How would you see your role as Head of LETS in helping the Libraries use information technology to enhance public service?

Karen HuntActing University Librarian, University of Winnipeg 2006-2008Information Literacy Coordinator, University of Winnipeg 2000-2006Collection Development and Access Services Coordinator, Red River College 1994-2000Reference Librarian, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba 1989-1994Systems Librarian, Dept of Finance / National Library of Canada, 1988-1989

A Bridge✆ between traditional library services and new models✆ between library and campus services

Interpreter ✆ what our clients need and what is possible✆ what is possible and what our clients need

Cheer Leading✆ communicating success✆ changing perceptions

Predicting

✆ what are the implications of new technologies?✆ what do we need to let go?✆ usability testing and KIS feedback

Connecting

✆ facilitating connections within the libraries✆ enabling collaboration between the Libraries and other campus units

Catalyst

✆ A substance, usually used in small amounts relative to the reactants, that modifies and increases the rate of a reaction without being consumed in the process.

Examples

Then: people were prepared to build their workflows around library services.

Now: the library must be prepared to build its services around people's workflows.

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog, Workflow is an intermediate consumer, May 31, 2008

Learning Management System Integration

• Should be priority to get library embedded into courses

• Where else do students go?

• Social networking?

Library toolbar

• Need to promote

• Need to get feedback on how it is working

Really Intuitive Search & Retrieval

• Ask students

• Listen and act on feedback from librarians, staff, faculty and students

• Stop pretending we need to fix our students and fix our systems instead

Richer catalogues, please

• Add “amazon” and tagging to our catalogues

New Devises - New Services

• Don’t stop at chat

• Cell phones are virtually ubiquitous for our students

Get into the Research Flow

• data-driven science

• institutional repositories

• open source and open access proponents

• new forms of scholarly communication

Questions?

Role Examples

✆ Bridge✆ Interpreter✆ Cheer Leader✆ Predicting✆ Connecting✆ Catalyst

✆ Learning Management Systems

✆ Library toolbar✆ Really intuitive search and

retrieval✆ Richer catalogues, please✆ New devices - new

services✆ Get into the Research

Flow

Attribution

• Bridge - by yuzu http://flickr.com/photos/khardy/55867082/

• Translator - Rico Shen,http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:2007TaipeiOlympicDayRun_SignLanguageTranslator.jpg#metadata

• Cheerleaders - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Yokota_cheerleaders.jpg

• Back to the Future - http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s272/abelkems/Demotivational%20Posters%201/time_travel.jpg

• Connecting http://chinaworldbestkama.com/images/Forgins/origin/Connecting%20rod%204.jpg

• Students www.sixthdecade.uwaterloo.ca/.../students.jpg

• Cell Phones http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2054017988_0a851b321e.jpg?v=0