Over and Out- My Conclusion of this Experience

I loved it!

What a great way to spend the day, learning about computers, mobile tools and all kinds of new tech stuff.

I am so grateful for being able to come to this conference. Thanks so much Judith and Louise for allowing and supporting this.

Thank you all for commenting and actually reading all of this information :)

I'll try to get some goodies from the Exhibit Hall.

I'll see you all Friday.

Over and out.

Last Blog of the Day!!!!!!!!

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~Alicia

Session 5- Dynamic Learning Spaces & Places

This session was about using the SPACE in the library both physically and virtually. I liked this session because it made me think about our library lounge. Good stuff...take a looksee!

Dynamic Learning Spaces & Places
Speakers: May Chang, Librarian, UMBC

Physical Spaces
Learning Spaces @ UMBC Libraries

Variety of Needs
- Workstations
- Study Rooms
- Labs
- Presentation Areas
- More 24/7 space, safe, comfortable
- Technology-enabled
- Access to assistance for research, computing and tutorial needs
- Proximity to information
- Support student retention and success

Support you will need:
- Technical
- Facilities
- PR!!! Keep students interested in library functions and services

UMBC Learning Spaces Marketing and Promotion Page

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Link to UMBC Learning Spaces website
Click here to see UMBC Learning Spaces Awesome Flash Page

Part II- Virtual Spaces
Kristina Devoe and Derik Badman, Temple University Librarians

Temple's Library Express
Temple's library had no real estate on Blackboard. So.....

They decided to use Blackboard as outreach, because:
- 99.4% of students use Blackboard (at this particular school).
- Often times library staff have no knowledge of Blackboard.

What they wanted to do:
- Making customized simple course pages for faculty to get to students
Using PHP, HTML, AJAX
- Search boxes
- Links to Guides
- Links to Course Reserves
- RefWorks
- ILL
- Do-It-Yourself Instructions

The Way It Goes, if you want to try it:
1. Library fills out a form in Blackboard.
2. Creates an HTML page
3. Faculty puts the page in their course page
4. Students use with ease.

Blackboard Meets Library A screen shot of Temple University's Library Express via BlackBoard

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They Branded this service, wrapped it up like a gift and presented it to faculty.
- Named it “Library Express”
- Marketed through ListServ
- E-Vites
- Posters, Flyers
- Web Flyers/Ads on Homepage
- Offered a workshop to Faculty to show uses and reasons to use.

Considerations
Make the course guides savable and editable.
Assessment is a problem, no analytic software as of yet.
Visual content
Instructional content alternatives (podcast, video, etc.)

Session 4- Real Librarians in Virtual Worlds

FLORENCE, THIS IS FOR YOU!!

Real Librarians in Virtual Worlds

Alliance Virtual Library- Second Life

A volunteer collaboration offering library services and resources to residents, educators and students in virtual worlds.

Librarians/Avatars (a couple of them, she showed us several)

Rhonda Trueman (Reference Librarian, Johnson & Wales University, Authors Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries (aka Abbey Zenith in Second Life

Bill Sowers (Kansas Documents and Cataloging Librarian, State Library of Kansas) aka Rocky Vallejo in Second Life

Samantha Thompson (Senior Librarian, NY Public Library) aka Hypatia Dejavu in Second Life

What are libraries doing in Virtual Worlds?
- Reference
- Book discussions
- Collections
- Programs
- Designing information experiences

What is different in Virtual Worlds?
- Collaboration (on Steroids)
- Geography
- Immersive Education

Over 130 libraries in Second Life

Everyone can fly in the Alliance Virtual Library. The librarians help over 180 patrons a day. (2008)

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Students can have research and reference questions answered through Second Life.

After the session, the Second Life librarians that were in attendance had a group debate about the importance of Second Life.

The debate was interesting. Some people were very passionate about Second Life being beneficial to the Real Library. Some people were NOT convinced that Second Life is relevant to Librarianship and real world library services.

It was interesting.

Session 3- Mobile Library Apps

This session was very interesting. I think these were the neatest things I've seen here so far.

Speakers: Chris Tonjes and Aaron Schmidt from DC Public Library and Ben Smith and Sheryl Bai of UConn Health Center Library


The UConn Health Center library started a PDA program for their users. They told us how the implemented it and how it is used.

The DC Public Library system has created there own app for the iPhone. It's so neat.
Speakers:

Here are some of the notes:

Mobile Library Apps

UConn Health Center Library started a PDA program
- Purchased PDAs for staff
- Offered first PDA class in 2002
- Still offered to student, faculty and staff

Current PDA Initiative (UConn Health Center Library)
1. PDA Requirement
2. Meet with Faculty
3. Test Handhelds
4. Create Instructions
5. Letters to Students
6. PDA Champions- Training sessions for students
7. PDA Clinics- Training sessions to install services on PDA
8. Demo Databases- Session of demos of how to use Databases with PDA
9. Orientation

Pocket PC Software Utilities
- Aurorisoft dot Pocket
- DeepFreeze
- Microsoft ActiveSync
- Microsoft Remote Display Control
- My Mobiler
- Windows Mobile Device Center

DCPL Mobile Library Apps

Goals for Initiative
- Data integration
- Alternative of delivery for online catalog
- First foray into Mobile World
- Unhappy with current OPAC

App Store is great for marketing library app
Starting of Blackberry version of app

Trivia about DCPL (DC Public Library) iPhone Application
- Downloads to date- 2199, downloaded in 17 countries 85 people in last week to place holds of items
- Works with SirsiDynix enterprise portal search tool
- Plug-in web service
- Total effort- 100 hours

Code available for download http://dclibrarylabs.org for other libraries
(available 1st week of April 2009)

DCPL SMS Text Msg
- Reach out to communicate with patrons and demographic group has changed to txt instead of voice calls
- Notices, and announcements- holds, fines, overdue, cancellation notices, PIN number change and setup
- Opt-In for existing patrons
- Free of charge by library, service fees from provider may apply
- No cost to library for SMS notices

What a cool session! The speakers were very informative about the IT part of all of this as well. Seems like a lot of work, but worth it.

Here is an example of the DC Public Library's App for the iPhone. This is there catalog.

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Session 2- Learning Anytime Anywhere Web 2.0

Learning Anytime Anywhere: Web 2.0

This session was about becoming extremely creative with instruction techniques. The speakers Chad Boeninger (Ohio University Libraries), Joe Murphy(Yale University) and Madeline Kriescher (U.S. Courts Library, 10th Circuit)were all very persuasive about using a combination of voice, video and web tools to instruct.

Here are some of the notes:

Q: Where does research and training happen?
A: Anywhere
Q: How librarians teach?
A: 1 shot instruction sessions, One-on-one patron service

New Life of a Librarian
Librarians need to become LIVE-Brarians
Look beyond libraries for new ways to service patrons
Keep up with 2.0 technology

Blogs & Wikis
- Separate blogs for subjects (we already do that)
- Blog with PICS – very important
- WordPress plug-in with polls and surveys
- IM chat Digsby or Meebo
- Skype (used in a kiosk is a good way to reach patrons)

Reach out with your voice
- Podcast or screencast
(they’ve done a 52 minutes series) 1 minute a day)
- OdeoStudio free service
- Wink is a screencast open source program
- VIDEO is AWESOME way to reach out
- Youtube overkill, try other open source technology
- Flip cameras are great
- Blip.tv (can create a group of videos)
- Quick media converter
- 12 seconds video site (ties into twitter account)
- Eyejot (email video program)
- Vyew (meeting software)
- Twitter

Incorporate a mobile page on your website for easier use

Using FlickR for library instructions
- Convert Powerpoint slides into jpeg files
- Upload slides individually in reverse order into Flickr
- Enter metadata for each slide, or batch
- Create a set
- Students can use Flickr app on phone

Expanding instruction using Flickr

Why Flickr?
Image based asynchronous instruction
Hosting PPTs saved as images
Marketing

Considerations
- Use metadata tags
- Clear images
- Printable images

This session was cool because the speakers have created different ways to reach patrons. I thought it was neat.

Chad Boeninger of Ohio University Libraries
Click the picture to see how he services patrons through video using Blip.tv.

Session 1- Mobile Practices & Search: What's Hot!

Mobile Practices & Search: What’s Hot

This session made my head spin! There is so much stuff out there for mobile users. The speaker Megan Fox, Associate Director of Technology and Special Projects, Simmons College was very knowledgeable about all of this stuff.

Here is some of the notes I was able to jot down:

General facts
- iPod has over 30,000 apps
- Text/SMS 2:1 ratio (more people text than call)
- By 2011 all “smartphones” will have access to apps via mobile web

Mobile Search
- Customized searches provided by ChaCha (answer anything)
- Google Mobile phone lets you do a Voice Search (never have to type to search)

Mobile Search Engines
• Google Mobile Local
* Google SMS
* 4info - SMS search services
* Synfonic - Also offers SMS search services
* Vazu - Allows you to copy & paste text and send it as a SMS search
* YP - Offers yellow pages and white pages look up. Also, you can reverse phone and address look up, including neighbor lookup
* Yahoo Mobile
* MSN Mobile
* AOL Mobile
* Infospace Mobile
Plenty more….

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This session has made me an Mobile App Fan!

Session 5- Service at Point of Need: SharePoint & Mobile Tools

This one was for Reference Librarians. Towson University and Howard County Library (Maryland) are currently using these reference PDA style tablets for mobility and service at the point of need.

SharePoint and Mobile Tools
Speakers: David Dahl, Kay Kazinski, James Kelly, Donny Frank-Rice

SharePoint is a Microsoft Technology.

Why mobile reference?
- Improves customer service
- Provide faster service at time and point of need
- Incorporate pro-active approach to Reference

Details of Mobile Reference Model
- Based on Orange County Library Model
- Funding: State library and FCPL contribution
- Team: 9 Volunteers and various staff from branches and departments across system

Equipment
- Site survey
- Installation of signal coverage

Vocera Communications Badges (phone system)
- Weighs less than 2 ounces
- Wireless, hands-free
- Locate staff by name, location or title
- Voice activated

Samsung Q1 Mobile Computers (mobile reference computer)
- Networked to desk printers
- 7 inch displays
- Weighs less than 2 pounds

460 hours of Mobile Reference service

7,584 patrons reached during test pilot

Pros
- Staff had more floor time, which prevents security issues
- Staff can multi-task
- Desk time lessened
- Staff became more tech-saavy

Questions to consider
- Will your staff be interested?
- Can you secure funding?
- Is Mobile Reference just an additional service? A permanent fixture?


SharePoint

Reference Portal- Collaborating for Librarians

Centralized location for sharing information

Why SharePoint?
- Customizable
- High level IT experience not necessary, for end-users or designers
- Can offer training for SharePoint
- Free- if you own Windows Server 2003
- SQL server database is required

4 Features of Reference Portal

- Messaging system
- Issue Tracker (computer problems, facilities problem)
- Wiki Page
- Desk Tracker

You can create a new website in SharePoint particularly for Reference Librarian

You can track meetings, minutes, etc.

Tips and Suggestions

Get a beta site even keep it after production
- Access now
- Who needs access
- Be prepared for
- Make sure sites match
- Deploy early
- Make sure you have ample training

These are so neat. They look like little TV screens.

Here is the Samsung Q1 up close. It's cool.

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Session 4- Open Source Library Implementation

Open Source Library Implementation

Karen Kohn and Eric McCloy are both from Arcadia University, explained in detail how they were able to pull off switching from Sirsi to Koha.

Koha runs on Linux, takes very little space and is fast.

This session was mainly about how the Arcadia University library got ready to implement Koha from Sirsi.

Who should be on board?
IT
Library Staff
Facilitating Faculty

Motivation for Migration
- No access to data
- Website design
- Unresponsive customer service
- Hard to upgrade and modify

Pros
- 12% cost savings
- Broke project into chunks
- Able to see some improvements quickly, faster federated search

Cons
- Staff time for testing (expensive)
- Could not pay for overlap support
- Delay in catalog changes being displayed

How it was implemented?
- Dropped Sirsi
- Used Savings to get Master Key working
- Dumped nightly from Sirsi to Koha
- Did a Z39.50 search from site to Koha
- Tested and debugged frequently

Issues to consider
- STRONG IT vs. Librarians relationships (working together)
- Staff and Faculty knowledge is important

Here is Arcadia's Landman Library looks like with the Open Source software Koha as their Integrated Library System.

I love this library catalog. It feels like you're on Amazon.com!

What do you guys think?

Session 3- Unconferences

Unconferences
Speakers: Steve Lawson, Kathryn Greenhill, John Blyberg, Stephen Francoeur

This session was a little "different". Most people already knew about this subject. I was totally lost.

But I did take notes:

Planning an Unconference

What is an Unconference?
These are very informal conferences that are often called "Library Camp" or Podcamps, Barcamps, XCamps, depends on the field of interest.

Difference between traditional conference and unconference
- Planned and facilitated by participants
- Sometimes completely virtual
- Less costly
- Sometimes does not require travel
- Open Source Sharing

Library Unconferences- How to create an Unconference (taken directly from CNN… they told us :))

1) Create a wiki – for sign up and topic choosing
See BarCamp.org and BrainJams.org for help with wiki setup.
2) Find sponsors that won’t interfere
3) Post author Harrison Owen's Law of Two Feet: Any person neither learning from nor contributing to a group discussion must walk to another one. (This is the motto of Unconferences.)
What goes on at an Unconference?

Participants post topics on boards, consolidate and do discussion groups.

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Participants are the facilitators, this makes for more information exchange and diversity of topics.

Okay, gotta go, next session starting now.

Session 2- Open Source Browsers

OKAY!! Information Overload......!!!

This session was amazing. It might just be because I'm a Firefox Fan and this was mainly about all the cool stuff you can do with Firefox and other web browsers that allow you to customize it for yourself and your users.

The speaker Jessamyn West, Community Technology Librarian, Randolph Technical Career Center in Vermont, Metafile Technical Support Director, is a Firefox fan as well. She gave us so much information. But it was like good food. I couldn't get enough. I went to talk to her after the session, she has a lot of good information.

Here are some of the notes from this session:


Open Source Browsers

Speaker: Jessamyn West, Community Technology Librarian, Randolph Technical Career Center, Vermont

Librarian.net/talks/cil2009

This session is for FIREFOX fans!

Open Source Browsers in general

Are there any other Open Source (free) browsers (some of these are TEXT only):
- Chrome- PC only
- Flock
- Amaya
- Camino
- Dillo
- Galeon
- NetSurf
- SeaMonkey
- Shiira
- Elinks

Some notes on other Open Source Browsers:
Amaya can read different mark-up language. Recommends trying only to know different things browsers can do.

SeaMonkey (compares to NetScape) still looks like NetScape, also has email and news reading…like Firefox (Thunderbird).


Example of Shiira, an open-source web browser.

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Tidbits about Internet Market share
FF market share
W3schools- 46%
Netapplications- 22%
Statcounter- 31%

Firefox has:
- Themes/Skins
Can make browser the school colors
Add neat buttons

- Smart Keywords
Create frequent searches

- Plug-ins esp. search
- Add-ons
Adblock & bugmenot- blocks ads from web pages
Better Gmail- ad block for mail
Customizegoogle- customize Google search
DownThemAll- download more than one file at a time
Firebug- inspects bugs on websites
History submenus- check your browser history by day
Link evaluator- OCLC owned- checks all links and says if your links are working

- Greasemonkey- post processes Web pages to fit your configuration before you see it.
Scripts to customize web use
- Yahoo mail welcome skipper
- ****Facebook ad nuker & autologin & auto-colorize
- Minimalist Wikipedia (simple Wikipedia)
- Configurable Flickr Home Page
- YouTube tool- shows biggest version of video
- Metafilter (MeFi)- scripts for Librarians (book icon that goes next to profile users who are Librarians)
- YouTube Comment Hider
- Invisibilty cloak- hides your IP address
- Play Music Now tool
- Add other search links to Google
- Book Burro
- Foxmarks
- Zotero
- LibX- contact LibX people (open source)

- Multiple profiles from Firefox
High visibility profiles (accessibility profile)
Page reader (audio)
Can run in same computer

SOMETHING TO TRY!!!!
About: config
Type in About:config in Firefox to be able to customize your Firefox browsers

Check out the presentation:
Librarian.net/talks/cil2009

Session 1- Open Source Software

Open Source Software

This session is extremely interesting. Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department University Libraries of Notre Dame says that Open Source Software is not "free". You still need the SKILLS to use the software, which could cost you more than a closed source software.

Opening Statements
If libraries are about data, research and knowledge and we use computers to control information then we need open source software to control the way WE want to distribute and maintain information.

Open Source Software does NOT mean “free” software. It’s liberating. You are FREE to use the software and modify it any way you want.

Still may have same expenses with open source software as regular software.

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Open source software is about:
- Free cost
- Community users

Examples of Open Source Software:
- Most of the Internet runs on Open Source Software
- SendMail- majority of software the emails your emails is open source
- Apache

“Library Land” Open Source Software (software for Libraries):
- Lucene
- Zebra
- WordPress
- VuFind
- Evergreen
- Blacklight
- Koha
- Scriblio
- SwishE

8 Skills Needed to Successfully Use Open Source Software
Library Skills
1. Collections
2. Organization
3. Preservation/Archiving
4. Public Service

Computing Skills
5. Relational Databases
6. XML
7. Indexing
8. Scripting Language

Advantages
Full control to use and modify software
No copyright infringement issues
Free of costs

Disadvantages
Takes different set of skills to use

Questions that were asked after session:
Q: How does a manager feel comfortable with certain softwares?
A: Consider these things:
- Is there documentation?
- Is there a community of users?
- Is the software singular or comes with “spyware”?
- What are the primary Google results?

Q: What does Open Source mean to libraries?
A: It’s a common good. These programs are basically given away (free) for anyone to use. If you notice, Librarians also “give away” information. It is good to have different alternatives of production and systems to keep costs down and continue to provide “outside the box” services. Everyone has Microsoft Office, but many people don’t know that Open Office has more features and is easier to use. It’s about having full control to modify and customize.


Very good session. We did the WAVE at the beginning to wake everybody up. Next sessions starts in 15 minutes.

Session 5- Library Facebook Applications

This session was predominantly about Facebook as a tool for student-to-student interaction, facilitated by the library.

After heavy-duty research, speaker Joseph Ryan or NCSU Libraries told the audience that STUDENTS HATE FACEBOOK APPS!!!

So with that said, he took it upon himself (he and some co-workers) to find a way to use Facebook effectively.

Here are some of the notes for this session:

Library Facebook Applications

Objective of this session is to analyze and focus why Library Facebook Apps are so underutilized

Most used library app is at MAU with 139 active users.

NCSU has an Activity Wall
Students can update and post to this wall about study groups and meet-ups.

Focus Group done at NCSU
Some Dislikes from Focus Group
- Disliked Facebook apps
- Facebook is too noisy already
- Does it have to be an app?

Suggestions
- Students can use Facebook to post study group sessions
- Users may want to eliminate showing of names and pics
- Kiosk specifically for Facebook, increases usage
- Widget for library catalog and database search
- Lost and Found wall
- Wall of repeat offenders (this is funny) A “clean” Facebook message board for students to blast off about other students with bad library habits. No direct insults, just a venting session. Something fun to read, increases hits. Can be regulated and facilitated by librarians.
- Easy way for students to identify what courses they are in

Here's an example of a Facebook App for an online catalog:

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Well, day one is over. I'm going home now. I'm starving.

Blog ya tomorrow!

Session 4- What Have We Learned Lately About Library Users

What Have We Learned Lately about Academic Library Users

This session was geared toward researching HOW the user researches and weeding out useless search tools and methods in your library.


There was a research project done at the University of Maryland. The purpose of this research project was to monitor how and what users researched on their "primary" search or first search.

The speaker Daniel Wendling of University of Maryland Research Librarian was very animated and thinks that ALL academic libraries should conduct these type of extensive research projects. He says that it saves money, time and increases user comfort tremendously.

Here's some of my scattered notes from this session:

Session is about analyzing the way academic users research on the web

76% Academic users use Google as primary search (1st search) from home

Questions to ask when creating assessment
- How to describe information seeking behavior?
- What are the contemporary university students information-seeking behaviors?
- How do librarians play in these behaviors?
- What is the mental methodology of a contemporary student research patterns?

Demonstration of the application prototype at
www. Ponder-matic.com

Ways to improve researcher experience
- MTagging
- Library-based tagging tool
- Social networking tools
- Academic Bookmarking

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I thought this was very good information. Next session has started.....:)

Session 3- Moving the Library to the Clouds

This session was completely over my head. It was heavy on the IT terminology. The speakers Roy Tennant and Andrew Pace are Networking Program Directors for OCLC Research and Programs.

Here is my definition of Cloud Computing:)

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From what I could decipher the session was about "Cloud Computing". Here are some of the notes from that session:

Internet is a cloud-capability that is accessible and usable.

Cloud computing- style of computing which dynamically scalable and often virtual resources are provided over the internet.

- Infrastructure as a service
- Platform as a service
- Software as a service

Moving libraries to the clouds-means to move library applications, databases and all things to a network level.

Pay as you go, no need to have a local server.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-Pay for what you use

Cloud computing allows you to run off of your own network.

Cataloging
Allowing wiki-like editing in WorldCat records.

WorldCat Facebook Citations

Libraries Worldwide 1.2 million libraries worldwide
166 billion transactions per year

5,000 transactions per second

In laments terms I think this is a private, low cost way of networking library resources that can be easily manipulated and controlled by the library staff. I admit I was completely lost on this session. Lots of information thought.

We are on a coffee break, will post after that.

Session 2- Help Your Library Be Omnipresent without Spending a Dime

This session was fast and full of information. The speaker, Nina McHale or University of Colorado-Denver was very informative about widgets and "steal" codes for patrons.

Here are some of the notes on this session:

Embedded and Widget-ized Library

Creating Mobile Tools
Catalog iPhone App
Chat Widgets
iGoogle Gadgets

This is Ball State University of Indiana's Widget for students to add to their Facebook or Myspace. Cool, huh?!

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Steal This Code
Provide users with RAW html wherever they can cut and paste html (myspace, facebook, etc.)

Check with IT/Web department about putting RAW code out there for users.

Increase usage, doesn’t hurt because it connects to your proxy

Planning and Creating Tool
Decide what widget code chunks you want to offer
- Catalog
- Databases (with federated search product)
- Combo catalog and databases
- Web-based/IM chat

Examples:

Article Search for two top databases

Chat widget on front page for Professors and Librarians

Part II
Creating Mobile Content

mobiSiteGalore.com
Creates template for you as a mobile website

- Customized designs
- Add pages, widgets and tools

In laments terms (lol):

We can put our catalog and databases with federated search in a widget or app that patrons can add to there Facebook, Apple iPhone, Smartphones (Blackberry, Sprint Smartphones) to search for items and articles.

Also, she mentioned having a tutorial for Professors to be able to add widgets to the Blackboard pages for article and journal entry searches.

Hopefully, I'm not speaking in a foreign tongue, I can explain it if you need more info.

This was a cool session. At the end, her assistant broke out in song. He rewrites popular songs to "library" friendly songs. It was pretty funny.

At lunch now, so I will post after session 3.

Session 1- Website Redesign Pitfalls

Hey all,

This session was very interesting. The speaker Jeff Winseiekekkeke--- (he had a long last name) is a Web Services librarian at the University of Pittsburg.

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The primary focus of this session was to avoid wasting valuable time and money redesigning a library website.

He mentioned excellent points about the main "pitfalls" that the Web designer will run into.

Here are a few:
- Failing to account for assessment time & effort
- Spend your money where the water is – Identify heavy user services, biggest return of investment
- Not knowing enough about old website before redesign
- Losing page rank
- Proceeding without consensus on goals
- Proceeding with TOO MUCH consensus- avoid death by committee
- Design constituencies and INCLUDE them in the process
- Thinking inside the box (think about CMS, Blog, Wiki alternatives)

These are interesting points, especially since one day we may redesign the Swilley Library website.

Well, next session is starting, gotta go!!
I will post again after next session is over.

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Hello All @ Swilley

Hi everyone! As you know, I'm here at the Annual Computers in Libraries Conference 2009. It's nice to be home...but back to work as usual.

Keep checking the blog throughout the day. I will have some interesting info for you.