If you didn't attend the Library 2.012 Conference you missed out--but no worries you can still view the recordings!
There were so many fascinating topics and I'm telling you it was really amazing. I volunteered to help out as a moderator (just someone who kicks back in the background and waits to assist in case there are any tech problems with the presentations) and one hour I was assisting a prof from India and the next hour I got to help out with two librarians from Australia--it really clicked for me then how international this whole "virtual" conference thing really is. In fact, if you've never managed to attend a library conference at all, in person or online, you really should find time to do so. You not only learn so many cool, new things, you really get a bigger sense of what we're doing here and what advancements in life technology has made available to us. SJSU--SLIS isn't just the quiet little hamlet of my office desk chair and computer screen! So long as we're able to plug into the grid, we can go anywhere--do almost anything. OK. Before I start to sound like a commercial, I'll just say--if you find that you would like to skim the speaker/topic list and listen to the recordings (all via Collaborate) the link is here:
http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-012-session-recording-links-and-information
Some of the really amazing boards mentioned:
For more Pinterest news, the speakers created a board of some very
useful articles on a board titled, "Pin Your Library" for tips, tricks
and other news on how you can in fact--Pin Your Library to get it
noticed, get it out there and stimulate some conversation!http://pinterest.com/nairarbiluca/pin-your-library/
Keynote speakers of note (which I've already listed on my TO CATCH UP ON LATER list include:
There were so many fascinating topics and I'm telling you it was really amazing. I volunteered to help out as a moderator (just someone who kicks back in the background and waits to assist in case there are any tech problems with the presentations) and one hour I was assisting a prof from India and the next hour I got to help out with two librarians from Australia--it really clicked for me then how international this whole "virtual" conference thing really is. In fact, if you've never managed to attend a library conference at all, in person or online, you really should find time to do so. You not only learn so many cool, new things, you really get a bigger sense of what we're doing here and what advancements in life technology has made available to us. SJSU--SLIS isn't just the quiet little hamlet of my office desk chair and computer screen! So long as we're able to plug into the grid, we can go anywhere--do almost anything. OK. Before I start to sound like a commercial, I'll just say--if you find that you would like to skim the speaker/topic list and listen to the recordings (all via Collaborate) the link is here:
http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-012-session-recording-links-and-information
Pin Your Library - Using Pinterest to Market Your Library
This was one of the funnest sessions I
helped to moderate and was also the busiest! To my knowledge there were
over 48 participants (which wasn't bad for a non-keynote speaker
session) and the speakers spoke about how you could use social media to
market your library, specifically Pinterest. Prior to this, I'd really
thought it was more of a kind of "fun-time-waster" but what they
mentioned was that there was some statistical proof that people who want
to be inspired or are looking for creative things look to Pinterest,
not Google. Certain libraries who've really benefitted from this growing
new platform use it for collaboration (sharing ebook collections
(Overdrive!) with other libraries); promotion and marketing; social
curation (to help us overcome information overload--encourage pinboards
to store resources); research; benefiting your clients and users.
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| Pin Your Library |
- New York Public Library Pinterest Board http://pinterest.com/nypl/ with 9,381 followers and some really neat boards about their current events, gifts from their gift store, "news you can use", and promotions for things like their what NYPL is reading and what's in their collections.
- Biblioteca UPM Technical University of Madrid, Spain http://pinterest.com/biblioupm/?d
- ICE Library Institution of Civil Engineers in Westminster, London http://pinterest.com/icelibrary/
- and another really neat one for us Library Pinterest junkies out there: Awful Library Books http://pinterest.com/awfullibbooks/ .
Keynote speakers of note (which I've already listed on my TO CATCH UP ON LATER list include:
- Susan Hildreth (appointed by President Obama last year to be Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and prior to that serving as California's state librarian appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger) speaking on: A Vision of 21st Century Libraries
- Sandra Hirsh (our very own!), Director of SJSU SLIS: How to be a Catalyst for Change: Redefining the Library 2.0 Information Professional
- Joe Murphy: Technology and Library Trend Spotting Guru, the guy to follow if you want to keep up on tech changes! Technology Trends
- David Weinberger The Library as Platform... Weinberger's book, "Everything is Miscellaneous" was the very first book I'd ever read in Library School. I met him at the last ALA Conference in Anaheim when he signed his newest book "To Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room". FASCINATING speaker, you definitely have to check his session out if you have a second!
- Stephen Abram of Gale Cengage Learning, who didn't have a Keynote session made an appearance and had a really super full session with over 130+ participants. I heard from other moderators his session was especially excellent and if you get a chance you should check out his session on: Setting Priorities in Libraries: Focusing on the Transformation.
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