GENERAL SESSION; Stephen ABram, a futurist from Sirsi-Dynix, is speaking "Social Libraries: the 2.0 Phenomenon." Libraries are important-studies are prvving what we've long known. Content isn't king--if it were, there would be long lines at libraries because we have so much content. *Context* is king--social context, community context, etc. We build websites and libraries and services around what we do well (read) but only 20% of our users have reading as a learning style.
What does it all mean, this 20 stuff? We have gone from communication-based web and are moving into context-based web, where socal context matters. If we don't use the technologies that he young are using we become irrelevant to them. We're at a tipping point, and change is going to come very quickly.
Abram articulates well what we've been talking about for some time; a good summary for what continues to be ahead for us is a traffic sign in Paris: "Changed Priorities Ahead," with a sign below it: "No stopping allowed." THings are changing fast, and sometimes we miss patterns when they change rapidly. We need to pay attention, and be there; be where your users are. Make it local.
More and more is online--books, journals, information. Google may work for many "who, what, where" questions but we librarians need to help them with "How" and "Why" questions.
TECH-SAVVY BOOKTALKS
blogs, wikis [do you begin to see a pattern??]
Powerpoint books talks (old library as a kiosk with ppts on it; sends to public access channel)
podcast (post them, and put them into the library's catalog)
PhotoStory
[We have had classes and/or tutorials for all of these--see our CE page: http://www.swilsa.lib.ia.us/CE/Online.htm]
Voice Thread
Video booktalks (by teens, too!)
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