Jason Griffey

Building a Library 2.0

I’m not sure if that title actually comes across with the meaning I’m after. It’s not Building a….Library 2.0. It’s Building a Library….2.0. 🙂

Is anyone aware of a building project being managed via 2.0 tools? MPOW has been funded for a new library, and we are currently in the project planning phases. I’m pushing for us to be completely transparent about the process…we are a state school, and everything we do is more or less subject to sunshine laws. Might as well put it right out there.

As a part of the project, we’re going to be managing it with a wiki (still under construction due to new server being purchased), probably sharing documents with Google Docs, and we’ve already started our Flickr Pro account for photos of site visits. We’ve got two video visits that will probably go up on YouTube.

Is there anyone else out there doing this? I know there aren’t many simultaneous builds going on, especially of academic libraries, but surely someone has done a “transparent build” before. Our plans involve letting the community comment on the wiki, and gathering feedback from as many of these sources as we can to inform our build plan.

Anyone out there have suggestions for the process that the 2.0 technology might improve, other than the things I’ve mentioned? This is new for me…it’s going to be an interesting few years.

Consider this the first of a few blog posts on transparency. More exciting news coming later this summer. 🙂

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Twitters from 2007-08-03

Up far, far, far too early (4:15 am) so that I can go on the GA trip. Will sleep in the van. #
pulling into ga state university #
ga state renovation = awesome #
my sister is having a boy! #

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Twitters from 2007-08-02

@ijastram: holy shit! police first, then inventory, then change locks… #
@ijastram: and then email or im if you need to talk #
More ILS problems this morning…the upgrade borked everything, including my URL (which borks OpenURL resolver, which borks article search.) #
Heading out finally: going to visit GTech and GA State tomorrow in Atlanta. #

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Twitters from 2007-08-01

@shels: Congratulations! That’s really great… #
Twitter > Pownce. It’s all about the community… #
Univ. changed wireless setup AGAIN: now students have to download a “security plugin” before they can get online. Insanity. #

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Twitters from 2007-07-31

Up early, heading to doctor visit, then ILS hell all day. #
I has been censored! http://tinyurl.com/yrczyb #
@smalljones: not for me (or others, it appears)…try again. #
Hypothetical question of the day: Should one include Google Pagerank in CV? #
Alrighty then…some good stuff done today: updated CV, troubleshot EZProxy hackers, collection development. Tomorrow: ILS goes back up! #

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Twitters from 2007-07-30

Back to work, big ILS upgrade day. Pray for me. #
Just discovered that @infosciphi and I are from the same area of KY. Small world. #
@cindi: I’m from Carter County, far eastern KY, half-hour from the WV border on I-64. #
Who else on Simplify? Add me: griffey Is there a list somewhere of Library Simplify names? 🙂 #
oracle problem, ils upgrade delayed but moving forward #

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I has been censored!

It was brought to my attention today that this very blog has been added to the Websense brand of censorware, and is blocked for reasons unknown. For those that aren’t in the know, Websense is used by libraries, schools, and oppressive regimes and governments to prevent certain types of speech from being accessed by their users.

Needless to say, they aren’t on my christmas card list.

I’m currently being blocked as a “Social Networking” site, which, as I am the only user, would make the term “social” a very loose one. “Networking” too, I suppose.

So: take a second, and hit their suggestion form to tell them how stupid it is to block me. If anyone knows of someone laboring under the yoke of an organization that gives this company money, here’s a proxy that bypasses their filters. Please share.