Author: Heather Braum

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Pivot Points for Change: Libraries and Librarians Blog Posting

I thought you all might be interested in a new blog post by Bobbi Newman. Some of you might be familiar with Bobbi; she is now the digital branch manager at the Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System. Bobbi will be speaking at the KLA Conference on Thursday, April 8, at 10am-11:30am as the Beta Phi Mu speaker, presenting on Libraries and Transliteracy.

Bobbi blogged this morning about a recent staff day at her library where Buffy Hamilton (who will be speaking at the ESU SLIM Summer Institute for School Librarians) spoke about 9 pivot points of change in libraries. I’m going to post the first five here; many of them fit in very neatly with what we’ve been covering so far in 23 Things Kansas and will be covering in the weeks to come. Check out Bobbi’s blog for the other points as well as the slides from Buffy’s presentation.

The fabulous Buffy Hamilton gave her Pivot Points of Change presentation at my library’s Staff Day last week. The points were inspired by post from Seth Godin in which he states changing everything is too difficult. Buffy applied this to libraries and librarians for the 9 pivot points of change. This is a slightly modified version of her original 9 pivot points of change for school librarians.

  1. Instead of thinking you can only participate in face to face conferences, consider how you can participate virtually
  2. Keep your traditional means of connecting with patrons and colleagues, but innovate at every possible touch point through social media and social networking
  3. Keep reading your print journals, but use a feed aggregator or information portal to access and organize your favorite blogs, journals, podcasts, youtube videos, and twitter rss feeds to stay on the cutting edge
  4. Keep networking with colleagues face to face, but cultivate a personal learning network to broaden your PLN (Personal Learning Network) to include librarians and other professionals from around the world who can inform your thinking, practice, and philosophy
  5. Keep your traditional productivity tools, but use cloud computing to encourage collaboration and information sharing

For those 23 Things Kansas participants who started using Twitter last week, I hope you remember to check in from time to time and keep the conversation going there, and find new resources. I try to remember to cross-post good articles and links I come across to my Delicious account, but I’m pretty forgetful. I usually just end tweeting these articles.

Please let me know if you still have questions about Twitter or about how it might work for you. The pivot point of change #4 mentioned above is a huge reason why I use Twitter so much in my daily professional life. The people I communicate with around the country (librarians and educators) shape my thinking and the tools that I use on a regular basis.

Also, coming up in April, even if you won’t be able to attend the KLA conference in Wichita, you’ll be able to follow from home, through the Twitter hashtag that will be used to track everyone’s tweets relating to the conference. I believe that hashtag will be #kla2010. I’ll post more information about how to do this in the coming weeks.

Twitter Daily Digest for 2010-03-04

  • Twitter Daily Digest for 2010-03-03 http://ff.im/-gRODA #
  • Hitting the road again. Starting to enjoy these early mornings. A little bit 🙂 #
  • @elizabethiepoo no problem 🙂 lori's not for everyone; in fact, i haven't read her new stuff in years, but pretense has always stuck w me. in reply to elizabethiepoo #
  • going home for a nap, then KU-KSU game, watching @ johnnys w @dianajw & whoever else joins us. May the best Jayhawk win, esp on Senior Nite! #
  • Change of plans, johnnys full. Watching at my house instead. Rock Chalk Jayhawk Go KU!! #
  • Thx Sherron!! RT @janbrooks1 Thx Sherron!.RT @StateStSports: #KUbball fans Retweet!!! Thankyou #SherronCollins #ku #kansas #chicago #
  • Normally love cats but hoping the hawks kick the snot out of these Cats esp to win big xii title outright & wining sherrons last home game!! #
  • Jealous @twitrhag is there! RT @JBBauersfeld Loudest ive heard The Phog. They want to send Sherron off with a win. http://twitpic.com/16gvru #
  • I loves me some jayhawks!!!! 72-56 KU 5:17 to go. Sherron is on fire now! #
  • 6 consec big xii titles; ku has 10 of 13 big xii titles; 58-game streak @ home; Sherron has won 125 games in career (& counting); 80-61 ku #
  • The rock chalk chant is beautiful & haunting & extra special tonite!!! #
  • Make that 59 straight wins at home, not 58. #
  • Thank u Sherron! & tears begin 2 flow in Allen fieldhouse as he goes out 4 last time as a KU player, as the winningest player in ku history. #
  • Listening to @CoachBillSelf introducing Sherron for his senior speech. & "1 more year" hits the arena for Cole, as Bill talks abt Cole 1st #
  • Sherron starts of thanking team support staff: academic pple, conditioning coach, the trainers. His teammates=his brothers, his family. #
  • Thxing Brady (teammate) & his family for taking him n2 their home. Thxing Cole for coming back this yr w him to another ntl championship. #
  • Thanking coaching staff one by one. Self is going to be difficult one when he gets to him. #
  • @mayfieldc yr prob one of few happy pple there tonite w the game outcome. 🙂 in reply to mayfieldc #
  • Coach Self tears up now. "He's been my father figure. He's shown me the right way" -Sherron #
  • Thanked his family from Chicago. Now thanking the fans. "Thank you for making my 4 yrs here wonderful" #
  • He spoke from the heart & held it together pretty well. Thanks Sherron!! #
  • @mayfieldc well I've never lived there but…if KU had lost tonight it wld have been rockin 🙂 in reply to mayfieldc #
  • thankful i get most channels (in KC) thru antenna, but sad can't get wibw/ktka/ktwu) out of topeka; anyone have ideas? get ksnt just fine #
  • @mknapp76 saw what u posted; next try one using @hbraum 2 refer 2 me; do the same 4 other twitter users; that way, we see your messages 2 us in reply to mknapp76 #
  • 1 more ku-related tweet tonite: In his career, Sherron has bn a pt of winning all these trophies: http://bit.ly/aTlQ4p & more may b added! #
  • @twitrhag sure looked like it-incred amnt of trophies; going 2 lk 4 pregame/postgame videos-hoping some1 posts 2 youtube; how was the game? in reply to twitrhag #
  • chiropractor first thing in morning, then taking morning off of work tomorrow, kind of; hoping to get going on #kla2010 presos: conf v soon! #
  • The State of the Internet video–very interesting stats… http://vimeo.com/9641036 #
  • RT @KUSports: Bill Self's introduction of #sherroncollins and intro video before his senior speech: http://bit.ly/cv5bJD #kubball #

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