{"id":241,"date":"2008-04-12T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2008-04-12T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T20:37:00","slug":"computers-in-libraries-2008-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/computers-in-libraries-2008-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers in Libraries 2008 (LONG!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t at this conference (obviously, for those who know me) but I&#8217;ve been attempting to keep up via blogs and wanted to make some notes for myself about some of the cool things I&#8217;ve been reading.  So what follows is a screed of super-brief notes gathered from various people who were there, in many cases blatantly plagiarised sans attribution from their blogs.  Sorry about that, folks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infotoday.com\/cil2008\/program.asp\">Programme at InfoToday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Keynote &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/\">Pew Internet&#8230;<\/a><\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/238\/presentation_display.asp\">powerpoint at Pew Internet<\/a>)Lee Rainie<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>60% of teens use the library in 2008 compared to 36% in 2000\n<\/li>\n<li>Lack of awareness is an inhibitor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Fast &#038; Easy Site Tune-Ups<\/b><br \/>Jeff Wisniewski<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use code to keep copyright \/ last-updated dates fresh\n<\/li>\n<li>contact info -> <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/wiki\/hcard\">hCards<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>add labels to forms, checkboxes etc for accessibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Widgets, tools and doodads for library webmasters<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/fichter\/widgets-tools-and-doodads-for-webmasters\">presentation at slideshare<\/a>)<br \/>Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.web2learning.net\/archives\/1667\">lots of stuff<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.recaptcha.net\/\">reCaptcha<\/a>  (Me:  I love this!)\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/\">PollDaddy<\/a> (Me: I&#8217;ve used this &#8211; good stuff)\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.photoshop.com\/express\/index.html\">Photoshop Express<\/a> free online photo editing by makers of Photoshop\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lolinator.com\/\">the LOLinator<\/a>, where you can see your website as if created by LOLcats.  (Me: OMGWTFBBQ!!!11one)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>User-Generated Content<\/b><br \/>Roy Tennant<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>more content is better, more access is better\n<\/li>\n<li>plugged <a href=\"http:\/\/kete.net.nz\/\">Kete<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>WorldCat going social; LoC using Flickr&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<li>Are you set up appropriately to meet your goals?\n<\/li>\n<li>user engagement is a good thing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Library Web Presence: Engaging the Audience<\/b><br \/>lots of people including Ellysa Stern Cahoy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>widgets!\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/articles\/subject_guides\/\">LibGuides subject guides<\/a> &#8211; still need marketing but usage more than doubled in first month\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.psu.edu\/instruction\/jumpstart.htm\">Research Jumpstart<\/a> at Penn for freshman &#8211; stripped down to basics\n<\/li>\n<li>faculty and grad students like being able to build their own page with feeds and widgets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Hi Tech &#038; Hi Touch<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/theshiftedlibrarian.com\/presentations\/2008\/20080407CIL-HiTechHiTouch.pdf\">pdf at the Shifted Librarian<\/a>)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/theshiftedlibrarian.com\/\">Jenny Levine<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrons don&#8217;t care whether they&#8217;re being reached by high or low technology; they just want high touch. (eg new books list &#8211; not just titles and authors, but blurbs and\/or covers which give more info)\n<\/li>\n<li>Link to ILL with &#8220;We don&#8217;t own this, but we will get it for you.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>Idea to present a database of the week via SlideShare\n<\/li>\n<li>MeeboMe widget, email link, library hours etc on the null-search page in the catalogue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Innovation Starts with &#8220;I&#8221;<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarybytes.com\/2008\/04\/innovation-starts-with-i.html\">Slides at LibraryBytes<\/a>)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarybytes.com\/\">Helene Blowers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/yestoknow.wordpress.com\/\">Tony Tallent<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creativity is thinking up new things; innovation is doing new things.\n<\/li>\n<li>involves creativity, strategy, implementation, profitability\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t ask for permission &#8211; ask for support!\n<\/li>\n<li>Sell your vision multiple ways &#8211; on paper, face-to-face, presentation.  Tell a story about how it could change life for a user.\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;book bundles&#8221; that they bind up with yarn, ready for patron to &#8220;grab and go&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Innovative Marketing Using Web 2.0.<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/hurstassociates.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/cil2008-innovative-marketing-using-web.html\">Slides at Digitisation 101<\/a>)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarybytes.com\/\">Helene Blowers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryman.com\/blog\/\">Michael Porter<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>library brand is books and community &#8211; not logo\n<\/li>\n<li>consumers impact the branding &#8211; let them promote you\n<\/li>\n<li>use web 2.0 to tell stories\n<\/li>\n<li>make the branding portable\n<\/li>\n<li>Hennepin their community to submit a photo of reading Harry Potter to the website and Flickr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Mashups for Non-Techies: Yahoo! Pipes<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/cil2008.pbwiki.com\/Jody+Condit+Fagan\">powerpoint, links, more at CIL2008 wiki<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jcf-hp.blogspot.com\/\">Jody Fagan<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no programming involved &#8211; just plug in information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Keynote: Innovative &#038; Inspiring<\/b><br \/>Delft guys Erik Boekesteijn, Jaap van de Geer, and Geert van den Boogaard<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>made documentary re libraries, travelling around US\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanachietour.com\/\">video they made available here<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The book is one of the best technologies ever invented, but it is a technology.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Transparency, Planning &#038; Change: See-Through Libraries<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/tametheweb.com\/talks08\/StephensCaseyCIL.pdf\">pdf at Tame the Web<\/a>)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarycrunch.com\/\">Michael Casey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tametheweb.com\/\">Michael Stephens<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t ask staff for input if you&#8217;re not going to use it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drupal in Libraries<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/oedb.org\/blogs\/ilibrarian\/2008\/drupal-and-libraries-at-cil2008\/\">slidecast at OEDB<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellyssakroski.com\/\">Ellyssa Kroski<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ann Arbor District Library has module to integrate OPAC into website &#8211; new website gave 40% increase in traffic\n<\/li>\n<li>also used in classes, for intranets, for planning, workshop sign-ups&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<li>being used to empower staff to be able to contribute content to the website directly without the filter of a webmaster\n<\/li>\n<li>library specific modules eg MARC and Z39.50\n<\/li>\n<li>many conferences, resources, mailing lists etc for support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Libraries A-Twitter &#038; Using del.icio.us<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/deeboeks.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/08\/cil2008-libraries-a-twitter-using-delicious\/\">Dutch writeup here<\/a>)<br \/>lots of people including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelinlibrarian.info\/\">Michael Sauers<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Systems are using twitter for event publicity and reference\n<\/li>\n<li>used del.icio.us to create on the fly pathfinders, catalogue in-house and web resources and other uses &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ucflibrary\">bookmarks here<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Facebook Apps &#038; Libraries&#8217; Friendly Future<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/clifflandis\/facebook-apps-and-libraries-friendly-future?src=embed\">slideshare<\/a>)<br \/>Laurie Bridges and Cliff Landis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sticky site:  average user spends 20 minutes on the site\n<\/li>\n<li>library apps exist but little used because not social\n<\/li>\n<li>people WANT to interact, but they can&#8217;t find out how on a library site\n<\/li>\n<li>It is never a mistake to give users more options.\n<\/li>\n<li>*you* initiating friending with students or patrons can make you seem like Uncle Creepy, so it&#8217;s best to let them initiate it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Harnessing New Data Visualization Tools<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/fichter\/data-20-harnessing-new-data-visualization-tools-343275\/\">slides at slideshare<\/a>)<br \/>Darlene Fichter<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>data is free but in a raw state that is not yet usable by most people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Catalog Effectiveness: Google Analytics &#038; OPAC 2.0<\/b><br \/>Rebekah Kilzer, Cathy Weng and Jia Mi<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use of Google Analytics to understand how its OPAC is used<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>From Woepac to Wowpac<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/deeboeks.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/08\/cil2008-from-woepac-to-wowpac\/\">writeup in Dutch<\/a>)<br \/>lots of people including <a href=\"http:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/\">Karen G. Schneider<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>(Me: I love this title)<\/p>\n<li>Interoperability is essential: like using APIs\n<\/li>\n<li>Blyberg: The fact that we can&#8217;t put together a quality OPAC isn&#8217;t because it&#8217;s hard to do, but rather that it is systemic and representative of the greater libraryworld problems\n<\/li>\n<li>blogger: Putting a pretty face on a lousy ILS doesn\u2019t get us where our patrons need us to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>IM service, making it successful<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/deeboeks.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/08\/cil2008-im-service-making-it-successful\/\">writeup in Dutch<\/a>)<br \/><b>Super Searcher<\/b><br \/>Mary Ellen Bates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.web2learning.net\/archives\/1665\">list of search engines to try<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Libraries as Laboratories for Innovation<\/b><br \/>Matt Gullett and Greg Schwartz<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Need: Talent; Time and space; Support from admin\n<\/li>\n<li>Play background music to help control volume in area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Leading Technology in Libraries<\/b><br \/>Gina Millsap and David Lee King<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Library Director 2.0 &#8211; less hierarchy, involve all staff\n<\/li>\n<li>Library Director 2.1 &#8211; customer service is job #1; do pilot projects; treat staff as customers\n<\/li>\n<li>Job descriptions for all staff now say they will participate in the digital branch through blogging (NB based on talking to staff)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Pecha Kucha<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/openstacks.net\/presentations\/PechaKucha2.ppt\">podcasting powerpoint at Openstacks<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/etches\/pecha-kucha-cil2008\">IM slides at slideshare<\/a>)<br \/>6 people with 6min40s to talk each<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>blogger: What if we were all challenged to do a high quality presentation in 6 minutes?\n<\/li>\n<li>IM: 75% of online teens use to communicate; get happy with Meebo widgets for point-of-need help\n<\/li>\n<li>podcasting: audience growing\n<\/li>\n<li>wikis: like barnraising.  Easy creation and *searchability*.\n<\/li>\n<li>videocasting: use your users to staff your videos\n<\/li>\n<li>facebook: &#8220;Myspace might kill you, but Facebook won&#8217;t.&#8221;  Facebook highlights the user.\n<\/li>\n<li>sceptic: If 2.0 is the solution, what was the problem?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Keynote: libraries as happiness engines<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/deeboeks.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/09\/cil2008-geluk-en-gamen\/\">writeup in Dutch<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/mamamusings.net\/\">Liz Lawley<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>happiness:  satisfying work, experience of being good at something, time spent with people we like, chance to be part of something bigger\n<\/li>\n<li>concept of &#8220;productive play&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>games include collecting, points, feedback, exchanges, customization &#8211; can we build these into learning tasks?\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriosity.com\/\">Seriosity<\/a> game to reduce emails sent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Technology Training for Library Staff: Creativity Works<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/librarianinblack.typepad.com\/librarianinblack\/files\/CIL2008-TechTraining.pdf\">pdf at Librarian in Black<\/a>)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/librarianinblack.typepad.com\/\">Sarah Houghton-Jan<\/a>, Maurice and Annette<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>why train? confidence, saves money, serves users better, etc.\n<\/li>\n<li>work with staff to brainstorm, plan\n<\/li>\n<li>task-based\n<\/li>\n<li>incentives\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsource.ala.org\/ltr\/technology-competencies-and-training-for-libraries.html\">technology competencies and training<\/a> material\n<\/li>\n<li>Technology Petting Zoo project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Tech Tools for Effectively Managing Information<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/cil2008.pbwiki.com\/Roger\">list at cil2008 wiki<\/a>)<br \/>Roger Skalbeck and Barbara Fullerton<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><b>Learning From Gaming<\/b><br \/>Chad Boeninger<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>borrow ideas from successful social sites\n<\/li>\n<li>how can we encourage more exploration in libraries?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Gaming for Adults<\/b><br \/>Martin House and Mark Engelbrecht<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>promoting in community worked better than on web\n<\/li>\n<li>Users who have experienced the gaming events tend to gravitate toward the staff who run the gaming events afterwards when they are in the library for another need or reason.\n<\/li>\n<li>The attendees come to the library more after the gaming events.  They also use reference materials as their primary activity in coming to the library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Online Outreach for Libraries: Successful Digital Marketing<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/librarianinblack.typepad.com\/librarianinblack\/files\/CIL2008-OnlineOutreachForLibraries.pdf\">pdf at Librarian in Black<\/a>)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/librarianinblack.typepad.com\/\">Sarah Houghton-Jan<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>place teasers where the users are; bring them to the library\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utopianlibrary.com\/?p=316\">list and links at the Utopian Library<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>from the floor: Sending people to a poorly designed website is worse than not being there at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Findability: Information Not Location<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rss4lib.com\/docs\/cil2008.ppt\">powerpoint at rss4lib<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/deeboeks.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/09\/cil2008-findability\/\">writeup in Dutch<\/a>)<br \/>Mike Creech and Ken Varnum at U Michigan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>multiple websites for multiple branches &#8211; rationalising content and form\n<\/li>\n<li>focus groups, online survey, and one-question survey randomly on pages: either &#8220;What did you come to this page to do?&#8221; or &#8220;Why do you come to the library&#8217;s website?&#8221;  Conversations with stakeholders, used Google Analytics\n<\/li>\n<li>MTagger on all pages including catalogue &#8211; after 1 month 1000 tags by 300 taggers\n<\/li>\n<li>anything searchable is an RSS feed.  open APIs]\n<\/li>\n<li>now choosing open-source search tool and CMS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Google<\/b><br \/>Greg Notess<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>most people don&#8217;t click things at top so integrating image results etc into main search results\n<\/li>\n<li>Google Scholar: added elsevier titles, most frequent authors list.\n<\/li>\n<li>Zero Phrase Search: Google change &#8211; they\u2019re working on changing results &#8211; sometimes it will say No results found and will just search for the phrase without quotes &#8211; sometimes it won\u2019t tell you no results found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What\u2019s Hot in RSS &#038; Social Software<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com\/CIL2008\">links on speaker&#8217;s wiki<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/deeboeks.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/09\/cil2008-what%E2%80%99s-hot-in-rss-social-software\/\">writeup in Dutch<\/a>)<br \/>Steven Cohen<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><b>Kete<\/b><br \/>Eric Atkinson<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>implementing Kete at Orange County Library System<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The New Generation of Library Interfaces<\/b><br \/>Marshall Breeding<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You want to make it so easy that users aren\u2019t thinking about the interface but rather are thinking about the content.\n<\/li>\n<li>enriched content\n<\/li>\n<li>Can the library community bear the cost of this new OPAC? Can we afford to not do it or do it so slowly that we become irrelevant?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Going Local in the Library: Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Local 2.0<\/b><br \/>Charles Lyons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinorthia.net.au\/\">Wikinorthia<\/a> library-created local wiki  (<a href=\"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/computers-in-libraries-my-brain-is-full\/\">Meredith Farkas&#8217;<\/a> idea to create a university wiki, where the library could gather information from all different groups on campus to create a truly helpful resource for new students)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Virtual Reference: Endless Possibilites<\/b><br \/>Dan Sich and Derik Badman<\/p>\n<ul>mashing up feed of multiple journals (eg <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=NlG6cYgE3BG6qtZJmLokhQ\">library literature<\/a>) &#8211; timeconsuming<\/ul>\n<p><b>Collaborating with YouTubers to Enhance Library Instruction<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>involving students a good idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infotubey.com\/\">InfoTubey Awards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t at this conference (obviously, for those who know me) but I&#8217;ve been attempting to keep up via blogs and wanted to make some notes for myself about some of the cool things I&#8217;ve been reading. 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