Jo Haight Sarline, Denver Public Library
Carson Block, Fort Collins Public Library
John Sulshaw, University of Colorado-Boulder
Jimmy Thomas & Susan Staples, Weld Library District
Jeff Donlan, Salida Regional Library
Sharon Morris, Colorado State Library
- Susan
- 1st year w/ library system
- previously in manufacturing and healthcare
- invest in the virtual
- how much can be put online?
- online collaboration
- online training
- online surveys
- translation services
- 170+ lanugages
- dial a number and get an interperter online
- <$100/mo
- Concact center concept
- easy, catchy phone number
- metrics
- Hot
- Copier/Espresso maker
- USB cooler shirt
- ID rings
- DVD vending
- bestseller vending ouside the library
- John
- mobile computing
- new content & content management models
- supporting users in an advanced age of technology
- authentication
- portals
- blogs & wikis
- increased collaboration
- social networking
- blogs
- wikis
- podcasts
- MySpace
- 84 million users
- 2 million new users a month
- 48mil unique visits
- 51% of 13-17 year olds online
- 79% are 18+
- 25mil are over 30
- YouTube
- Google paid $1.65 Billion
- 100 mil videos watched a day
- 65k uploaded a day
- What’s going to become of the ILS?
- Disintergaration (Marshal Breeding)
- Institutional repositories
- Libraries need to support all this stuff
- security issues
- open source model moving to libraries
- programming skills
- Jimmy
- (Aquabrowser)
- OCLC Perceptions Report
- Searches done at his member libraries (top queries in OPACs)
- Google, Yahoo
- My Account, Library Hours
- Library Journal Hotline
- The next library building
- “place”
- Jeff
- Maximize use of the OPAC
- Clean up our database
- Having functional PCs for the patrons
- Firefox
- GIMP
- Open Office
- Picassa
- Let patrons plug in their hardware
- E-media market needs to be “better sorted out”
- Skype
- Carson
- Building a staff that represent different parts of my brain but can also built on that
- Deliver information to people without barriers
- Be more involved in the culture
- Second Life Library 2.0
- Balancing abilities and constraints of what staff can do to meet the needs of users
- Technology is not always the solution
- Sharon
- Dutch Aquabrowser guys are “hot”
- Library Elf
- Plinket
- The Engaged Patron
- LibraryThing
- Free online e-books and e-audiobooks
- Second Life Library 2.0
- Searching for information is changing
- Retrevr
- Search fickr by shape & color
- Aquabrowser
- del.icio.us
- wikis
- blogs
- podcasting
- YouTube
- set aside time every week to look at something new
- libraries have a “role to inspire”
- Jo
- Be the enabler for your cusomers
- be there, be in those spaces
- you feel comfortable, they’ll feel comfortable
- downloadable media
- convergence of everything
- everyone is a creator
- create a space where your patrons can be a creator
- tagging content
- no geographical boundaries
- look outside the library world for ideas and solutions
- be where your customers are complainaing about you
- thisisbroken.com
- viral marketing
- YouTube
- gaming
We thank Sharon for the compliment. – Greetings from the Dutch AquaBrowser guys!