E-Participation in ALA:A Presentation for WFU Library Staff

February 19, 2009

Today’s Plan

• ALA Background• Hope!• Tools

Background

• My ALA Story• ALA History• ALA in the 60s• ALA Today

Background: My ALA Story

Midwinter 2006

Background: ALA History

New York: 1853

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162691601/

Melvil Dewey, Carnegie Libraries, Early Days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_State_Library_1900.jpg

Background: ALA in the 60s

Openness and Transparency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Furthur_02.jpg

Openness and Transparency

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11018968@N00/162450820

Even then, computers were coming...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62205794@N00/515174318

Background: ALA Today

Still built on meeting around a table...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22965089@N00/32325828

We’re carrying mobile devices.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26687393@N05/2789581440

We’re communicating while away.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30008272@N00/129143370

The ways we present are changing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/82832950@N00/396989525

Institutions are strained financially.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36045027@N00/2329185659

We’re all looking for better ways to do things.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppdigital/2329201379/

Hope!

Hope!

• ALA Legislation• LITA’s BIGWIG• LITA• ACRL Conferences • Online Library Communities

Hope: ALA Legislation

ALA Participation Taskforce

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49611827@N00/235884503

Hope: LITA’s BIGWIG

We’re all looking for better ways to do things, BIGWIG is doing them.

Hope: LITA

Real time virtual participation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adventuresinlibrarianship/3261270211/

Hope: ACRL Conferences

Virtual Conference Models

Hope: Online Library Communities

Blended Librarians

Blended Librarians

OPAL

Webjunction

Hope!

• ALA Legislation• LITA’s BIGWIG• LITA• ACRL Conferences • Online Library Communities

Tools

Tools

• Blogs & Wikis• Google Docs• Twitter• FriendFeed Rooms • Meebo Chat Rooms• CoverItLive• UStream• Tags & HashTags

Tools: Blogs & Wikis

Mainstream

Tools: Google Docs

Entering mainstream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adventuresinlibrarianship/3260842681/

Tools: Twitter

Twitter as microblogging.twitter.com

Tools: FriendFeed Rooms

FriendFeed as an aggregatefriendfeed.com

Tools: Meebo Chat Rooms

Meebo as real-time chatmeebo.com

Tools: CoverItLive

Live blogging & commentingcoveritlive.com/

Tools: UStream

Streaming videoustream.com

Tools: Tags & Hashtags

Not just about our friends, aggregating for the general experiencehashtags.org

Not just about our friends, aggregating for the general experiencetechnorati.com

Tools

• Blogs & Wikis• Google Docs• Twitter• FriendFeed Rooms • Meebo Chat Rooms• CoverItLive• UStream• Tags & HashTags

Today’s Plan

• ALA Background• Hope!• Tools

Questions?