Librarian Philosopher

Presenters can be found by scrooling dowen to near the bottom of the SLJ Wiki.

Metaphors:

Joyce Valenza – Librarians are in the Idea business, connections, relationships, not about containers (see her fuller explanation at her blog posting).

Not the grocery store but the kitchen – want everyone to be a cook and a taster.

Family room were presentations may be done.

Terri – cafeteria – food that is good for them but students have a choice

Chris – pampered chef party, new tools

Jay Flynn (Gale) – from hunter/gather to farmer

Jim Ulsh (ProQuest) – (I missed it)

What keeps you up at night?

What to buy – curriculum, just-n-time vs. serendipity.

Blackboard is a closed social networking.

What is the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for Librarians?

Some discussion about the same old things.

How to buy?

Different consortium buying model that does not depend on just in time purchasing.

Make it findable.

Chris says make it findable in a new way, get the rich metadata get the info out of MARC record and present it in ways presentable to the user. Like LibrayThing patron neutral.

Put access to information everywhere students are.

Want to break out databases into small chunks.

Make a new name for databases.

Local tools for local needs.

Terri –

Chris – 2 schools of thought, fuzzy search technology.

Widget vs. portal

I want both

SimplyBox – gather stuff from internet and put it all together

Joyce uses wikis and nings for media parking lots.

Don’t base your curriculum on something that is free because next year it may not be there or free.

Rebuild/remix collections for the next several years.

Speed of content creation, user generated content, feed it through quality control.

Sorry, the discussion was good but exhausting.

At

School Library Journal Leadership Summit, 2008

Remixing Library Collections for Digital Youth

November 14-15, 2008

The Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa

Hollywood, Florida