Your results:
You are Iron Man
| Iron Man |
| 60% |
| Superman |
| 60% |
| Green Lantern |
| 55% |
| Spider-Man |
| 50% |
| Robin |
| 50% |
| Catwoman |
| 45% |
| The Flash |
| 45% |
| Hulk |
| 45% |
| Supergirl |
| 40% |
| Wonder Woman |
| 35% |
| Batman |
| 30% |
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Inventor. Businessman. Genius.
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Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...
Iron Man is the ultimate uber-geek.
All his powers come from the ability to innovate and create gadgets.
Of course, this is a superhero-vision of myself.
A more realistic picture is. . .
Creative. Well-meaning. [geek] Librarian. (Who likes to dress up sometimes.)
I'm not really that inventive.
Most of my creations are about the level of this Tron suit.
What I am good at is big picture thinking.
What is the context?
The challenges?
etc.
And I do think Library 2.0 is important. . .
Ryan's perceived principles of Library 2.0:
1. Understand social aspects of the web (Web 2.0), and exploit them to build community.
2. Emphasize innovation over elbow grease.
3. Be intolerant of institutional barriers.
4. Favor the wisdom of diverse, independent and decentralized "crowds" over the authority of elites.
5. Empathize (obsessively) with the user's experience, and invite their participation.
N ( N - 1 ) / 2
Anyone know this formula?
Basically says that the value of network increases exponentially as you add to it.
For example, the network of "me" is 1(1-1)/2 = 0. (Some scholars claim that Metcalfe was too optimistic.)
A network of 1000 people, however, is worth about 450,000. This is a measure of a network as an asset (not equivalent
to the amount of cash you can make from it). Some derivative of Metcalfe's law was probably used to determine the
value of YouTube when Google bought it for over a billion dollars.
The "long tail" we are supposed to harness.
Explain lots of people want very few products (eg. Harry Potter). But businesses can build niches on
the "long tail." (books on Iron Man), especially now that the web is so pervasive. Sometimes
"the long tail" outsizes sales of less diverse products; sometimes not.
How are new librarians going to compensate for the lost experience of retirees?
Anyone dealing with mass retirements right now?
I started as a manager at Halifax Public Libraries two years ago
and have watched 6 manager-level librarians retire right before my eyes.
Then there are a bunch more who went away
to fill positions left vacant from other retiring librarians.
That's alot of skill, mentorship, and just plain knowledge -- everything from who to call for form x to what is the
appropriate action when someone drives a motorcycles through the reference stacks -- that's lost.
Key problem for libraries is not bodies to fill positions, but lost experience leaving with retirees.
L2 responses?
* More collaboration and sharing at all levels of the organization?
* Store information in more formats and make available for sharing.
* E-learning strategies.
* Safe opportunities for new librarians to experience management products -- eg "sandboxes."
* Use technology to help
* Refrain from restricting web learning -- I get lots of ideas from the occassional, blog, instant message, twitter, etc.
I send to some of the L2 gurus in the world.
If social activity is going online, what happens to those who don't have technology?
Tell story about twittering at Computers in Libraries.
People who were using twitter knew where each other was, where their friends were going, and what were the "cool"
presentations.
L2 response -- don't restrict access to Instant Messaging!
How ought libraries respond to critics such as Jon McKnight below?
Our major institutions have focused on the emptiness of our neighborhoods and not on their assets. Universities quantify the emptiness (how many below code houses, how many pregnant teens), many of our foundations have funded those who purport to fix or to fill needs (using the need surveys to justify giving), the same is true with the United Ways across the country, though Atlanta has taken the United Way further than any other in the country. Government at all levels has followed in the footsteps of the foundations and United Ways, and finally the downtown media which has portrayed (urban) neighborhoods as glasses that are half empty (by focusing on the deficits.)
Source:
Common Focus.org
L2: Learn about community development strategies such as open space and "unconferences"
Think in terms of local history/cultural strategies.
Is our job to provide local history resources, or to open areas
so we can provide them ourselves?
Come up with a question on your own with the person beside you, and try to consider a "Library 2.0" response.
Ryan Deschamps
http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com
ryan.deschamps@gmail.com
Thank you and what questions do you have?
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