Week 3: Online Meetings

I participated in a 2009 SirsiDynix archive of "Revitalizing the Library Experience" by George Needham and Joan Frye.  Although this presentation was more aimed at public libraries, I was able to gain some useful themes for my elementary school setting.  Librarians need to get to know their customers so they can layer the library experience for them by time, use, and discovery process.  The library should provide a "predictable passage" through milestones people face through their ages.  Libraries should celebrate reading diversity and all the ways our customers are using technology to access information (again making me re-think my initial point of view from weeks 2's online communities)!   We should also strive to create alliances for the common good.  I can work with the other elementary libraries in my school district and the local public library. 

As far as this online webinar/meeting format:

• This  server made it very easy to open and run. 
• I had the option to rewatch any segment, fast forward if it wasn't applicable to me, and stop if I felt this wasn't a topic I was interested in. 
• The location and time of the original meeting would not have been possible--but now 2 years later I can benefit from the presentation all from my kitchen...and for FREE! 
• I had the comforts of home:  snacks, comfy clothes, RR breaks, etc.

I can see this format really growing over the next few years as more and more people have access to technology.  Teachers could post lessons for students to re-watch.  Trainings and inservices could be archived for new staff.  This technology really does help make the world a smaller place.