No surprises at 1000's of tweets from #ALIACCESS 2010 Brisbane Conference this week. One of my work colleagues got the gong to go from our org and I am really looking forward to hearing from a live attendee and not just piecing it together via tweets, powerpoints, blogs & slideshares ! There seems to have been so many ideas across so many issues. And I learned that 2012 will be the national year of reading, and applaud ALIA's launching "Every Member an Advocate".
Some of the Conference Presentations which rated Tweet mentions :
- Oral Culture presentation is on slideshare:
- Stephen Abram's not-the-keynote slides
- Caroline Shine & Shared Services in Govt - Paper available
- More papers starting to appear on the program website, with notes & blog posts :
- Thursday notes and onto our last day today in Beautiful
- Link for Prezi on Transforming information literacy through experimentation and play
- i love this project louise is talking about.
I distilled the literally thousands of tweets down into a google pdf doc (embedded below) & from these emerged Key Themes for me :
Digital Libraries including Special Libraries
- Access to technology and being blocked by IT stops innovation
- Only paradox of #infolit and web 2.0 is the assumption everyone can access these things
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We're now supporting content creators rather then information users #aliaaccess #infolit #cbruce
#infolit #aliaaccess #cbruce started abt 20 years ago...
- What defines an information literate person in our current information landscape?
- Conceptual framework of information organisation is still the same
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talk of legacy systems in gov libraries rings true. A client-end customisable library intranet interface sounds good
- special libraries need to sing from rooftops on how good we are. report monthly on how have helped the organisation.
- How can we make academic libraries more fun? Experiment with technology = better support
- Qr codes to link physical and digital library in context at point of need
- a(R)e roles in public, academic, law, spec & dig libraries so.. difft?
- Sydney TAFE is aiming for 50% online delivery
- People in public library environment don't want to go back to school. Formal infolit classes don't work
- good point about resistance to formalised learning and didactic instruction - applicable to many workplaces as well
- IT subjects - the physical use and production of knowledge management tools
- another confirmation that new tech, IT subjects, database subjects, km the important stuff taught at lib school
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Cloud computng and data mining. Not exactly cutting edge but ok to be reminded about them. I suppose.
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1% consult library web page or online catalogues 84% consult search engines OCLC report 2005.
- complexity of systems involved with digital delivery can lead to underestimation of time required - understatement!
- Personalization is a top tech trend because we all want a room of our own
- personalization means we never have to be challenged by anything unfamiliar again
- think digital for all your content
- people outside librarians vital for input to infolit
Future of Libraries
- What is the community, learning, entertainment, social and research purpose of your library
- Future of libraries - be innovative and creative - make the changes in your workplace - service first
- Commitment to service, intellectual curiosity, flexibility some of the attributes needed in lib staff
- last question of the session! how do we make our managers see the value of libraries to our organisations?
- management don't care about small details. They want the big picture, adding value.
- 'ISO ILL - something of a blunt instrument but it does work'.
- Different library programs covering vastly different things. From IT based to more conceptual aspects or people focussed
- libraries staving off disaster - likened to hospice workers making the patient comfortable
- Postgrads, researchers and academics need web 2 #infolit skills too! Not just undergrads
- No longer just supporting library users - they are INFORMATION users or content creators
Digital Access Issues
- Tony says that people with a print disability have been left out of the digital information revolution
- The digital resolution has largely ignored the needs of print disabled
- Tony from Vision Australia: large print not the answer to print disabled
- Disengaged, disenfranchised students disappear
- public libs are generators of social capital
- Is #infolit about access? Does web 2.0 increase digital divide?
- helping people use info in their own environment; cross platforms; diff media - what about transliteracy
- I never stopped to think of the complexities and difficulties of readability and its impact on access to information.
- big challenges with aging population and vision loss - having print disability resources available Some digital issues
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by 2024 800000 Australians blind or vision impaired - this doesn't include other forms of print disablility
- Print disability can include people with MS or people who cannot hold print books. Large print not suitable
Social Media Issues
- Social media can aid discovery and access for libraries
- Information knowledge and libraries are social spaces and places
- attitude is everything: librarian 2.0 is an attitude: u owe urself: noone owes u
- 1. Identify your information need
- 2. Assess, retrieve, evaluate information. Research, network. Cut your losses or go ahead?
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3. Adapt information - Pilot for small wins. Still don't know if management is going to say yes
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4 Organise & communicate information. Sell outcomes, not facts. What is in it for MPOW.
- Can libraries also be playzones for new technologies? Bring it on!
- collections traditionally held in four walls - no longer the case.
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