building academic library 2.0 - association of christian librarians
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Preconference for Association of Christian Librarians Conference, June 9, 2008.TRANSCRIPT
Building Academic Library 2.0
Meredith FarkasAssociation of Christian Librarians
So what is library 2.0?
Web 1.0: Democratized Access to Information
Web 2.0: Democratized Participation
Revolutionary or evolutionary?
http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/08/24/library-20-ripples-another-go-at-the-graph/
What is different now?
Technology has enabled us to do so much more
but we’re no longer the only game in town.
Academic Library 2.0 is a state of mind
•Working to meet changing user needs
•Trusting our users (radical trust)
•Getting rid of the culture of perfect
•Aware of emerging technologies and opportunities
•Looking outside of the library world for applications, opportunities, inspiration
Building Academic Library 2.0: Surveying
the Landscape
Know your users
Develop a Culture of Assessment
Develop a Learning Culture
Keeping Up
Develop your keep-up strategy
•Determine what topics are most important to your continuing ed.
Develop your keep-up strategy
•Determine what topics are most important to your continuing ed.
•Choose your filters
Filters
•Professional journals
•Blogs
•Podcasts
•Webcasts
•Conferences
•People
Develop your keep-up strategy
•Determine what topics are most important to your continuing ed.
•Choose your filters
•Find tools to help you keep up
Tools for Keeping Up
Tools for Keeping Up
Tools for Keeping Up
Develop your keep-up strategy
•Determine what topics are most important to your continuing ed.
•Choose your filters
•Find tools to help you keep up
•Accept that you can't keep up with everything
Build your Network
Building Academic Library 2.0:
Embracing Change
Question Everything
Develop a Risk-Tolerant Culture
Beware the Culture of Perfect
Be Agile
Building Academic Library 2.0: Enabling
Academic Work
What do THEY want?
Build the Spaces they Want
Communicate with your Users
Become More Transparent
Translate Traditional Services Online
Allow Users to Connect around Collections
Integrate the Online Research Experience
Make the Library a Creative Technology Lab
Collect Knowledge to Benefit Everyone
Building Academic Library 2.0: Making
Collections More Visible and Accessible
Use 2.0 Tools to Highlight Collections
Be Where our Users Are
Market Ideas Effectively
Building Academic Library 2.0: Looking Beyond our Library
Get out of the Library and Join the University
Create Partnerships
Look at what’s happening outside of libraries
Building Academic Library 2.0: Internally
Reward Failure
Give Staff Time for Creative Endeavors
Collect Knowledge Internally
Be Transparent
Good Ideas can Come from Anyone and Anywhere
Involve Staff from All Levels in Planning
Nurture Talent
Understand Staff Needs and Limitations
Time Must be Devoted to all This
Will you need to create new jobs or just shuffle?
Tips for Implementing New Services or
Technologies
Choosing a Project
• Avoid technolust
• Know your population
• Weigh your options through play
• Understand the culture of each technology
Selling ideas to colleagues
• Have plenty of hard data
• Have a prototype
• Encourage staff to “kick the tires”
• Offer training for staff
• Be patient
Selling ideas to IT
• Involve IT in planning
• Know your stuff
• Build relationships and find champions
Consider the day-to-day
• Do you need a policy?
• Do you need maintenance procedures?
Promotion• Marketing
• Website
• All over campus
• Local media
• Faculty – build into a course
• Focus on functionality
• Training
Assessment
• How do you assess?
• Usage statistics
• Surveys
• Most libraries aren’t doing any assessment of social tools
Is your organization (as it is currently structured) able to make all this happen?