Waxing and Waning: Tech Trends for the Library Landscape Karen G. Schneider October, 2009 http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/24-week/

waxing: the quest for narrative

“ Speak with a human voice.” — Michael Stephens

With the aim of improving our service and our efficiency, the circulation area at the Main Library will be remodeled for better patron accessibility and oriented toward increased self-checkout options . To this end we’re adding two more self-checkout stations, for a total of four. … We’ll have the same number of circulation clerks …

waning…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/1924719853/sizes/l/

embrace the “yes”

http://flickr.com/photos/yarmando/236030044/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dickinsonlibrary/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dickinsonlibrary/

allowed

welcome

permitted

encouraged

not here

in this zone

waxing: ubiquitous informal engagement

Embrace the blur

waxing: informal leadership

accept difference http://citegeist.com/

waxing & waning: traditional circ

waning: paper

waning: just-in-case reference

waxing: centralized mass storage

waxing: resource-sharing

yield ownership to access www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/2785069966/in/set-72157606873382962 /

waning: the locally-installed catalog

rethink staffing and workflows

waxing: cloud-based applications

brace for cloud-based disasters

waxing: cloud catalogs

question the duplicate-record model

waxing:

be open to open

waxing: pretty-good, unified discovery

think like it’s 1877

& think like it’s 1963

waxing: ubiquitous computing

embrace the mesh

waxing: the library as destination

http://flickr.com/photos/tracy_the_astonishing /

waxing: the experience library

opportunities wax in hard times

http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtisrogers/498113917/

http://images.library.uiuc.edu:8081/u?/koopman,346

plan a controlled burn http://www.fws.gov/northeast/patuxent/fire.html

what’s your narrative? where are you waxing and waning? how will you embrace “yes”?

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