Evil Elf or Sneaky Bloglines?

I thought Library Elf was cool.

This popped up in my Bloglines today, and after reading there were over 200+ Elf records accessible, i did the search listed in the article.
LibraryLaw Blog: Breaking Discovery - Library Elf blasts a giant hole through privacy - and why I terminated my account

I was shocked that my elf account was one of the ones listed!
My email address was listed, along with links for other people to subscribe to my elf feed, and links that took you right to my current elf record, listing items out & holds.

Yes, I had added it to Bloglines. I had it marked as a "private" feed. As Bloglines states "private subs don't show up in blogrolls." I had no intention for y'all to be able to see what I have on hold or checked out.

I think this is a major problem that Bloglines still indexes the feeds we mark as private and I could not find this info anywhere on their website.

Jenny commented on the original post:

I hope someone more technical than me will come along and leave a comment, but I'm pretty sure this is an issue with RSS, not Elf. It's an education issue that if you put any private feed in a public aggregator, anyone will be able to read that feed. The only patron feeds you should be able to read in Bloglines are the ones users have manually added, and the same would hold true for any feed coming from a library catalog or database.

Count me educated now.
I admit, this is the first I've heard of the so called Bloglines set as "private" feeds being searchable. Why aren't private feeds protected from the spiders?

Wondering though--- are Hennepin Co's RSS patron account feeds searchable? The demos I saw at CODI used Bloglines, but they talked about how they didn't display the patron PIN and all the efforts they made to make it secure. Glenn P., care to comment?

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Handouts can be functional AND well-designed

I just read Michael's post at TTW linking to the handout his class created about podcasting.

It is like a breath of fresh air to see a handout like this! Great job, class!
It's not just the content that's important, but the presentation of the content.

Take a look at your handouts for your patrons... are the colors, fonts, and images dated?

My 5 favorite parts:

1. Use of whitespace. Yes, whitespace is our friend!

2. Minimal use of well-chosen relevant graphics.
They didn't have an urge to dress it up with a funky border or too many colors.

3. Use of a clean, modern font.
Do we really seem tech-savvy when only using TimesNewRoman in all of our handouts?

I know everyone is not a skilled typographer. I also know I'm probably in a very very small minority when it comes to IT people in public libraries who hold a BA in Graphic Design.

If you haven't read any books by Robin Williams (not "Mork" but a female Graphic Designer) check some out, such as The Non-Designer's Design Book or the Non-Designer's Type Book.

4. The headings, URLs and brief summaries all flow very well.

5. The handout will also work well in black & white for those of us who choose to print or photocopy! If you offer handouts for patrons to download at home, make sure they're still legible in black & white!

Bonus! 6. and it includes URLs to my library webpages! :)


Personal pet peeve... people who use the publisher brochure wizard and don't delete the funky pyramid logo it uses automatically. If it's not the library logo, it shouldn't be there! [right click on it, and delete object]

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E-Mail Time Capsule...or a reminder service?

Wired News: Back to the Future E-Mail

Just saw this today via Wired.

Link for FutureMe
Emails that arrive at a future date that you specify.

Beyond the obvious digital time capsule application, this could be cool in the shorter term as well.
New Year's Resolutions... see how you're doing with a reminder email in June? (or Mid-January if you don't stick with things very long!)

Make a list of your Library 2.0 goals. (I'll wait.)

Break it down into goals for Q1, Q2, Q3 & Q4 and have FutureMe email you quarterly to keep yourself motivated and on-track!

Ideas you have now, but lack the expertise or resources for could have new solutions in 6 months.

How about managing team projects... you can use this to keep the entire team on-track with the timeline for ... an ILS migration project, large training projects, anything with phases or roll-out dates.

Have a super idea for next year's Banned Books Week Display?
Use FutureMe to email it to you in August (to allow planning & execution time.)

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• time


• future


• email


• planning

Consider This Your Invitation

Surely by now, you've heard of my library's BookBlog Partnership with High Browse Online (National Library of Singapore) since Jenny talked about it in her post.

Ivan (aka Rambling Librarian) and I are open to partnering with additional libraries that post book reviews/recommendations to their blogs.

It doesn't have to be adult materials. I'll accept adult, teen/young adult, youth, or even music or movie reviews.

Right now, we're only accepting partnerships with official blogs from a library, because we figure the librarians are kept to some sort of standard of language & content by their individual institutions.

If your items are listed in WorldCat (ours are...code BGI), what a bonus! If you review something we don't own, we can always ILL it!

How to partner:

1. send email (visit main page of my blog, its in the left column in the about me section)
2. we'll exchange URLs.
3. I'll add you to my "book blog partners" section of our blog, you can list us however you see fit.
4. occassionally refer to each others posts in own blog. (especially if you own the title too)

No chocolate necessary. :)

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• singapore


• lansing


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Adding a Comment Feed When Using Blogger

Using Blogger and disappointed that it doesn't offer a comment feed?

The magic of the internet led me to http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2005/12/comment-feed-added.html

Once there I noticed that LiB posted about this recently, (sorry... I hadn't read that post yet!)

The good thing about running it through feedburner is you can re-title the feed to match your blog, otherwise it comes across as "mailbucket:emailaddress" which is inconvenient to say the least.

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Tag Cloud Christmas Card

My Internet Host sent me a tag cloud Christmas card!

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• tag cloud

We're getting a new library!

Hmm, looks a lot less blue in real life. Scheduled to open May 2006 at 218th & Jeffrey, Sauk Village. I'll have to get more pics when it opens. Flickr photo set.

Link to the Nancy McConathy Public Library Website which mysteriously has a Blogger logo on it? Ok... found a feed!

Let's hope it's updated more frequently than the "new materials" page on the website. (Aug. 6, 2001) I know they have a small staff, but if you're not going to update a "new" list, then take it off the website!

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Carnival #18

Cozy up with a nice warm bowl of Clam Chowder this week, Chris has plenty for everyone!

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• infosciences

Tag. You're It

:) found the greasemonkey 0.6.4 script to add a field for technorati tagging in blogger.

blogger tag script

greasemonkey 0.6.4 extension

for Firefox 1.5x

but.. i couldn't get that one to work. Oops. Operator Error. You must be in "edit html" view, not compose view when you click publish.

So now, I'm trying one that adds del.icio.us tags

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LPL on an ornament!

This year's Chamber of Commerce ornament!

RSS2 feed for LPL's flickr

Feedblitz - New Features

If you don't read this in an aggregator, then you know I offer the option to subscribe via Feedblitz. I added this option after their partnership with Feedburner.

What I didn't expect is that people would actually subscribe, choosing email delivery instead of their favorite RSS aggregator. Perhaps they don't have a favorite aggregator, perhaps they don't even know what one is... I would have thought those following the biblioblogosphere would be RSS reader enthusiasts. I guess it's good they have that delivery choice.

What I've found even more interesting, is that there are 10 Feedblitz subscribers reading this post, and yet I added this option (back in October) to the library blogs, not a single patron has signed up!

Well, Feedblitz has added new features, and redesigned (simplified?) the subscription process. A Consuming Experience details it all.

Public Transportation as a way to keep up?

On my way home via Pace last night, I saw a nifty news headline on one of those "transitTV" they have on the buses, HarperCollins is jumping into the digital audiobook ring. They plan on digitizing a backlist of 20,000 titles and as many as 3,500 new titles each year. Full Story via WSJ

LOL-- can't even "unplug" on the bus!

Also of note, they dedicated a seat on each bus to Rosa Parks (via a simple white text on black background sticker on the window.) I thought the stickers should have also included a link to their website which could have linked to biographical info about Ms. Parks. They had a photo posted on their website home page for a short time, but it's gone now.

Would have been sweet if they had partnered with ... perhaps a library association, and added something like, "If you'd like to learn more about Ms. Parks, take Pace to your local library."

Carnival of the Infosciences #17

Carnival #17 and a bonus... an online Whack-a-Mole game!

Digital Immigrant or Native?

George from OCLC mentioned this simple test at the Gaming, Learning & Libraries Symposium during his presentation.

Are you a Digital Immigrant or a Digital Native?

1. Take out your cell phone.
2. Pretend to dial a number.

Did you use... your index finger (Digital Immigrant) or your thumb (Digitial Native)?

I wondered how many in the audience actually keyed in a number versus accessing their phone book functionality and scrolling to a number.

I actually like this "digital immigrant/digital native" concept much better than the whole Baby Boomer, Gen-X, Millennial labels since it shows that people from any generation can become a digital immigrant or embrace the change enough to appear as a digital native. Regardless of generation, people of varying incomes have access to different amounts of technology.

Feeling nostalgic for your old games?

With all the new games and players coming out lately, are you feeling nostaglic for your old favorites?

Play your old favorites on your PC with titles like PacMan, Centipede, Missle Command, and more on GameTap! (free trial, then monthly fee)

I remember spending a summer creating our own maps for Pitfall, so we could keep Pitfall Harry alive and get to higher levels! Purposely missing a few bombs as a strategy measure and wearing out a paddle controller playing Kaboom! We also had a large piece of posterboard where we kept track of our high scores on our favorite games, since the Atari 2600 didn't have memory cards!

You'll need:

• Broadband connection
• 800MHz or better processor
• Windows 2000 or XP
• Gaming-friendly video card
• 5GB free storage, 256MB RAM

Kelli's laptop sticker, cool huh?

Kelli's laptop sticker, cool huh?
Originally uploaded by cdeweese.

Chris was impressed.... want your own? http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001415.html

GLL: What next?

I think a lot of people misinterpreted Kathryn's question of what kind of support do we need now? There were some good points made, such as: talking points, bibliographies, perhaps a "kit" to sell this to the Board. Someone else mentioned that reviews of games, could really help with title selection.

That's all well and good.
But what we really need is to keep the conversation going!
How many times have you attended a meeting or conference, returned home, wrote the report for your boss or board, then just filed it all away because once you returned home it seemed too daunting?

If we keep talking...the momentum will build, and before you know it, you'll make it happen!
Not just game tournaments, but programming for the gaming generations (of all ages.)

So how do we continue the conversation?
LibGaming Google Group
Game On: Games in Libraries Blog
Library Success Wiki
utilize mailing lists & newsgroups you already use

Success stories? Share your story. Having difficulty selling the idea? Contact a library who got the support they needed who may be able to share what worked for them.
Make connections--either geographically or by library type.
Partner with a neighboring library.

Think about the conversations you had over lunch. You've got those people's email addresses...keep in touch with them! Today, I had lunch with 2 people who work at college libraries, and they were talking about partnering on projects (not just gaming) with the high schoolers as a way to get the students familiar with the college, build a reputation, and those high schoolers just might be the new faces on campus in the next year.

"Jack of the 2 libraries" (Mr. Schultz from Westmont, IL & Thomas Ford) shared a program idea which requires no equipment... Come learn tips & Tricks on how to improve your Runescape skills. What's great about this idea? Uses the "strategy guide" model. Tweens & Teens would come. A Runescape "geek" (or panel of them) from your community could be the presenters! Programming by teens for teens? Cost to the library=priceless. Follow it with the chance to play Runescape as well. (I've learned the hard way not to do a lecture presentation and not offer hands-on.) Has thommy ford tried this program already?
Make it a series... focus on different games, or focus on tips for those just getting started, and a follow up session for more advanced players.

Easy things you can do now...
Offer programming for the tweens & teens on days school is out. [We don't do this at my library...YET.]
LAN parties and have kids BYOC (bring your own computer)
Try a gaming pilot project using borrowed equipment.
Form relationships within the community that break out of "the box of books"

For those of you that enjoy a challenge...
If we complain that ILS interfaces need to be more intuitive and shouldn't be so hard to use...(and they're not really getting more intuitive...yet) and if the younger generations learn so well in game formats...
Let's challenge the ILS vendors to create game-inspired tutorials for our users.
Hello SirsiDynix? You can have this in HIP 4.3, right? Why should we have to create guides for our patrons on how to place a hold? And, in the case of S-D's HIP4.x, with all the customization available for the patrons, truly making it a portal... create a "game" where they can play without "breaking" their own personalized version.
(And while you're at it...retire the cartoon wizard from the Horizon 7.2 training CDs)

Database vendors too... We're providing more and more remote access to our resources, but unfortunately those remote users are often left without adequate tutorials.

F.Y.I. Newsbank will create a tutorial for your Newsbank interface (based on titles in your subscription) but you have to ask, and it took them 9 months to create one for me. The killer? The tutorial is not linked from the main splash screen after you login. They called me on the phone to tell me it was completed, and how to access it. Gee, I hope I'm at my desk when my remote users call to ask if there's an online tutorial for it! (I'll be creating a link from our website, where users have to authenticate to use Newsbank.)

Agree or disagree? Participate by adding your comments to this entry!

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GLL: Bibliographic Gaming

Bibliographic Gaming: Game-based learning & library instruction-Christy Branston

What video games have to teach us about learning & literacy by James Gee

Educational games often have a task that we need the student to learn, which we can test them on.

Her situation... having to train a large group of staff with different learning styles… age range 30-60 yrs old
Speed was a requirement as well, the sooner she could get them trained, the better! (so she wouldn’t be totally overwhelmed with reference questions.)

She did get some negative feedback when she told staff the training would be online.
Kept the fact it was going to be a game, a secret, until an email the week before release. Then they were excited.

Purposely left out the word “module.” The entire package is a “course” with “lessons.”

Team idea worked well, put pressure on people to complete the different sections. The people who are winning are working as part of a team. To entice them to play the game, there are some really low budget prizes.
Easter eggs in the long passages of text hopefully encourage reading all the info, but then players can input all the easter eggs they find at the end of the lesson, for bonus points.

Instant feedback was missing… and really need that to keep the “player” motivated, and let them know if their answers were correct.


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GLL: Implementing Gaming

Implementing Gaming Applications in Libraries—Eli from Ann Arbor

idea: DDR birthday party at the library ooooh


Gaming--expensive to get started, but then after that, it’s free or very low cost.
Prizes & publicity are paid for by AADL friends group

Sur-prize round… just before final round there’s a surprise 'classic' game.

4 prizes…
don’t specify which prize is which, let the 1st prize winner choose their preferred prize. They had somebody throw the game because they wanted the second place prize instead of the 1st place prize!

AADL offers “advance features” for cardholders, but no library card required to get on wireless network, so they can let anybody use the network to play on their wireless game device.

2 or 3 races before elminated.
At DDR make sure you have water available.

100+ kids, usually 4 tech staff + 2 teen librarians.
Have handled 40-50 people with one staff

Cheap ideas.
Find geeks in your community and get them to help.
Have attendees bring own equipment.
Partner with Gameopolis? Or Lansing Youth Center? Youth Center has celebrity pool, why not a celebrity DDR or console game at the Library?

Selling to brass:
Makes the library a focus of their interests
Promotes core services to a tough audience
These teens & genxers don’t care about music—they had napster, itunes, etc, so CD collection doesn't draw them into the library
Fluorescent lights=school. Turn off the lights!

Provide informal feedback opportunities—like a blog


Bonus for clans—for each new player they bring in they get 100 points

eli [at] aadl [dot] org


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GLL: What Librarians Can Learn from Gamers

note: Georgia State Univ. has a gaming night. Could be a good resource for info.

George Needham, OCLC
What Librarians can learn from gamers

How gamers can show librarians a new way of developing & sharing knowledge.

Why should someone from OCLC be invited to a conference in gaming?
2003 OCLC environmental scan: pattern recognition

trends
(i missed trend#1)
2 web makes it possible to aggregate info in the groups we need
3 collaboration

gamers illustrate all 3 trends

gamers represent a change in how we use the internet & web

1st video game- “tennis for two” 1958
1st computer game “spacewar” 1962
1st home video game “pong” 1975
Nintendo (1983-Japan, 1985-US) Game Boy 1989
Air warrior 1987 1st multiplayer online game (cost $10 per hour to play!)

How many gamers are there? According to Michael Tchong:
83,000,000 gamers – evertying from online backgammon to Battleground 2
80% penetration of households with children
about half of college-age online gamers are women
$11.2 billion-a-year industry (2003)

What makes them so special?
People that grew up with these games, perceive the world differently than their parents or grandparents do. Sesame Street addressed this difference in learning & perception 30 years ago.

Public TV rocks! So did Sesame Street actually help push this difference between the generations forward? When George mentioned Sesame Street, I remembered when I was in grade school, the first game they got for the school library computer (it might have been a Commodore 64) was a Sesame Street game. In 4th grade at the time, I never got to play it, because I believe it was for K-3. We got to play math games on the TRS-80 machines, which seemed dull compared to the Sesame Street game which was in color!

Digitial Immigrants—have learned to use the technology to varying degrees, and did not grow up with it. The Digital immigrants— conventional speed, linear processing, linear thinking, text, process, reality, technology: uneasy partner

Digital natives: “twitch” speed, parallel processing, random access, audio-pictorial, payoff, fantasy, technology: friend

"Born with the chip” Stephen Abram

Format-agnostic
Nomadic
Multitasking
Experiential
Collaborative
Integrated
Principled
Adaptive
Direct

The gamer’s view of life.. John Beck

Gamers are always the hero of their own games
The world is a logical, human-friendly place
It’s natural to move between taks (multitasking is the norm)
Multiple paths to “victory” but winning really is everything
Failure along the way is not only an option, it’s to be expected
Leaders can’t be trusted

Gamers: compete, collaborate & create

We should:
Rethink how we offer our servives
Multiple paths
Many formats, platforms
Consider the non-print learner
Librarian as “information priest” is as dead as Elvis
What can the user contribute?

Rethink where we offer services:
Physical library layout (we serve the people who enter the building, with the stuff in the building really well.)
If 25% of the time spent on library websites was spent on getting library websites integrated on OTHER sites, we’d really have something, because a library website is not the destination. People rate search engine results & library websites as the same. So we’re not doing a good job letting people we know what we do.

We need to be where the users are. [read Stephen Abram for more on this!]
library toolbars for their browsers, blogs, RSS, podcasting, IM, and make sure you're listed in the search engines the patrons are using!

What should librarians learn from this?
Rethink privacy on this new context.

Short cuts, not training [present computer classes as "short cuts" or "tips n tricks" not (dull) "training"]
Risk-taking and trial-and-error are OK
Expertise is more important than titles or credentials
Can LIS learn from gaming academic programs?
People are beginning to understand that gaming appeals to a different learning style.

Make the case for this from the Board’s point of view. Put it in their perspective & goals, and there’s nothing wroing with using their goals to push through your goals.

How do we apply this now?
Play an online game once in a while
Stock cheat books in your library (shows gamers you want them in the library, and adds another type of item to the collection.)
Offer services on IM, use text messaging (1 reason some people are saying they don’t use the library is because they don’t IM)
Throw a LAN party in your library
Bring digital natives into your planning process (even if they don’t have an MLS)
Respect non-print learners

Libraries are not now, and never have been the 1st place people go for information in the 1950’s—libraries were 7th on the list.

Public Library Data Service—from PLA, report includes who charges for which services. One thing to remember is: people will pay for convenience. Public space is a premium.

Gameskanker.com recommend a website for cheat codes, instead of referring the kids back to the “box of books” model.

If there isn’t somebody in your community who hates what you’re doing, then you’re not doing enough!--George


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GLL: What libraries can do for gamers (other than programming)

What libraries can do for gamers (other than programming)

Seven things you can do tomorrow to make your library more welcoming to gamers

1. use games to do readers advisory this is an awesome idea!
   


2. be a strategy guide


3. embrace your inner technogeek


4. be flexible


5. plan change


6. immerse yourself in pop culture—especially video game culture


7. try some games

libgaming.blogspot.com

(Beth's blog)

also lists info about what other libraries are doing in programming

1. ask what movies do you like, what tv shows do you watch, what games do you play?

Do we have manga-illustration guides? cool we do! have an anime-illustration guide too!
Do we have dungeons & dragons players handbook 3.5 (“advanced” is old version)
Wizards of the coast (free kit for library to do D&D)
http://www.wizards.com/

gaming mazagines – much cheaper when you subscribe
buy a few different titles, display for about a month, then do a survey
avg age of gamer is 29 and rising (most ads are geared at older, not kids so you may want to preview them before choosing titles for your library)

1. be a strategy guide. Don’t be a level boss. Show don’t tell, make it interactive, get them started, ask a lot of questions, (ask if you can drive, before you touch computer, or even better, place your hands behind your back and talk them through it.) get them started, then let them know you’re still available if they need more help, but walk away. (time management) have a free-for-all. Ask for a demo of expertise. (have the users teach you!)
   

Julie from Columbus Ohio PL. Computer reservation, printing, etc. Had to train people. Over summer, she picked teens, did a handbook, how to do customer service, how to use print management system. They work 2 hour shifts after school & Saturdays, Tech Teens. They help patrons save to disc, help reserve computers, help print their jobs. “Volunteens” Helps free up the reference staff from answering the tech issues. I love this idea!

1. Embrace your inner technology geek. Upgrade as soon as you can, get a screen name, you can’t break it (so just try it), pilot projects, read tech news. Remember it’s a mobile generation. 42% adults, 75% teens use IM

Evdb.org events database? http://eventful.com/

1. Have TAB collage a table? Say yes. Go meta. (minute details & bigger picture)

5. plan change—sticky content: web, facility
accept change, plan

6. teen vogue, maxim, daily candy (boston) daily email of what’s hot, VH1, pop goes the library
link to video game sites, link to some cheat code sites?

Free movies delivered to my door? Alternative to netflicks



Bz flag (multi-player tank game) for LAN party
Book called “LAN party’

Beth Gallaway informationgoddess29 [at] gmail [dot] com

She's currently writing a book on gaming in libraries for Neil-Schuman press. Success stories—send her yours for inclusion in the book!

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GLL: Q&A Panel Session

Q&A

Presentations will be posted on gaminginlibraries.org website in a few days.

All the blogger sites will be linked on the gaminginlibraries.org website.

You can also use Technorati, we all tagged things GamingInLibraries2005


Random ideas and Q&A and comments thrown out....
Where should this conversation go next? How to support gaming?

No longer really a question of IF, but more WHEN are you going to have gaming? (Eli)

-[insert your stat here] % of school district, town, etc have library card, any business would be smart to sponsor us! We shouldn't have to feel the need to "beg" for prizes.

One to Watch: Elmwood Park PL (Illinois) —Pilot project based on the Netflixs model. Books to your door by mail, no due date. Got a grant to try it out.

Runescape tourney, everybody start with a new character, then recorded # of quests they completed in a day T.F. North High vs T.F. South High ?

Convenience will always be more important than quality, It’s our job (as a library) to make quality convenient. (George)


Our non-commercial nature gives us an advantage over our competitors for becoming 3rd place

Musiclibrary.com

Gametap service—subscribe & play as many of the old downloadable games as you want

Gamerankings give reviews & reviews of reviews

Paula from Cincinnati – running for YALSA president to push this type of thing --gaming-- forward

Filament games http://www.filamentgames.com


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GLL: Supporting a culture

Supporting a culture: gaming at the library
Kelly Czarnecki & Matt Gullett

note: Gamingzone.blogspot.com Charlotte & Mecklinburg Co’s gaming blog

Purposeful programming:
What do teens represent in the life-cycle of a library patron?

Builds on the holistic approach to serving lifelong learning (i.e developmental assets)
Fits into an overall strategy of technology programming
Maintains purpose, space & value in the minds of our users.

Team effort—IT and the librarians


The public has an opinion about what the library is… we need to approach things with confidence. Not “begging for prizes” but we have a role in the community, and places should want to partner with us.

Bloomington has a technology room with 16 pcs to do anything they want, battlefield 1942(teen rating) 1st person shooter game in LAN party setting

6 networked game cubes MarioKart
gamefests—pizza & water (sugar got them too hyped up)

some kids come just because they want to be together (twister, monopoly, checkers, chess)

initially didn’t want to do a competition, but later found that play just for fun fizzles out… but the competition really fuels the interest.

Marketing at the school—brought DDR during the lunch hour
Made connections in the community with anybody doing any type of gaming activities

*What about---DDR at the teacher in-service so they can see what we’re doing?

Get strategy guides donated by local game store?

PSP was summer reading prize

Anime/DDR event—watch anime movie, then play DDR
Kids wanted to check our anime movies right away, 2nd time she did this program, she had anime movies ready for checkout in the room

http://feeds.feedburner.com/bplpodcast reviews of books, cd, movies

students involved with technology conference www.sitconference.org
kids present to kids about what they’re doing

frapps—program to capture game play.
Adobe elements or another program to create a movie

Film-fest let community create films

Bnfilmfest.org

“once you make your proposition appealing to outsiders, they become your advocates”



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GLL: Blogger Alley

People were asking so where do we find these blogs?

We don't just blog at meetings & conferences... these are great ones to subscribe to in Bloglines!
Several of these people also attended or presented at Internet Librarian, Computers in Libraries and many other events in the past year, so check the archives too!

Chris @ Clam Chowder
Chad @ Hidden Peanuts
Aaron @ Walking Paper
Michael @ Tame the Web [link updated]
Kelli (here) 'Brary Web Diva
Jenny @ The Shifted Librarian
George from OCLC! @ It's All Good

Also stop by the LibrarySuccessWiki and let us know what's working at your library! (Includes a long list of libraries doing IM, and lots of other things!)


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GLL: Gaming "Cheat Codes" Website

Somebody in the audience today mentioned GameSkanker

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Double Your Efforts

Looking for an easy way to double your Readers' Advisory efforts on your library blog? Why not partner with another library blog! Ivan & I recently did this!

The announcement on my library's blog...
(Ivan said he'll get all the rest on his end set up within a week, as it's monthly report time!)

The current plan is that we'll link to each other's reviews and also provide a section on our blog page listing BookBlog Partners.

It's not an 'exclusive' relationship... feel free to contact me if interested!

a short ramble

Ivan "the Rambling Librarian" is experimenting with podcasting!

It's about 20 seconds worth of audio.