Alabama School Library Association keynote, June 13, 2011

1. Alabama School Library Association
June 13, 2011
“Future-Proof Your Library”
Wendy Stephens
Be the expert on e-books
Recognize what is happening to school libraries around the country
Do what you can for librarian image
Read more than ever
Delight in the fixed schedule
Keep a finger in every pie
Exploit the long tail
Fight the filter bubble
Curate hyper-local content
Let readers drive acquisitions
Recommender systems includes human systems
Fake it
Be psychic
Get a guru
Learn the local technologies
Prepare for augmented realities
Realize advocacy fatigue exists
Provide opportunities
Help re-define abilities
Anderson, Chris. (2006). The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more.
Bishop, Bill. (2008). Why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart.
Levine, Rick et al. (2009). The cluetrain manifesto: the tenth anniversary edition.
Pariser, Eli. (2011). The filter bubble: what the internet is hiding from you.
Pink, Dan. (2006). A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future.
“Oh, I've always wondered why librarians work so hard to stay in the ranks of teachers, instead of working
toward being considered administrators or directors. Do we have an innate inferiority complex?”
--Doug Johnson, “To See Ourselves as Others See Us,” May 16, 2011
http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2011/5/16/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us.html
“Here is how I answer probably 95% of the tech "how-to" questions I receive...”
--Doug Johnson, “You, Too, Can Be a Technology Guru,” October 11, 2010
http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2010/10/11/you-too-can-be-a-technology-guru.html
“Since when,” she asked, “do teachers dress like they’re about to clean the garage?”
--Kristin Fonticiaro, “Friday Snapshots: Web Accuracy, Advocacy, and the Achievement Gap,” April 29, 2011
http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/index.php/2011/04/29/friday-snapshots/
http://blog.ted.com/2011/05/02/beware-online-filter-bubbles-eli-pariser-on-ted-com/