After diner speech, Phil Bradley, CILIP President
After diner speech, Phil Bradley, CILIP President
yesterday after diner speech was geat, I will write more about it later but you can have a look in twitter #ciliparlg12 to give you an idea... I really liked this talk, and I am going to translate it in my beloved language Russian (with the help of Google translate and Russian friends, as Google translate, though good, is far from perfect... update: As I have not yet found the time to correct the Russian text, I remove it, as I do not want to offend my Russian colleagues by presenting a text in bad Russian)
The key point of Phil Bradley's talk was that web 2.0 is no longer a fancy thing to do, but that it is now essential to information management. More and more, search engines such as Google will take into account what our friends like when we do a search there. We need to make more links with colleagues etc. as searches will be more personnalised.
We should not rest on our laurels... see for example encyclopaedia britannica and encarta... -and wikipedia!
Being a librarian is not about books anymore -books? People understand books, go beyond books for librarians. Will it be no books, no libraries, no librarians? We need to work with communities.
Being a librarian is about finding the information and offering it to the end user. Powerful job!
We need to change our frameset and try to use all new technologies, not be negative about it (Phil heard, from a librarian! that this librarian in question wanted to ban the use of ipads for children!). We do not need to think "oh no, something else I have to learn" well, learning is part of our jobs!
Importance of twitter, facebook, etc. because that is where the students are!
We need to say to people on the web sorry you are wrong! (notes from myself: I have done that a few times! :-)
What will the library be like in 5 years? 10 years? What is the percentage of our printed material that will be online? What are we going to do about it if we just seat and wait? We need to STOP BEING QUIET!
Phil Bradley then spoke about the wonderful services provided in Canada with Lili, a library service that goes outside the library to meet communities (markets, women's refuges) and offer more than "just books" (if I recall it well, they are offering many gadgets such as ipads etc...), also practical help in searching stuff and, and AND: conversation, pure and simple!
"a bad library creates collections, a good library creates services, an excellent library creates communities"
Phil Bradley also spoke about the wonderful work done by prison's librarians, how they are treating every one the same with "how can I help you?"
Librarians are building links
yesterday after diner speech was geat, I will write more about it later but you can have a look in twitter #ciliparlg12 to give you an idea... I really liked this talk, and I am going to translate it in my beloved language Russian (with the help of Google translate and Russian friends, as Google translate, though good, is far from perfect... update: As I have not yet found the time to correct the Russian text, I remove it, as I do not want to offend my Russian colleagues by presenting a text in bad Russian)
The key point of Phil Bradley's talk was that web 2.0 is no longer a fancy thing to do, but that it is now essential to information management. More and more, search engines such as Google will take into account what our friends like when we do a search there. We need to make more links with colleagues etc. as searches will be more personnalised.
We should not rest on our laurels... see for example encyclopaedia britannica and encarta... -and wikipedia!
Being a librarian is not about books anymore -books? People understand books, go beyond books for librarians. Will it be no books, no libraries, no librarians? We need to work with communities.
Being a librarian is about finding the information and offering it to the end user. Powerful job!
We need to change our frameset and try to use all new technologies, not be negative about it (Phil heard, from a librarian! that this librarian in question wanted to ban the use of ipads for children!). We do not need to think "oh no, something else I have to learn" well, learning is part of our jobs!
Importance of twitter, facebook, etc. because that is where the students are!
We need to say to people on the web sorry you are wrong! (notes from myself: I have done that a few times! :-)
What will the library be like in 5 years? 10 years? What is the percentage of our printed material that will be online? What are we going to do about it if we just seat and wait? We need to STOP BEING QUIET!
Phil Bradley then spoke about the wonderful services provided in Canada with Lili, a library service that goes outside the library to meet communities (markets, women's refuges) and offer more than "just books" (if I recall it well, they are offering many gadgets such as ipads etc...), also practical help in searching stuff and, and AND: conversation, pure and simple!
"a bad library creates collections, a good library creates services, an excellent library creates communities"
Phil Bradley also spoke about the wonderful work done by prison's librarians, how they are treating every one the same with "how can I help you?"
Librarians are building links
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