Doing the Libjam

I was nervous a last week about my presentation for Libjam – and posted here how my technique for getting within the 3 minute requirement seemed to be to yell. (Libjam … am I going to regret this?)

Did I yell during the Libjam? You bet. Did I speak too fast? I think so. Was it exhilarating? Oh yes. Did I get my message across? I think so. Did it seem like an effective way to communicate about a project? Yes – I think I learned a lot about what other libraries were doing and wonder why we all seem to take twenty minutes or so at conferences to pass on more or less the same type of information.

I recorded the audio for each participant, listed below.Somehow I just didn’t seem to record Hoi from Vic Park’s wonderful presentation about what happened to her when she tried to implement what she found out last unconference.

• Audio: Edith Cowan University – our learning 2.0 curve Libjamecu220808.mp3
• Audio: Curtin University Library – the story of a library blog Libjamcurtin220808.mp3
• Audio: SLWA Blog & wiki proliferation – any & all from SLWA libjamslwa220808.mp3
• Audio: Health Dept. – A Wiki as a collabrative tool in the Health Library network libjamhealth220808.mp3 plus Slides
•  Audio: Water Corporation – promoting the library with a Library Toolbar libjamwater220808.mp3

I have matched my audio to slides and made the slidecast below. I have also added some links to explain some of the sites and tools I mentioned.

Slide 3: JISC and SCONUL report -  JISC & SCONUL Library Management Systems Study

Slide 11: Skunkworks concept – Skunkworks in Wikipedia

Slide 13 LibX Toolbar. Information about the project is here: http://libx.org/  . A screencast I made to explain the concept to our library staff is here: Screencast explaining LibX

Slide 14 and 25: Matthias Liffers who works at UWA and at last years’ unconference gave presentations about LibX and Google gadgets

Slide 24: UWA Google Gadget http://www.library.uwa.edu.au/find_information/library_catalogue_tools

Slide 27 : Google Gadget editor http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/gs.html

Slide 29: My Library Tools page at Murdoch University  http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/mylibrary/tools.html

Slide 32: AddThis.com   http://www.addthis.com/ which is already being used in the State Library of Queensland’s OPAC.

Slide 33 OCLC OpenURL referrer http://www.openly.com/openurlref/

Slide 34 Open Social : See the BigWig presentation by Rachel Vacek for a rundown Apps in Facebook & Opensocial, and Why Librarians Should Pay Attention

Aha – by compiling this list, I think I’ve just answered my own question about what the extra 17 or so minutes are spent doing during a typical conference presentation – explaining what you mean.