There are certain areas that we need to build on from last year i.e. the next chapter of the story and then new areas we need to bring in.
ORGANISATIONAL 2.0
- The social web is making the world more open/transparent (which means a loss of control), what is the impact of this openness for the future of organisations and how can the info pro lead through this change (ties in with Charlene Li’s keynote)
- Strategic roll out of 2.0 across the organisation and how the info pro can shape this (would this make a good focus for the opening keynote i.e. Prof Andrew McAffee talking about Enterprise 2.0)
- Info Pros presenting the case for 2.0 to management who don’t understand the value (how do those at the bottom educate/lead those at the top?)
- Session with ‘old way’ and ‘new way’ of leading; comparing the old world and the new world
- The impact of using social media tools on cultures and attitudes in the workplace, what role the info pro can take in shaping this
- Barriers to use of social media in the organisation
- Legal issues around using 2.0 tools
- Exploiting social media from an information management viewpoint
- Search and social media linking is changing access to information (and quality of information)
- Balance between practical tools and examples of use with techniques for engaging use
- How will communities grow in the future; metrics for measuring the value of communities
- Behaviours of young people using tools and what can we learn from this, transfer to the workplace (KB/DW/EM)
SEMANTIC WEB & LINKED DATA
(providing faster access to information)
- Rename this theme? Maybe - Linked data in action?
- Need more examples this year of linked data in action; what are the benefits?
DP: Examples from Data.gov.uk; SPARQL
How can info pros move from a document centric to a data centric world; important for librarians to understand and keep up with web trends such as the semantic web as it offers great potential for new ways of viewing collections
SEARCH (Enterprise focus)
Search trends from Steve Arnold - tel call scheduled for Feb 11th
What impact is real time search having on the organisation?
SEARCH (Searching the web focus)
We didnt have enough sessions on search tools and techniques in 09
Need presentations that include:
New and alternative search engines
Geosearch (combining search and geosearch): applications of use
Visual search engines
Visualisation and personalisation
Karen - as our search expert do you have anything to add here?
Information literacy and risk: using the right tools to source information, understand the risks and legal issues of using certain tools e.g. Google in law firms (GS)
OPEN ACCESS (PG)
Hot topic at the moment
Ties in with research methods
Case study examples:
Moo.com – Richard Miros (EM)
Wall Street Journal (successfully created new business model)
Will Penn - local communities (EM
INFORMATION DISASTERS
MPs expenses
Global warming spin
MMR
(social web making the world more transparent)
CLOUD COMPUTING
As this is such a new area think we need to have lots of case studies from government, universites, libraries e.g. University of Wisconsin moved 50,000 email accounts to the cloud
NEW PLATFORMS FOR DELIVERING CONTENT:
- ebooks
- ipad/iphone/blackberrys
- mobile
Academic librarian perspective (using these tools to teach)
Corporate/workplace librarian perspective
Publisher perspective
Could be interesting to have a panel made up of 'buyer's (academic librarians) and suppliers (Publishers)
Sharing information across new platforms
Data on the move
The impact of how data is delivered and getting to the right device in the right format.
So much information is being delivered how do you synthesise the information that you need (GS)
eBOOKS
Impact of the iPad
Process involved in creating ebooks
Consider a panel with Buyers (academic librarians) and Suppliers (publishers) , need a good moderator
The evolution of publishing
GOOGLE
3 angles:
Use of personalisation
Use of RDFa
Google Book Publishing project
Will get more from Steve Arnold Feb 11th
CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS
ACADEMIC LIBRARY CHALLENGES/ACADEMIC LIBRARIAN
CORPORATE LIBRARY CHALLENGES/CORPORATE LIBRARIAN
OUTSOURCING LIBRARY SERVICES
M LIBRARIES
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL
OUTSOURCING INFORMATION SERVICES
RUNNING INFORMATION SERVICES ON A SHOESTRING
