Great to have Transcribe Audio service but as it is not perfect I hope no-one minds if I share my transcription?:
"Well, I think we're pretty good handling transitions after the last fifty years so we have such great content. We have such great experts. We have a built-in audience that we can grow and help them connect around all that content. So much of the library is just mysterious and we know it well and so we think everybody knows it well and that gets back to the jargon ..."
"...and the advanced search instead of the single search box, things like that. So yeah I think the director should be blogging and talking about the budget and services and staff, things like that. All the way down to the, I don't think there is anything wrong with pages saying "oh yeah I found this really great book that was hidden away". Just, making the library more human and giving it some voice and some personality online. No one department can keep doing this alone, ...
...and everybody is so reliant on IT and I mean when the IT isn't working or goes down everybody has a problem and so you really you gotta start working together to figure out how to implement these bigger projects, because there is almost nothing anymore that is just one department and especially online you need a group effort and so its a tough thing and its even tougher to start thinking that group effort includes the patrons. Yeah well we're at the end of physical formats: LPs, cassettes...
... 8 tracks, CDs, DVDs, laser discs and you know its all going to go digital now, its all going to be in the cloud and so to me its the access to that, and how you find new things, how you have your trusted network, how you can mix and mash that up. That's where it is going to get interesting with audio and video. There are still libraries that have cassettes and LPs and that's okay. I think it depends on your community because some are going to move much faster on this than others...
...I think the place where we're falling down is that we're not collectively using our potential power to affect how users are going to be able to access this stuff. You know copyright is a huge concern for me; digital rights management, huge concern; the ways these are going to be used to lock libraries and as a result users out of accessing specific content without a credit card: that is going to be a real problem. I think that as a profession we're doing pretty well at learning the new tools
...and experimenting to see what they can do because librarianship is going to be changing a lot, not that it hasn't been but that pace of acceleration that we all feel is not going to go away, it is only going to be constant if not increasing so we have to learn how to work together to manage that and implement new services that libraries are well positioned to implement. As a librarian you cannot sit behind the desk waiting for people to walk up and ask you a question any more...
...That is just not going to happen. You have to be out in the stacks. You have to be out in the community. You have to be out there online, providing services where the users are, being where it is convenient for them. And if you sit behind that desk then you are going to wither there. Because that is not how the world works anymore. I think the biggest thing stopping libraries is our own mental limitations: we have the weight of three thousand years of library history and even with the...
..."foundations of librarianship" class I really think of libraries as being in the last fifty years or even hundred, I totally forget that we had all of these other roles and that we have all this baggage from those other roles and so I've started, when somebody says to me "why can't the library be like it used to be", I'm like "well are you talking about three thousand BC when you had no access, are you talking about Greece, the golden age when only a certain level of person had access...
...'cause you know in the eighteen hundreds children weren't allowed in libraries, fiction wasn't allowed in libraries, so how far back are you saying you want to go?" Even in the sixties, seventies and eighties libraries weren't? quiet and they were getting louder. Its a really great thing to reflect on and I think we've lost a little bit of that and I know I had and so its really great to see yeah the loud library. And it was okay and we adapted, all ?seven stages, we've adapted through..
Great to have Transcribe Audio service but as it is not perfect I hope no-one minds if I share my transcription?:
"Well, I think we're pretty good handling transitions after the last fifty years so we have such great content. We have such great experts. We have a built-in audience that we can grow and help them connect around all that content. So much of the library is just mysterious and we know it well and so we think everybody knows it well and that gets back to the jargon ..."
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
"...and the advanced search instead of the single search box, things like that. So yeah I think the director should be blogging and talking about the budget and services and staff, things like that. All the way down to the, I don't think there is anything wrong with pages saying "oh yeah I found this really great book that was hidden away". Just, making the library more human and giving it some voice and some personality online. No one department can keep doing this alone, ...
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
...and everybody is so reliant on IT and I mean when the IT isn't working or goes down everybody has a problem and so you really you gotta start working together to figure out how to implement these bigger projects, because there is almost nothing anymore that is just one department and especially online you need a group effort and so its a tough thing and its even tougher to start thinking that group effort includes the patrons. Yeah well we're at the end of physical formats: LPs, cassettes...
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
... 8 tracks, CDs, DVDs, laser discs and you know its all going to go digital now, its all going to be in the cloud and so to me its the access to that, and how you find new things, how you have your trusted network, how you can mix and mash that up. That's where it is going to get interesting with audio and video. There are still libraries that have cassettes and LPs and that's okay. I think it depends on your community because some are going to move much faster on this than others...
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
...I think the place where we're falling down is that we're not collectively using our potential power to affect how users are going to be able to access this stuff. You know copyright is a huge concern for me; digital rights management, huge concern; the ways these are going to be used to lock libraries and as a result users out of accessing specific content without a credit card: that is going to be a real problem. I think that as a profession we're doing pretty well at learning the new tools
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
...and experimenting to see what they can do because librarianship is going to be changing a lot, not that it hasn't been but that pace of acceleration that we all feel is not going to go away, it is only going to be constant if not increasing so we have to learn how to work together to manage that and implement new services that libraries are well positioned to implement. As a librarian you cannot sit behind the desk waiting for people to walk up and ask you a question any more...
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
...That is just not going to happen. You have to be out in the stacks. You have to be out in the community. You have to be out there online, providing services where the users are, being where it is convenient for them. And if you sit behind that desk then you are going to wither there. Because that is not how the world works anymore. I think the biggest thing stopping libraries is our own mental limitations: we have the weight of three thousand years of library history and even with the...
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
..."foundations of librarianship" class I really think of libraries as being in the last fifty years or even hundred, I totally forget that we had all of these other roles and that we have all this baggage from those other roles and so I've started, when somebody says to me "why can't the library be like it used to be", I'm like "well are you talking about three thousand BC when you had no access, are you talking about Greece, the golden age when only a certain level of person had access...
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
...'cause you know in the eighteen hundreds children weren't allowed in libraries, fiction wasn't allowed in libraries, so how far back are you saying you want to go?" Even in the sixties, seventies and eighties libraries weren't? quiet and they were getting louder. Its a really great thing to reflect on and I think we've lost a little bit of that and I know I had and so its really great to see yeah the loud library. And it was okay and we adapted, all ?seven stages, we've adapted through..
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago
.. each one and we'll be okay in this one too."
moonflowerdragon 2 years ago