Library Information Services
...Helping students become Independent, Information - literate, Lifelong Learners!
Department Staff

Spring Branch Independent School District
Dr. Barry M. Bishop
9016 Westview
Houston, TX, 713-365-5616

School Library Journal Summit '06

Joyce Valenza

http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/jvweb.html  web page

http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/  blog 

http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/   wiki on her library page

 

Joan Frye Williams

http://www.jfwilliams.com/   web page

List of terms, statements, concepts, from the Summit

Screenagers = teenagers used to life through a screen

Mesh Networking = one computer per child project

Give them as much stuff with as few restrictions

Difference between searching content objects and process
     found in Google = wrong
     found in Wikipedia = right

Thumbs vs. Pointers

Book Review = Movie trailer

Podcasts, Wikis, Blogs, RSS feeds 

Not Information Access but Inquiry/Knowledge Creation

FUSE = Find, Use, Share, Expand

The Librarian is the one that can help the student ace their class.

Collective Filtering = peer review

Students want to start the learning process on their own and after some success, come to the Librarian for sophisticated help.

Simplified wayfinding:
       reduce clutter
       situational directions (its not about us)
       natural language
       prepackaged tips, shortcuts, FAQs

Information Neighborhoods

We search
Students find

Not "Reference Desk" but "Homework insurance"

Life caching
Mash-up

Students are asking themselves about their library experience "Does this integrate with the rest of my online life?"

Extreme Googling

Continuous Partial Attention = multitasking

Library = Idea Factory (media production, technology showcase, scientific data crunching) space for group work and participation

Our product is the students successful experience (independently).

Folksonomies = student suggested subject headings

Best way to overcome student prejudice against Library is to promote it as a "Green place" (recycle).

Embrace wireless (personal).

Information and technology have converged. If we are not knowledgeable about consumer technology, then we are not perceived as knowledgeable about information.

Touch screens are coming

We should be like the Level Keeper on World Quest

OCLC research says 2% of students stat their search with an online subscription database.

Imiseration - a perpetual state of misery

The leading of learning - Do we develop information competencies or develop students as intellectual agents?

Informational vs. Transformational

Build knowledge not find information (knowledge-based literacy)

Not pathfinders, not bibliographies, but cheat sheets.

In 5 years, our students will be searching our online subscription databases through Google.

Tried and true form of inquiry called "research"

Break down barriers

More lists of terms, statements, concepts, since the Summit

(http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Attachments/Slides/abram_20061114.pdf)

flickr = the best way to store, search, sort, and share your photos

Picasa = Google's photo organizer

Photo Blogs = Blogs with lots of photos instead or (or in addition to) text.

Bloglines = blog aggregator

Tags = del.icio.us = new look at subject headings (for Blogs etc.)

Folksonomies and Tagclouds = Technorati (most popular tags in visual representation.

YouTube (broadcast yourself)

MP3 = Pandora (help discover more music that you'll like), MP3.com (free music, videos, etc...), Overdrive ($Digital Media Delivery for Libraries),  Lime wire ($software to facilitate mp3 downloads)

Streaming Media = Podzinger (unleashes the content within audio and video), Spiral Frog (digital entertainment destination), Get your texthead to nexthead (cultural statement).

Google Office = open source code software for free (docs, spreadsheet, calendar...)

Instant Messaging = AOL, MSN, Yahoo, irc, icq, ChaCha...

Meebo, Tillian, and GAIM = $ Instant messaging aggregators

Visualization = information density presented in a picture (graph)

Second Life = hmmm

Avatars = Librarian trading cards

Retrievr = search images by images

iTunes = post your podcasts there to be where you customers are

MySpace = lots of Library MySpace Sites

Facebook = like MySpace

Skype = free long distance telephone calling (teacher at conference)

LibraryThing = Catalog your books online and then share with those having similar books -- neater than it sounds.

Endeca = unique information access platform helps people find, analyze and understand information in ways never before possible

Virtual Reference = Docutek online reference service

Blinkx, Singingfish, etc... = use text to search audio and video (movies, TV, podcasts, videocasts availbe -- lots free)

Virtual Reality = Caves, Domes, ...

Computer Video Games = Marc Prensky

And more to come....

1. know your market

• we suck at knowing our markets
• we have an imperative to aggregate our data
• Walmart does this… we do it with branch collections.
• Mentioned his normative data project

2. know your customers better than Google

• Personas project - attempt to understand patrons
• Kids - extremely different - think of them when planning 5 years out
• In 10 years out, those kids are your young parents
• Their brains are different - a side effect of gaming, possibly
• [aside - His cousin helped write EverQuest]
• Seniors - they’ve been on the web for 10 years
• Understand usability vs satisfaction
• transactions vs transformations

3. be where your customers are

• how much of your use is in person???
• simple collaboration - IM
• jybe, sms, skype - add in virtual reference
• IM is a place to start

4. target. searching for the target

• fed search should not look like google
• differentiate, target
• target your community
• build compelling content
  - in context
  - repositories - only with compelling experiences
  - understand what compelling is.

5. support your culture

• going from texthead to nexthead - mp3’s , streaming media, etc.
• google video - search inside a movie
• podcasting

6. postition libraries where we excel

• Google does who what where when really well.
• Google sucks at why and how (libraries do this well)
• libraries core skill is not delivering information. libraries improve the quality of the question.
• it’s an information ocean, not a highway
• libraries are an exploration space - not a collection space

7. be wireless

• next massive wave of innovation will start in 2006/7 with wireless
• mentioned wireless through the electrical outlet
• said sirsidynix is working on wireless thing so that when you walk past a library, you’ll get a text message saying you have a hold and do you want to go pick it up now?

8. get visual

9. integrate

• build community context first
• Not about the library - it’s about 5 very specific user groups: learning, culture/entertainment, research, workplace, and neihborhood

10. take a risk

the last word - focus

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