Midlothian Libraries Staff Development workshop

Phil Bradleyhttp://www.philb.com

Where is the Internet today?

• Social media – user generated content has resulted in an explosion of data, in countless different places.

Tom Cunniff http://bit.ly/IKL3ZZ

Other social media engines

http://soshable.com

What happens in Facebook stays in Facebook

What happens on Google...

Facebook results

Google results

Google social results

Then there is...

Twitter

LinkedIn

So what can we do?

• Be aware of all of the resources out there• Use a variety of different search engines to

find this material• Check, evaluate and provide authority• Guide our users/members/clients• Go to where the conversations are

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I am a {Social} Librarian

http://www.elsevier.com/connect/infographic-portrait-of-a-social-librarian

Pearltrees

Symbaloo

Activities

• Visit the social engines at Pearltrees: http://bit.ly/1o04qTn

• Visit Symbaloo at http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/searchengines34

• Either: explore some new search engines OR try out Pearltrees or Symbaloo for yourself as a guiding tool.

Re-writing the library

• Books, eBooks• Websites• Catalogues• Desks• Rooms• DVDs• 3d Printers• Computers• Buildings

• Teach• Learn• Thoughtful• Helpful• Explore• Achieve• Improve• Power• Danger

Nouns can be quantified, measured and cut Verbs refer to impacts, change, improvement

This leads to poor decision making

Response from Maria Miller to Councillor Cliff Morris, Leader of Bolton Council31st May 2013 on her decision not to call an enquiry into library provision in theMetropolitan Borough of Bolton.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/204269/Morris__final_.pdf

Collection development

• Focuses on the wrong questions

• Increases the attraction of the artifact

• Limits our ability to interact with our members

• Reinforces existing stereotypes

Community Development

• Changes the conversations

• Frees us up to interact more effectively

• Reduces the limitations on what we can do

• Develop, explore, improve, initiate

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Librarians core skill is not delivering information

It is improving the quality of thequestion and the user experience

Libraries are about learning and building communities

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http://www.darienlibrary.org/events

Change is the natural order

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Thank you!