Problems thrown out during the session included:
- Hearing from a participant whose library is staffed with organization rejects and is developing expensive home-grown systems. She needs ideas to give to her management about how to improve the library.
- Problems
- Legacy software
- Lack of training material
- Not having an staff member at all with an MLIS
- Not a problem in some areas.
- How do we get people to work in libraries who have the skills that we need?
- Copyright or terms of service with Pinterest
- The problem isn't with Pinterest. The problem is people. People don't get copyright.
- How do we get people to understand what we do and why we - library workers - are important?
- Talk to people who are not in our libraries. Get out of the building.
- Find the need that is in the community.
- Understand what we have and why it is useful. Then get people to strip over the information.
- How should we retrain our staff?
- Going to shrink the children's section (books) and then bring in more multimedia things that children would be interested in, including a hacker-space.
- Anybody doing in-house publishing or epublishing?
- Walt Crawford - The Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing
- GIS stuff wow...a lot of interest!
- Geo location of library materials
- Geo location of librarians on campus
- Use wifi access point triangulation
- "Highlight" and "Glancey" (sp?)
- Do users want to borrow ebooks?
- People may want to buy a chapter
- Searching through the text
- Not necessarily for pleasure reading
- Professors may prefer paper copies
- Could replace course packs
- A whole generation is coming up that is very used to etextbooks
- Library box - open source, wifi, file server
- $40 wireless router, tp link, usb power
- Mobile digital download point!
- http://www.jasongriffey.net/librarybox
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