Here is a preview of what I will be presenting at MLA this year. It is a valuble resource to libraries trying to find new technologies to solve problems.
1. Distance Tech Tools for Your Average Patron: Ten Ways to Make Technology Viable, Marketable, and Cost-Effective in Reaching Distance Patrons Warning: This presentation will involve helping your library succeed in a web 2.0 environment and also will require…audience participation, viewer discretion advised
9. Recommended Reading Don’t make me think! : a common sense approach to Web usability Interactive information retrieval in digital environnements Learning web design : a beginner's guide to (X)HTML, style sheets and web graphics Follow the links! Brush up on the user and the libraries toolbox
10. Down to Business: Ten Rules Widgets make sense, use them! Find the need, then bring the technology some sample freebies are included BREAK ALL THESE RULES If you know a better way, post it, share it, blog it Having a YouTube presence is better than a web presence! Video tours! No worries about reinventing the wheel, it still works! User behavior should dictate tech Don’t abuse Facebook and sites like it, use them Use new tech if it’s free Wikis work if you work them Screencast your message, the web is about multimedia they tell me Interface design does not mean glitter, web site audit time
11. Wikis, Widgets and Websites, Oh my! Pbworks Free Get the patrons involved Dynamic Collection development Content control over what your patrons need! Jing Get it Don’t be nervous Make a list of frequent questions over the phone Give the patrons the visual idea Wikis First: How to user them
12. Movies and TinyChat: Communication through the Web Using Power Tools The Flip Make movies about the library Need a new building? Videos are worth a million words. Video newsletters (Digitize and make it happen on YouTube) Tiny chat Why not Meebo? The power of voice and video Any operating system philosophy User needs getting met
13. Websites: How to build them for next to free! Free software I use in lie of adobe Notepadd ++ NVU Gimp XnView Inkscape How to learn? THE best starting place is at the W3C schools http://www.w3schools.com/ All software mentioned will RUN ON A FLASH DRIVE!
14. Librarything for Dynamic Collection Development How to use it Get your patrons involved from a distance Making people OWN the collection Books suggestions make the libraries services better http://www.librarything.com/
18. How can you provide them at a reasonable cost?
19. What level of support does the library wish to give patrons on local machines? What license agreements are you willing to enter? How to build With Tools Towards User Needs
20. The Power of Portable Empower users with portable apps Flash drives at the library? What about the not so tech savvy? Assume everyone is not so tech savvy Guide them through it, you can do it Find out more at portableapps.com Logo Subject to trademark
21. The Library as a Digital Community Hub Issuu and publishing events! Video and publishing events! Just get them in the library and using it How to make patrons feel good about using technology. Making the library come to life, the power of dynamic content!
22. Analyzing Software Licensing Agreements Difference between open source and GPL at your library When to license, know what to license What software do you need? I took the IP law class so you don’t have to An analysis of the Firefox license agreement.
23. Goals of implementing your tech program? Who are your target users? What do they need? How can these tools provide for those needs? Thank you for the conversation ! New ideas come through sharing! Please update the wiki with your thoughts and comments at http://mla2010tech.pbworks.com
