Liz Lawley
From physical to virtual and back again
Blurring the boundaries
Awesome: She’s dressed as her WoW character.
Collapsing contexts: she had professional contacts emailing her about her son’s behavior on WoW.
Blogs at Terra Nova
Is Wow the new golf?
Game Mechanics
Collecting
Points
Feedback
Exchanges
Customization
She’s creating a new character, live, in WoW.
MMO player stages as management:
Entry
Practice
Mastery
Burnout
Recovery
Joe Janes
Reference 2.0
Very nice…at Internet Librarian, but not using slides.
He’s pimping: ischool.washington.edu
New session at ALA: take everyone who longs for the “good ole days” and wants the National Union Catalog, lock the doors, and send them away. Think of the jobs then available!
Ready reference might be over.
“An academic is the sort of person who would face the Apocalypse with a historical overview”
1876: people can’t find the information they need. 2007: people can’t find the information they need.
First libraries to offer reference: special libraries, then public, lastly reference. No reference desk in academic libraries before 1910.
Reference is designed for a world with lots of information that is unfindable. That isn’t today…today we have lots of information that is FINDABLE.
Going to be an ever more digital world, and it is worth assuming that everything will be digital.
Lots of ways to get at information, at every level you can imagine.
We are trained to find wholes…we are going to increasingly find parts.
“If you aren’t editing Wikipedia articles, keep your mouth shut.”
Provide services to the kind of people who want your service.
“Get out of the freaking library.”
Be somewhere and everywhere.
Libraries have to provide space: meeting space, study rooms, etc.
Somewhere and everywhere, in and out, wholes and parts, more and better.
A Modest Proposal: For the people who dive deep, for the people who care: That’s when we do “real” reference.
For now, print is our secret weapon.
Weed those reference collections, put them in the ciculating collection.
For quick reference, concentrate on moving them forward.
For the people who are not information users, leave them alone.
In my last conference attendance for some time, I’ll be at Internet Librarian 2007 at the end of this month. It’s been a long time since I’ve been so excited about a conference, and it’s not just that it’s in Monterey in October. It’s that I have a chance to lead a workshop with the most exciting bunch of librarians I know:
Workshop 11 — Academic Library 2.0
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. FULL DAY
MODERATOR:
Amanda Etches-Johnson, User Experience Librarian, McMaster University
FACULTY:
Chad Boeninger, Reference & Instruction Technology Coordinator, Ohio University
Michelle Boule, Social Science Librarian, University of Houston
Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian, Norwich University
Jason Griffey, Head of Library Information Technology, The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaWhat do the terms Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 mean for academic libraries and librarians? Join our panel of 2.0 practitioners and experts for a day of exploration and discovery as we navigate the 2.0 landscape, exploring what 2.0 tools and technologies can do for academic library users. Through a combination of presentations, discussion, and hands-on activities, our dynamic speakers introduce you to technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS, mashups, social bookmarking and online social networks. This interactive session provides practical examples of academic libraries that are using these tools and technologies, arms you with the expertise and techniques to introduce these technologies in your own library, and share strategies for getting buy-in from staff, administration, and patrons. A worthwhile day for those interested in implementing changes to keep up within the Web 2.0 world.
If you know anyone attending IL for a preconference, this one is going to knock their socks off.
