Dangerous Ideas

I ran into this post on CE Buzz - Think (and train) the unthinkable. It also directs us to Vive l'Evolution! at the WebJunction blog. Both cover The Dangerous Ideas session presented at PLA. There's a wiki to continue the discussion - whatiflibs.wetpaint.com.

Did any of you attend this session and care to share?

Dinner Keynote Presentation Now Available

Kathleen Dela Peña's Dinner Keynote is now available on the TLA site.

Another place to share

I'm sure we're all running in to more and more resources that relate back to what we discussed earlier this week. The email list is one way to share these, but now that we are taking the process forward and requesting public feedback I thought it might be nice to have a public place to share.

If you already have a delicious account you can tag pages "for:acclibrarians" and "visioning" and I'll see that they get added to the list. You might want to add a sentence in the notes field about why you chose that page. I'll also be tagging items sent to the email list.

You can see the 5 most recently tagged articles under the Recently suggested articles section on the right. You can also subscribe to the feed.

Here are the items I just posted:

Online Programming for All Libraries: Events and Programs
Includes the Casual Conversations series - casual conversations with leaders in the field

YouTube - Ordering Pizza in the Future
Amusing/alarming take on national databases and privacy, something to keep in mind with social networking...

The future of your social software is already here - Bokardo
The need to design for personal value before social value

if:book: reading responsibly: nancy kaplan on the NEA's data distortion
Points out some serious data distortion in the NEA's findings that people aren't reading

Workgroup Discussion Notes Now Available

A number of items have been flying up on the Transforming Texas Libraries homepage. Check the links on the left side of the page for doc and pdf versions of the raw notes from the recorders.

Luncheon Keynote Presentation Now Available and Photos

The luncheon keynote presentation is now available as a PowerPoint with audio.

I'd also like to point out that Starr Hoffman has posted some wonderful photos from the summit to her flickr account. If anyone else is posting photos, please let us know and if you are using flickr add the tag transformingtexaslibraries.

Summit Wrap Up - What Next?

Julie Todaro took the floor to close out the day. She handed out a sheet on working with our stakeholders.

• We will have a variety of documents through the next steps
• 1st - info as it was created and pulled from each group
• 2nd - aggregated info that's categorized
• that doc will be posted back to this group for your comments
• that will be the output of this conference
• Take to stakeholder groups - content
• executive summaries - one page handout
• if you go to someone if you hand them 30 pages they will not come
• one page doc is the basis for discussion
• Handout - one page thing that talks about different ways to talk to your stakeholders
• level 1 - share the word
• bring back opinions
• handout is a series of steps we'd like you to go through
• Please adopt stakeholders
• decide how you want the info to come back to you
• do you want them to do it one on one without you vetting?
• do you want to gether it from them?
• we want to build on our existing situations - annual conference, assembly
• we'll keep our listserv together
• we are going to be doing a survey to gather data before legislative
• it's educational
• we'll have a program about this at annual
• this is a living group that will continue
• Access Texas - how we got TexShare
• people think nothing ever comes of these
• extraordinary realization to look at what we talked about and looked at what we've accomplished (with Access Texas)
• thinks it was an incredible success
• this is our beginning kernel
  
• incredibly exciting few years in front of us

Summit Wrap Up - Emerging Themes - Open Floor

After her summary Lou opened the floor to questions/comments.

• how to prove our worth to decision makers, value-added
• we have the greatest prison population, greatest dropout rates of high school
• we have a solution to this - this is the group that can change the literacy rate
• show people who write checks that we have a mission, especially those that determine economics of this state we'll get funded
• less focus on bibliographic control - thinks that dangerous
• don't confuse complexity of bib control as a barrier to convenience and quality
• place not things - stress that collections that we have one of our very great strengths. need to figure out how to play to that strength
• as we share our resources the whole world becomes a library
• they come to us for our things
• describing them and making them available is still a big part of our job
• we love to create systems and we love to show users those systems
• they are the backbone of our system - but they don't belong to the users
• they need to be completely invisible
• need to have a business plan
• needs to be in laymans language
• what's the bang for the buck?
• highly refined well developed tool, but still a tool
• you don't want to be in the tool business
• people use tools, but don't need tools
• need to accomplish something, use tools
• classification is not just for location, that's a byproduct
• we make connection in the intellectual content of things
• catalogs haven't been made content rich
• if you don't put that in there they're not going to use
• yes it is a backbone
• outsourcing it undermines the whole system