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| Mar 18 2009, 4:28 PM EDT (current) | lybrarian | 440 words added |
| Mar 18 2009, 4:27 PM EDT | lybrarian |
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Future of Libraries (Kathryn facilitating)
- Kathryn's future presentation: People :: Place :: Content :: Community
- Content: what we stock, Place: physical and virtual, People: library staff, and Community: user influence services - users more involved
- What is a library now? Our brand is books, do we tie ourselves to that brand? What when a 'book' is in a different container.
- MPL - no more VHS or cassettes - what comes next? Is space needed? DVD thin v. VHS thick? Computers v. laptops v. mobile
- Harry Potter and Star Wars are media neutral - the story is lego, movie, book, videogame
- Ahead of the curve, but Library has the long-tail - outdated technologies that only a few places have for the late adopters or those who can't afford the cutting edge technology. Content over format? Be container neutral? If there's a movie that is only available and popular on VHS, do we have to keep it?
- Library as the 3rd place - with the bad economy, use is increasing of ALL formats
- 50 year timeline: which books will still here? picture books, smut (but anonymous with iphone), immediate - Need more bandwidth (high speed) Providing bandwidth - do patrons come for communal computing? Sometimes...
- Community centers with rec, pool, library, gym, etc.
- Teaching and learning - align purpose and expand purpose
- Academic library running out of space - fight between content and place
- People - organizational structure as a bottleneck - librarians need to come into the organizaiton with the skills (retirement issues and 'how' boomers retire > leave the leadership position in favor of fun jobs they want to do)
- How do you keep up? Methodologies to keep up? 23 Things
- Not really a profession of continuing education - need education on NEW stuff :: How does the profession keep up with the kids?! Grad students v. undergrads and how the approach technology and databases - Grads are able to adapt and assimilate (and share these lessons with faculty)
- Are Reference librarians still the BEST finders of answers and information?? Can a librarian do it better than Google? How can they do it if they can't 'play' with new technology?
- Staff has a disconnect between 'knows' and 'don't knows' with technology - stretched
- Pace of change is fast, fast, fast. How do you cope with multiple new technologies? The More's Law - rate of technological advancement
- Changes needed - traditional library stuff, augment with new skills and playtime, and freedom to try and fail (shovers and makers) (MySpace, for example) Do a tour working with teens, then embarrassment isn't a fear anymore...
