TLA 2008 - Transforming Texas Libraries Task Force: Session Debriefing

I also wanted to share my write up of the debriefing session TLA. You can read it over on my personal blog. Once again, if you've written about this session or seen anyone else who has, please leave a comment with a link!

TLA 2008 - Transforming Texas Libraries: An Update on Statewide Visioning

I just wanted to share my write up of the Transforming Texas Libraries session at TLA. You can read it over on my personal blog. If you've written about this session or seen anyone else who has, please leave a comment with a link!

Transforming - 2nd General Session

This Just In:

The Transforming Texas Libraries Task Force will be asked to stand at the Second General Session and be recognized. This general session will be on Thursday, April 17 at 4 p.m. in the Arena of the Dallas Convention Center. There's no special seating area--just wherever you are comfortable.

The keynote speakers will be Stephen Abram, Joe Janes, Karen Schneider, and Roy Tennant who will contribute their own ideas on the transformational process in libraries. The session should be extremely lively and a perfect follow-up to Joan Frye Williams and George Needham this past December. See you there!

-Patricia H. Smith

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.