This document discusses three unrelated topics: the resurgence of books in a digital age, the decline of traditional publishing, and an inappropriate question about catching someone engaging in a private act.
Utilizing Technology to Increase Capacityslakhansen
The document discusses how non-profits can utilize technology to increase their operational capacity. It recommends that non-profits first set goals that align with their mission and prioritize important tasks. It then provides examples of common technology tools needed by arts organizations and suggests free and low-cost options available through organizations like TechSoup Canada. The document encourages non-profits to take advantage of discounted and donated software available through TechSoup Canada's product donation program.
The document describes the search functions for authors, courses, and members on a website. It includes fields to search for authors by name, firm, profession, job title, city, and discipline. For courses, search fields include course name, tags, author name, type, author city, and discipline. Member search allows filtering by name, firm, profession, job title, city, discipline, industry, and country. Search results are paginated and displayed alphabetically.
The document discusses developing mobile apps on a shoestring budget. It provides an overview of costs for different mobile platforms like iPhone, Android, Palm, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile which range from free SDKs to $99/year fees. It also discusses what mobile apps should look like in terms of simplicity, navigation, bandwidth use and consistency. The document recommends tools like PhoneGap and provides examples of bad app design patterns to avoid like too much scrolling, overblown graphics and confusing navigation. It outlines the basic types of apps as graphic-based or text-based. Finally, it discusses options for creating apps without coding like widgets, WYSIWYG editors and cloud-based tools starting at $29/month.
The document provides information on digital tools for organizing a desktop, accessing world news, using Google Docs and other Google services, setting up alerts and RSS feeds, conducting meetings remotely, sending faxes without a fax machine, and using free audio editing software. Some of the specific tools mentioned include organizing files on a desktop, using Google Calendar, creating links for quick access, reading news on CSV files, needing a Gmail account to use Google Docs features, using Google Alerts and Social Mention to monitor topics, understanding RSS and Atom formats, using Google Meetings and Docs for remote meetings, sending faxes online without a dedicated fax machine, and using the open source Audacity software along with LAME to
The Bibliothèque interculturelle (BIC) in Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal serves approximately 165,000 residents and is one of the two largest municipal libraries in its borough. It welcomes around 1,500 children per month for school visits and 20 daycare groups per month for storytime. The BIC collects documents in several languages for new immigrant communities.
Radio enfant en direct is a kids' live radio program produced by Montreal-area students, run as a collaboration between public libraries, schools, and community radio. A grade 5/6 class from St. Pascal Bayon school spent 50 hours over 5 months preparing a 2-hour live broadcast on insects
Empowering Oneself With Personal Safety Education 2009slakhansen
This document provides tips on home, vehicle, and personal security. It outlines various safety measures people can take to secure their home, such as installing motion-activated lights, strengthening doors and windows, using alarms, and avoiding leaving notes on the door. It also gives advice for staying safe in vehicles, on the street, and when handling money. The document stresses being aware of one's surroundings, trusting instincts, and knowing what to do and what information to provide to police in dangerous situations.
This document describes the features and capabilities of LibGuides, including how to create guides and profiles, add different content types like books and articles, customize the look and feel, view usage statistics, and get help. It provides a step-by-step demonstration of building a guide called "SLA [your name]" and adding various boxes, pages, and links. The goals are to showcase how easy LibGuides is to use without technical expertise and to collaborate on guides between different institutions.
The document discusses Red Deer College Library's efforts to implement an integrated "one service desk" model combining reference and circulation services. It describes the philosophy of providing a single point of service for patrons and the challenges faced in initial attempts and later pilots of the program in 2010. Key obstacles included lack of staff buy-in, inconsistent training and support, and balancing the model with other priorities. The implementation required publicity, staff interviews, training tools like guides and wikis, and an assessment period to identify challenges and opportunities for improvement in patron service.
Utilizing Technology to Increase Capacityslakhansen
The document discusses how non-profits can utilize technology to increase their operational capacity. It recommends that non-profits first set goals that align with their mission and prioritize important tasks. It then provides examples of common technology tools needed by arts organizations and suggests free and low-cost options available through organizations like TechSoup Canada. The document encourages non-profits to take advantage of discounted and donated software available through TechSoup Canada's product donation program.
The document describes the search functions for authors, courses, and members on a website. It includes fields to search for authors by name, firm, profession, job title, city, and discipline. For courses, search fields include course name, tags, author name, type, author city, and discipline. Member search allows filtering by name, firm, profession, job title, city, discipline, industry, and country. Search results are paginated and displayed alphabetically.
The document discusses developing mobile apps on a shoestring budget. It provides an overview of costs for different mobile platforms like iPhone, Android, Palm, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile which range from free SDKs to $99/year fees. It also discusses what mobile apps should look like in terms of simplicity, navigation, bandwidth use and consistency. The document recommends tools like PhoneGap and provides examples of bad app design patterns to avoid like too much scrolling, overblown graphics and confusing navigation. It outlines the basic types of apps as graphic-based or text-based. Finally, it discusses options for creating apps without coding like widgets, WYSIWYG editors and cloud-based tools starting at $29/month.
The document provides information on digital tools for organizing a desktop, accessing world news, using Google Docs and other Google services, setting up alerts and RSS feeds, conducting meetings remotely, sending faxes without a fax machine, and using free audio editing software. Some of the specific tools mentioned include organizing files on a desktop, using Google Calendar, creating links for quick access, reading news on CSV files, needing a Gmail account to use Google Docs features, using Google Alerts and Social Mention to monitor topics, understanding RSS and Atom formats, using Google Meetings and Docs for remote meetings, sending faxes online without a dedicated fax machine, and using the open source Audacity software along with LAME to
The Bibliothèque interculturelle (BIC) in Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal serves approximately 165,000 residents and is one of the two largest municipal libraries in its borough. It welcomes around 1,500 children per month for school visits and 20 daycare groups per month for storytime. The BIC collects documents in several languages for new immigrant communities.
Radio enfant en direct is a kids' live radio program produced by Montreal-area students, run as a collaboration between public libraries, schools, and community radio. A grade 5/6 class from St. Pascal Bayon school spent 50 hours over 5 months preparing a 2-hour live broadcast on insects
Empowering Oneself With Personal Safety Education 2009slakhansen
This document provides tips on home, vehicle, and personal security. It outlines various safety measures people can take to secure their home, such as installing motion-activated lights, strengthening doors and windows, using alarms, and avoiding leaving notes on the door. It also gives advice for staying safe in vehicles, on the street, and when handling money. The document stresses being aware of one's surroundings, trusting instincts, and knowing what to do and what information to provide to police in dangerous situations.
This document describes the features and capabilities of LibGuides, including how to create guides and profiles, add different content types like books and articles, customize the look and feel, view usage statistics, and get help. It provides a step-by-step demonstration of building a guide called "SLA [your name]" and adding various boxes, pages, and links. The goals are to showcase how easy LibGuides is to use without technical expertise and to collaborate on guides between different institutions.
The document discusses Red Deer College Library's efforts to implement an integrated "one service desk" model combining reference and circulation services. It describes the philosophy of providing a single point of service for patrons and the challenges faced in initial attempts and later pilots of the program in 2010. Key obstacles included lack of staff buy-in, inconsistent training and support, and balancing the model with other priorities. The implementation required publicity, staff interviews, training tools like guides and wikis, and an assessment period to identify challenges and opportunities for improvement in patron service.
The document discusses cross-border literary promotion between libraries in Montana and Saskatchewan. It provides examples of book clubs in Montana libraries that have read and discussed books by Canadian authors. It also summarizes Canadian authors and topics featured at several Montana book festivals and awards, demonstrating efforts to share literature across the border.
The document discusses Canadian literary culture and efforts to promote it, including the creation of organizations like the Canada Council for the Arts. It notes challenges like the fluctuating US-Canadian dollar exchange rate and proposes partnerships between Saskatchewan writers and authors like Yann Martel, Ivan Doig, and Wallace Stegner to further literary events in the province.
The document discusses using YouTube to promote rural library services and resources. It provides tips on shooting and editing video to create library promotional videos that can be uploaded to YouTube. These include using a digital camera, Windows Movie Maker, public domain music, and occasionally a microphone. It cautions to avoid using copyrighted content and media releases for informal videos. The future potential is discussed of other community organizations embedding library videos on their websites to promote virtual outreach. Resources for video editing, YouTube tutorials, and public domain music and sounds are also provided.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Barbara McNeil at the Saskatchewan Library Association Conference on the role of public and school libraries in supporting marginalized adolescent youth. The presentation discusses how literacy is key to participation in democratic processes and outlines a research project that used literature circles to promote literacy growth in struggling adolescent boys. The goals of the research were to engage school leadership and librarians to collaboratively support literacy development and examine how critical reading practices can influence literacy skills and understanding of social issues.
The document discusses building successful relationships between library boards and staff. It describes issues that can arise when roles and responsibilities are unclear, including unwelcoming atmospheres for patrons, outdated collections, and inward-focused meetings. It emphasizes the importance of open communication, shared visions, clearly defined roles, and community engagement for rebuilding trust between boards and staff.
The document provides information on digital tools for organizing a desktop, accessing world news, using Google Docs and other Google services, setting up alerts and RSS feeds, conducting meetings remotely, sending faxes without a fax machine, and using free audio editing software. Some of the specific tools mentioned include organizing files on a desktop, using Google Calendar, creating links for easy access, reading news on CSV files, needing a Gmail account to use Google Docs features, using Google Alerts and Social Mention to follow topics, understanding RSS and Atom formats, using Google Meetings and Docs for remote meetings, sending faxes online without a dedicated fax machine, and using the open source Audacity software along with LAME to
The document summarizes consultations held by the Literacy & Lifelong Working Group with various Saskatchewan public libraries on defining the role of libraries in supporting literacy and lifelong learning. The consultations included workshops with branch staff and trustees from several regional libraries. Ideas generated included expanding programming for different age groups, partnering with community organizations, and addressing barriers like space limitations. The discussions supported an expanded view of literacy and an active community engagement role for libraries. Next steps may include strategic planning, developing a literacy support position, and considering policy and funding implications.
Saskatchewan Libraries Conference 2010 Sponsors and Partnersslakhansen
The document lists sponsors that contributed financially to the Saskatchewan Libraries Conference 2010, including those that donated $1,000 or more to sponsor all technical aspects and those that donated up to $1,000 to be considered partners.
The document summarizes the organization and committees of a library consortium working to implement a shared library card system across members. It lists the 10 consortium directors and 1 project manager currently overseeing the initiative. It also outlines the executive, management, implementation, operations and special interest committees established to divide responsibilities and see the project through.
This document summarizes a presentation on the importance of family literacy. It discusses early memories of reading, research on family literacy programs, the benefits of family literacy, and ways to influence literacy achievement. It also outlines common myths and barriers to family involvement in schools, the influence of socioeconomic status on literacy, and issues teachers face working with families. The document then describes a multi-generational family literacy program developed in rural Atlantic Canada, including participant selection, modules developed, data collection and evaluation comments. It concludes by discussing considerations for aboriginal family literacy programs.
2009 Saskatchewan Libraries Conference Sponsors and Partnersslakhansen
This document lists different sponsorship levels for donors, including donors of $1,000 or more and donations up to $1000. It also lists 'Our Partners' three times as acknowledgments.
The document discusses cross-border literary promotion between libraries in Montana and Saskatchewan. It provides examples of book clubs in Montana libraries that have read and discussed books by Canadian authors. It also summarizes Canadian authors and topics featured at several Montana book festivals and awards, demonstrating efforts to share literature across the border.
The document discusses Canadian literary culture and efforts to promote it, including the creation of organizations like the Canada Council for the Arts. It notes challenges like the fluctuating US-Canadian dollar exchange rate and proposes partnerships between Saskatchewan writers and authors like Yann Martel, Ivan Doig, and Wallace Stegner to further literary events in the province.
The document discusses using YouTube to promote rural library services and resources. It provides tips on shooting and editing video to create library promotional videos that can be uploaded to YouTube. These include using a digital camera, Windows Movie Maker, public domain music, and occasionally a microphone. It cautions to avoid using copyrighted content and media releases for informal videos. The future potential is discussed of other community organizations embedding library videos on their websites to promote virtual outreach. Resources for video editing, YouTube tutorials, and public domain music and sounds are also provided.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Barbara McNeil at the Saskatchewan Library Association Conference on the role of public and school libraries in supporting marginalized adolescent youth. The presentation discusses how literacy is key to participation in democratic processes and outlines a research project that used literature circles to promote literacy growth in struggling adolescent boys. The goals of the research were to engage school leadership and librarians to collaboratively support literacy development and examine how critical reading practices can influence literacy skills and understanding of social issues.
The document discusses building successful relationships between library boards and staff. It describes issues that can arise when roles and responsibilities are unclear, including unwelcoming atmospheres for patrons, outdated collections, and inward-focused meetings. It emphasizes the importance of open communication, shared visions, clearly defined roles, and community engagement for rebuilding trust between boards and staff.
The document provides information on digital tools for organizing a desktop, accessing world news, using Google Docs and other Google services, setting up alerts and RSS feeds, conducting meetings remotely, sending faxes without a fax machine, and using free audio editing software. Some of the specific tools mentioned include organizing files on a desktop, using Google Calendar, creating links for easy access, reading news on CSV files, needing a Gmail account to use Google Docs features, using Google Alerts and Social Mention to follow topics, understanding RSS and Atom formats, using Google Meetings and Docs for remote meetings, sending faxes online without a dedicated fax machine, and using the open source Audacity software along with LAME to
The document summarizes consultations held by the Literacy & Lifelong Working Group with various Saskatchewan public libraries on defining the role of libraries in supporting literacy and lifelong learning. The consultations included workshops with branch staff and trustees from several regional libraries. Ideas generated included expanding programming for different age groups, partnering with community organizations, and addressing barriers like space limitations. The discussions supported an expanded view of literacy and an active community engagement role for libraries. Next steps may include strategic planning, developing a literacy support position, and considering policy and funding implications.
Saskatchewan Libraries Conference 2010 Sponsors and Partnersslakhansen
The document lists sponsors that contributed financially to the Saskatchewan Libraries Conference 2010, including those that donated $1,000 or more to sponsor all technical aspects and those that donated up to $1,000 to be considered partners.
The document summarizes the organization and committees of a library consortium working to implement a shared library card system across members. It lists the 10 consortium directors and 1 project manager currently overseeing the initiative. It also outlines the executive, management, implementation, operations and special interest committees established to divide responsibilities and see the project through.
This document summarizes a presentation on the importance of family literacy. It discusses early memories of reading, research on family literacy programs, the benefits of family literacy, and ways to influence literacy achievement. It also outlines common myths and barriers to family involvement in schools, the influence of socioeconomic status on literacy, and issues teachers face working with families. The document then describes a multi-generational family literacy program developed in rural Atlantic Canada, including participant selection, modules developed, data collection and evaluation comments. It concludes by discussing considerations for aboriginal family literacy programs.
2009 Saskatchewan Libraries Conference Sponsors and Partnersslakhansen
This document lists different sponsorship levels for donors, including donors of $1,000 or more and donations up to $1000. It also lists 'Our Partners' three times as acknowledgments.
2. What Do You Do If you Catch Someone Masturbating?
Editor's Notes
I was going to call this presentation “The Death of the Book”, but as I thought about it, it seemed a little bit more appropriate to call it the “Rebirth of the Book.” Just out of curiosity, how many people have some kind of ebook reader? Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPod Touch? I didn’t think a lot about eBooks when my first book came out three years ago—my opinion has changed a lot over the years. But before I get too far ahead of myself, I’m going to talk a little bit about my journey into publishing.
One of the reasons I like giving book talks at library conferences is because that is the one place I can put that question on a screen, and it doesn’t really sound to crazy! I bet everyone person in this room has had some experience with someone in the library doing something inappropriate. Since this is technically lunch, I’m not going to answer that question, but it is where my first book, “Quiet, Please” opens, so it seems like a good place to start—but if you do want to know the answer, then read the book
So I guess you can say this is how I used to view libraries. Books. It didn’t take very long to see that there was more to a library than books—there are people, of course! And not just people—an interesting group of people! Old people; eccentric people; angry people; computer people; teen people; and, most importantly, kids.
I also learned something else about libraries…they’re almost always next to bus stops. I am a big fan of public transportation; I use it whenever possible. But I’m sure most of you know that buses tend to make it possible for a certain kind of patron to visit the library: the crazy patron. I LOVE THE CRAZY PATRON! Whenever I think about this patron, I think about the patron who slept on the bathroom floor.
Another patron I learned to…accept? Was teens. I’ve never been a fan of them, but at the same time, I think they are one of the most overlooked groups in the library. STORY ABOUT A TEEN.Another thing I started noticing about teens was how they read. Teens still read, but more and more what I’m seeing is they aren’t reading books. They are reading on cell phones; on videos games; on iPod’s. Now something else I learned over the years is there A LOT of books for girls. And that’s great…unless your not a girl. I started having a hard time finding books for older teens, who couldn’t really relate to YA books. They wanted books that in some ways were more like video games then literature. There are a few great YA authors out there for these teens—but not a lot. So I figured, why not write a book these teens?
And that’s how “The N00b Warriors” game about. I figured it would be an easy sell. It has VIOLENCE! ROMANCE! ACTION! DRAMA! I had everything! I even had scenes that will make you never look at Mickey Mouse the same way ever again! I had an agent with the right contacts. Off the book went, and I waited for the calls to come. And waited. And waited more. Then they came. The younger editors loved it—but they couldn’t convince there senior editors to love it also. In the end it was to violent, and more importantly, boys don’t read! BUT THEY DO!
Nobody loves me If you want to find the greatest books ever wrote, then head on over to the graveyard, because the sad fact is most people write their great American novel, but never find the means to publish it. I thought about this and decided two things. One, teens don’t have any money; two, I’d rather be read, then not read.
So I put the book EVERYWHERE that teens read, and took it a step further…I made it free. In less than six months over 30,000 people have downloaded it.
Giving the book away, also has opened the door to other things; there are currently two teens developing graphic novels—one a teen from Tokyo making a manga version, and one from Germany making a traditional version.
In the process of learning about eBooks, I saw there really was potential to make money from it. As it happened, about this same time the library I work at began cutting hours. I went from working 30 to 40 hours a week, to working 5 to 10 hours a week. I love that 1,000s of kids are reading my book, but that doesn’t exactly put food on the table. So with another librarian, I started a electronic publishing house called Minute Help Press. We both looked at how people were reading, and said, a lot of people would benefit from shorter books—books where you can learn different topics on that commute to work…books that you can read in about an hour. We also learned that people don’t want to pay a lot for books, so almost all of ours are priced .99 to 2.99. To date, we’ve sold around 40,000 books. It’s not exactly enough to quit our day jobs, but it’s not bad for a publishing house that currently operates in a Star Bucks.
So how exactly did we get to selling 40k books in a matter of months with hardly no promotion? It really started back at the library. Working in the library has thought me how people find books. When my first book came out, I remember searching on Amazon for it and having a hard time finding it—the keywords were all wrong, and they didn’t even have it in right subjects,. Instead of putting it in memoirs or another area that people are actually interested in, they put it in library professional development—not exactly the top section at your local Barnes and Noble. This is something almost every publisher is doing wrong—they don’t take the time to think about how people want to find books. They publish a book on the the iMac, for example, but don’t put keywords that include things like what operating system it is or even the companies name “Apple”—any librarian will tell you there are about a thousand different ways a person might ask for a book on birds; knowing how people search for books has helped us quickly get to the top page when people search for books on various topics.
So it sounds like I think this is the library of the future. I don’t. I think this is the library of the future. eBooks don’t kill books. eBooks don’t kill libraries. What do eBooks do? They make libraries have to think of new ways to stay relevant in a digital age. If librarians remember that they are the gateway to knowledge, not books, then they’ll be just fine.