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Presented as the opening keynote for the South Dakota Library Association 2007 Annual Conference on 17 October 2007 in Watertown, SD.
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Library 2.0
Michael SauersTechnology Innovation Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
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2006
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Are we locked-in to the old ways?
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Perpetual Beta
• Rapid development• Rapid implementation• Constantly test the waters• Don’t be afraid to fail
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Online applications
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Grab the Long Tail
Marketing
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Give yourself
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Give your customers the
megaphone
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Be Social
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Go where the users are
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• A 2005 report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project called “Teens and Technology” found that teenagers preferred new technology, like instant messaging or text messaging, for talking to friends and use e-mail to communicate with “old people.”
• E-mail is “too confusing”http://www.flickr.com/photos/couleursgm/244737979/
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/ref/contactus.html
“Ivanhoe library does not have a conventional reference desk. Instead they use a portable tablet which can be carried around the library by roving reference staff.”http://www.flickr.com/photos/yarraplenty/521189422/(used with permission)
Break
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Down
Barriers
Cherry Hill Public Library, Cherry Hill, NJhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/194802572/
http://www.libraryforlife.org/firefox/
23 March 2007http://www.nypost.com/seven/03232007/news/regionalnews/check_it_out__bklyn_library_eyes_netflix_regionalnews_david_seifman_____city_hall_bureau_chief.htm
Can your users find what they’re looking for?
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Is your librarya Nanny State?
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“It’s the simplest lesson of the Internet: it’s the people stupid.
We don’t have computers because we want to interact with machines; we have them because
they allow us to communicate more
effectively with other people.”
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Michael SauersTechnology Innovation
Librarian,Nebraska Library Commission
[email protected]://www.travelinlibrarian.info
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