Internet Librarian: day three
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Crafting the User-Centered Library
presented by Cliff Landis
Why use emerging tech?
- It’s not enough to shove your bad services (such as our crappy OPACs) into new things.
- Don’t do it because everyone else is.
- For outreach.
- We don’t need things designed FOR the user, we need things designed BY the user.
Planning – it takes too long. Too man hoops to jump through, eventually good ideas can just fade away.
The committee approach – can take any good idea and destroy it. Exploits the negative aspects. To many times people ask “what if…” Cliff then showed us a funny YouTube video, Association Professionals Through the Ages, that illustrates how good ideas can be destroyed in such a manner.
