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Got something you're intersted in discussing with your fellow Nebraska librarians? Just list it here. Remember, the final list will be decided on by the group at Library Camp so think of this page as a place to brainstorm topics and to get an idea what your collegues are thinking about.

 

  • The Social Web in the library
  • Is OCLC still relevant today and/or worth its price
  • Open Source options for desktops and ILS
  • Social Bookmarking
  • Cheap and free tech tools
  • Copyright & Creative Commons
  • Public programs
  • High Tech / High Touch: are they mutually exlusive?
  • Get your free Web presence (for libraries that don't have one already)
  • Privacy in a Social Web world
  • Wildly impractical, expensive ideas for your library
  • Alternative searching techniques (or, what's new & cool in the world of searching??)
  • Ideas for library marketing on the cheap
  • Ideas for new granting agencies/funding sources and/or grant success stories
  • Demythologizing the "information wants to be free" (while information may want to be free, it aint cheap to provide it...)
  • Community Outreach
  • Mentoring
  • Instruction
  • Expanding the role of the library on campus (PR/marketing/collaboration)
  • Exploring the future of library workers: What's the greatest need in Nebraska?...support for Master's level v. pre-professional training?
  • Implementing ebooks in the academic library: who are relevant vendors? any good free resources? costs involved?  benefits/drawbacks of differnt purchase/lease options?
  • Social OPACs
  • Professional Development and its connection to social networking
  • Collecting and working with user satisfaction and assesstment data
  • Strategies for working with ESL students/populations
  • "Going green" - Environmental responsibility in librarianship
  • Integrating mobile/smart phones into library customer service

  • Web conferencing for distance students

 

Comments (4)

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Lorraine Patrick said

at 2:33 pm on Oct 2, 2008

Pay for print management systems for academic libraries

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Anne said

at 8:25 am on Oct 7, 2008

*Standards for the 21st Century Learner
*Advocacy
*Creative Programming
*Collaboration that works

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Nancy Sherwood said

at 4:55 pm on Oct 28, 2008

Library policy regarding internet & DVDs

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Carol A. White said

at 12:18 pm on Nov 12, 2008

What is the best software available for federated searching? Why?

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