Connecting, Creating, and Collaborating: Pivot Points for Change for Librarians and Libraries
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This document discusses how libraries and librarians can use Web 2.0 technologies to connect, create, and collaborate. It argues that libraries should find "pivot points" or small changes that allow them to evolve, such as using social media, cloud computing, and new formats to share information while keeping traditional services. The document provides examples of pivot points, such as expanding definitions of literacy, integrating social media into research guides, and cultivating personal learning networks in addition to face-to-face connections.
Connecting, Creating, and Collaborating: Pivot Points for Change for Librarians and Libraries
- 1. pivot points for change: libraries and librarians using web 2.0 to connect, create, and collaboratepresented by Buffy Hamilton, Ed.S. || Wednesday Webinars|| June 2010http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.comImage used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkunz/3488123225/sizes/l/
- 2. “when industry norms start to die, people panic. it’s difficult to change when you think that you must change everything in order to succeed. Changing everything is too difficult.”seth godinImage used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenny-pics/2853460469/sizes/l/
- 3. don’t reinvent the wheel; instead, find pivot points for change.Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidiot/2586803819/sizes/l/
- 4. Image used under CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4421657130/sizes/o/
- 5. instead of thinking you can only participate in f2f conferences, consider how you can participate virtually1Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/allaboutgeorge/2361633049/sizes/o/
- 13. 2keep your traditional means of connecting with patrons and colleagues, but innovate at every possible touch point through social media and social networkingImage used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/cabinet/1250189882/sizes/o/in/set-72157601695160600/
- 25. 3keep reading your print journals, but use a feed aggregator or information portal to access and organize your favorite blogs, journals, podcasts, youtube videos, and twitter rss feeds to stay on the cutting edge
- 31. 4keep networking with colleagues face to face, but cultivate a personal learning network to broaden your PLN to include librarians and other professionals from around the world who can inform your thinking, practice, and philosophy
- 38. 5keep your traditional productivity tools, but use cloud computing to encourage collaboration and information sharingImage used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholas_t/293413649/sizes/l/
- 51. 6continue sharing your library program goals and reports through traditional formats, but also compose these in a different format, such as a mindmap, video, or other multimedia/visualization medium
- 57. 7keep your traditional services and materials, but expand those services and “containers” of materials to reflect patron needsImage used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdewey/3374674246/sizes/l/
- 60. Image courtesy of Cape May County Library, NJ http://www.flickr.com/photos/capemaycountylibrary/4105530171/in/set-72157622808064554/
- 61. Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterpubliclibrary/3534577260/sizes/l/in/set-72157617462008983/
- 66. 8keep positing literacy as a primary focal point of your library program, but expand that definition of literacy to include new media literacy and information literacy as mainstream literacies equal in importance to traditional literacy./
- 67. fluency in the new literacies and information literacies is the new form of cultural capital
- 70. student created netvibes portal
- 71. the perception of literacy is changing; literacy and texts can no longer be defined by container or format
- 72. transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.
- 73. transliteracy is a process of reading and writing the world
- 74. privilege and support multiple containers and pathways to informationImage used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/grumbler/331346446/sizes/l/
- 75. teach patrons multiple and dynamic ways of connecting with real world experts to help answer their questions
- 76. teach patrons collaborative tools for creating and sharing knowledge
- 77. skype
- 78. blogging
- 79. wikis
- 80. social bookmarkingImage Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dav/104349246/sizes/l/
- 81. 9keep your traditional sources of authoritative information, but let the research topic and mode of research guide the integration of social media information sources and tools for delivering that content in your subject guides
- 86. you don’t have to change everything to keep upImage used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/theseanster93/2525458824/sizes/l/
- 87. don’t throw out everything
- 88. fine tune and find your pivot points for change
- 89. pivot points for change will help you and your library grow
- 90. think and reflect: what are at least two pivot points of change you could incorporate into your work as a librarian or library program?
- 91. Works CitedGodin, Seth. “Pivots for change.” Seth Godin’s Blog. N.p., 12 Mar. 2009. Web. 13 Sept. 2009. <http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/pivots-for-change-swords-and-plowshares.html>.Hamilton, Buffy. “Pivots for Change and Libraries.” The Unquiet Librarian. N.p., 25 July 2009. Web. 13 Sept. 2009. <http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/pivots-for-change-and-libraries/>.
Editor's Notes
- #6: instead of thinking you can only participate in f2f conferences, consider how you can participate virtually
- #7: Twitter search
- #8: youtube
- #9: ustream
- #10: liveblogging
- #11: Conference wikis
- #12: Delicious tags
- #13: Slideshare and tag search
- #15: Facebook
- #16: Twitter
- #17: Flickr
- #18: YouTube
- #19: Texting services
- #20: Friendfeed
- #22: RSS feeds
- #23: Social Bookmarking
- #24: Mobile phone app
- #27: Google Reader
- #30: iGoogle
- #31: Netvibes
- #33: Twitter
- #34: Ning
- #35: Flickr
- #36: Facebook
- #37: Gmail chat
- #38: Skype
- #40: Google Docs
- #41: Google Docs/Forms/Google Sites
- #42: Blogs
- #43: Diigo
- #53: Video
- #54: Multiple media
- #55: Multiple media
- #56: Graphics and qualitative data