Beyond the Hype - Friday day

Anyway, on the Thursday morning we were up early (and I mean early – they don’t have day light savings – it was like bright daylight at 6:00am). We dropped Anaki off and caught the train into the city – that’s when the humidity hit me! Anyway, we finally got to QUT, registered etc. and breathed a sigh of air conditioned relief! Here are my notes from the first days session:

Christine MacKenzie

She discussed Library Web 2.0 Activities like:

Finding information/Enabling learning/Creating content/Celebrating culture

And that the library can become the “third place” – a place where you are not at home, and not at work. The library can become the community loungeroom. The library needs to be user centered with multimedia exposure and experience, socially rich and a place that communicates innovation. All part of the natural extension of the patron experience.

So we must:
Learn to learn
Adapt to change
Scan the horizon

Keith Webster

He mentioned a website called “Rate my Professors” – look it up to see what has been said about my previous (and future ones)!

They use “Encore” a search engine with the library catalogue, databases, news items, tags, student tags, reviews, ratings (student interaction) etc. This allows students to get to the licensed products which Google doesn’t allow (similar to VALA talk).

Katy Watson

Are services being driven by demand? Or it is just hype? Are we just following trends?

So monitor trends vs implementing trends? Add when deemed a required service. What % warrants action??

Just because technology is available doesn’t mean you are welcome in their “social” spaces (like Facebook).

This talk was great as in my workplace there is very little hype about Web 2.0. I mean I hear and read about it all the time but most of it is irrelevant and pointless in my workplace. Great to have this talk as it was more cautious to new technologies.

Brad Jones

By using certain websites advertisers bombard use. It’s not “My Space” it’s “Rupert Murdoch’s Space”!! There is so much to learn (many more than 23 things) so it can be very daunting.

We have no control over certain things that are IT related:
Many can only use Microsoft and Adobe
Filters and blocking
Censorship of certain sites
IT blocking technologies

So think of your users – many cannot get to all these services that you are providing.

Luisa Rossitto

Made You Tube video for library orientation. Used simply tools that are easily available such as:
Digital camera
Move maker
Microsoft Paint
Audacity

Really coil little video clip. Inventive. She also mentioned Infotubey?? Which are You Tube awards for library clips.

EBLIP

They discussed evidence based librarianship and the five principles behind it:
Ask a question
Acquire the evidence
Appraise the evidence
Apply the evidence
Assess impact and performance (and report findings)

Continually gather evidence along the way (but don’t necessarily implement this evidence).

Workshop

I attended the Flickr, Slideshare, You Tube and Podcasting workshop.

They started with Flickr and Slideshare (which I already use and know lots about), then we basically run out of time for You Tube and Podcasting which is why I choose this workshop! Anyway they gave out a big workbook so (one day) I will work through that!