetishizing the format and ignoring the user, we will be tomorrow's cobblers.

• We have wonderful third spaces that offer our users a place where they can think and dream and experience information. Is your library a place where people can dream?

• Your ignorance will not protect you.