This is a quick (mostly unedited) list of the topics suggested so far for libcampoz12. I am excited already about the possibilities and opportunities for the day:
- ebooks
- Being a reflective practitioner (how do people reflect on their work, how do people use reflection to improve)
- Design of physical library space
- Mobile/roving/deskless services
- Event Coordination, 2D Barcodes in the library environment, different library management systems
- QR Codes
- Linked open data, innovative solutions to sinking budgets, managing data sets, new areas of expertise required for next generation services emerging technologies, effective social networking for both libraries and librarians, employment/resume/interview tips & advice, RFID
- How to get a presence on Learning Management Systems
- usability of physical and digital spaces,
- putting the user first
- breaking down the silos between IT departments, staff/patron etc
- a meeting of webrarians
- why less is always more
- Getting all staff on-board with new technologies
- Ways of training staff – professional development opportunities
- Incorporating technology into Info Lits
- Building networks with other organisations
- Managing the information overload – what tools to use?
- Social Media, Research ideas for high school, organisation of materials, ie: genre versus Dewey
- I’d love to see some topics relevant to public libraries (sometimes they feel like the unspoken-about cousin in the attic at library conferences), and pretty much anything to do with emerging technologies and how the can be used to improve library service. Also, professional development topics are of great interest to me as well.
- Future of social media
- I don’t have answers, but I want to know how to get more people to get on board with eg Yammer, twitter – getting internal buyin for good ideas.
- Library changes (improvements) you can make without technology
- What kind of service do patrons really want?
- Managing metadata quality across the institution
- Library culture – for staff and patrons
- Topics relevant to public libraries. Community engagement and partnerships. Youth stuff.
- empowering staff, getting staff motivated, working with
- Mobile technologies
- Semantic web
- where to from now…after all the VALA love and ideas…taking it forward
- brainstorm around National Year of Reading 2012″
- Design thinking
- Change management
- Catalysts for innovation: how can we foster innovation and play in our workplaces?
- eBooks – how are libraries ‘storing’, lending, copyright, etc.
- Developing personal professional learning strategies.
- Special libraries
- Interesting and unexpected ways libraries are using new technologies
- Hacker spaces (public spaces for 3D printing and other maker projects)
- Employment prospects.
- Information about interesting things/projects different libraries are undertaking.
- Singing!
- Story telling
- Information Literacy
- New Technology
- Embedding in the curricula
- Technology and Youth Services
- what’s new from the conference
- e-journals and license restrictions. Who owns the content. Future of libraries; New Technology in Libraries. Where is Goggle going?
- What libraries might look like in 10 years time
- tech petting zoos for staff
- basic computer skills for library staff
- Library Marketing/Promotion
- Teenagers in the library
- Future of library qualifications/courses
- Measuring and communicating the impact of our programs
- discovery layers
- Information literacy education
- Experiences in library qualification courses
- Research skills
- community engagement
- future of libraries
- creative outreach
- strategic directions
- programming: why do we do programs in libraries? what sort of programming is relevant to us? who has great ideas for programs that I can steal….”
- Engaging students: anyone doing anything inventive via LMS etc.. to engage students with Information LIteracy.
- stress-free, easy ways of keeping up-to-date with changes (in new technology, organisational changes)
- What services should libraries provide?
- How will a recession affect library services?
- things related to: career building, job seeking, emerging technologies, getting published.
- Gaming development / potential use in academic libraries
- use of libraries by people from low socioeconomic backgrounds
- Will public Libraries survive?
- BYO devices in the library – troubleshooting!
- Mentoring colleagues – Information Professionals – Employment situation – Where are we at? (Myth vs. Reality).
- Anything Kathryn Greenhill has to say!!!! (NLS2011)
- Other suggestions just in:
Mobile technologies / making things to reduce the steps to access library resources (bookmarklets and LibX type stuff)
Teenagers in libraries / Topics relevant to public libraries.
Community engagement and partnerships. Youth stuff
Ninja gigs in libraries – Neil Gaiman/Amanda Palmer (@aimee_rhodes)
Topic suggestion:
In the low SES theme, effective communication with low SES students.
building on both the reflective practice suggestion and the community engagement suggestions: cross-cultural provision/competence
Hi,
Great list. Enough for 10 unconferences.
I would like a session where we talk about creativity and libraries. I am interested in staff creativity and play, and how that can enrich a library (a topic suggested above)… but would also like to see a separate session about how libraries can facilitate creativity in their communities – can they? If so, why and how? Can it be measured? Should it be?
Very tangentially – I do not know what the surfaces are like around Melbourne Uni, but would it be possible to do a skate-up beforehand, with people bringing their skateboards, blades or quads … or even meeting for brekky at a cafe before skating in to the event ? … Just a thought….
I think a skate-up would be awesome!!
Hi Kathryn,
I’m not sure if all the surfaces are perfect, but I had a few fellow students when I was at Melbourne (some time ago) who would wear blades all the time – they lived nearby and would skate in. I’m sure you’d be able to find a suitable cafe nearby (Lygon St is only two small blocks away, for a start). From the CBD, it’s uphill nearly all the way to Melbourne University – not a huge gradient, but noticable on a bicycle.
Would love to talk and exchange ideas with librarians and others on digital curation in teaching and learning. Look at new curation tools, possible uses in classroom, differences or not between teacher curation and library curation… etc etc
The following topics would be interesting:
* ebooks – when publishers remove content how does this impact on research and preservation of ideas?
* Managing/working with difficult people (staff and patrons)
* Overcoming the assumption that everyone can read (particularly important when you look at the 50% of the population with learning/reading difficulties)