17. So what can we do?
• Be aware of all of the resources out there
• Use a variety of different search engines to
find this material
• Check, evaluate and provide authority
• Guide our users/members/clients
• Go to where the conversations are
24. Activities
• Visit the social engines at Pearltrees:
http://bit.ly/1o04qTn
• Visit Symbaloo at
http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/searchengines34
• Either: explore some new search engines OR try out
Pearltrees or Symbaloo for yourself as a guiding tool.
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34. Re-writing the library
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Books, eBooks
Websites
Catalogues
Desks
Rooms
DVDs
3d Printers
Computers
Buildings
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Explore
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Danger
Verbs refer to impacts, change, improvement
35. This leads to poor decision making
Response from Maria Miller to Councillor Cliff Morris, Leader of Bolton Council
31st May 2013 on her decision not to call an enquiry into library provision in the
Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/
attachment_data/file/204269/Morris__final_.pdf
36. Collection development
• Focuses on the wrong questions
• Increases the attraction of the artifact
• Limits our ability to interact with our members
• Reinforces existing stereotypes
37. Community Development
• Changes the conversations
• Frees us up to interact more effectively
• Reduces the limitations on what we can do
• Develop, explore, improve, initiate
41. Librarians core skill is not delivering
information
It is improving the quality of the
question and the user
experience
Libraries are about learning and
building communities
Stephan Abram