April 2015 – Jason Griffey

Spring & Summer Speaking schedule

Spring and Summer are bringing another round of speaking appearances, all of which I am very excited to be doing. I’m heading to some great conferences and am really excited to meet awesome librarians across the country. If you are going to be attending any of the following, please say hello!

April 20-22 – New Jersey Library Association Conference, Wednesday morning Keynote
April 26-29 – Computers in Libraries 2015, Cybertour on Measure the Future on Monday at 1pm and the Decades of Innovation panel on Tuesday evening (OMG I get to be on a panel with Jan and Meg and Darlene and Marshall SQUEEEEE)
May 20 – Keynoting the Lyrasis eGathering virtual conference
June 1-2 – Keynoting at the MOBIUS consortium conference
June 5 – Keynoting and attending Make-It-Palooza at the Snake River Community Library in Blackfoot, ID
June 25-30 – ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco

If you are planning a conference in the Fall or Winter and are looking for someone to talk libraries, technology, the failures of the present and the promise of the future, or the promise of the present and the failures of the future, get in touch. I would love to speak for your libraries and librarians.

Photo credit: Cindi Blyberg

Measure the Future and Privacy

If you are curious about the Measure the Future project (using simple and inexpensive sensors that can collect data about building usage to make strategic decisions that create more efficient and effective experiences for patrons) and how that might overlap with library patron privacy concerns, I posted a lengthy outline of the ideas and concepts on that front over on the Measure the Future blog.

An excerpt:

The thing that I’ve gotten the most comments and emails about is the degree to which Measure the Future is “creepy.” There is both and implicit and explicit expectation of privacy in information seeking in a library, and when someone says they are thinking about putting cameras in and watching patron behavior…well, I totally see why some people would characterize that as creepy.

So here’s why what I am planning isn’t creepy. At least, I don’t think so.

Go and read the rest if you’re interested.