ZSR: ALA eParticipation

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

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162691601/ New York: 1853

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_State_Library_1900.jpg Melvil Dewey, Carnegie Libraries, Early Days

Background: ALA in the 60s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Furthur_02.jpg Openness and Transparency

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

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/62205794@N00/515174318 Even then, computers were coming...

Background: ALA Today

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/22965089@N00/32325828 Still built on meeting around a table...

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/26687393@N05/2789581440 We’re carrying mobile devices.

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/30008272@N00/129143370 We’re communicating while away.

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/82832950@N00/396989525 The ways we present are changing.

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/36045027@N00/2329185659 Institutions are strained ﬁnancially.

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ppdigital/2329201379/ We’re all looking for better ways to do things.

Hope!

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

Hope: ALA Legislation

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

Hope: LITA’s BIGWIG

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

Hope: LITA

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/adventuresinlibrarianship/3261270211/ Real time virtual participation

Hope: ACRL Conferences

Virtual Conference Models

Hope: Online Library Communities

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

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

Tools: Twitter

Twitter as microblogging. twitter.com

Tools: FriendFeed Rooms

FriendFeed as an aggregate friendfeed.com

Tools: Meebo Chat Rooms

Meebo as real-time chat meebo.com

Tools: CoverItLive

Live blogging & commenting coveritlive.com/

Tools: UStream

Streaming video ustream.com

Tools: Tags & Hashtags

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

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

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

Today’s Plan ALA Background • • Hope! • Tools

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