{"id":265,"date":"2007-06-03T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/03\/we-had-coffee-with-that\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T01:40:28","slug":"we-had-coffee-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/03\/we-had-coffee-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"We had coffee with that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine of us turned up to the Library 2.0 chat at X-Wray on Saturday &#8211; me, Con, Hoi, Rachel, Sue, Matthias, Emma, Maeve and Kit. It was a great venue &#8211; with yummy food, comfy couches and tables to work on, no stencils in cinnamon on their chai lattes and without background noise so we could hear each other.<\/p>\n<p>We eventually got the  wireless working for Matthias&#8217; tablet and spent some time seriously examining the important current trend in librarianship that is <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">lolcats<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/lolbrarians\" target=\"_blank\">lolbrarians<\/a>. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/lol.ianloic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">automatically generated lolcats images from any RSS feed<\/a> &#8211; like <a href=\"http:\/\/lol.ianloic.com\/feed\/feeds.feedburner.com\/librariansmatter\" target=\"_blank\">this one from my blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/lolcats.jpg\" alt=\"lolcats.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although we were from different sectors &#8211; all but school libraries &#8211; we had a lot in common. We all had colleagues who didn&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; Library2.0 and some who said they did,  but only wanted to learn about new tools in work time when the rest of their &#8220;real work&#8221; was done.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed Library 2.0 learning programs and podcasting. We discussed what would happen if we downloaded the free Open Source podcast creation program, <a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Audacity<\/a>, in our libraries. There was such a range:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one of us was totally locked down from any software not controlled by central IT<\/li>\n<li> one had the blessing of IT,<\/li>\n<li>one of us thought an &#8220;ask for forgiveness not permission&#8221; stance would be tolerated<\/li>\n<li> one would have to put it to a committee that met every three months to consider what gets added to the Standard Operating Environment &#8211; but could probably get an approved but very expensive program installed within a day<\/li>\n<li>one who had just come from a restrictive environment almost fell off her chair when the IT at her new job answered a request like this by just giving her admin rights to her PC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We created a page for our bunch on the <a href=\"http:\/\/librarysociety.pbwiki.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library Society of the World wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to get together again. Sue and Con and I have already been e-muttering about getting together sometime to talk about David Weinberger&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingismiscellaneous.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Everything is Miscellaneous<\/a>. (Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsource.ala.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/weinbergers-well-ordered-miscellany.html\" target=\"_blank\">great review buy Karen G Schneider<\/a> ).  Saturday afternoons suit me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine of us turned up to the Library 2.0 chat at X-Wray on Saturday &#8211; me, Con, Hoi, Rachel, Sue, Matthias, Emma, Maeve and Kit. 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