The Basics of Web-Based Experience Planning David King Digital Branch and Services Manager Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Examples of bad experiences Goal is to introduce experience planning User Experience Design Jessee James Garrett--The Elements of User Experience 5 elements 1. Strategy 2. Scope 3. Structure 4. Skeleton 5. ... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–Cultivating Tech-Saavy Staff
Cultivating Tech-Saavy Library StaffSarah Houghton-JanDavid KingSarah Houghton-JanSan Mateo County LibraryLibrarianInBlack.netTechnology Competencies: A path to trainingtech competencies are a list of things that staff should know in order to do their jobsYou don't need competencies if:-every staff member is an expert in every technology you are currently using- or if staff are willing to self-educateYou do... Continue Reading →
Internet Librarian–Public Library 2.0
Public Library 2.0: Emerging Technologies and Changing Roles Michael Stephens Jenny Levine This is the first session of the public libraries track. Even though it's for public libraries, there are a lot of academic librarians in the room. Public libraries are doing some really cool things that can serve as a model for academic libraries.... Continue Reading →
Slides for my NELINET talk
Thanks again to NELINET for inviting my to Boston to speak. The conference was great, and I really enjoyed listening to the speakers and talking with quite a few New England librarians. There are some really cool things going on in libraries in New England, and I'm sure this conference gave folks many ideas to... Continue Reading →
NELINET IT Conference 2006–Speaking the Language of the Millennials
Speaking the Language of the Millennials Elisabeth E. Tully, Michael Blake, and Sara Ciaburri Phillips Academy Oliver Wendell Holmes Library and independent high school Hear to talk about their kids Millennials born after 1981 Who are these kids? Digital Natives--Mark Prensky Like to receive information fast like graphics before text prefer random (hypertext) access function... Continue Reading →
NELINET IT Conference 2006–Sharing Knowledge, Creating Community
Sharing Knowledge, Creating Community Karen Mellor Rhode Island Department of Adminstration Sharing Knowledge, Creating Community The environment works at the Rhode Island state library agency adminsters grands, coordinat multi-type network, provides support and consultation, continuing ed 12 librarians with various expertise needed a content management system Answer was a blog Define purpose (content, audience)... Continue Reading →
NELINET IT Conference 2006–Blog that Bibliography
Blog that Bibliography Gary S. Atwood Babson Library Springfield College private, coed college 210 faculty 5000 students 20% of students enrolled in Health, PE, Recreaton (HPER) This presentation about HPER Librarian http://www.babsonlibrary.org/hper/ Research by Topic guides Gary says his research guides had their limitations --no mechanism to highlight new sites -site management is time... Continue Reading →
NELINET IT Conference 2006–Keynote
I'm in Waltham, Mass. at Bentley College for the NELINET IT Conference today. I'll be giving a talk about blogs and wikis this afternoon. What follows are notes on the conference. Keynote Ben Vershbow From Institute of the Future of the Book The Networked Book www.futureofthebook.org http://www.futureofthebook.org/ Cross between an academic research group and an... Continue Reading →
CIL: Creative Visibility: Toolbars and Game Nights
Scott Rice, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Giz Womack, Wake Forest University --------------------------- Scott FYI---I went to library school with Scott. Scott created a Firefox toolbar for his library. He had orginally worked with bookmarklets. User has to find bookmarklets and tweak them. Not very user friendly. Toolbar good for distance education have links... Continue Reading →