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

Data Designed for Discovery

Publishing Datasets from an Open Access Institutional Repository As Linked Data

Linking Libraries to the Web: A Linked Data Primer

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

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