Conferences Notes

Keynote: How libraries add value to communities

Mar 23rd

Posted by Heather Braum in Computers in Libraries

Note: Next year’s conference is March 21-23 at the Hilton again.

Lee Rainie, Director Pew Internet Project

email: lrainie@pewinternet.org

Twitter: Lrainie

pew pew pew slide (token cat picture)

No agenda or position or anything. PEW generates primary useful information for their stakeholders, like librarians.

emperor of keynotes? &”monarch of twitter feedback” @itsjustkate tweet

Internet and Broadband Revolution (Revolutionary war picture)

24% of Americans only have cell phones (no landline): 50% are under 30.
Change in internet use by age, 2000-2010 graph: in about 2007, flattening of Internet growth begins. Librarians have been helpful in teaching the resistant population, to feel comfortable with the technology and space.
Home broadband adoption, 2000-2010 graph: Dialup More >

cil11, communities, Libraries, PEW

Getting to the Eureka! Moment

Mar 22nd

Posted by Heather Braum in Computers in Libraries

Julian Aiken, Access Services Librarian, Yale Law Library

Google Model for Innovation Using (and Abusing it) at Yale Law School

Brilliant but Rummy (Odd) Idea No. 1

Personal Motivations.

Idea #2

When in doubt, cheat, copy, steal, and pillage.

Google.

It’s from Wikipedia, so it must be true.

Google 80/20 innovation model. Gmail, Google News, Google Shuttle, etc., came from it.

Google Earth.

Google’s Model: 80 % of staff time spent on core projects. 20% of time spent on company related projects that interest them personally. If you have a great idea, you’re supported to run with it.

Achieving Institutional Buy-in.

staff are asked to do more with less.
why then More >

cil11, google, innovation

eBooks and their Growing Value for Libraries Panel

Mar 22nd

Posted by Heather Braum in Computers in Libraries

Amy Pawlowski, Web App Manager at Cleveland Public Library

Sue Polanka, Head of Referene and Instruction at Wright State University Libraries, Author of No Shelf Required

Ellen Druda, Librarian, Internet Services, Half Hollow Hills Community Library

Rosemarie Jerome, Librarian, Half Hollow Hills Community Library

Bianca Crowley, Smithsonian

Amy Pawlowski & Sue Polanka

Public Library

72% of Public Libraries are offering eBooks (LJ report)
55K thousand titles in the Cleveland Public Library eBook collection
5% of public libraries circulate preloaded ereading devices, while 24% are considering it. Kindle was the top device.
1/5 of the US online population reads at least 2 books per month. How to capture that audience?

Academic Library

94% More >

cil11, ebooks, Libraries

Teching Up: Traditional Library Programs

Mar 22nd

Posted by Heather Braum in Computers in Libraries

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Sue Scott

Marlboro Free Library

Why care about technology?

Bridging the digital divide
showing what is possible
speaking to digital natives
digital literacy (access not enough; have to know how to use it)
balance caution with enthusiasm
everything in moderation

Children’s Programs

Skyping Toddlertime
- (2 laptops with cameras and skype; external speakers)
- LCD TV with video cable to laptop
- singing storytime; librarian was at home; kids at the library
Technology Tuesday camp with 4th and 5th graders
- 8 weeks after school program: movie creation; game development; gaming; tech crafts
- Movies:
  - Publisher to create movie premier flyers;
  - took digital camera pics of kids and had them use PAINT to create scary masks;
  - used audacity to import More >