I spoke today at a meeting of the Northern Indiana Library Computer Consortium. It was picked up via video to Columbia City, IN and Indianapolis as well. Here’s the bibliography: Download file
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Dan is talking about levels of change and prerequisites for sustained change in libraries: “If you are just looking at what is happening at the top of the organization, you may be missing what’s happening on the people level. Without a clear vision, mission and leadership strategy, your library may be plagued by low morale and staff resistant to change.”
More in a bit… It’s so nice to be back here…
http://www.portablemediaexpo.com/index.html The Portable Media Expo looks intriguing AND it’s in Ontario, California – where my good buddy MP works! Two good reasons to head out there…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/276674/ This afternoon was totally cool! There have been three big conferences recently so we had a group “debrief” for staff who attendded and other interested staff. Our Staff Development Librarian could not be here today so she asked me to facillitate. We had 15 folks who had attended either PLA Symposium, Computers in Libraries or the Indiana Library Federation State meeting. We began by going around the room, with each participant sharing top trends/learning/issues/thoughts from their conference. I wrote them on the whiteboard. By the end we had 25 different points. Equity of Access- The digital divide Info/Tech literacy […]
Wow! The Library supporter posts some learning objectives, a reference to a cool Neal Schuman title, AND a PPT of a presentation up called “Defusing the Angry Patron” on the blog today. I have been reading this blog all week and had it in my “to be blogged” folder. There’s some good stuff here. Talk about “ready to go content!” Thanks Library Supporter!
Reinventing Libraries: People, Place and Purpose This was the first of three workshops co-taught with Sharon and Dan Wiseman of Wiseman Consulting. We began the day with some ground rules — one conversation, suffering is optional, etc — and then Sharon presented some groundwork on the roots and traditions of libraries, librarians and our collective history. Sharon noted it’s amazing how many libraries started as Ladies’ Libraries back in the day. Then we worked through these questions: What is happening in Libraries (down the street and around the block) What is true and not true about Libraries (Our roots, traditions, […]
I was sad to realize PLA and CIL are scheduled for the same time next year! I just got a mailing from PLA and went to enter the dates in iCal – and OH! I know plans are made for such big conferences years in advance… but this is too bad for folks that might want to attend both!
Here’s an updated page for the talk I’m doing in May! http://www.asis.org/Chapters/neasis/pc/programs/20050503-schedule.html “Optimizing your Technology: Sharing your TechnoLust and Knowing When to Quit” Is it okay I always talk about lust? 🙂