In Munich .. didnt sleep on the plane .. but only here for a day … Hofbrauhaus or sleep? Yikes
Traditionally innovative – 450 Years of the Bavarian State Library
Munich celebrates. In the Bavarian capital the year 2008 – at least within the city’s thriving library network – marks a very special birthday. The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) [...]
(New) Clarkson University Library Director (Michelle L. Young)
Director .. dont offer tenure for that position .. she has an “Evergreen contract”
Director Goal: To set in motion the University Libraries’ transformation towards excelling academic excellence through the implementation of programs, policies and strategies geared towards the innovative vision of libraries in the 20th century.
Notes:
Risk Tolerant
Solicit [...]
Using Resources Wisely – Rich Dreifuss (Geneseo)
OCLC Report on Online Catalogs Catalog Reconstruction (Aleph 500 Cat)
large team
good management support
took 6 months (met every 3 or weeks) – subcommittees did work
used U Albany usability study
book “Benchmarking for Best Practices”
borrowed from U Albany (search options)
Notre Dame (search forms)
Duke (tabs)
MIT (two-way sortable columns)
used a wiki .. collecting ideas, [...]
Flexibility or Standards: Template or Not - can use own language
Pictures – students identify
Access? Assigned or Everyone (Potsdam)
Documents / Pdfs / ppts
Useful to have a basic research guide
Faculty training .. ESF
Citation
Refworks (Endnote?)
Springshare Community – see other people guides (can copy)
Link .. Don’t duplicate content on web
Can create own widgets in Admin – grab code
Encourage starring [...]
Keynote: R. David Lankes – Syracuse
The Mission of Librarians: To Improve Society Through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities
Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=760
See Join the Mission – http://www.DavidLankes.org
Serve
Innovate – bring about change
Lead – Librarians are trusted 3rd party source, lead on campus, obligation to say “you can be better”
… global mission .. improvement ..libraries about knowledge not [...]
Librarian Entrepreneurs: Demystifying a Professional Oxymoron: Steven J. Bell
- Bell’s Presentation – steal this ..
Made Video of Question to start off presentation
Hand drawn pictures and text
Name a Librarian who is an Entrepreneur? .. don’t now Name any Entrepreneur? Gates, Trump .. don’t know
Confusion with “resourceful” “innovative”
7 Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneur
Opportunistic: Israel and waste [...]
Competition for Library Services – Dr. Larry Nash White
Not only provider
May not be best
Not First provider (14th in OCLC Survey)
We compete with each other (libraries)
Staffing: poaching & book publishing
Competitors: (Options)
Bookstores (Physical and online)
Mom & Pop
LSSI – outsourcing lib services (public, small academic, special libraries and they do it well)
E-Books
Social Networking: .. is this replacing “library as place”
Google: 99 [...]
Meeting an Unmet Need: Extending the Learning Commons Concept Through On Campus Partnerships and Branding – La Loria Konata; GSU Learning Commons
Georgia State University (Learning Commons) .. Outreach Efforts
Assignment Calculator (widget)
Webheat (Univ Minnesota)
Campus Collaborations: (Idea .. meet with Student Activities)
Office of New Students
At Risk Students Program
McNair Scholars (Honors students) .. paired with faculty on research [...]
Alibris .. Sell Books
Scan ISBN .. populates record and instant website listing. Name Price.Incl. Subject Listing. (50 bks/hr)Pricing toolGenerates Packing SlipMailing included (figure in pricing)
Mentioned “Long Tail”Google Books .. reeducated self
Jon Obermeyer: Lunch Speaker – Stacking the Odds for Success: A Six Stage Process to Articulate and Promote Your Entrepreneurial Idea.
2 kinds of EntrepreneurshipLifestyle (small, personal) vs High Growth (corporate)
NOTES:
Identify a VERY Large problem tht needs to be solved
Not necessarily something nobody is doing… some competition good.. just identify weakness and make it better
Libraries Ideal [...]
Entrepreneurs
Find Partners – spreads risk
Build Teams
Use other areas of organizations – i.e. Business school for business plan.
Opportunity focused
Should be small, simple and practical.. one idea at a time
Drucker: Links Entrep and Innovations
———————Risk
Some may chastise Libraries for taking risk (risk adverse) .. Libs have been rewarded for being conservative
Risk Taking vs Risk Management – go for [...]
