6:30-8:00 get myself and kiddo ready, leave for work

8-9:00 is my first email block, I do a poorly managed version of the “inbox zero” and I try to keep two email blocks throughout the day—the first and the last hour. Whenever possible, I try to leave work early enough to get a workout in for the day. I’ve found that it really does make one more productive! However, I don’t have my daughter on Mondays, so I tend to work late those nights. Of course, like most anal er… “driven” librarians, I work a lot from home at night and on the weekends, too.

Checked in on Foursquare

Get to work—open up Outlook on one monitor, Firefox on the other—use App Tabs to keep Gmail, iTweet, FriendFeed, Facebook, Google Reader and Hoot Suite open… but I rarely click over to them (sorry to anyone who tries to ping me during the day).

Plug in my iPhone for music.

Fielded question about constantly replacing headphone on patron internet machines—looking for a source of good, cheap headphones (difficult balance).

Called friend and former colleague, Jack Maness to confirm lunch

Set up Digital Services Team meeting for 9am

Posted picture of my desk on Twitter

9-10:00 met with Digital Services Team. This is my Systems guru, Jon Solomon and my Drupal master, Chris Evjy. We discussed the movement to the newest version of Web Pac Pro, new headers, integrating Library Thing For Libraries. We discussed Summer Reading program, looked at different software products and campaigns, set firm deadlines for the various elements. Discussed Evanced stylesheets and the development of a Feed plugin for Drupal to ease the display of Evanced information. Discussed our developing Intranet – production environment up. Broke down the tasks and discussed who does what and when.

10:00am – Filled out time sheet, generated the report for my staff and turned it in.

Looked into the myriad of suggestions for headphone replacement from Twitter. Many good suggestions – brought these ideas to our Assistant Director and discussed some of the pros and cons of each approach. We decided to take question to the Leadership Team later this week

Checked in with Finance Manager for library on the progress towards a contract with PingV, converting ArtsResource website migration to Drupal. ArtsResource is a web site paid for by the Boulder Arts Commission that we maintain at the library. It provides profiles with samples (audio, video, photographs) of work for local artists as well as art-related events listings. We are working with PingV to convert it over to Drupal from the legacy content management system it’s currently built in.

10:15am Did morning walk-through of the library – I try to do this twice a day so my experience of the library isn’t all just virtual. I stopped in the children’s area and discussed a recent hacking incident that unfortunately resulted in patron shoving our security guard when confronted. Further discussion with children’s staff about other recent security issues and our Leadership Team/Commission’s emphasis as top priority for the coming months.

10:30 – 11:00 Worked on IT governance meeting, implementing a Change Management group as per ITIL principles. I’ve been slowly adopting much of the ITIL stuff in one form or another since I came on board about a year ago.

Then Chris (the web guy) interrupted me and wanted to know where Drupal was installed on the new production server… also needed user permissions fixed. I tweeted about my frustrations with Linux file permissions.

11-11:30am, more follow up on Change Management

11:30 – gave up on Change Management and moving on to making some phone calls… Eric Sissler of the Westminster Public Library, Carson Block of the Poudre River Public Library District, Susan Staples of the High Plains Library District. Working on some Colorado Association of Libraries’ “Network Systems Interest Group” stuff.

Noon-1:30 – I try to make myself have lunch with a friend twice a week because the rest of the time I just eat lunch at my desk while answering email. Twice a week it’s good for me to get away from the screen. Today I had lunch with Jack Maness, Head of the Engineering Library at the University of Colorado up the street. We talked a lot about ALA Emerging Leaders, Technology in Libraries—cool stuff about Data Curation mostly. We talked career development and a *lot* about what we’ve learned and are learning being relatively inexperienced managers. Jack has been a huge influence and inspiration—I can’t say enough good about the guy.

1:30-2:00 check email, Twitter, Facebook … helped out Chris AGAIN with Linux stuffs.

2:00-3:00 It’s all about the performance reviews. I have one for myself due so I needed to prepare materials for my supervisor, and I have a staff member due soon as well. I did a little of both.

3:00-3:30 Got a call back from Eric Sissler and discussed the details of Reading Record, a Free and Open Source (hosted, no less!) summer reading tool that he developed. We’re thinking about participating with the larger Colorado Community in using this software this year. Also, discussion of Rsync and virtualization in libraries and setting up a time for him to come up and see our data center and geek out even more together.

3:30-3:45 Afternoon walk-through – this time of day has a totally different crowd (after school) and I like to check in with Circulation and see how things are going. Have they had a lot of questions or complaints about the system today? I also use the time to do an environment scan in general. What areas of the library are people using? How many laptops? What are they doing? Who looks lost? I try to overhear whatever questions they are asking our desk staff. I always peek in the teen room and see who’s using what in there as well. Then I headed through children’s to see what’s most popular there and observe the age groups.

3:45-4:00pm – Related to children and computing, I came back to check on the progress of getting our new multimedia touch screen computers set up. We’re going to deploy Windows 7 and a whole slew of new software for a wider range of ages. Currently our children’s PCs run Windows 95 and are installed at tables that are only appropriate for 2-5 year olds. The software selection is equally geared for little ones and out of date. Soon these cool HP Touch Smarts will replace them! Really excited about this…

4-5:00 it’s all about inbox zero, baby. Will I make it today?

5:30 – I have *not* reached inbox zero… far from it. I look at the Facebook photos of the After Hours social at ALA Midwinter. Wish I could have been there. Now I want to go home—so back to email! I WILL PREVAIL!

6:00—Inbox Zero achieved. I does a happy dance.

6:00-6:25 – I gather my notes and write up this post. I will then head home but my day isn’t over—we’re doing some system testing later tonight about 9:30pm.

All in all, a pretty typical day except that I normally have a *lot* more meetings.

ADDENDUM: Running the new backup script hung on an SQL table tonight at about 10pm and our server crashed. I emailed back and forth with my Sysadmin for a while before finally deciding I needed to head into the office. He and I were there until about 10 minutes ago– 2:00am. III is still working on the problem as it turned out to be a Millenium issue rather than a Linux issue that he or I could fix. And THAT is a day in the life of this librarian…. luckily late night calls are *very* atypical.

Thanks to http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluecinderellee/ for the image

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I’ve decided it’s time to officially close up shop on this particular blog. I’ve had some personal challenges in my life for the last 6 months that have kept me busy when not working and I’ve neglected to continue to post. More importantly, I feel that I’m in a much different place in my career and in the library world now than when I started this blog and it’s time to acknowledge that shift. I feel like it’s almost not fair to those who’ve subscribed and/or linked to this blog to pretend as if this is a viable project for me still.

However, instead of no longer writing I do in fact plan to begin writing more very soon. So look for a new project to be revealed in the coming weeks that reflects a new perspective and purpose. It may be a team blog, it may take a different form altogether. I hope to have something ready before Internet Librarian, but it might take a little longer than that. Nonetheless, I assure you, the creative juices are flowing….

Let's hope our libraries *never* look like this...

Awesome Steve Lawson has set out a challenge to try and raise $5000 in donations to help the Louisville Free Public recover some of the collection it lost in its recent flash flood.

If you have a spare 5, 10, or 20 bucks, please consider making a donation!

From Steve’s post:

I have set up the email LSW.LFPL@google.com and linked it to my PayPal account. I intend to collect money at that address until September 1, at which point I’ll send a check in the name of the Library Society of the World to the LFPL Foundation. You can just send money to that email address using PayPal, or use the button below:

If you’d rather send a check, send it to the Library Society of the World Clubhouse, PO Box 7893, Colorado Springs CO 80933. Make the check payable to Steve Lawson.

Don’t worry about how much you can afford to donate. My own contribution will be small-ish, between $20 and $50.

But there are about 300 members of the LSW room on FriendFeed. There are close to 1,000 members of the LSW group on Linkedin. I would like to think we can raise at least $5,000 for LFPL by September 1. That’s only $17 per FriendFeed member, or $5 per Linkedin member.

For this to work, you have to trust me. I promise that every dime that comes through PayPal or check will go to LFPL. (PayPal takes a small cut if your donation is charged to your credit card (rather than your bank account) and if you don’t choose the option to pay those fees yourself, so it’s possible that I won’t get the full amount of your donation. I’ll only be able to donate the money I actually receive after PayPal fees.)

On September 1, I’ll total up what we have raised and send it to the library. If you would rather give money yourself instead of sending it to me, here is the address and phone number given in the Louisville Courier-Journal:

The Library Foundation
Attn: Flood
301 York St.
Louisville, KY 40203
(502) 574-1709

Five thousand dollars or more for Louisville Free Public Library by September 1. Think we can do it?

I sure hope we can!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/margolove/1810357551/

It is a very interesting time. As I gear up for another ALA conference, in the very rare spare moments I encounter I’ve been reflecting a bit on my life, my career, and inevitably… this blog.

I’ve seen the signs– blogging is dead. Well, no it’s not. But I’m certainly not the only one I know who’s taken a hiatus. I know the arguments– Friendfeed and/or Twitter have killed blogs. However, in my case that’s really not it. I remain semi-active on Twitter, but I’ve rarely spent any time at all on Friendfeed.

I have a lot going on right now. The transition from Library School student to full-fledged MLS’d librarian happened in mid-April, when I gave my final capstone presentation. I thought, “Ah-ha! Now I will blog again.”

But I did not. I spent evenings with my daughter. We went for bike rides, we read aloud together, we went to the park, and we spent many, many hours on the swing in the front yard.

And I don’t regret a minute of it.

However, by late May I began to feel antsy again and I started putting together presentations, trainings, reading a few blogs here and there, etc. But I just haven’t had the extra time to blog. As you can see from my last “post”, I had intended on live-blogging the Rocky Mountain Innovative Users Group summer workshop—but I ended up needing to come back up to Boulder after our patron network crashed for most of the day.

Which leads me to why I’m really not blogging. It turns out that moving from a position where you have little power (and therefore little responsibility) to one of great responsibility is a huge shift in many different ways.

Before, I could spend the evening on a whim staying up late coding a cool website or mashup just because I thought it would be fun. I could head off to pretty much any meeting, conference, or committee that I could drive to and afford. I could spend my time exploring and playing with ideas and writing rants about what needs to change.

But now I actually have to *do it*.

There’s no one to blame anymore if things don’t turn out well. There’s no “administration” that won’t let me implement something cool for our department. There’s no lack of ability to control the purse-strings or to delegate the tasks. Now I have to figure out how to be the one to get buy-in. I have to figure out how to take ideas from conception to reality not just in my own little office sphere—but across an entire organization.

I have to manage people. Granted—I managed work-study students at the University Libraries, and I managed all kinds of folks in the past in restaurants, sales jobs, etc. But it’s very different managing people who are mostly older than you, who are highly skilled, and who just plain have a whole lot more experience than you. Let me say this—I am ever more grateful *every day* that I had a management class in library school and that the Colorado Association of Libraries Leadership Institute has been so fantastic. It has really taught me a lot and helped me through some pretty intense challenges.

I also have spent a lot of time adjusting to my new role as professional. It’s no longer my job to do all of the nuts and bolts of coding up some new web tool or bringing online a new gadget. That’s something I have to remember. Now it’s time to trust and, when necessary, coach my staff and let them go do it. I need to keep my head in the clouds for strategic visioning and future casting. I need to participate, contribute to, and help shape policy development. I need to empower others.

I have to remind myself of this every once in a while. I almost spent this last weekend at DrupalCamp Colorado because it was “cool”. But I would have come home and played with Drupal all night, and not paid attention to caring for myself, my house, my pets, or getting ready for ALA—not to mention handling my management responsibilities for the week. I had to step back and remember, “things are different now”.

And that’s just fine. It’s tough to be stretched in many directions. However, I prefer to think that’s just a process of expanding myself. Expanding who I am and what I’m capable of. I only hope I remain malleable like silly putty—and don’t crack like old rubber band.

See you in Chicago!

Jennifer Knievel and Jina Wakimota – University of Colorado at Boulder Chinook OPAC redesign

data to examine impact of redesign – took pulse before and after

old interface cluttered and forced user to choose index first

new interface clean, “Google experience” with access to more advanced features for researcher needs

Not just presentation — back end work, re-presentation of metadata

research q: would keyword default increase keyword searching?

are users using catalog less and migrating to Google more?

abandoned using 225 or 229 fields for periodical search– changed to Scope instead so that periodical-specific search could be enabled

reindexed database (had not been done in 10 years) — had been changes in Marc, Millenium features, etc.

Methods

Transactional Log analysis – unbiased, unobstrusive, lends itself to longitudinal analysis

Text Searches- Author, Title, Keyword, Subject

slight increase in keyword searches (about 4%)

slight decrease in Author searches (about 4%)

everything else stayed about the same with a spike in Title searches just before redesign (coincided with intro of periodical scope- search for journal titles)

Did a T-test for statistical significance

beginning and end of semester more known search, mid-semester more discovery (more keyword)

subject lowest used – no surprise

author low use

title and keyword rising slowly over time

downside of transactional analysis– can’t assess user success

Number Searches – Call #, ISSN/ISBN only

dramatic increase in LC call number searches– highest in the beginning of the semester (locating the items given to find perhaps?)

increase in ISSN searching before WebBridge implementation – correlated with making it easier

Total Searches

Catalog use steady – did not see decrease in usage, saw a spike in usage when new OPAC first implemented but then it went back to previous numbers

pop. as a whole doesn’t have as many smartphones yet… still provide good lib services

new 12m pixel phones with face and smile recognition (won’t take pic until person is smiling

palm pre:
has a “synergy” feature to pull together contacts and calenders for multiple sources
multitasking finally
wireless charger

multimodel interaction, typing is not so easy
visual access- pic of book, QR codes, pic of bar code
(extelligence, versus intelligence)

QRcodes all over the world much higher adoption rates

increasing audio interactions

“Tell Me” -  gives audio info

gesture interactions

3 camps of content users could be getting on the phone:

full, transcoded, or true mobile page (created for and optimized)

w3c mobileok checker

study by abphone.com, “snacking the web”

mobile users need fast easy answers with minimal amount of typing

much of reference desk info is now on their mobiles at point of need

Library Journal has a mobile version

Skokie Public Library

University of Houston checking out Itouch’s with mobile lib apps to give patrons an idea of what they could do

III Airpac has been revamped for iPhone use (m.ocls.info)

Suzanne Chapman’s Flickr for mobile library screenshots

Library app, helps you find local libraries

Traveling Classics reads books to you

Istory app – like Choose your own adventure

Paper – for scholarly paper

Sit or squat — clean public restroom finder

Text more popular than calls, especially among 13-17 year old

Boston: trash cans when almost full, send text that they need open to central office — why not our book drops

Libraries: request hold, send call numbers, ref questions

mLibraries section of Library Success Wiki

vLingo works better than Google voice?
can use to run commands on your device… “Send text message to Bob”

Leapfrog is about to come out with “text and learn” blackberry for 3 year olds

SMS/Text Search (check Megan’s slides)

University of Arizona, color, flexible touch screen will be on market in 18 months

projector in phone

Asus selling keyboard for with keyboard and touchscreen built in

Samsung, solar-powered, touchscreen phone made of recycled plastic

Megan’s slides (and excellent site) are here

The way libraries prepare for the future is not sustainable, cultural reaction pushed back against expectations of the users

took everything apart and reexamined their services, both from patron and staff side

meet together and allow innovation to drive change

could be any area– not just technical

best thing about culture of innovation– it’s okay to fail

futurecasting and planning for it, makes leaps– it’s okay, say “we were wrong, we’ll fix it”

ADAPT

adaptation synonymous with being an agile organization

small library so can change quickly

staff has bought into– user expect it, don’t see it as drastic but responding to their needs

experiment, trying new things and share their failures help create excellence

cycle of innovation-fail-adapt effect sustainable change over long term, build in culture of change (all staff, users, new hires expect it)

UX focuses on the user (staff, user to the door, and users of web site)

analyzes interface points and suggests changes, with eye toward aesthetics, community, usability

helps make ure this is pushed out to other departments

Gretchen:
too often children’s dept is treated like an island, not at table for innovation

children’s doesn’t serve kids– it serves kids and their parents….

they see the library as the third place – stay for hours, storytime in morning, stay till lunch

but children’s section not arranged for browsing (arranged picture books in sections rather than alphabetically)

who is it for? what is it about?

had to handle every book and make a decision about it, color coding works…

serves both BROWSERS and SEARCHERS

calling the collection “FIRST FIVE YEARS” coded the spine label as FF instead of call number

circulation is way up!

in order for children to grow, they need to feel validated and “published”

creation station so that kids can create and share something (camera, recorder, flipcam, laptop) NOT CATALOGED, NOT BARCODED we trust them because it’s theirs

Sarah:
1. Teen hang out room — no homework, no service desk, it’s their space and we don’t want to invade it (relax and have fun)
2. then “power library” has 25 computers and service desk
3. then classroom for tech training
4. then several study rooms
5. then a small office home office (all the stuff you’d find at Kinkos)

2 positions that are supposed to investigate tech, post about tech, etc.

Teens are the beta users, they are fearless and will tell us what they think….

iMacs with really big screens so four kids and fit around and then they can easily collaborate

all furniture is designed to be easily movable and make the space their own

all walls are glass and they are allowed to right the on the walls (wrote all over how much they loved the libraries)

they ended up using markers on the walls for their homework

HAVE to have gaming in your library if you’re serving teens, don’t program around gaming– just plop it down for them after school and allow them to play as much as they want… WE TRUST THEM

Have Teen Advisory Board manage the Facebook page and they post the events

On Facebook, make a professional profile and friend ONLY the teens, not your colleagues

Kate:
No reference desk, all roaming– meet people at point of need (without being invasive)

not get rid of Dewey, keep some though

start up intensive one-on-one deep reference, also be the point person to work with local knowledge experts

Created subject browsing, gathered different ranges of Dewey into “glades”

Tools to make it work: tiny laptops, EEE PCs, wireless phones, and a slimmed down Reference point (a little curvy table)

Takes Reference out of tech support, guest pass giving out, and allow us to focus on Reference…..

Most important tool: Nametags

Doing IM reference through Meebo, Meebo is tough on tiny screens (moving to Libraryh3lp)

reorganizing collection was a great bonding experience

having a reorganizing collection gives opportunity to constantly review– why is this hear? a new intimacy with the collection…. do we really need this? now we are thinking about, touching the collection all the time instead of it just sitting there

staff at Darien willing to change– they say, “we try a lot of things and sometimes they don’t work… that’s okay”

Libraries are like open source, the more we give away, the better we get

we’re giving more than just information, we’re giving of ourselves more

no more sitting at the reference desk, sitting “apart”

what is most fundamental is to maintain a genuineness and our chief export is kindness

How to prepare for a migration

Why? Access to the data MY way

web design was stunted

Web accessibility poor

Thick client outdated and tedious to upgrade

Saves TCO

Excited about OPAC interface improvements

Total ILS savings 25%

Setup Koha server and started nightly dump from Sirsi, began z39.50 search into Koha from Drupal website

It was appealing how easy it was to customize for each person

Weekly meetings for changes and bug reports – will go live sooner than expected

Break project into manageable chunks

Improvements are seen quickly

Leave staff time for development

IT not afraid of data migration

Focus on database structure not on what reports you can get, because you can do anything with a good data structure

Koha and web Drupal site each on virtual machine – Linux 2gb and runs fine – MySQL and perl

Nice slides showing app layers (wish they’d post their slides)

Data layer
app layer
XML layer

TechEssence.info for API library info

check worldcat.org/devnet

can pull worldcat searches as XML and remix

xISBN for FRBRizing

MAshed Libraries UK – hackfest

Worldcat hackathon NYPL

OCLC bootcamp for Code4Lib

Visualizing Worldcat Holding
thesecretmirror.com/code/api-fun-visualizing-holdings-locations

Compare Everywhere app for android phone includes library for books through Wordlcat API
(usage spiked after introduction – importance of mobile and of freeing data for machine use)

Andrew:

Why can’t we move the lib workflow to the network?

Chris Anderson- web is all about scale

started with resource sharing… the licensed journal lit….. cataloging…. consortial…. (open source ILS? universal circ policies? Pines?)

sharing cloud storage of google scanned documents

webscale computing helps invert the 70/30 ratio 70% building infrastructure, 30% propelling biz forward

Libs have concentrated on diffusion and syndication

now we’re seeing concentration…. shared discovery layer…. ERM/knowledge base…. repository…..

Eventually ALL library management workflow

do things at scale, in the cloud

Ebay did well:

1. Simplify features of commercial transaction

2. provided platform to allow buyers/sellers to industrialize workflow

3. reap benefits by scaling this up

Library Scale 166 billion transactions per year, 5000 transactions per second

OCLCs goal: build a service capable of that….

when using social networks, need scale…. social networking content would not work so well with just a few library users….
but we still want to handle our metadata locally

practical web scale for libs – looking for efficiency

despite our huge investments, we appear small and fragmented in comparison to search engines

a webscale strategy would provide libs with the ability to just focus on propelling biz dforward

lib management workflow isn’t unique– can stop treating it as such

extend what we’ve done for library users, we can do for staff as well

concentration creates network effects, opens up new world of processes of resource sharing

a single networked source for vendors/providers, e-resources identities, bib item-level details

reports w/real details (financial, collection, circulation)

fund codes, bulk purchases, collection shifting, consolidation patron notifications, identity management

More notes:
http://cil2009reporter.blogspot.com/2009/03/day-one-track-d-moving-libraries-to.html

Redesign or Redevelop?

Redesign if just asked, old, boring

Redevelop if code is poor, usability poor, hard to update

Redesign is cheap (director won’t know difference)

Redevelop is $$$ more like triplebypass

Get off the major redesign cycle. Disruptive to users

Users dislike redesigns

Redesign w/ evidence based

Usability tests, usage logs, feedback show a need

Pitfall 1: not accounting time for assessment

Redesign where the biggest ROI in terms of content, services

Look where people are going

Google Analytics
Clicky
Usability studies
Find and document page rank

Plan for time to get consensus:
Need for change
Desired outcomes

Data is good here

Pitfall: death by committee
Make committee SMALL

Data+evidence based practice

Pitfall: being experts
Don’t design to make librarians happy, design for your users

Pitfall: thinking outside box
Cms
Blog
Wiki
Rather traditional page based

Pitfall spending too much time designing
Why be original when so many choices already?

spend time on content, services rather than arguing design minutia

Pitfall only looking other Library websites

User expectations formed on other sites, not libs

Pitfall use SMART goals

Increase page rank, improve content update times, improve usability x percent, increase in resource usage

Pitfall: not communicating enough
Consider blog or wiki, tool manage user expectations

Execution

Pitfall communicating too much
Redesign by committee
Look to evidence to avoid tedious discussions

Pitfall not providing clear path for users
Define primary functions and these paths are clear

Connecting people / materials get prime real estate

Pitfall reinventing the wheel
Use free stuff

Spent time money on remarkable content, engagement

Librarians are smart provide good content

Remarkable content is rewritten content for the web don’t cut and paste
Improvements in usability in hundreds of percent

Redesign for SEO
Structure HTML well consistently
Simple URL
Alt tags
Descriptive titles

Submit sitemap
Ask Google to remove old from cache

Design with social media optimization

Don’t throw old content

Update robots.txt

Pitfall not planning for maintenance in future

Do it right once

Others who took better notes include:

Bobbi Newman

and

Julie Strange

What I’m referring to in the video is the Shanachietour New Jersey.

These statements were results of conversations sparked during and after the “In the Foothills: A Not-Quite-Summit on the Future of Libraries” at Darien Library on March 26, 2009. I love that these conversations are taking place and now I am more inspired than ever to hold an event like this for Colorado libraries at Boulder Public before the year is over.

The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians
Written and endorsed by John Blyberg, Kathryn Greenhill, and Cindi Trainor.

The Purpose of the Library

The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization.

The Library has a moral obligation to adhere to its purpose despite social, economic, environmental, or political influences. The purpose of the Library will never change.

The Library is infinite in its capacity to contain, connect and disseminate knowledge; librarians are human and ephemeral, therefore we must work together to ensure the Library’s permanence.

Individual libraries serve the mission of their parent institution or governing body, but the purpose of the Library overrides that mission when the two come into conflict.

Why we do things will not change, but how we do them will.

A clear understanding of the Library’s purpose, its role, and the role of librarians is essential to the preservation of the Library.

The Role of the Library

The Library:

* Provides the opportunity for personal enlightenment.
* Encourages the love of learning.
* Empowers people to fulfill their civic duty.
* Facilitates human connections.
* Preserves and provides materials.
* Expands capacity for creative expression.
* Inspires and perpetuates hope.

The Role of Librarians

Librarians:

* Are stewards of the Library.
* Connect people with accurate information.
* Assist people in the creation of their human and information networks.
* Select, organize and facilitate creation of content.
* Protect access to content and preserve freedom of information and expression.
* Anticipate, identify and meet the needs of the Library’s community.

The Preservation of the Library

Our methods need to rapidly change to address the profound impact of information technology on the nature of human connection and the transmission and consumption of knowledge.

If the Library is to fulfill its purpose in the future, librarians must commit to a culture of continuous operational change, accept risk and uncertainty as key properties of the profession, and uphold service to the user as our most valuable directive.

As librarians, we must:

* Promote openness, kindness, and transparency among libraries and users.
* Eliminate barriers to cooperation between the Library and any person, institution, or entity within or outside the Library.
* Choose wisely what to stop doing.
* Preserve and foster the connections between users and the Library.
* Harness distributed expertise to serve the needs of the local and global community.
* Help individuals to learn and to use new tools to create a more robust path to knowledge.
* Engage in activism on behalf of the Library if its integrity is externally threatened.
* Endorse procedures only if they guide librarians or users to excellence.
* Identify and implement the most humane and efficient methods, tools, standards and practices.
* Adopt technology that keeps data open and free, abandon technology that does not.
* Be willing and have the expertise to make frequent radical changes.
* Hire the best people and let them do their job; remove staff who cannot or will not.
* Trust each other and trust the users.

We have faith that the citizens of our communities will continue to fulfill their civic responsibility by preserving the Library.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

I’ll be doing a bit of live-blogging (or at least hotel room blogging) throughout the conference, so I’ll go ahead and post my intended schedule here now for those who might find it interesting.

On Sunday evening I’ll be headed to the “Gaming & Gadgets Petting Zoo“.

Monday

OPENING KEYNOTE: Friending Libraries: The Nodes in People’s Social Networks
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project

Website Redesign Pitfalls
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Jeff Wisniewski, Web Services Librarian, University of Pittsburgh

Help Your Library Be Omnipresent Without Spending a Dime
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Nina McHale, Assistant Professor, Web Librarian, Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver
Curt W. Tagtmeier, Adult Services Librarian and Technology Coordinator, Fremont Public Library

*or*

Building Community Partnerships: 25 Ideas in 40 Minutes
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Kathy Dempsey, Editor, Marketing Library Services newsletter Owner, Libraries Are Essential consultancy

D103 – Moving Libraries to the Cloud
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC
Andrew Pace, Executive Director, Networked Library Services, OCLC

Developing a Sustainable Library IT Environment
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Oleg Kreymer, Systems Librarian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jennie Pu, Senior Library Associate, Asian Art Library / Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Flickr Commons for Libraries & Museums
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Michelle Springer, Project Manager, Digital Initiatives, Library Of Congress
Dr. Joshua M. Greenberg, Director, Digital Strategy & Scholarship, The New York Public Library
Shelley Bernstein, Chief of Technology, Brooklyn Museum
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Assistant Director, Digital Services Division, Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Continued Online Community Engagement
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Rebecca Ranallo, Internet & Media Services Manager, Cuyahoga County Public Library
Clyde Miles, Chief Strategist, Optiem
Susan Conlon, Teen Services Librarian, Princeton Public Library
Jennifer Peterson, Community Manager, WebJunction

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Achieving the Dream to Go Green
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
John Law, Director, Strategic Alliances & Platform Management, ProQuest
Maria Gebhardt, Libraries Manager, Broward County Library

Tuesday

KEYNOTE: Library Without Walls: Meeting Place of and for People!
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Paul Holdengraber, Director, Public Programs, New York Public Library
Erik Boekesteijn, Concept Developer and Projectmanager, Science and Innovationdepartment, Delft Public Library ShanachieTour

Next Gen Digital Reference Tools
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Joe Murphy, Science Librarian, Coordinator of Instruction & Technology, Yale University
Madeline Kriescher, Acting Circuit Librarian, U.S. Courts Library, 10th Circuit
Jan Johansson, Data Librarian, Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Library Automation Highlights
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Stephen Abram, VP, Innovation, SirsiDynix & President, SLA
Phillip L. Green, Chief Technology Officer, Inmagic, Inc.
Neil Block, VP of Worldwide Sales, Innovative Interfaces

Learning From Research in Library Website Design
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Frank Cervone , Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Information Services, Purdue University Calumet

Embedding Services: Go Where the Client Is
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM
Natalie Collins, Systems Librarian, National Research Council–Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI)
Holly Hibner, Reference Librarian, Salem-South Lyon District Library

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Library Website & Library Catalog: One Stop!
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM
Amy Begg De Groff, Director of Information Technology, Howard County Library
Danny Bouman, Web Programmer, Howard County Library
Joshua Ferraro, CEO, Liblime Former Release Manager, Koha Project

Open Source Library Implementations
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Karen Kohn, Collection Development Manager, Arcadia University
Eric McCloy, Executive Director, Library and Information Technology, Arcadia University

Innovative Services & Practices
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
John Blyberg, Head of Technology and Digital Initiatives, Darien Library
Gretchen Hams, Head, Children’s Services, Darien Library
Sarah Ludwig, Head, Teen Services, Darien Library
Kate Sheehan, Head of Knowledge and Learning Services, Darien Library

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Cooperative Systems Trump Integrated Systems
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Paul Wallace, Library Systems Manager, Fifth Circuit Library System, U.S. Court of Appeals
Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University
Daniel Forsman, Systems Librarian, Jönköping University Library

Dead & Innovative Technology: Moving & Shaking in the Information World
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Moderator: Stephen Abram, VP, Innovation, SirsiDynix & President, SLA
Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University
Aaron Schmidt, Digital Initiatives Librarian, District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) & Publisher, walkingpaper.org
Darlene Fichter, Data Library Coordinator, University of Saskatchewan

Wednesday

KEYNOTE: Digital Strategies & Knowledge Commons
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Michael Edson, Director of Web & New Media Strategy, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution

Mobile Practices & Search: What’s Hot!
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Megan Fox, Associate Director, Library, Simmons College

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Learning Solutions Through Technology
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Sarah Houghton-Jan, Senior Librarian for Digital Futures, San Jose Public Library author of LibrarianInBlack.net
Lori Reed, Training Specialist, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC)

Mobile Usability: Tips, Research, & Practices
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Jim Hahn, Orientation Services Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael P Sauers, Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission
Christa Burns, OCLC Member Services Coordinator, Nebraska Library Commission

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What’s the Return on Investment for Your Library?
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Neal K. Kaske, Director, NOAA Central & Regional Libraries, National Oceanographic Data Center/ National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library
Mary Lou Cumberpatch, Librarian, Public Services & Regional Libraries Branch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Guy Dobson, Internet Services Librarian, Bergen County Cooperative Library System

Future Space: The Changing Shape of Libraries
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Richard Huffine, National Library Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey
Dwayne Henderson, Library Technology Designer, Fanning Howey Associates, Inc.
James Mumby, Library Architect/Principal, Fanning Howey Associates, Inc.

Mobile Search
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Megan Fox, Associate Director, Library, Simmons College

Real Librarians in Virtual Worlds
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Lori Bell, Director of Innovation, Alliance Library System
Rhonda Trueman, Reference Librarian, Johnson & Wales University & Author, Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries

New Tools for Metrics & Measures
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Debbie Herman, Digital Resources Librarian, Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University
Edward Iglesias, Systems Librarian, ERIS, Central Connecticut State University
Ms. Alka Bhatnagar, Analysis &Trends Specialist, New Jersey State Library

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Gaming & Learning
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Sonja Plummer-Morgan, Library Director, Mark and Emily Turner Library VP/Pres Elect Maine Library Association, ALA’s AAUP, Association for Rural & Small Libraries Board Member, Second Life Librarian

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