http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/24-week/

Waxing and Waning:Tech Trends for the Library Landscape

Karen G. SchneiderOctober, 2009

“Speak with a human voice.” — Michael Stephens

With the aim of improving our service and our efficiency, the circulation area at the Main Library will be remodeled for better patron accessibility and oriented toward increased self-checkout options. To this end we’re adding two more self-checkout stations, for a total of four. … We’ll have the same number of circulation clerks …

waning…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/1924719853/sizes/l/

embrace the “yes”

http://flickr.com/photos/yarmando/236030044/sizes/o/

allowed

welcome

permitted

encouraged

not here

in this zone

waxing:ubiquitous informal

engagement

Embrace the blur

http://citegeist.com/

waxing & waning:traditionalcirc

reorient services and assessmentfrom ownership to access

waning:the

locally-installedcatalog

waxing:cloud-basedapplications

brace forcloud-based

disasters

waxing:cloud catalogs

question the duplicate-record model

waxing:

think like it’s 1877

& think like it’s 1963

waxing:ubiquitous computing

embrace the mesh

waxing:the library as destination

http://flickr.com/photos/tracy_the_astonishing/

waxing:the experience library

“Perceptions of librarians are highly related to

support.”

-- OCLC, From Awareness to Funding

what’s your narrative?

where are you waxing and waning?

how will you embrace “yes”?

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thanks!

kgs@freerangelibrarian.com