hyperlinked service charleston

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettc/1743597848

Library resources are for use.


Library resources are for all.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrys/48074984/


Every resource its user.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/24089964


Save the time of the user.http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/12094/scriblio-feature-text-this-to-me


The Library is a growing organism.


Society has determined what the library of the past has been, and it is society that will determine what the library of the future shall be.

Jesse Hauk Shera

The Foundations of Education for Librarianship, Shera, 1972. Wiley-Becker and Hayes, p 135.


There is much greater opportunity to bring service to wherever potential users of library service happen to be.

Michael Buckland

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Library/Redesigning/html.html


The Web exists as a place where people meet and socialize but it does not conform to our accepted ideas about space and time. David Weinberger Small Pieces Loosely Joined

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonivc/2283676770/


Hyperlinked Library Sevice:Trends, Tools & Transparency

Michael Stephens | Assistant ProfessorDominican University GSLIS

www.tametheweb.comwww.dom.edu/gslis


http://www.flickr.com/photos/flightlessxbird365/3740808686


http://www.flickr.com/photos/55345035@N00/284333073/

The Web has changed everything.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8


http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-social-networking-sites-dominate-sharing-2009-7


http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/03/27/235444/twitter-grows-3000-in-a-year.htm

Twitter has grown by more than 3,000% in the last year, according to figures from internet monitoring site Hitwise.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndm007/1425079226/


http://twitter.com/meganmulherin/status/4128934554



Challenges


Public Perception

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thespeak/122660947/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracy_olson/61056391


http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericajoy/2578677776/


“The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from ‘Why publish this?’ to ‘Why not?’”

Clay Shirky


http://www.flickr.com/photos/adafruit/3350369712



Even More Challenges


Technology


http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisheuer/352270858/

Understand Technolust


http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndm007/510980765/

Technostress


http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaretv/2766359549

Techno-divorce


http://www.flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/107267802

Technoshame


http://www.flickr.com/photos/shikasta/30604809/

Technophobia



Even More Challenges

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Institutional Culture

Michael Casey | Michael Stephens | The Transparent Library | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

Silos of knowledge?

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Embedded staff.

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Organizational structure?



What can we do?



Embrace TransparencyConnect with Users

Facillitate User ContributionStand on our Core Values

Learn, Play & InnovateEncourage the Heart


Embrace Transparency



The Transparent Library has no secrets.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6429283.html


Do we hear our users and staff when they ask for change and new services?



Open Communication


http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrosis/66642106/

Speak in a human voice.


http://lib206.lib.wwu.edu/14days/ideas



Connect with Users

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Communities are human systems given form by conversations that build relatedness.

Peter Block


http://www.flickr.com/photos/horizon/408517397

Social fabric is created one room at a time...


Connect around a cause, a community or

a concept.


Tribe: a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea.

Seth GodinTribes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollyeh11/71605460



Facillitate User Contribution


http://www.flickr.com/photos/beavis/2425374221/


Let’s give our users tools to help build our collections & services...


...then step out of the way and see what happens.


Guides, not gatekeepers.


Hyperlocal



Local Creators


Local Collections


Local Experts

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sreejithk2000/2385193167/


http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/


The result?


Your users care.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/72157606724885685/


http://www.glendaleaz.com/library/


Connect around the collection.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/horizon/408517397


The Social Catalog


Library catalogs are social networks for ideas. Cliff Landis

http://www.slideshare.net/clifflandis/facebook-apps-and-libraries-friendly-future/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/misshaley/515045191


http://www.darienlibrary.org/catalog/


http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/


Listen.


http://www.briansolis.com/2008/08/introducing-conversation-prism.html


How’s that back channel?



Stand on our Core Values


Service

Stewardship

Equity of Access


Let our core values guide everything we do.


Ask the right questions.


Quality interactions.

Quality decisions.


Trust your instincts.

Don’t overthink.



Learn, Play, Innovate


“I believe that this has been one of the most transformational and viral activities to happen globally to libraries in decades.”

Stephen Abram

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stainedglasswaterfall/2615543276/


Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronschmidt/281619803


http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/


PLAY


http://www.flickr.com/photos/alefbetac/874362753/


Play— the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving.

Henry Jenkins

Jenkins: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: http://www.projectnml.org/node/540


http://www.flickr.com/photos/broterham/37039048

Curiosity

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Exploration


http://www.flickr.com/photos/megcanada/3321813983/

Innovation


Faith is critical to all innovation.

Seth GodinTribes. p. 80

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What small changes could we make?


What BIG changes could we make?

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Then...Make it so.


http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/12094/scriblio-feature-text-this-to-me


http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic221/3879392868/


http://www.impactlab.com/2009/08/16/future-of-the-internet-on-a-mobile-device/

Are we too timid sometimes?


Ask for what you want.



Encourage the Heart


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Connect.Collaborate.

Create.



Care.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/scampion/2792352899/

How can we go forward?

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Break Down Barriers

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Let it go.


Be human.


Focus on constant & purposeful change.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d_a_v_i_d_m_/84447778/


Choose sustainable options.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pasma/575078217/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaspi/12944421/

Play ( = Learning)


http://www.flickr.com/photos/yahya/132963781/

Develop your Personal Learning Network

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Value EVERY member& non-member.

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Ask them what they want.


Involve your users every step of the way.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/stainedglasswaterfall/2615543276/

Try out some emerging tools...

Tame the Web | Michael Stephens | Dominican University GSLIS | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/1932087056/

& choose what fits.http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6435552.html


Know it’s okay to fail.


Balance is key.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/superfantastic/50088733


http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpc009/3327905619/

Be nimble. Be quick


Plan to plan.http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettc/1743597848

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Measure progress.


Don’t be afraid to change.

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Bring your Heart with You

http://tametheweb.com/2008/04/26/meme-passion-quilt-or-what-i-want-for-new-librarians/


Thanks!


Michael Stephens

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AIM: mstephens7mac

gslis.dom.edu

www.tametheweb.com