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I took a lot of notes at this event. It was really good! Most of it was material that I’m pretty familiar with through my participation in the biblioblogosphere, so I’ll just hit the highlights and themes here.

Presentations
Learning 2.0

1:30 Welcome & Announcements

This was the second annual technology summit. There were nearly 150 people there and about 40 of the participants were from other systems or academic libraries.

1:45 Towards Library 2.0: Planning, people & participation (Michael Stephens)

Themes:

• Social software allows you to meet people like you.
• Librarian 2.0 harnesses social tools, understands the longtail, uses the Wisdom of Crowds, and plans for physical & online experience and collaboration.
• Age of blockbuster/huge CD is over, all about the longtail
• You want presence. You want to be where people might not expect to find you. It’s not necessarily about getting people through the door.
• You can read the biblioblogosphere to see what people are doing and works.
• Marketing would be the most important thing to learn in library school!
• Less rules! Less work for users! Do you have to do damage control before begin the service?
• Cell phones are much more than a phone… their device banning cell phones ban them.
• Librarian 2.0 builds a culture of trust
• Librarian 2.0 is a trendspotter
• Librarian 2.0 gets “content”
• The best way to learn a new technology is to play. Blog pictures of kids, wiki for recipes, etc. You can always fix the problems.
• It’s about conversations with people!

3:00 Library 2.0/Web 2.0 at the Branch level (Michael Casey)

• libraries have always changed, but it’s faster!
• Life 2.0… they’re busy… we have to go out and get them!
• Customers know more and expect more, expect us to come to them
• Change: busier staff, less “face time,” less “down time,” less…well, just less over all
• Staff have to be able to talk to one another, humans in a social setting
• Need to manage time and knowledge better
• Look at other types of organizations and interviewing people who don’t use our services
• “You get what you pay for” is changing a little bit. We’re getting better and better products, free to end user.

4:00 Learning 2.0 (Helene Blowers)

Charlotte is starting a “play with technology” staff development program with rewards of mp3 players and a few lucky employees will win a laptop or PDA.

Related posts:

1. back into blogging and the L2 summit in charlotte
2. Emerging Technology Committees
3. scouts in the library
4. women, discussion lists, and communication technology
5. Library 101!