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I’m lucky enough to be speaking at next month’s Online Information 2008 conference in London, where I’ll be speaking about new media channels for libraries (in other words, getting your content out in front of users where they already are). I’m in the Brave New World for Libraries and Publishers track on day one, but there are many sessions at this media conference that should be of interest to librarians. I’m looking forward to seeing sessions in the Order Out of Chaos: Creating Structure in Our Universe and Information Professionals Surviving and Thriving in the New Age, among others. I’ll also be moderating the Knowledge Structuring in a Semantic World session on day two.
The conference organizers have just posted a podcast interview with me, which is just one in a series with some of the speakers. They’ve organized quite a line-up of presenters, starting with conference opener Clay Shirky (hear his interview here). If you’ve never heard Clay speak, I encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity. I guarantee you won’t regret it.
Please feel free to submit questions ahead of time,
- Go Have Fun at the Library - It’s National Gaming Day!November 15
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A reminder that today is National Gaming Day @ your library. All types of games are included, and not just for teens, plus 150 libraries participating in videogame tournaments (you can watch one of the brackets online to find out who wins!). The tag for tracking afterwards is ngd2008.
There are more than 600 libraries on the map, and I’m sure there are more we don’t know about. It warms my heart.
Have fun everyone!
No Tags - John Palfrey: “Born Digital” PresentationNovember 13
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Notes from John Palfrey’s talk for the MacArthur Foundation at Google Chicago
point of the book Born Digital was to bust some of the myths and look at differences in behavior between digital natives and people like their grandparents
shouldn’t treat everybody the same way just because they have the same technology - may not use it the same way
how they define this specific group of kids (not all millennials) - born after 1980, access to the technology (only 1 billion people), skills to use it5 characteristics
1. “I blog therefore I am”
express their identity online and offline - they don’t distinguish between the two
avatars as another version of identity
one difference is “subscribe to *me*”2. multitaskers
a lot of debate over multitasking and what it is, but they’re doing multiple things at once
example of game in which boys tried to maintain as many IM conversations with as many girls as they could at once3. consumers to creators
interact with digital format - seems self-evident, but presumption is immediate access because digital (eg, digital camera vs a disposable one); movie theater vs YouTube, print vs searchable text
presumption of media in digital form and that it’s social and sharedheld a contest to design the logo for “Digital Natives” project at
- Banking 2.0November 10
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I love that my bank is making it easier for me to do business with them by no longer requiring me to put deposits in envelopes. I can just imagine the committee meetings for this one:
- But we’ve never done that before.
- But it will mean more work for our staff.
- But we don’t know what crazy thing might happen.
- And on and on
This makes my user experience easier and more convenient, which I really appreciate. And of course, those who still want to use envelopes can do so.
What small things can your library do to make your services (both in your building and online) easier and more convenient for your users?
No Tags - Some Quick Gaming NotesNovember 4
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- I thought I had blogged about National Gaming Day @ your library, but amazingly I haven’t - sorry about that. This is a national event coordinated by ALA on November 15 that celebrates the opportunities libraries offer for play between diverse groups of people in a safe, non-commercialized environment. To help promote this event, Hasbro is sending a copy of the game Pictureka! to every public library in the U.S. (thanks, Hasbro!). The shipments have gone out so if you’re at a PL, you should automatically receive your game in the next week or so. Suggestions for how to use the game (and others) are available on ALA’s Games and Gaming Resources wiki, and Scott Nicholson has made a great video showing how to play the game, which also suggests other NGD activities, too.
In addition, Wizards of the Coast donated two gaming kits to libraries that signed up to receive them (sorry, but that offer expired last week), so I want to thank them, too. It’s *very* easy to participate in National Gaming Day, so I hope to see your library
- I thought I had blogged about National Gaming Day @ your library, but amazingly I haven’t - sorry about that. This is a national event coordinated by ALA on November 15 that celebrates the opportunities libraries offer for play between diverse groups of people in a safe, non-commercialized environment. To help promote this event, Hasbro is sending a copy of the game Pictureka! to every public library in the U.S. (thanks, Hasbro!). The shipments have gone out so if you’re at a PL, you should automatically receive your game in the next week or so. Suggestions for how to use the game (and others) are available on ALA’s Games and Gaming Resources wiki, and Scott Nicholson has made a great video showing how to play the game, which also suggests other NGD activities, too.
