System Meeting, April 20, 2012

Page authors: Main.jhayes Main.lstratton Main.bmorris

Birds of a Feather with Lindsay Stratton

Social discovery, bibliometrics, & library reader advisory. How can libraries capitalize on, get involved in, and fill the gaps of social book discovery? --Highlights from 2012 Computers in Libraries converence.

Websites discussed:

• http://bookgenome.com/
• http://booklamp.org/
• https://www.smalldemons.com/
• http://pinterest.com/rapidcitylib/ (public library using Pinterest for book lists and other interesting library things)

Selection Lists

J and YA books available for examination.

Announcement Links

• Spring Trustee Workshop
• Community Distribution Procedure
• PLS Notes archive
• Title Source renewal

Resource Sharing

• Baker & Taylor TS3 (Title Source 3) http://btol.com/ http://publiclibrary.btol.com/

Program - Favorites from Philly

Come learn from your peers—Jeanna, Elly, Carol, Lynne, Anna, Mary, Ron, and Ellen will share their experiences at the 2012 PLA conference in Philadelphia.

Some of the sessions they will review include:

• Adult storytelling- Ron
• Black Belt Librarian- Carol
• Branded Interactive Early Literacy Centers: From Grand Places to Table Top Spaces- Lynne
• LGBTQ Library Services for Rural Communities- Ellen
  • LGBTQCollectionDevelopment
• Preschool Storytime Revisited - Mary
• Serving Preschool-aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder- Mary
• Staff Evaluations and Books! - Anna
• What makes a collection: redefining the library through the collection- Ron
• What I learned at PLA - Elly

Spontaneous sharing from conference and virtual conference attendees is welcome and encouraged!

• Lindsay's CIL reports
  • Michael Edson, Let Us Go Boldly into the Future keynote - absolutely worth the 45 minutes!
    • Video of speaker with audio - http://vimeo.com/39376942
    • Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/edsonm/michael-edson-let-us-go-boldly-into-the-future
  • Fiacre O'Duinn, Tinkerers: Maker Culture for Libraries, resources - https://sites.google.com/site/makerscil2012/
  • All CIL presentations from the Computers in Libraries website - http://www.infotoday.com/cil2012/presentations.asp

PLA Conference Handouts

System Meeting Documentation

• Agenda - April 20, 2012 System Meeting
• Summary - April 20, 2012 System Meeting

Post system meeting:

Youth Yak - Conference Extravaganza! - presentations by those who attended
the YSS conference and PLA. Share what you've learned!

Link to previous Meeting

March 16, 2012 System Meeting