2. Welcome
• Stephen Abram is a strategy,
marketing and direction planning
consultant with Dysart & Jones.
• He is CEO of the Federation of
Ontario Public Libraries.
• He plans Symposia for the iSchool @
Toronto and will launch an series on
advocacy for libraries in Autumn
2013.
• He is a past president of SLA, the
Ontario Library Association and the
Canadian Library Association. He is
the author of ALA Edition’s Out Front
with Stephen Abram and Stephen’s
Lighthouse Blog.
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9. Think deeply about . . .
9
Your
Operation’s
Scalability
Your
Sustainability
The Depth of your
Relationships
How you Set
Priorities:
Daily and Future
10. Risk Taking in Librarianship
Avoiding the triple diseases of:
1. Conflict avoidance
2. Passive resistance
3. Risk aversion
14. eLearning and MOOCs
Offering real education in library setting
Gale’s Learn4Life, Lynda.com, Atomic
Learning, etc.
MOOCs
15. Making and Makerspaces
More than a 3D printer and scanner
These are programs.
Everything from creative writing and
poetry slams, to cooking and carpentry and
sewing and crafts to LEGO® and robotics…
16. Video Production
As simple as a green wall
As techie as a Mac and an iPhone
Story-time, teens and ads, . . .
18. Dashboards
News in print is dying.
What are you doing about it for your community?
Do you have a dashboard template for supporting
your community when disasters strike?
Are you trying to go it alone?
19. The Serious Cloud
You’re mostly in the cloud already!
Now move the rest and get TCO (total costs of
ownership) savings in the 60-70% range.
And get more flexibility and get off the evil
software and server upgrade hamster wheel.
There is a metadata cloud that you can use with
APIs (OCLC Linked Data, DPLA, …)
20. Library BIG Data
Mining your own data
• ILS
• Website data
• Licensed database usage
• Gate counts
• etc.
And then making it visually interesting and informative
24. Streaming Media
Preparing for the end of DVD and CD-ROM
Streaming collections of
movies, documentaries, non-
fiction, videogames, music, podcasts . . .
Freegal, Overdrive, etc.
25. Mobility
Have you honestly set goals here?
Are you missing something or in denial?
Look around…
What’s your app plan? What does your
virtual experience look like on your phone?
27. Next Steps in Search
• Facial and image recognition search
• Spoken word searching
• Semantic search (adding context to remove ambiguity from search results)
• Sentiment search (displaying and detecting bias and point of view in search results)
• Tiled search display (displaying results across multiple contexts in tiles)
• Taxonomic search (offering additional search improvements based on the internal
architecture of the database or the taxonomy, ontology).
• Visualization
• Structured and unstructured information search
• Pre-coordinate vs. post-coordinate indexing
• New algorithms
28. Social Media as Content
Social media is no longer a trivial plaything
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Pinterest, Instagram, Vine, etc.
32. Tell Your Story:
Until lions learn to write their own story,
the story will always be from the perspective
of the hunter not the hunted.
33. Enjoy your weekend!
Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA
Consultant, Dysart & Jones/Lighthouse Partners
Cel: 416-669-4855
stephen.abram@gmail.com
Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog
http://stephenslighthouse.com
Facebook, Pinterest, G+, Tumblr: Stephen Abram
LinkedIn: Stephen Abram
Twitter: @sabram
SlideShare: StephenAbram1
Skype: stephenkabram
Notas do Editor
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Group Ground Rules:Your group will work most effectively when everyone:Respects each others’ opinions & perspectives Stays on time & on agenda topicContributes & ensures everyone is contributing (encourage & allow others to pause/think)Adopt a rule that each person has a maximum 8 minutes/meeting the “T” zone; in other words, to ensure that everyone contributes, everyone must limit their talking to 8 minutes (cumulative) throughout a 90 minute meeting. Some people need time to think, and to quietly consider what they want to contribute. Give them time. Another helpful guideline is to go around the room and ask for each person’s idea/contribution. Once someone has spoken, they can’t contribute again until it is their turn. These guidelines can be relaxed once a group is comfortable working together. Adopt them at the beginning as some people will be much more participative than others and we need to build a discussion environment that works for as many as possible. Acknowledges that everyone is busy and is doing their bestRecognizes that exploring is fun & thought-provoking, especially since we are in the Library sector
Group Ground Rules:Your group will work most effectively when everyone:Respects each others’ opinions & perspectives Stays on time & on agenda topicContributes & ensures everyone is contributing (encourage & allow others to pause/think)Adopt a rule that each person has a maximum 8 minutes/meeting the “T” zone; in other words, to ensure that everyone contributes, everyone must limit their talking to 8 minutes (cumulative) throughout a 90 minute meeting. Some people need time to think, and to quietly consider what they want to contribute. Give them time. Another helpful guideline is to go around the room and ask for each person’s idea/contribution. Once someone has spoken, they can’t contribute again until it is their turn. These guidelines can be relaxed once a group is comfortable working together. Adopt them at the beginning as some people will be much more participative than others and we need to build a discussion environment that works for as many as possible. Acknowledges that everyone is busy and is doing their bestRecognizes that exploring is fun & thought-provoking, especially since we are in the Library sector
