1. Hope everyone enjoyed our Cool Productivity Tools handout
emailed out last week !
Here I’ve summarized sessions that I thought most applied
to us as Academic Librarians or were the most
interesting. Enjoy!
Bonnie’s Point of View

2. UNCERTAINTY & IMAGINATION: EVOLVING
LIBRARIES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
LIBRARIES NOW LIVE IN A COMPETITIVE WORLD (Amazon, Google, Netflix, just to name a
few)
UNCERTAINTIES POSED:
1. How will we access information?
2. How will WE represent books?
3. How will we store our data?
4. How will we find stuff?
5. What do we hire a library to do?
6. How will we represent knowledge?
7. What will we need to know?
8. What will be the role of place/space?
9. How will we measure success/
10. Who will document? Who will censor?
11. What rights model will dominate?
FOR MORE SEE:
DANIELWRASMUS.COM
I found #5 most interesting:
Some ideas were:
Community meeting place?
Digital Help desk? Source of data?
Leisure/pleasure/shopping experience?
Freelancer/writers office space?
Borrowing of pre-loaded e-devices?

3. PATRON-DRIVEN ACQUISITIONS: WORKFLOW &
PERCEPTIONS
 An E-book librarian discussed three Pilot PDA Projects
(EBL, EBSCO, Ebrary) at her library UMBC.
 During her talk, I went to their library website to get an understanding of
their e-books collection and was so impressed with the layout of their
library home page, I grabbed a screenshot
 I love their easy to navigate “APP” look -Check our their library website
 The presentation was very technical and specific to their particular
subscriptions and institutional challenges that I didn’t get much a takeaway
from the presentation except that PDA seems the direction libraries are
moving in (as is Berkeley College!)

4. COOL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
 Lessons learning from presenting at conference:
 A three-hour workshop? What seemed overwhelming at first turned into more
than enough material including breaks, breakout session and questions.
 Handouts, Iclickers and use of various types of presentation tools
made for an interesting and interactive workshop.
 We also included a breakout session where participants picked a
tool or app we presented and had them download it/use it and share with the
group what they liked or didn’t like about it.
 Just as we did with our students on campus, we created completion
certificates for the participants:

5. Computers in Libraries 2014:
April 7 - 9, 2014
Hilton Washington
COOL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
Lessons learning from presenting at conference:
 Once you come up with idea (ours started as a campus activity), it’s
amazing how the process will flow from there
 Collaboration is useful: find a partner to work with and complement each
other’s strengths and weaknesses
 You can do it too ! Will you be presenting next year?