Posts My friend Peta has created a little video called library 2.0 unconference at SLQ. It is her impressions of last Thursday’s slq Unconference 2008: Web 2.0: Now what? .
It’s pretty obvious by now that I like unconferences. A lot. Even if you never attend them or have done so and found that they don’t work for you, it is really worth checking out the topics being discussed at recent unconferences. This list at the LISwiki lets you keep an eye on when the next library camps or unconferences are happening.
Reading this list from last Wednesday’s Library Camp Nebraska is like taking the pulse of libraryland right now. (at least my little online corner of libraryland).
* The Social Web in the library
* Is OCLC still relevant today and/or worth its price
* Open Source options for desktops and ILS
* Social Bookmarking
* Cheap and free tech tools
* Copyright & Creative Commons
* Public programs
* High Tech / High Touch: are they mutually exlusive?
* Get your free Web presence (for libraries that don’t have one already)
* Privacy in a Social Web world
* Wildly impractical, expensive ideas for your library
* Alternative searching techniques (or, what’s new & cool in the world of searching??)
* Ideas for library marketing on the cheap
* Ideas for new granting agencies/funding sources and/or grant success stories
* Demythologizing the “information wants to be free” (while information may want to be free, it aint cheap to provide it…)
* Community Outreach
* Mentoring
* Instruction
* Expanding the role of the library on campus (PR/marketing/collaboration)
* Exploring the future of library workers: What’s the greatest need in Nebraska?…support for Master’s level v. pre-professional training?
* Implementing ebooks in the academic library: who are relevant vendors? any good free resources? costs involved? benefits/drawbacks of differnt purchase/lease options?
* Social OPACs
* Professional Development and its connection to social networking
* Collecting and working with user satisfaction and assesstment data
* Strategies for working with ESL students/populations
* “Going green” – Environmental responsibility in librarianship
* Integrating mobile/smart phones into library customer service
*Web conferencing for distance students
* Pay for print management systems for academic libraries
*Standards for the 21st Century Learner
*Advocacy
*Creative Programming
*Collaboration that works
* Library policy regarding internet & DVDs
* What is the best software available for federated searching? Why?
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