Give us your suggestions, your thoughts, your poor huddled ideas yearning to be free
Overall Theme: Library Without Walls
This theme can encompass anything from using technology to allow patrons to search library resources from anywhere on the web to how to help patrons where they are physically (for example, roving or off-site reference) to activism to help protect your budget -- and anything else you can think of!
Potential topics
Use this section to propose topics that you're interested in presenting on or learning about. Add ideas or questions to current suggestions. At the beginning of the unconference, the whole group will vote on which suggestions will actually happen. Some ideas to get us started:
- Can anyone talk about doing reference while physically outside the library, or even just not at the reference desk?
- Social software as a marketing tool
- Any successful uses of blogs, facebook, twitter, foursquare by a library? A discussion of how libraries can use those tools.
- Examples of library toolbars and a discussion of whether they are useful or whether students/faculty/patrons actually use them.
- Examples of libraries creating widgets that let people search the library catalog from their own web pages.
- Embedding widgets in vendor databases
- Examples of libraries that have created a web interface for mobile devices.
- Chat software for individual libraries
- Ebooks downloading library licensed content to patron own devices or library devices available for lending
Presentation ideas
Are you doing something in your library that you think others may find interesting? Are you willing to give a brief (maybe 5 minute) presentation on it? Give us your ideas, by entering them below or sending an email to mshochet at ubalt dot edu.
- My library is using a slingbox to allow students view DVDs over the internet. The DVD must be on reserve for a class, and students using the slingbox are viewing an actual DVD owed by the library, so it is not an on-demand streaming service. But for our library where the demand is not too great, it works pretty well. -mhs
- Julie Arnold Lietzau and Barbara Mann can do a presentation on conducting real time library instruction over the web.
- Steve Henry has a presentation on fun things you can do using WorldCat local and Yahoo Pipes.
- Some things I (David Dahl) would be interested in presenting about: APIs (what they are and how we can use them); intranets and managing ideas; creating web content for mobile devices
- I'd be happy to present on Jing -- quick and dirty tutorials for reference (online & F2F) and instruction; plus I could show how to do boilerplate text in Outlook for online reference (Shana Gass)
- We have developed in-house indexes to books that help bring book content out into view - appropriate for our specialized art and design school users. - Kathy Cowan
Add Your Thoughts and Suggestions
- Is there a topic that is missing?
- Would you like to present on a topic?
- Do you have a suggestion for a speaker?
- Would you really like to see a presentation and have a discussion on a particular topic? Add your voice of approval.
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