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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Allows people to be who they are, not what you want them to be
David Lewis (dlewis@iupui.edu)
“Innovators Dillema”
see site .. “Public Lib of Science”
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Price for Open Source Publication Fee (ie: $2500 .. editorial board)
Beware of “corporate capture” …
Find Open Source Publishers / Fees .. I need samples
Publishers who only do – Print on demand – ebook only ??
CC – Noncommercial-Share-Alike 3.0
Disruptive Change:
Learn by doing
Save resources for 2nd or 3rd [...]
Mine “Ted” For Ideas and applications in Libraries
Where is a place for photosynth in the library?
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html
http://livelabs.com/photosynth/
http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photosynth/synth
