Lita Forum 2015 Takeaways
Jacob Shelby
Overview
- General info
- Session highlights
- Takeaways
Demographics
- Between 250 and 300 attendees
- Attendees of varying ages and professional backgrounds
- Enthusiastic about technology
- Very welcoming and open to networking
Conference Structure
- Three keynotes, one each day of the conference
- Set of four concurrent talks/dual talks per session
- 45 minutes per talk, ~20 minutes per dual talk
- All sessions were on the same floor and close to each other
Project Management
- Title: Project Management 101
- Link to presentation
- Plan as much before the project begins as possible
- Avoid "scope creep" by establishing clear scope and goals, and shared commitment by the project team
- Documentation, documentation, documentation!
Knowledge Management
- Title: Why knowledge management? Achieving organizational buy-in through a unified and holistic approach... and the right technology tools
- Organizational buy-in is key
- Define staff needs and use-cases
- Logical organization of content
- Feedback from staff
- Training
- Challenges
- Overcoming resistance to change
- Old habits
Continuing Education
- Title: Starting and Sustaining a Coding Workshop for Librarians
- Advantages
- Productivity
- Reduce dependency on IT
- Solve real-world problems (the training needs to apply to their work)
- Even though this was in the context of coding, this applies to training for software such as Excel spreadsheets and CyPoint
Linked Data
Linked Data-Driven Discovery: Applications and APIs from a User-Centered Perspective
Linked Data for Professional Educators Competency Index
Publishing Datasets from an Open Access Repository As Linked Data
Other Sessions
Life Inside and Outside the Echo Chamber
- Bringing the conference experience home
- Having an idea/seeing an opportunity and acting upon it
- Conference-goers should bring the experience back, and that experience should be disseminated throughout the library
- This is how we exit the echo chamber and continue to grow
Takeaways
- Focus on our user community, include them in "naming initiatives", and help them tell their story
- Emphasize training and continuing education. Technology isn't going away!
- Good knowledge management facilitates good communication, openness/visibility, and preservation of institutional knowledge
Thank You
Jacob Shelby
jtshelby@iastate.edu
Lita Forum 2015 Takeaways
By Jacob Shelby
Lita Forum 2015 Takeaways
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