I took some notes during staff day. Some of the highlights I came away with were:
Get a camera
Get with social networking, particularly facebook and flickr
Should we delve into the social networking arena, we will need to commit to updating it and creating a presence (be reliable, be responsive, be available)
Create, foster, nurture partnerships
If libraries do not stake their claim in the digital realm, it will move on without us - we will lose leverage; we have expertise in organizing and providing information, regardless of format
Our Future Library: Evolved, Even More Practical, Everywhere and Different
Michael Porter
Libraries = content + community
photos
- get cameras
- record memories – makes people feel good
What makes you love your library?
- people
- help
- books
- internet
- needs met
technology
- libraries are well-placed in community to take advantage of technology
fidelity
- defines what we are as institutions
- things that used to be sci-fi aren’t any more
library 101
- whole new set of basics
- find ways to engage the technology
-technology innovations are jumping exponentially every year – what does this do for libraries?
What do we adopt?
What’s part of our mission and vision?
- we are getting leapfrogged by for-profit companies (i.e. facebook)
- we need to jump onto their platform to compete with them
- we could get usurped if we’re not careful and adapt to the changes – find new ways to provide access to content
- we have a window of opportunity we need to plan for and we need to talk about
- what we do in libraries that doesn’t have to do with technology is not matching up with what we do that has to do with technology (we’re good at interacting with community but not good at the software side)
- digital content – libraries don’t have a platform to circulate
- we don’t own or have control over it
- articulate what you do well and say it
- take blinders off when we look at what we offer on the web
- what could we try?
