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Australia to the USA. 13 Librarians on a 3 week tour of US public libraries. Jun/Jul 2010
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- Points of difference between Australian and US libraries
Christine
- Libraries making a difference in their communities
Genimaree
- New and different technologies from ALA conference -
Christine
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- Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Columbus, Washington DC, Queens,
New York
- ALA conference, Washington DC
- Related organisations Gates Foundation, ULC, OCLC
- Beautiful libraries OSU, University Club Library, Library of
Congress
- Getty Museum, Disney Theatre, Chicago river tour, Baltimore,
Newseum
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- Architecture and large central libraries
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- California and Los Angeles under immense pressure
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- Library has decreased operating budget by 15%; 28% reduction in
staff (including 150 layoffs) and cut to services 5 days from
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- Chicago laying off 120 workers and cutting hours at branches;
hiring freeze, 24 days furlough
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- Columbus lost $11 mill since 2008 and a reduction in staff of
160 FTE since 03
- NYPL and Queens facing significant cuts and layoffs
- OCLC has laid off 64 staff
- Communities served by libraries also affected
8. Lyn Barakat 9.
- Large central reference libraries
- Monuments to the book, built around collections
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- The architects conceived the new Seattle Central Library
building as a celebration of book deciding after some research that
despite the arrival of the 21stC and the digital age people still
respond to books printed on paper.
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- Libraries in the US provide services that here would be offered
by different welfare and social agencies
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- Significant private funding, culture of philanthropy
- $85 million raised by Seattle Library Foundation
- $1million pa Columbus Foundation
- NYPL Genealogy Library funded through $5 mill endowment
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- Exception Columbus where spaces designed around services rather
than collections
- Very traditional service models reference librarians at desks
on each floor
- Seattle disposable collections
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- Big difference with the way unionised and non unionised
libraries are coping with budget crisis
- Layoffs firstly non unionised labour (pages and managers) then
last on first off
- Detrimental affect LA have lost their new fresh staff and staff
wont move
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- Beyond the Book summit CML
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- What is your personal comfort with digital readiness?
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- How ready do you think libraries are to embrace digital reading
future?
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- How ready are our customers?
- Tipping point price, business models, iPad
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- Seattle community consultation 33,000 community questionnaires,
Staff survey, Community thought leaders
- Queens strategic imperative to deeply embed the library in the
community
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- Georgetown Library (under construction, opening August
2010)
- Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library (under construction, opening July
2010)
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- Libraries are not good at telling their stories
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- There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful story
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- Libraries have grey missions
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- They are worthy but not memorable or fun
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- DOK a better friend than Google
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- Vox popslibraries are outdated librarians are cave men
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- There is no second hand in the digital world and libraries are
in the second hand business
- 14,000 iPhone apps 17 for libraries
- Be proud and CLAIM our position
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- mobile computing, atomising information
- cities fostering creative industries
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- Stop being the grocery store and start being the kitchen
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- privacy issues re social networking
- cloud computing disruptive
- gadgets costing less ($99 by Christmas, $50 in 12 months)
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- 4 thgen phones riff scanning,
- ubiquitous internet access,
- profiling and the death of internet anonymity what will people
give up to have a better library experience?
- more efficient technical services,
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- How will circulation change?
- What happens when theentire western canon is available for
free?
- What happens when we no longer circulate DVDs?
- Will the mission of libraries be to help people make their own
libraries?
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- Language learning in the cloud children and adults
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- Mobile app for libraries powerful catalogue search, real time
integration, reading lists, blogs and tweets
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- Kindle available from Target
- Nintendo have an app for 100 classic books
- 7.8 million Americans have ebook readers
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- Wonderful kind generous hosts
- Employers who supported people to go
- Participants reporting back and photos
- Report will be available online soon