WiLSWorld 2011
Wednesday, July 27th
8:00-9:00 Registration with coffee and pastries
9:00-10:15 (Watch a slideshow mov)
Keynote: Futures of Libraries
Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Debates and predictions about the future of libraries, some well-informed, others driven by anecdote and stereotype, some apocalyptic, are again widespread in both the popular press and the scholarly literature. These debates cover public libraries, facing massive disinvestment and simultaneously under attack by a publishing industry facing its own massive transformations. They also encompass research libraries struggling with a changing cultural and intellectual record, the demands of emerging technology and data intensive scholarly practices, and an increasingly dysfunctional scholarly publishing system. In this talk I’ll dissect some of the forces—new opportunities as well as threats—that are pushing libraries towards critical decision points, discuss strategies and choices, and speculate about outcomes.
10:15-10:30 Break with coffee
10:30-11:45 Three Concurrent Sessions
A Conversation With Clifford Lynch
Moving to Web Scale: unlocking unprecedented efficiency, cooperation and collaborative innovation
Matt Goldner, OCLCCloud computing solutions are offering new opportunities to many communities. For the library community the opportunity is to change our future by starting to build a Web scale presence for libraries built on shared data, technology and community. This session will discuss how OCLC is working with member libraries to build Web-Scale Management Services to give libraries a twenty-first century collection management system and help them be a true force on the Web.
How Can EngagedPatrons Help Improve My Website? (pdf of slides)
Glenn Peterson, Founder, EngagedPatrons.orgLearn how EngagedPatrons can help you connect with your patrons and engage them in your library’s services. EP offers a series of interactive modules that plug into your existing website; these include an events calendar, blogs, library savings calculator, patron contact forms and the newest offering, Engaged Readers, an online reading program (think summer) for kids, teens or adults. See examples of how EP has helped Wisconsin libraries make their local history databases searchable online. Find out how WiLS is integrating the events calendar into their web development projects for state public libraries.
11:45-1:15 Lunch on your own
1:15-2:30 Three Concurrent Sessions
Designing Mobile Learning Experiences Using ARIS—part 1 (ARIS Web)
David Gagnon, UW-MadisonMobile devices provide more than a small screen to repackage new forms of the dreaded “eLearning module,” they allow us to create new kinds of locative educational experiences that merge physical contexts with real concepts. In this two-part hands-on workshop you will use the open-source ARIS authoring tool to create a working place-based, narrative-centric mobile learning game and test it out yourself. Please bring a laptop and an iPhone or iPad 3G if you have one.
Avoiding the Heron’s Way: Planning for a Practical Institutional Repository
Dorothea Salo, DiscoveryGarden, Inc.Herons stand in one place and wait for fish to come to them. Early institutional repositories behaved like herons, but the fish didn’t come. Learn how to plan your IR for better success: clarify your goals, choose technology that fits those goals, make realistic plans for workflows and outreach based on observed faculty and librarian behavior, and arrange for assessment and program change.
Floating on a Cloud
Vicki Teal Lovely, SCLSLibraries have the option of hosting their Integrated Library System in the “cloud”, but this is still a foreign concept to many. When the South Central Library System selected Koha as their ILS, they also elected to host in the cloud through their vendor, LibLime. Vicki Teal Lovely will talk about how this decision was made and what it is like to be hosted in the cloud. On April 21, just four days after going live on Koha, SCLS was down due to the Amazon cloud outage. Was cloud hosting still the right choice? Vicki will fill us in.
2:30-2:45 Break with water, soda–sorry no cookies… more room for hors d’oeuvres!
2:45-4:00 Three Concurrent Sessions
Designing Mobile Learning Experiences Using ARIS—part 2 (ARIS Make Games)
David Gagnon, UW-MadisonMobile devices provide more than a small screen to repackage new forms of the dreaded “eLearning module,” they allow us to create new kinds of locative educational experiences that merge physical contexts with real concepts. In this two-part hands-on workshop you will use the open-source ARIS authoring tool to create a working place-based, narrative-centric mobile learning game and test it out yourself. Please bring a laptop and an iPhone or iPad 3G if you have one.
Know Your Habitat: Faculty Scholarship in the Institutional Repository (pdf of slides)
Ann Hanlon, Marquette UniversityThe target content for most institutional repositories is faculty scholarship, both published and unpublished. Making the IR a hospitable place for faculty scholarship entails an understanding of faculty needs and campus priorities, publisher policies and copyright, and technical possibilities and limitations. This session will look at strategies for depositing published faculty research, copyright and permissions workflows, and how to help your faculty get the most out of the content in your/their IR
Shining a Light on Cloud Concerns (pdf of slides)
Melissa Woo, UW-MilwaukeeCloud services are perceived by many to be inherently more risky than services run locally. What are the real risks? How can we separate the hyperbole from reality? In this session we’ll discuss risks, real and perceived, and suggested approaches for mitigating the risks.
4:00-5:00 All-Conference Reception cash bar and hors d’oeuvres
Thursday, July 28th
8:00-8:30 Breakfast Served
8:30-10:00
Member Breakfast Program: 2020 Vision
In late 2010, WiLS worked with Morrill Solutions Research on a four-futures scenario planning process, which develops mutltiple scenarios of what might occur in order to generate ideas about each future state.
Join us for a presentation of the results of this planning process, followed by a discussion of the scenarios and what they mean for the WiLS community. (Review brainstorm groups stategic planning points)
10:15-11:30 Keynote: Closing the Loop
Joe Janes, Associate Professor at the Information School of the University of Washington and Founding Director of the Internet Public LibraryIt’s now cliche to say that the only thing we can rely on these days is change, and it’s probably cliche because it’s true. Look at the really important things—information needs, information entities, how information moves, how we engage with it, how we find it—and they’re all up in the air. From a professional perspective, that has got to lead to questions like: Where do we fit? What do we do now that’s of value? What are we for? Those are–and have always been–good and valuable questions, so let’s spend some time thinking about them.
11:30-11:45 Break with coffee, water, soda
11:45-1:00 Three Concurrent Sessions
A Conversation With Joe Janes
WIWIWI: The Nightmare Continues (web)
Pete Gilbert, Lawrence UniversityIt’s the end of the conference. Your brain is full. Come do some participatory research with The Worldwide Internet Weirdness Institute of Wisconsin. WIWIWI (just say: “Why, Why, Why?”) is a not-for-profit, not-for-real, Very Serious Research Institute (VSRI) and it needs your help finding the very weirdest the Internet has to offer.
Resource Discovery Rundown (pdf of slides)
Steven Frye, UW-MadisonFor several years, libraries have been hearing the phrase “resource discovery” paired with the phrases “next generation” and “web-scale.” Products such as EDS, Primo, and Summon and projects using vufind and blacklight have described themselves using these terms. From 2008 to 2010, a UW System task force explored this nascent world of web scale resource discovery and authored several reports along the way. During this session we’ll explore the world of “resource discovery” – defining our terms and providing examples while identifying and discussing the issues in play.